New Genres
The New Genres Area curriculum includes moving image, sound, performance, installation, hybrid, and emerging art forms. The program invites students to question preconceived ideas about the roles art plays in society, and to examine how these roles are impacted by specific forms and mediums. To that end, students are encouraged to experiment with artistic process, to track the way that ideas change as they move through various modes of production, and to examine how content is affected by methods of display and dissemination.
New Genres Faculty
Assistant Professor and New Genres Area Head
Vishal Jugdeo
Assistant Professor
Gelare Khoshgozaran
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New Genres Lab Supervisor
Owen Kydd
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Location & Contact Information
New Genres Area Location
The New Genres Area is located on the second floor of the Broad Art Center, Gallery Wing
New Genres Classrooms – 2122 and 2135
New Genres Editing Suites – 2132 and 2136
New Genres Installation Spaces – 2118, 2145, 2147, 2138, and 2140
New Genres Lab Supervisor
Owen Kydd
T: (310) 206-3888
Office: Broad Art Center Suite 2124
Lab Supervisor Office Hours
Monday - Friday, 10 a.m. – 5 p.m.
New Genres Undergraduate & Graduate Courses
Undergraduate New Genres Courses
- Units: 4
- Studio, eight hours; five hours arranged. Introduction to projects in moving image, sound, performance, installation, hybrid, and emerging forms and processes. P/NP or letter grading.
- Units: 5
- Studio, eight hours; seven hours arranged. Requisite: course 11D. Emphasis to be selected by faculty members from one or more of following media: moving image, sound, performance, installation, hybrid, or emerging forms and processes. May be repeated for maximum of 20 units. Letter grading.
- Units: 5
- Studio, eight hours; seven hours arranged. Requisite: course 11D. Varied approaches to new genres media and content to develop students' technical, expressive, and conceptual tools to understand and explore anti-racism, equity, diversity, and inclusion. Combination of courses 137 and 137A may be repeated for maximum of 20 units. Letter grading.
- Units: 2 to 4
- Tutorial, to be arranged. Preparation: 3.0 grade-point average in major. Corequisite: course 190. Limited to junior/senior art majors. Individual intensive studio project or independent study, with scheduled meetings to be arranged between faculty member and student. Tangible evidence of project or mastery of subject matter required. May be repeated for maximum of 8 units. Individual contract required. Letter grading.
- Units: 2 to 4
- Tutorial, to be arranged. Preparation: 3.0 grade-point average overall, 3.5 grade-point average in major. Corequisite: course 190. Limited to junior/senior art majors. Development and completion of comprehensive research or studio project under direct supervision of faculty member. May be repeated for maximum of 8 units. Individual contract required. Letter grading.
Graduate New Genres Courses
- Units: 2 to 8
- Studio, eight hours. Studies in alternative media, including projects in moving image, sound, performance, installation, hybrid, and emerging forms and processes. May be repeated for credit with consent of adviser. Letter grading.
- Units: 4
- Discussion, four hours; tutorial, to be arranged. Group critique/discussion of students' research. Additional tutorial meetings by arrangement with instructor. May be repeated for credit. Letter grading.
- Units: 4
- Seminar, three hours. Advanced topics in critical theory and study of contemporary art, with emphasis on individuals, issues, and methodologies. Possible areas of study include structuralism, deconstruction, feminist and psychoanalytic theory, commodification, and censorship. May be repeated for credit. Concurrently scheduled with course C180. Letter grading.
New Genres Graduate Studies
The New Genres Area is one of six areas of study offered in the M.F.A. art program. Graduate students are exposed to theoretical frameworks, historical precedents, and current examples of moving image, sound, performance, installation, hybrid, and emerging art forms and processes in combination with continued independent practice, experimentation, and critique.
New genres faculty Jennifer Bolande and Vishal Jugdeo serve as the primary advisors to students admitted to this area of study. Students also may work with faculty from other areas within the Department of Art or other departments across the university.
All M.F.A. students are offered the use of off-campus individual studios in the UCLA Margo Leavin Graduate Art Studios, located in Culver City. In addition to individual studio spaces, the studio building houses photography, sculpture, ceramics, and computer labs, as well as open spaces for exhibitions, lectures, and group critiques. Although the Department of Art does not offer graduate-level courses in the summer, the graduate studios are open year round.
M.F.A. applicants to the New Genres Area, please note: “New genres” may include artists who work in theater, film, music, writing, or new media, but generally only when they also have a strong engagement with the contemporary visual-art field.