This course will focus on the production of visual art for public spaces outside the conventional gallery/museum context. Tangential to this investigation will be discussions that engage social, political and urban issues relevant to this expanded public context. Traditional approaches of enhancement and commemoration will be contrasted to more temporal and critical methodologies. In this light, historical models will be studied and discussed, including the Soviet Constructivist experiments, the Situationists, Conceptual Art and more recent interventionist strategies. Readings and slide lectures will be presented for discussion.