Fall 2002

Course Description

Image Sequencing/Sequential Images is an advanced fine art studio course exploring time based digital media and methods. Digital video and analog video will provide both source material and outputs. We will also study basic animation and interactivity with flash and web based video/presentations.

This advanced studio course class has a structural theme. Through a series of studio workshops, we will investigate the relationships between images, sound, video, narrative, viewer interaction, and context. We will use the basic shapes, line, broken line, circle, and sphere, as forms for our investigation into time based media and narrative structures. The shapes will provide maps and structural diagrams for narrative structures and our creative exploration .

The development of time based works which are personal, expressive, and communicative is our primary goal. To accomplish this we will utilize a range of advanced software applications and digital tools.

Requirements

•100% Effort and Participation
• Attendance ( 2 unexcused absences permitted )
• Completion of all projects on time.
• Final Project critiques: Students must present finished work to participate

• Preliminary projects20%
  class workshops
  class discussion
  research & events
  class critiques and presentations
• Final Projects: 80% ( 4 projects 20% each)
• Collaborative projects involve a common responsibility and grade.

READINGS

• Premiere MX: Visual Quick Start ( required)
• Flash MX: Visual Quick Start ( required)
• After Effects 5.5:Visual Quick Start ( required)

Process Development and Preliminary Study

Each project will involve the study of several applications, some new and others familiar. The familiarity level will vary with each student and project. As a collaborative venture, every student is asked to contribute to the class study in a personal and ongoing manner. The contributions begin with having work completed on time for discussion and continues with the assistance and guidance of each other.

Each project will begin with several preliminary assignments. These assignments are primarily technique oriented and directed to inform the "how" of making; application based and technical. The how needs to be followed with the an investigation of the "what" and "why". These more personal investigations need to part of the preliminary study of each project problem and documented along with class preliminary assignments. All should be turned in along with the final project.

Research

Along with the in class activities, we will attend several screenings, lectures, and exhibitions. These events are an integral part of learning while supporting and enjoying the creative community in which we reside. The events will be announced in a timely manner and credited as part of the participation grade of each project.

Since this is an advanced course, students are expected to conduct ongoing personal research and development of their work.

SECCA

Gregory Barsamian Animayhem
SECCA, Winston-Salem 7/20 - 9/25 2002
lecture Thursday 8/29 7pm $5
Weatherspoon Japanese Film Series
Utamaro and His Five Women, Mizoguchi, 1946 90 min 8/29 7pm

After Life, Hirokazu, 1998, 118min 9/12 7pm

Lower Depths, Kurosawa, 1957, 135 min 10/10 7pm

Princess Mononoke, Miyazaki, 1997, 135min 10/17 7pm

The Makhoka Sisters, Ichikawa, 1983 140 min 10/24 7pm

Weatherspoon Exhibition

Lorna Simpson, "Easy to Remember" 2002 9/8 - 10/27

Art Dept Visiting Artist

John Pickel, Wake Forest University 9/26 12 - 4pm

1. The Line: Still Sequencing and Introduction of Digital Video and Sound

Video is time based. We can sequence time in a nonlinear structure but in the end we experience video in a linear progression of time. Every story that is told has a beginning, middle, and end. However, good stories are rarely straight lines. They instead develop through circuitous and reflective paths of hinesight, foresight and destiny.

This project is an introduction to video, digital images, sound, and narrative. We will explore Premiere 6.o focusing on still images as source material, sound, and titles.

Premiere 6

Critique Date: September 23

2. A Circle: Remote Video and Cross Applications

Time can repeat itself and video can have no beginning or end. Circles, cycles, seasons, days , all begin as they end and can blend seamlessly into each other. A circle is a loop.

In this project we will work with remote video and introduce After Effects along with a more advanced study of Premiere, and digital video, and narrative

After Effects and Premiere

Critique Date: October 21

3. A Broken Line: Interactive Video and Narrative

Flash MX offers many new features for the incorporation of video. Now, video can be tweened and referenced /selected through viewer interaction/selection. The viewer can build an experience and narrative through subjective selection and navigation. Through this interaction the video is nonlinear is form and structure. The narrative line breaks into a web of noncontinuous lines that the viewer controls.

In this project we will incorporate digital video into a web based format designed for viewer interaction.

Premiere, After Effects, Flash MX

Critique Date: November 20

4. The Sphere: Installation

The sphere is symbol for the world and in this project students will be asked to make a work that is specific to a place. The place can be physical or virtual. The web offers a place which The work can be a virtual installation, one which presents video in a place which only exists as a virtual space.

Another approach to the project could be to design a work for actual/physical presentation on a monitor or with a projector that is specific to a place/space. These spaces can be generic, corner, ceiling, table, gallery pedestal,etc. They can be specific; the security monitors in a parking lot, the belly of a pregnant woman, the dress of a dancer. These works can be presented through a real or virtual documentary means.

Critique Date: December 9 + Final Exam

Preliminary Projects

Throughout the semester, students will generate and informally present and discuss numerous preliminary projects. These preliminary projects are designed to introduce concepts and techniques relevant to the Section focus. Students are required to turn in preliminary assignments along with their final section project grouping all together in a clearly labeled folder/envelope.

• Preliminary projects are due as assigned and will not be credited if late.

• Preliminary projects must be printed (when possible).

• Participation is evaluated as part of the preliminary projects

• Artists Statements are preliminary assignments

• Class written critiques are preliminary assignments

After every class critique session, each student is required to select two other works for a concise and constructive written critique. These written critiques should be signed and submitted in two copies. They are due at the

beginning of the next class after critique.

Final projects must be submitted on disk ( CD )

All web based work will be considered for the web server: digital.uncg.edu

Collaborative projects involve a shared responsibility and grade
 

The Artist Statement
 

Every Project must include an Artist Statement. The statement should address two elements, one the technical description...The How..., and a Statement of Intent....The Why. My assumption is that if you can not retrace your steps in making an image you don’t really understand the image or the process. This might mean making the image a 2nd time ( or 20th) in order to understand your tools and processes and generate clear and articulate processes. It is important to understand the impact of tools, media, and methods along with the sequencing or the production/creation process. The Technical statement should include a listing of media along with central elements/steps in the creation process. The Statement of Intent should address your ideas about the piece and can be personal or formal.

Students who do not have completed work to present in scheduled formal critiques will be considered absent for the day and will not be permitted to participate. They are welcome to listen. They will receive a 0 for presentation/participation when work is submitted, - 10%. Artists must present their own work; no surrogates or absentee artists.

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