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Thursday, April 10, 2008

final assignments: presentation + sound archive

team research project—on a sound artist (20% ~ to be presented april 22). the assignment asks students to work in pairs or alone to conduct research on an artist who experiments with sound(s). this artist could be a popular artist or composer, an avant-garde experimental musician/sound artist. in any case, students should be concerned with the artistic form and ‘genre’ within which the artist works (e.g. theatre: dinner or experimental theatre; visual art: audio-visual installation; popular music: electronic or new age) and the manner of the artist’s innovation. research efforts should be concerned with describing artistic intentions and processes, analyzing and interpreting key stylistic characteristics. research tasks should be evenly distributed. each team member should demonstrate that they have gleaned a basic knowledge of the subject of their team’s research and then take responsibility for presenting a specific aspect of the research (i.e. intentions, processes, style, production context) on the artist. unless directly relevant to the sound experimentation, keep biographical information to a minimum. each student must augment his or her verbal presentation with a sound clip of no more than five minutes in length. each individual presentation should be between 5 and 10 minutes long. finally, each team member must hand in a short, point-form summary on the subject of their presentation, along with a bibliography citing the reference material used, due the day of the presentation (5%) april 23

sound archive—using recording medium of choice (answering machine, voice-mail, cell, Internet download) students are asked to collect sounds that placed together communicate a coherent theme, idea or value—be it personal, aesthetic, or political. the collection can include voice elements and musical phrases but not complete clips from traditional musical sources. as with the panoramic picture project, students should consider the organization of the sound elements and their formal characteristics—consider amplitude, direction, timbre, pitch, duration.(20%) students are required to write a formal statement describing the theme, and formal considerations of the sound project (250 words each, typed and double-spaced) (10%). Due date May 6

Tuesday, March 25, 2008

tuesday, april 1 ~ class 10 (revised)

my apologies for missing class this week although i'm sure you were well entertained and properly illuminated by mitch's presentation on sound art.

i'll look forward to your reports next week.

i'll also look forward to seeing and hearing your presentations on the panoramic works.

please be prepared to present and discuss these works. for those of you who are not finished yet, please see me or contact me about accessing the lab.

Monday, January 21, 2008

grade distribution + assignments:

1 class participation (15%)
2 picture archive— using a collection of found, visual imagery describe a subject (person/place/thing); consider graphic and descriptive values (20%); students are required to write a formal statement describe the theme and formal consideration of the picture project, to be submitted with the project (250 words, typed and double spaced) April 1
3 group research project—on an influential visual or sound artist (20% ~ to be presented April 1); each group member must hand in a short (500 word) paper on the subject of their presentation, along with a bibliography citing the reference material used, due the day of the presentation (5%) due April 23
4 sound archive—using recording medium of choice(answering machine, voice-mail, cell, Internet download) collect sounds that together communicate coherent ideas or value—be it personal, aesthetic, or political: the collection can include voice elements but not traditional musical sources (20%) students are required to write a formal statement describing the theme, and formal considerations of the sound project (250 words each, typed and double-spaced) (10%). Due date May 6

image/ideology/advertising: definitions

Media: me·di·a1 n
the various means of mass communication thought of as a whole, including television, radio, magazines, and newspapers, together with the people involved in their production (takes a singular or plural verb)

Consumer: con·sum·er n
1. somebody who buys goods or services
2. somebody or something that consumes something, by eating it, drinking it, or using it up
3. in an ecological community or food chain, an organism that feeds on other organisms, or on material derived from them.

Advertising: ad·ver·tis·ing n
1. the promotion through public announcements in newspapers or on the radio, television, or Internet of something such as a product, service, event, or vacancy in order to attract or increase interest in it
2. the business of producing advertisements
3. advertisements considered collectively

Ego: e·go n
1. somebody’s idea of his or her own importance or worth, usually of an appropriate level
2. an exaggerated sense of your own importance and a feeling of superiority to other people
3. in Freudian psychology, one of three main divisions of the mind, containing consciousness and memory and involved with control, planning, and conforming to reality
See also id
See also superego
4. the individual self, as distinct from the outside world and other selves

Citizen: cit·i·zen n
1. somebody who has the right to live in a country because he or she was born there or because he or she has been legally accepted by that country
2. somebody who lives in a city or town rather than in a rural area
3. a civilian, rather than a member of the armed forces, a police officer, or a public official

Democacy: de·moc·ra·cy n
1. the free and equal right of every person to participate in a system of government, often practiced by electing representatives of the people by the people
2. a country with a government that has been elected freely and equally by all its citizens
3. a system of government based on the principle of majority decision-making
4. the control of an organization by its members, who have a free and equal right to participate in decision-making processes

imageANDsound

Thursday, April 10, 2008

final assignments: presentation + sound archive

Tuesday, March 25, 2008

tuesday, april 1 ~ class 10 (revised)

Wednesday, March 19, 2008

tuesday, march 25 ~ class 9 'sound + silence: an introduction to sound art'

Monday, January 21, 2008

class 1 ~ spectacles + spectators: images + projections

class 2 ~ the image + the archive

class 3 ~ image + ideology: journalism + advertising

class 4 ~ film: experiments with realism 1

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