Dawid F. Prestini

The Museum of Modern Art MoMA Arièle Dionne-Krosnick, Christian Rattemeyer, Sean Anderson, Sophie Cavoulacos Completed by  Dawid F. Prestini March 29, 2021 Grade Achieved: 100.00% Certifies their successful completion of What Is Contemporary Art? What is contemporary art? In this course, you’ll consider this question through more than 70 works of art made between 1980 and the present, with a focus on art from the past decade. You’ll hear directly from artists, architects, and designers from around the globe about their creative processes, materials, and inspiration. Five themes serve as your guide: Media from Television to the Internet, Territories & Transit, Materials & Making, Agency, and Power. You’ll look at 3-D–printed glass and fiber sculptures, performances in a factory and a museum, painted portraits—as well as those made with artificial intelligence—and interventions into television and video games. And much more, all drawn from the collection of The Museum of...

The Museum of Modern Art - MoMA Sarah Meister Curator, Department of Photography Completed by  Dawid F. Prestini March 29, 2021 7 weeks of study Grade Achieved: 100.00% Certifies their successful completion of Seeing Through Photographs Taking, sharing, and viewing photographs has become second nature for many of us. Given our near-constant engagement with images this course will help you dig into the meaning of pictures and reconsider photography’s role in our visual culture. This course aims to address the gap between seeing and truly understanding photographs by introducing a diversity of ideas, approaches, and technologies that inform their making. In this course you will look closely at 100 photographs from the collection of The Museum of Modern Art, going behind the scenes of the Museum and into artist studios through original films and audio interviews. You will hear a variety of perspectives on the ways photography has been used throughout its 180-year history: as a me...