Next week: Due assignment 2

Hi all

Hope you had a good week, reminder that assignment 2 is due next week.
I look forward to your work

Thank you
c

nb: please read "stupidity" for next week, its short and digestible.
(I am still missing some of the zizek papers)

A day in the life of a superhero.

Here are some pictures of the basic idea of my project.

Next week: what's due / revised schedule for rest of term

ex-nihilo

for assignment 2:
- question and project brief:
- shot outline / shot list: structure of piece delineated by shot sequence, rhythm, pace, intonation: i.e. how does it unfold in time-space, how does tsructure inform your narrative, how you plan to execute it (serves as a map to gather thoughts and shots)
-COMPLETE ROUGH CUT, all shots included & sound

for assignment 1:
- bring modifications to review if you're refining (which i recommend for some projects)

"stupidity" readings:
- let's leave this for next week, I want you to focus on your video work for our next meeting.

"zizek" readings:
- write a one page paper on it, discussing these possible themes (pick one)
- ontic / ontology
- self-withdrawal
- materialism of imagination

side note: it's a busy week at school, understood, but work still needs to be done for this course, please plan accordingly.

REVISED SCHEDULE
as discussed last class, here is our updated schedule:
—i decided to take assignment 3 off the list and incorporate its parameters (documentation / process / situation) onto assignment 4 (your final piece)
this gives you more time to work on what is in process now and refine past iterations, I am looking for cohesive, beautiful work.

—assignment 2 is due week 9

—week 10: (wed, november 11) I am away in tokyo for a week, lets do a make-up class before i leave friday of week 9 (nov, 6th)
— you will have a substitute instructor for week 10, aaron bocanegra


below is a sample video form one of my students at art center, he made a sculpture, burned it down and did this piece as 'reconstruction'
using a strobe light to affect his visibility.

Reconstruction from Ed Schofield on Vimeo.

sample work links

dear all,

here are some links for you to look at, see you tomorrow
best / c

videos to watch

http://www.brianbress.com/videx.html
brian bress

http://www.brianbress.com/video/wait/wait.mov
http://www.brianbress.com/video/under_cover/undercover_web.mov

Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker
****** rosas
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oQCTbCcSxis

doug aitken sleepwalkers

his bio on ubuweb
http://www.ubu.com/film/aitken.html

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJaTjc3TMyo
trailer: above

******* documentation of piece in space
http://video.google.com/videosearch?q=glass%20horizon%20doug%20aitken&oe=utf-8&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&hl=en&tab=wv#q=doug+aitken&hl=en&emb=0&client=firefox-a

(association by from or action, colour, shot type)

eraser
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4hUOS3NAOY0&feature=related

migration
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZ6cJaGm79E


****** Natasa Prosenc Director Reel - Video Art
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1GyTIzkdABw

jeremy blake / like william turner painting
liquid villa
http://www.ubu.com/film/blake_liquid.html

his bio
http://www.ubu.com/film/blake.html

winchester
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hLM9wQcCrFo

1906
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BuehJaCeS1I&feature=related

******round the bend / beck
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Qw_CAXzGFU&feature=fvw

sophie calle
bio & video
http://www.ubu.com/film/calle_double.html

Tomorrow & next week: what's due

hello all,

quick note: i can't meet tomorrow but I am happy to stay later next week (wednesday) or set up a time friday next week (oct 23rd)

for next wednesday (oct 21st) please bring in the following, as discussed last class:

- assignment 2:
- a question that addresses what your piece inquires upon, in relation to self / other / fiction / subjectivity (use your words as aesthetic / conceptual paradigms)
- ideas (rough shots) that examine your above mentioned question
- and a short text that delineates or expands upon the question.

- use assignment 1 as a point of departure, reflect upon it, as all pieces relate to one an-other.
ask yourself: what did i want to communicate in an 'autobiography'? what is my position/ relation to a dialogue about the self and how did i communicate that in assignment 1? how can that be improved? how does that position now integrate the 'other' / fiction etc

I am happy to review assignment 1 again to continue refining, so bring these in as well
(but manage your time, as this piece should not replace our discussion for assignment 2)

- the zizek readings: please mark points of interest for discussion
- we will do individual crits

questions welcome
i will post some sample work here in the next days that may serve as inspiration / exploration

thank you
have a lovely evening
c

A must see , Humanities and Art unite to give you goosebumps

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fIWWnbGJPFs

Next wednesday: 11am++please see below for time & what's due+++

great to see you use this space to disseminate ideas and references, thank you!

next wednesday:
– I have a court date wednesday morning at 8:30am, hopefully i will be done around 10:30 but i cannot know for sure. let's meet at 11am next wednesday october 14th.

if for some reason i cannot make it i would like to notify one of you who can in turn let others know, can someone please volunteer a phone number i can contact if need be? mine is on the syllabus

_ DUE next wednesday:
- sound readings & discussion / work sample reviews (video artists etc)
- initial ideas / sketches / for assignment 2 :fiction / subjectivity (what is 'real' what is 'fiction' are they really separate? or do they generate each other?)
- individual reviews: I'd like to get a closer look at your interests and needs for this class, we can allocate time for individual meetings in order to discuss this, sound good?

hopefully we'll have time for all, otherwise I am open to furthering our talks here (blog) or via email

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as an overall comment i'd like to address our course narrative to clarify or open up and questions you may have; simply put our course travels this line:

- autobiographical / essay piece:
generating your POV, voice and sense of being in relation to the world (where you stand in-relation to 'reality' and the self / written & visual work, cinecriture as agnes varda would put it)

- fiction / subjectivity:
expanding on your POV, questioning line between what is perceived as 'true' vs. 'fiction,' role imagination plays in building subjectivity, i.e. individual sense of 'reality' in movement vs. the 'official' static version of what is perceived as real (often leading to lack of imagination!) Zizek reading "the night of the world," will be handed out

- process / situation:
the movement in which you traverse space and time through media and subjectivity. (where subjectivity takes-place, ever fleeting, ever-displaced). prepare for installation,
video becomes corpo-real, in situ.

negation / immersion:
the installation itself. here is where we question boundaries, subjectivity, being with-in and with-out in relation to space, materiality, location and temporality

each assignment builds upon the other, becoming more complex. the first assignment was an introduction to where you stand now, moving forward i will expect more and more refined work, let's work together to make this happen.

also: let's continue to work on assignment one till its done proper, this being said, time management is on your side, i am happy to help however possible.

see you then
questions welcome
c

Aphex twin - come to daddy

A greatly explained video commenting on Chris Cunningham's  great art work. I think it applies to the critical aspect of mediascapes 

http://www.alexanderjamiethomas.co.uk/Web%20Material/Come%20To%20Daddy%20For%20Web/Come%20To%20Daddy%20For%20Web.mov

Chris Cunningham , Spike Jones and Michel Gondry are all part of a collective called 

Directors label 

http://www.directorslabel.com/

http://www.windwalk.net/

Robert Kramer website.

video

hi hi-
preliminary video- rather troubled with transitions...feedback so i can continue to work on in until wednsday would be wonderful-
m


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HONx_I7DK_Q

Sound: 2 artists I like

hol baumann
http://www.myspace.com/holbaumann

ben frost
http://www.myspace.com/theghostofbenfrost
http://www.ethermachines.com/

enjoy
c

Reminder

Dear all,

please make sure you read the post form sept 30th stating what is due this wednesday, any questions welcome

also, if you'd like to address particular subjects in our class let me know, I am interested in what & how you think and what sources, references, ideas are useful to your process & work
see you wednesday
thxs / c

For Flora: The Tower of Babel

Flora,
This might be helpful for you to look at for your project. Note how the mise en abime you are exploring (screen within screen / utterance within utterance, in difference) echoes the form of the tower itself.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tower_of_Babel
excerpt: "God, seeing what the people were doing, came down and confused their languages and scattered the people throughout the earth." (I am not religious believe it or not)
—thought: consider using language as utterances (spoken fragments, phonemes / in complement or replacement for the closed captioning...

Karlheinz Stockhausen / Sound ++ pls see post below for what's due next week++

Dear all,

I am posting a thread for Karlheinz Stockhausen. Some refer to him as the father of electronic music, definitely a brilliant eccentric.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karlheinz_Stockhausen

Below is a link to one of his works "Gesang der Junglinge" (song of the youths)
http://www.medienkunstnetz.de/works/gesang-der-juenglinge/
Take a listen with some good headphones. Some of you expressed interest in sound, so here we go!
NB: this is a great site that can serve as reference for the materials discussed in our class, dig in, you will likely find something of interest & inspiration.

http://www.medienkunstnetz.de/

Also, below is a paper i wrote about this piece a couple of years ago, comments welcome.
thxs
c

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surround anima in sound
a look into "Gesang der Jünglinge"
by carolina trigo

What struck me the first time I heard "Gesang der Jünglinge" was its spatial circularity. Sounds rotate from one ear to the other, as if the listener itself were being rotated as an object. Each ear in rotation and displacement suggesting a passageway to different dimensions; wherein sounds form and dissolve as ever-changing sculptures, sequential yet non-linear.

The piece is based on a a biblical story from "The Book of Daniel," where Nebuchadnezzar throws 3 young men into a furnace who miraculously survive and begin singing praises to God. Looking into the structure of this story it mentions some aspects which I think parallel Stockhausen's approach: It states that language emphasizes structure, that structure (of theme or meaning) has precedence over chronology and that grouping emphasizes prophecies. Stockhausen intended to create the sound of phonemes electronically by matching voice resonances and pitch. The piece consists of 3 main components 1) recorded voice of boy soprano 2) electronically generated sine tones 3) electronically generated pulses.... Through Serialism, Stockhausen utilized sets to describe musical elements, allowing for their manipulation.

"Gesang der Jünglinge" explores space, colours, tones and distances. There is union and slippage. Much like a choreographer, Stockhausen materializes music by using the audience as phenomes, as bouncing boards for new reverberations to a whole. He invites us to touch the music and re-define it. We are therefore instruments, particles contributing and altering the mass and surface of the sound invading and leaving our bodies.

The piece is a superimposition of the electronic and the corporeal; the synthesized and the sculptural, a continuous discontinuity of sounds and emotions, the transformation of sound into a new language... a language akin to the performance and experience of a numinous dream, a collage of memory laments and sensations, pointing towards the known and unknown in us.

I believe "Gesang der Jünglinge" is the sound of oratory, a piece of prayer, holding some parallels to C.G.Jung's "Answer to Job" which in brief, is a study of divine darkness, of god and man as vice-versa; of the symbolic role that theological concepts or forms play in a person's psychic life. In this vein, it is not surprising that Stockhausen created or believed in his own religion (being reborn in Sirius.) I allude to "Answer to job" because I see in Stockhausen a man at the threshold of the heretic boundary between human life and divine creation. These quotes from the book might illustrate what i sense: "... but in all omniscience there existed from all eternity a knowledge of the human nature of God or of the divine nature of man." [...] "God's Incarnation in Christ requires continuation and completion because Christ, owing to his virgin birth and his sinlessness, was not an empirical human being at all. As stated in the first chapter of St.John, he represented a light which, though it shone in the darkness, was not comprehended by the darkness. He remained outside and above mankind. Job, on the other hand, was an ordinary human being, and therefore the wrong done to him, and through him to mankind, can, according to divine justice, only be repaired by an incarnation of God in an empirical human being. This act of expiation is performed by the Paraclete; for just as man must suffer from God, so God must suffer from man. Otherwise there can be no reconciliation between the two." —C.G.Jung, "Answer to Job," 1952.

Like Daniel to the King of Babylon, or Job to Yahweh, Stockhausen's piece points towards that reconciliation, surrounding us in the sound of discord, out of which emerges the fairest harmony.