2012-13 Summer
(HART 1019)
1 Credit | Can be used to fulfill Common Core Requirement (Core Elective: Arts Area)
Teaching Medium: English
This introductory course aims at helping students to appreciate the creative potential of video art. Students will learn the theories and practical skills of multi-channel presentation of moving image, with an emphasis on using video as a creative tool for artistic expression and communication. Students will acquaint themselves with the history and development of video installation and performance, as well as its expansion with new media technologies.
- Describe and appreciate the history and development of multi-channel video art
- Identify and explain the stylistic and narrative elements of multi-channel video artwork
- Develop abstract ideas and apply artistic concepts to the process of making video installation and sculpture
Lesson 1: Introduction – City space occupied by moving images and it goals
Lesson 2: History and Development of Video Art
Lesson 3-4: Collage and Mixed Media
Lesson 5: Video collage with real space - organizing narrative
Lesson 6: Narrative Structure in Multi-channel Video I
Lesson 7: Field Trip to Applied Laboratory for Interactive Visualization and Embodiment, at Hong Kong Science Park
Lesson 8: Narrative Structure in Multi-channel Video II
Lesson 9: Presentation of proposal of final project
Lesson 10: New Media Development – What role does interactivity play in future cinema?
Lesson 11-12: Setup, testing and critique of Final Project
Lesson 13-14: Final Project Critique
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Mondloch, Kate. Screens: Viewing Media Installation Art. Univ of Minnesota Press, 2010. (Introduction and Ch. 1 & 2)
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Rieser, Martin and Zapp, Andrea. New screen media: cinema/art/narrative. London: BFI Pub., c2002. (Part 1: Definitions & Origins)
DVDs
- Peter Weibel, Rewriter: Early (conceptual) photographs, (expanded) films, (body) videos and (contextual) works, 1964-1975 [DVD]. Slought Foundation, c2009.
- Nam June Paik: Lessons from the Video Master [DVD]. Facets Video, c2006
- Manovich, Lev. The language of new media / Lev Manovich. Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2001. (Introduction and Ch. 1)
- Ravenal, John B. Outer and Inner Space: Pipilotti Rist, Shirin Neshat, Jane and Louise Wilson, and the History of Video Art. Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, 2002. (pp. 1 – 27)
DVDs
- Hill, Gary. Gary Hill: Transcending the senses [DVD]. New York, N.Y. : Films Media Group, [2005], c2001.
- Schwerfel , Heinz Peter. Bruce Nauman: Make Me Think [DVD]. Chicago, Ill. : Facets Video, 2008.
- Dennis Del Favero, Ursula Frohne, Peter Weibel [ed.]. Unimaginable [DVD]. Sydney, N.S.W. : iCinema Center : University of New South Wales, 2008.
- Stuart Brisley [DVD]. theEYE series, Illuminations TV.
- The Color of your Socks: A Year with Pipilotti Rist [DVD]. Catpics Coproductions AG, 2009.
- David Tudor Bandoneon! (a combine) [DVD]. New York, NY : E.A.T. and ARTPIX, c2009.