LISA MOREN
FA338a, X2490
Tues/Thur: 11-12:50, FA113
Lmoren@umbc.edu
ART389
SPECIAL TOPICS
OBJECTIVES
This course will examine
various genres of creative forms as paradigms for producing video.
For example, how can video act like poetry? How does a painter
verses a dancer, verses a novelist or a musical composer approach
editing? What are unconventional paradigms for producing videos?
Can video be integrated with the internet beyond a delivery platform?
This course offers the independent student an opportunity to
focus on their individual artmaking processes and understand
those processes for producing video installation, interactivity
and performance, and other out of the box methodologies. Video
as image and object, and the relationship between object, space
subject will be explored. Experimental movements such as happenings,
fluxus, intermedia, and contemporary artists building unique
interactive forms and structures will be offered, especially
as they relates to. Simultaneous montage, gestural exercises,
live experimental editing as well as video as a documentary path
will be fully encouraged and explored.
METHODS
This course will offer short and long term projects, including
considering projection of still (slides), digital and video.
Other programs will be explored including on-line chatrooms as
a performance for site specific projects, editing machines through
scripts, and live processing with Isadora software. Students
may want to use their skill base in other softwares such as Macro
Media Director. Out of the box input sensors will be introduced
at mid-term including hacking keyboards for triggers and producing
variable signals through midi sensors. The semester will move
toward one on one mentoring in order for individual projects
to take unique forms. Readings in fiction and theory will offer
a language and metaphor for methodologies, while interactive
installations, performances and the topics in video art will
be covered. All students work will be discussed. Juxtaposed
concepts of mimicking, mirroring and duplicities of media and
time, will be examined through artists and writers such as Stan
Douglas, John Cage and Jorge Luis Borges. Students will also
have the opportunity to work collaboratively with dance students,
especially in performance.
PROJECTS
Students will create short projects every couple of weeks initially
and a longer final project in the form of proposals, while continuing
short exercises. Exercises in Image/ine software will be required
with the potential to collaborate with video students by combining
quicktime movies with live or recorded NTSC video. Students will
sign up for critiques throughout the semester for in depth discussions
of work or work in progress.
ATTENDANCE AND GRADES
Although there is an individual focus, structure and timelines
are most imperative for the full benefit of this class. Students
with difficulty working independently may find it challenging
to succeed in this class. Individual meeting times will offer
open lab for students to work independently. Weekly lectures,
demonstrations, discussions and critiques are required. Missing
more than 3 required class meetings may result in the failure
of this course.
SUPPLIES
100 Ektachrome film,
UMBC Bookstore
Serial Keyboard (Jessup, 301-405-5267 or Terripan
Trader)
Midi Controllers
iMate
USB to ADB Adapter
Miscellaneous adaptors/cables (Radio Shack)
NTSC Tapes: VHS, DV (or Hi8, SVHS), UMBC Bookstore
Bainesville Electronic 9-9pm M-F, 9-7pm Sat, 410-823-0082
TEXT
REQUIRED: Imag/ine
Manual (free pdf)
REQUIRED: Imag/ine
Addendum Manual (free HTML)
3-Ring Binder for the Manual
Professional Photo Lab:
Abbey Camera 320 N Charles St (purchase film) or
Service Photo 2225 N Charles St
Elite 100 or Ektachrome 100 (film recorder) 24 or 36 exp.
Ektachrome Tungston 160 (shooting slides) 36 exp.
Blakeslee Group Inc (Photo Processing) 916 Charles St., 410-727-8800