2014-15 Spring
(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.
- 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
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
- Mondloch, Kate. Screens: Viewing Media Installation Art. Univ of Minnesota Press, 2010. (Introduction and Ch. 1 & 2)
- 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
- 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.
Enrolment Details
Course Registration : 03-03 Oct 2024Add/Drop : 03-03 Oct 2024
Instructor
Jamsen LAW
Assessment
Attendance | 10% |
Class Participation | 20% |
Individual Essay | 25% |
Final Project | 45% |