Tuesday, December 13, 2011
Monday, December 12, 2011
Thursday, November 10, 2011
Robert Savid
As an artist, are there ideas presented by Professor Robert Savid which can be used in a time-based work (such as a film or theater piece).
Some of the ideas:
• time as malleable, changeable
• aging as relative (theory of relativity)
• time travel
• simultaneity
• time dilation
• length contraction
Describe how you might use one of these theories in an artwork.
Wednesday, November 9, 2011
Tuesday, November 8, 2011
Monday, November 7, 2011
Wednesday, November 2, 2011
Quiz on Jessica Frelinghuysen's lecture
On Wednesday Jessica Frelinghuysen presented a lecture on Performance Art.
Some of the works she featured:
•William Wegman, video shorts (the deodorant, "massage" chair, etc)
• Coco Fusco and Guillermo Gomez-Pena - piece at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History piece about a newly "discovered" people exhibited in cages
•The Yesmen - corporate interventions
•Marina Abramovic - performance piece where she stands nude with her partner in the doorway of a gallery forcing visitors to touch them while passing through
•Improv Everywhere - Frozen Grand Central Station
Select an artist/artwork and describe how performance art is defined. How is it different from a work for the theater? How is it different from a sculpture or painting?
Tuesday, November 1, 2011
Thursday, October 27, 2011
Wednesday, October 26, 2011
Nina Katchadourian
Our guest speaker on Wesnesday was Nina Katchadourian, a noted visual artist.
Nina showed five works.
1. Gift/Gift - mended spider webs
2. Natural Car Alarms - bird calls used as car alarms
3. Office Semaphore - office signal communication
4. Fall Colors - artificial branch with fall leaves
5. Seat Assignment - various projects made while in flight
http://www.ninakatchadourian.com/
Select two works. Describe what you saw and the reason why you chose these works. Comment and compare how these works use the element of time.
Tuesday, October 25, 2011
Monday, October 24, 2011
Sunday, October 23, 2011
Saturday, October 22, 2011
Thursday, October 20, 2011
Shelly Silver
This Wednesday our speaker was Shelly Silver. She is an experimental filmmaker and on the faculty at Columbia University. Her work has been shown widely around the country including venues such as the Museum of Modern Art.
http://www.shellysilver.com/
Shelly showed excerpts from four projects:
1. 37 Stories About Leaving Home. Benshi excerpt
2. What I'm Looking For
3. In Complete World -Does Equal Opportunity Exist in the United States
4. 5 Lessons and 9 Answers About Chinatown
Select one of the works. Describe what you saw. How does this film use unconventional techniques in telling the story? Or what are the techniques that the filmmaker uses to get the central idea of the project across to the audience?
Wednesday, October 19, 2011
Thursday, October 13, 2011
Quiz on Adrianne Finelli's Presentation
Adrianne Finelli made a presentation on some of the core ideas in film editing and production.
What is the role of a film editor?
Choose examples Adrianne presented:
DW Griffith, Birth of a Nation
Alfred Hitchcock, The Birds & Pyscho
Steven Spielberg, Jaws
Rainier Werner Fassbinder, Berlin Alexanderplatz
Jean Luc Godard, Breathless
Wachowski Brothers, Matrix
and describe how the editor values each frame of a shot, the importance of angles, camera movements and shot compositions.
Tuesday, October 11, 2011
Monday, October 10, 2011
Sunday, October 9, 2011
Thursday, October 6, 2011
David Oreilly- Shelby Danow
I am choosing Octocat as my piece to discuss because i am extremely intrigued by the piece. Initially you see a red 8 legged cat looking creature wondering around looking for his parents. Eventually you get to know the cat and understand that he is not the friendliest of creatures, especially when he gets angry towards the end. When he opens his mouth to reveal his jaw, he becomes a scary and intimidating creature who kills the "enemy" or the black cat which was holding his parents in the hot air balloon. The humor works to tell the story because everything about what we were watching was so unrealistic that it actually helped to make the piece more comical. Cats in real life do not have 8 legs, the cartoon design helped to enhance that "fake world idea" and the fact that the cats were flying also helped to enhance the humor. It was so far out there from the truth of the real world that the only thing to do was laugh. I think that i would have preferred to see the lines of the animation more clear and precise just because i am somewhat of a perfectionist, but i do not think that the "rugged etches" of the animation took away from it in anyway. I truly admire this animation because even though it was not perfect and the edges were sloppy and the storyline was so unrealistic, people made dolls out of it and made octocat into a real creature. It just goes to show that no matter how crazy you may think your idea is, someone is going to love it and appreciate it.
David O'Reilly
David O'Reilly is an Irish film director and artist based in Los Angeles, California, USA. He is known for creating animated short films with a stripped down aesthetic.
David presented several excerpts of his short films.
WOFL
Octocat
Please Say Something
The External World
Select one of his works and describe what you saw and why you chose the piece. Comment on the following questions.How does the humor work to tell the story. Does the "unfinished" look of the animation detract from the film or add to the overall presentation.
Thursday, September 29, 2011
Quiz on Heidi Kumao's Presentation
Associate Professor Heidi Kumao presented several still-image and stop-motion animation filmmakers.
1. Pre-cinema and early animation:
thaumatrope, phenakistoscope, zoetrope, Edwaurd Muybridge, Joseph Plateau and Emile Reynaud
2. Jan Svankmajer - Meat Love
3. PES - Kaboom and The Deep
4. Eric Dyer - Kinetic Sandwich
5. Caroline Leaf - The Owl Who Married a Goose (sand animation)
6. Michael Langan - Dahlia
Select 2 of the films and compare the techniques - describe what you saw and how the different techniques elicit a reaction or an emotion. Do the films show an unusual movement for the selected objects.
Tuesday, September 27, 2011
Monday, September 26, 2011
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