2014-15 Spring

Introduction to Multi-channel Video Art

(HART 1019)



1 Credit | Can be used to fulfill Common Core Requirement (Core Elective: Arts Area)
Teaching Medium: English

Course Description

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.


  1. Describe and appreciate the history and development of multi-channel video art
  2. Identify and explain the stylistic and narrative elements of multi-channel video artwork
  3. Develop abstract ideas and apply artistic concepts to the process of making video installation and sculpture

Week 1-2: History and Development of Video Art

Week 3-4: Collage and Mixed Media

Week 5: Video collage with real space - organizing narrative

Week 6: Narrative Structure in Multi-channel Video I

Week 7: Expanded Cinema

Week 8: Proposal presentation of final project

Week 9: Narrative Structure in Multi-channel Video II

Week 10: Presentation of video materials for Final Project

Week 11: Setup, testing and editing of Final Project

Week 12-13: Final Project Critique

  1. Mondloch, Kate. Screens: Viewing Media Installation Art. Univ of Minnesota Press, 2010. (Introduction and Ch. 1 & 2)
  2. Rieser, Martin and Zapp, Andrea. New screen media: cinema/art/narrative. London: BFI Pub., c2002. (Part 1: Definitions & Origins)


DVDs

  1. Peter Weibel, Rewriter: Early (conceptual) photographs, (expanded) films, (body) videos and (contextual) works, 1964-1975 [DVD]. Slought Foundation, c2009.
  2. Nam June Paik: Lessons from the Video Master [DVD]. Facets Video, c2006

  1. Manovich, Lev. The language of new media / Lev Manovich. Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2001. (Introduction and Ch. 1)
  2. 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

  1. Hill, Gary. Gary Hill: Transcending the senses [DVD]. New York, N.Y. : Films Media Group, 2005
  2. Schwerfel , Heinz Peter. Bruce Nauman: Make Me Think [DVD]. Chicago, Ill. : Facets Video, 2008.
  3. Dennis Del Favero, Ursula Frohne, Peter Weibel [ed.]. Unimaginable [DVD]. Sydney, N.S.W. : iCinema Center : University of New South Wales, 2008.
  4. Stuart Brisley [DVD]. theEYE series, Illuminations TV.
  5. The Color of your Socks: A Year with Pipilotti Rist [DVD]. Catpics Coproductions AG, 2009.
  6. David Tudor Bandoneon! (a combine) [DVD]. New York, NY : E.A.T. and ARTPIX, c2009.
     

Enrolment Details

Course Registration : 03-03 Oct 2024
Add/Drop : 03-03 Oct 2024


Instructor

Jamsen LAW


Assessment

Attendance 10%
Class Participation 20%
Individual Essay 25%
Final Project 45%

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