Appropriation Videos

Animal Charm

Dara Birnbaum

Bryan Boyce

Craig Baldwin

Frankie Martin, trapped in the web

Ela Boyd

appropriation and culture jamming

Joseph Cornell- Rose Hobart

more abstraction:

Marcel Duchamp- Anemic Cinema

Viking Eggeling - Symphonie Diagonale

Book Launch Party

FRIDAY DECEMBER 2nd: SAN DIEGO

@ Double Break 7-10p

1821 5th Avenue

>DJ Set by Jamuel Saxon

facebook event invite

http://www.elaboyd.com/party/invite2.html

FINAL PROJECT PROMPT

FINAL VIDEO PROJECT:

Consider discussions of SOUND, ABSTRACTION and PUBLIC SPACE as material to inform your final video project.

1. propose an experimental video idea to your ta before you begin production.

2. your video project should be experimental in nature.

3 running time should be between 2 and 3 minutes.

DO NOT INCLUDE shots of:
alarm clocks
stuffed animals
running through the eucalyptus grove on campus
masculine self-awareness at la jolla cliffs
menacing stalkers (with knives or hoodies)

Public Space Discussion Videos

We didn't get to see:

University Library Bremen

http://vvvv.org/blog/wandern-im-wissen

• Library: The random results of the inquiries release corresponding visuals of text and pictures which cause curiosity for the various activites in the library. The media sculpture highlights the abundance of the mental processes, which take place simultaneously in the library. The retrieval inquiries result in new collages of visuals of text and pictures, which form an aesthetic translation of the search procedure. The searched words, then, fill the pool of data at the ground of the stairway.

• Twitter Wall : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xNnJaWhm_uM
• 3D Projection mapping: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tgrzWax_aLI

We watched:

Ecloud: http://www.ecloudproject.com/index.html

WESC Interactive Window: http://modular4kc.com/2011/01/13/6305/

Utweet: http://vimeo.com/10714715

Adobe Interactive Wall: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a-NRdyUx8Lc&feature=related

3D Projection Mapping: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tu0TRA6a21Q

Standard Vision: http://vimeo.com/22759948

iTrevor: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q4qqeE-AHIU&feature=related

Sexy Sax Man: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GaoLU6zKaws

Surveillance Camera Players: http://www.youtube.com/user/SCPlayers

James Turrell

Jennifer Steinkampf: http://jsteinkamp.com/

Pipilotti Rist: http://www.luhringaugustine.com/artists/pipilotti-rist/

Tony Oursler: http://www.tonyoursler.com/

Krzysztof Wodiczko http://www.pbs.org/art21/artists/krzysztof-wodiczko

Read for Discussion Week 9

http://wearcam.org/leonardo/reflectionism.htm

Please post comments below

Free Culture: The Nature And Future Of Creativity

please post your comments here

Assign #2

IMAGINATION // ABSTRACTION

Make a 1min max sketch video that utilizes ABSTRACTION

Choose 1 of the following strategies as the focus of your abstraction:

-COLOR: (monochrome, contrast, painterly texture, digital color, found color vs. created color, etc.)
-MOVEMENT: (moving camera or moving subject or movement in edit, etc)
-FRAMING: (frame your subject in ways that abstract the form, how does frame shift context, focus, detail, etc)
-SOUND: (matching or discontinuous with image or both? spatial, descriptive, found sound, ambient noise/ field recordings, etc.)
-SCALE: how the subjects/ objects relate proportionally and how this transforms the object/subject, what vantage points, views/ ways of seeing are explored/layered, etc)
-LIGHTING: (how can lighting distort, augment, transform our visual perception of a space, person, motion, etc)

These are all examples, please be IMAGINATIVE about something you want to abstract and think of new creative ways to do it with the tools of video and editing. Challenge yourself!

>DUE IN LAB NEXT WEEK: Tue 11/15, Thur 11/17

>POST LINKS BELOW

Abstraction Videos

Malcom Le Grice Berlin Horse 1970

Corridor - Standish Lawder 1970

Wavelength- Michael Snow 1967
read critique on wiki here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wavelength_(1967_film)

Serene Velocity- Ernie Gehr 1970

Anthony McCall installation works

Soniferous Eden- Mileece

Terrarium - Theo Watson

Laurie Anderson performance

Optical Poem- Oskar Fischinger 1938 (Library Viva La Dance DVD FVLDV 2302-7 v.7 )

Reading for Tuesday 11/8

post comments here

Bodies on Film Discussion Videos

Andy Warhol - Vynl
Kenneth Anger- Scorpio Rising
Jack Smith- Flaming Creatures (Library)
Ryan Trecartin - I be Area (Library)
Photography by Edward Weston (google)

Merce by Merce- Nam June Paik (UCSD Library online database)
Vertical Roll- Joan Jonas
Stan Brakhage- Cats Cradle
Carolee Schneeman- Fuses
Yves Klein- Anthropometries
Yung Jake- Datamosh

>response to Ant Farm Eternal Frame: Bruce Conner Report

PROPAGANDA, INTERVENTIONIST MEDIA, RADICAL

The Eternal Frame, Ant Farm; T. R. Uthco

Yes Men yesmen.org

War Zone, directed by Maggie Hadleigh-West, 1998

Production Notes: Fast Food for Thought, by Jason Simon, 1987

TUESDAY READING DISCUSSION

Please post your comments on Week 6 reading here

Midterm Video- THURSDAY LAB

THURSDAY LAB: Please post your videos here

Midterm video - TUESDAY LAB

TUESDAY LAB: Please post your videos here

Filming Cunningham Dance: A Conversation with Charles Atlas by Nancy F. Becker

pls post comments on the reading here

Partners for MIDTERM

Post here if you need a partner. List your section and email. Ela will not be moderating. Please look through partner posts and contact people on your own. Thanks!

Projects to look at

Check out some of the Yes Men projects:
http://theyesmen.org/hijinks

ASSIGN #1- THUR LAB

Thur Lab Section- Please post your links to assign #1 here

ASSIGN #1 TUE LAB

Tuesday Lab section- please post links to your videos here

Rosalind Krauss essay with photos

Here's a copy of the essay we read last week with photos

Video: The Aesthetics of Narcissism
Rosalind Krauss
October, Vol. 1. (Spring, 1976), pp. 50-64.

http://www.droolcup.com/itp/eiv/week1/krauss.pdf

Essay on Documentary Film

Check out this essay in preparation for your non-fiction mid-term.

MIDTERM VIDEO PROMPT

MID TERM VIDEO PROJECT  |   FALL 2011 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
1. COLLABORATE WITH ONE (1) OTHER STUDENT
2. MAKE A 2-minute VIDEO
3. THE "SUBJECT" OF THE VIDEO MUST BE A NON-FICTION SUBJECT.
4. PAY ATTENTION TO HOW COMPOSITION and EDITING CREATE AUTHENTICITY IN NON-FICTION WORKS. 
DUE: WEEK 6 (11/1 - 11/7)  in Lab Section

Videos viewed in class Week #3

Hoop Dreams - 1994 Steve James, Frederick Marx & Peter Gilbert
Library FVLDV 4486-1

Baghdad Shorts -Volume 1, Documentary Course March, 2006 Ahmed Kamal
FVLDV 6067-2 v.1

The Katrina Experience - Desert Bayou Alex Le May
FVLDV 3408-2

Man on Wire - James Marsh 2008

Exit Through the Gift Shop - Banksy 2010

Other videos to check out:

The Subconscious Art of Graffiti Removal Matt McCormick
Library FVLDV 0752-1

Netflix:
Objectified - 2009 Gary Hustwit
Helvetica - 2009 Gary Hustwit
Rize- 2005 David LaChapelle
Wonderland 1997 (Levittown Suburb) John O'Hagan
This American Life (TV, Radio series) Ira Glass

Rosalind Krauss

Post comments about "Video: The Aesthetics of Narcissism" below

Add your comments for:

Sidney Peterson and Marian Van Tuyl, "The Slowing Down of the Subject: A Medium for Choreographers"

ASSIGNMENT #1

Due in Lab Week 4


Montage:


Create a 1-2min max video that uses montage (can be a segment or the entire video)
Shoot and edit your video

-Using sound (no music) 

-Must have one L-cut, a 3 point edit, and at least 3 different types of shots.

-Video should be properly white balanced, focus and exposed. Unless you have specific concept regarding distorted settings

-This is work done alone, or in pre-approved groups of 2.

*no documentation of your friend's band.

Things to consider, how does your form follow your content? Did I storyboard and plan each shot? How does the sound relate to your image? Is this work narrative or abstract? How much time spent with person/place/thing/performance before I started shooting and duration of each shot. What is my goal/overall concept- what I am trying to convey? What is my attitude about the subject and how do I achieve this?

Theme and overall concept is based on your interests. Montage can be used to convey, dream, memory, simultaneity, distant places, periods of time, mixed meanings, etc. This can political, personal, structural, architectural, sociological, literary, philosophical, etc. - Just remember this is an ART class. 

WEEK 2 VIDEOS

Joseph Cornell and Stan Brakhage 1955
gnir rednow

Dziga Vertov- Man with Movie Camera 1929

Ballet mecanique (1924) Fernand Leger

René Clair - Entr'acte (1924) - Part 1/2

The Blood of a Poet (1930): Statues and Mirrors p.1

Scene from Jean Cocteau's 1930 film Le Sang d'un Poete.

C. MARCLAY, THE CLOCK

Bruce Conner A Movie 1958

Scorpio Rising (Kenneth Anger, 1964)

Stan Brakhage - "Cat's Cradle" (1959)

Rocky I training montage

ROCKY II training montage

Sergei Eisenstein "The cinematic Principle and Ideogram"

Please post your comments about the Eisenstein essay below.

David Antin, "Video: The Distinctive Features of the Medium"

Please post your comments about the David Antin essay below

Week 1

Here's what we viewed in class:

Maya Deren - Meshes of the afternoon (1943)

Maya Deren - Ritual in Transfigured Time (1946)

"[Meshes of the Afternoon] reproduces the way in which the sub-conscious of an individual will develop, interpret and elaborate an apparently simply and causal incident into a critical emotional experience" -maya derek

The Lead Shoes (Sidney Peterson, 1949)

"It was part of the special confusion of the time to combine belief with dis-belief, treat half-beliefs as ready-mades. which had only to be conceived of as objects (like the lead shoes themselves) to be found. If this was reification (treating abstractions as "real" things), it went with alienation–the two being generally regarded as twin diseases of the then generation, involving among other things, a loss of the soul." -Sidney Peterson

The End (1953) - Part 1

Christopher Maclaine

Photography of Cartier Bresson

Last Year at Marienbad

Alain Resnais -1961

Paul McCarthy: Black and White Tapes, 1972

Performer / Audience / Mirror -1975

Daniel Graham

Association Area -1971

Vito Acconci

Dan Graham, Body Press, 1972

Richard Serra and Carlotta Fay Schoolman

Television Delivers People (1973)

Woody Vasulka C-trend

Art Herstory

Hermine Freed

1974

Are You The Favorite Person of Anybody?

Directed by Miguel Arteta

Written by Miranda July

I mentioned Joseph Cornell's "Rose Hobart" (1936) (we will view more in week 9)

We did not view, but you may find of interest:

the subconscious art of graffiti removal

by matt mccormick

DAVID LYNCH PRESENTS INTERVIEW PROJECT

How To: Poke Pole A Monkey-Faced Eel

Brent Hoff