Sergio Muñoz Sarmiento

SYLLABI

I have been teaching at the college and university level since 2000, including CalArts, NYU, Harvard, and Los Angeles Pierce College. I recently found some of the syllabi that I used at U.C. Irvine, Occidental College, USC, and Harvard University and decided to make them available for your review. If you find them helpful (or not) in any way, I would love to hear your thoughts, so please feel free to contact me via e-mail at sms@artlawoffice.com

The University of California, Irvine

1. Dysgraphia, fall 2000

2. Goodbye to Romance, spring 2001

3. …and the cradle will rock…, spring 2001

University of Southern California

1. Visual Culture and Literacy, fall 2002

2. Visual Culture and Literacy, spring 2003

Occidental College

1. The Subject and Representation: The Untimely, fall 2002

Harvard University

1. Bruce Nauman: The End of Art and the Beginning of Sculpture, spring 2006

   • Course Proposal

   • First Class Project

   • Questions: The Function of the Studio, by Daniel Buren

2. Art & Law: Theory and Practice, spring 2006

School of Visual Arts

1. The Rule of the Outlaw, fall 2016

THE ART & LAW PROGRAM

In 2010 I founded The Art & Law Program, a seminar-colloquium that focuses on the study of law as a linguistic system, institutional force and power structure, with a particular focus on how the discourses and practices of law and visual culture impact each other, history, and culture.

The Program consists of a nonpartisan community that aims to attract qualified individuals in the areas of visual art, architecture, criticism, art history, curating, and film.

The Program is influenced by five main discourses and practices: visual art, law, percussion, philosophy, and martial arts.

With this in mind, the Program does not focus on traditional and conventional critical theories (e.g., Marxism, post-structuralism, post-colonialism, psychoanalysis, etc.), but rather investigates how the philosophy and practice of law disturbs the critical theory establishment and creates a new space and discourse for aesthetic, cultural and intellectual practices. Topics covered include territoriality and space, legal structures and systems, law as medium, crime, culture and justice, freedom of expression, tangible and intangible property, language and contracts, authority and authorship, markets and transactions, systems of value, morality and law, corporate entities, sovereignty and international law.

Please visit The Art & Law Program website for more information and application requirements. THE ART & LAW PROGRAM is a registered trademark.