Arts Fest IDeas & Proposals

-several small projects.. different media

-set time, place... event is what happens in that window

-people on a wall or canvas... or talk aout an opinoin or important view and project it, with people

-write and perform a song using any instruments we wanted. could be recorded, could also have a video run with it.

-a class hunting and gathering project... pictures from our own creations.. big collage, have it happening during the event

-instruments with found objects, keeping a beat, use found objects and include the audience

-create a cardboard bus- project a bus onto it

-spread the word about a performance, set a time, then its a "fake performance"... the people meeting is the performance

-collage on a canvas or wall of how we are feeling... let viewers participate and include images or feelings in it

-video: pre-record interviews with people about money, and then create a video of animals and planet images, etc...

-cake and forts

-creating a quiet and peaceful environment... outside comes inside

-Earth Hours 2= turn off all of your electronics... play board games

Agenda: Wednesday, March 31

Wednesday, March 31

1. Announcements: Marisa Olsen

2. Proposals for Arts Fest

3. Review of Final Project- questions, comments, concerns

4. SOUND LAB with Steve Strait

5. Media Lab... back to Audacity and recorders

*** Email me a time when we can meet to go over grades and Final Project Ideas

MARISA OLSEN- Monday, April 5 @ 7pm Seamans Center

"Intermedia|New Media: Marisa Olson" MONDAY APRIL 5 - 7:00 pm 1505 Seamans Center Marisa Olson [Excerpt from a recent FB event invitation:] "Marisa Olson is an admitted internet junky and a serious bookworm. Her talks are both a product and a trace of her research into fluke epistemologies, the vernacular of digital visual culture, and the intersecting histories of science and superstition, new ageism and DIY/homebrew computing culture." A presentation of "Intermedia|New Media," an ongoing series of artist visits and presentations hosted by the School of Art and Art History Intermedia Area. For more information view attached electronic flier. Sponsored by the School of Art and Art History, part of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Individuals with disabilities are encouraged to attend all University of Iowa sponsored events. If you are a person with a disability who requires an accommodation in order to participate in this program, please contact the School of Art and Art History, W619 SSH or 335-1376.

in b flat project

http://inbflat.net/

neat project

Final Project

The Final Project is a combination of Sound (Unit 4) and Video (Unit 5). This project demonstrates the skills you will be learning using audio recorders and editing programs, as well as video and animation. Your goal is to combine sound and image in a meaningful and thoughtful manner. Sound is often an afterthought to videos and movies, but in this project your goal is to think of ways that sound can contribute significance or meaning to the content of your images. The following are required:

1) A significant, thoughtful sound track that includes, but is not limited to:

a) at least two (2) sounds recorded by you (using either hand recorders or studio mics- can be abstract, narration, instrumental or any variation thereof)

2) An image component that can be:

a) stop-motion animation, digital video, or found images

b) consider things like:

-an interview project

-an audio and image tour of a place or landscape

-an abstract collage of images and sounds

-a video projection onto a wall or object

-a cinematic and "movie-like" experience that has a narrative (a beginning, middle and end, plot, characters)

Start now! Gathering materials is an important aspect of your work- check out a recorder and start getting sounds or interviews. Check out a camera and start taking pictures and recording video. Put these in a file for your Final Project. Become familiar with the technology. Gathering sounds and images is only one part of the process. Editing is an entirely creative and time-consuming process that can lead to exciting discoveries. The more materials you have to work with when you begin editing, the better.

Think about whether this is something that would loop continuously in a gallery or would it be an experience that requires the viewer to watch it from the beginning to the end? Please consider the importance of editing, narrative arc, and the position of the viewer-- your entire work should be between 4-8 minutes.

Your Final Project is due Wednesday, April 28 and should be placed in my DropBox or given to me on a CD by this date.

Audacity Exercise-In Class

Today we will work in the Media Lab. We have two goals for today as we explore sound:

1. Learn the basics of using Wire Tap

2. Learn the basics of using Audacity

To acquire these basic skills, you will be working with a partner in the Media Lab and will do the following:

1. Open Wire Tap and record at least two (2) audio files. Drag these onto your desktop or another folder that is easily accessible.

2. Open Audacity and start a new project file. In Audacity, do the following:

a. Import your WireTap Audio Files into Audacity

b. Practice using these tools: Cut, Copy, and Paste with your Audio Files

c. Use at least two (2) effects on portions of your Audio Files

Cheers!

P.S. Audacity is an *open source* program, which means you can find this program online and download it for free!

Arts Fest Proposals: Due Wednesday, March 31

The Studio Arts Fest is fast approaching! The date for the event is Friday, April 30th- the Intermedia Department has traditionally participated in its own Open House, but this year we will be a part of the larger, all-school event.

I would like us to think about ways that we might participate as a class- a group project, event, collaboration, a flash mob, performance, etc. What can you think of? Something that might encourage viewer participation or that engages viewers in some way.

As a way to brainstorm ideas, please write a one-page proposal for a project. This will be due Wednesday, March 31st. The turn-around is quick- the goal is to get ideas down on paper for us to discuss. In your proposal, please include the following:

1. Project Title

2. Description of the project/what would happen

3. Description of the people participating and their roles

4. List of materials needed

5. Estimate of time needed to carry out the project/a timeline

Think of this as an exercise in writing a proposal for a grant- as an artist, this is a necessary skill. These are just some of the areas you might write about if you were applying for a grant for an artist project. So consider this an opportunity for you to exercise your writing skills and put ideas down on paper.

I look forward to hearing your ideas.

Landscape, Place, and Mediation-Ice Records

Landscape is still frequently experienced through representation and mediation, not actual experience of the place... Curator Steven Bode is quoted in a recent ART News article related to this topic: “The idea of ‘wild’ and the ‘other’ and the ‘unexplored’ is less seductive. We end up having to build a new relationship to landscape out of the portable frames of references that we all individually carry” (Wolff 2).

Artist Katie Paterson connected a cell phone to an Icelandic glacier: visitors to her gallery exhibition could hear the sounds of the hissing and cracking of its ice melting. In the Turning Over a New Leaf article in ART News, Steven Bode, director of the Film and Video Umbrella, is quoted: “What we’re seeing now, especially among younger artists, is this ominous idea of celebrating landscape while it’s on the verge of disappearing” (Wolff 1).

Katie Paterson's Website

Ice Records

Ice Records...

Different Trains

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Different_Trains

Composer Steve Reich utilizes both "concrete sound" and traditional instruments to create this work. He forms the melody from the speech of the participants on tape.

Installation/Site Specific - Seashia Vang

"There are Nearly Three Times as Many Animal Shelters in the United States as There are Shelters for Battered Women and Their Children"





Day 2



Day 1

Wasted Garden!

(copy paste) to go there

http://carolyngracescherf.blogspot.com/2010/02/double-click-to-go-there.html

How we can create a new map for new territories

This Intermedia project affected the artist more than he thought. We were told to go bigger than we may be able to realize. I think I did that. You can see on the blog I created for this project: http://guiltyasdriven.blogspot.com/ how my ideas grew. Right now I am in the process of telling people about the blog to get comments and bring another level of interaction of public, art and artist.

At first, I thought I would just document how owners of registered vehicles in Cedar Rapids, Iowa were now guilty because of the implementation of civil penalty traffic cameras. The art would lie in the unknowing transformation of man. What I didn't see was there was something greater here.

The map is the setting or place where the events take place. We are all part of an inescapable map. This map tends to be static for us and we see it as it is, a series of frames we pass through.

If the perception of a registered car has been transformed into a brush of guilt that paints the city streets it travels black with guilt, then there is an opportunity to transform the map. Drivers can control the cars to essentially "black-out" areas upon the map or make areas even more important by not "blacking-out".

What could be created is a "new map" as art. A new map of the transformed world around us thanks to the imposition of traffic cameras!

--Cyprian Alexzander