Go See Some Art
Purdue has 2 art galleries that are easy to get to (besides the ones ALL the way over in the art & design building). One's in Stewart near what I hear is a "library." I haven't been to this "library," but the gallery space is nice. The other gallery is in the Union on the upper floor near the entrance on Grant.
Right now the gallery in the Stewart Gallery is an exhibition called "Dried· Cracked· Wet· Dripping· Blooming
Installations by Charles A. Gick." This features some digital art and mixed media stuff. New Media anyone?
And in The Union (Ringel Gallery) is an exhibition called "Does Gender Still Matter." This is the more traditional stuff (paper, print, porcelain) but not the traditional use of thee materials.
Aside from always plugging an art show when I can (especially free ones that are close by), I think these exhibits fit into our discussions of what new media is, and also raise the ever popular question of what art is. Of course, we're not thinking about art here, we're thinking about rhetoric and composition....right? So go see these exhibits to discuss the visual rhetoric if nothing else. Or to ask where we draw the lines (so to speak) between "composition" and "art". Would we accept any of these project in a FYC class, for example if they didn't have the requisite essay attached?