WATCH KUSTOM KAR KOMMANDOS

IS THIS CAMP? WHY?

READING FOR APRIL 11

"NOTES ON CAMP"
NOTES ON CAMP_SUSAN SONTAG


?S:

1. WHAT IS CAMP?
2. DOES CAMP STILL EXIST TODAY?

150 WORD RESPONSE - HOMEWORK

ALSO: PROPOSAL FOR FILM LOOP DUE.
APRIL 18: ROUGH CUT FILM LOOP DUE

https://vimeo.com/77696725

Watch: “The Other Side” Bill Brown on vimeo. 200 word response.

Is this a structural film? What rules does this film follow, if any? How does the disjointed sound and image

approach work to support the meaning of the film. Do you think the film is overly subjective or objective? Is it clear?
Does the non-synch sound editing techniques distance you as a viewer?

ALVIN LUCIER "I AM SITTING IN A ROOM"

https://vimeo.com/55279047

Ignore the visuals, this is the original recording, which has such a beautiful sonic quality.
If you have a chance today, listen to the whole piece and just write your response. It can be
50-100 words.

I am sitting in a room (1969) is one of composer Alvin Lucier's best known sound art works.

The piece features Lucier recording himself narrating a text, and then playing the tape recording back into the room, re-recording it. The new recording is then played back and re-recorded, and this process is repeated. Since all rooms have characteristic resonance or formant frequencies (e.g. different between a large hall and a small room), the effect is that certain frequencies are emphasized as they resonate in the room, until eventually the words become unintelligible, replaced by the pure resonant harmonies and tones of the room itself.^[1]

Lucier was originally inspired to create I am sitting in a room after a colleague mentioned attending a lecture at MIT in which Amar Bose described how he tested characteristics of the loudspeakers he was developing by feeding back audio into them that they had produced in the first place and then was picked up via microphones.^[2]

Found Footage Assignment #1

PROPOSAL DUE BY FRIDAY JANUARY 27

Create new meaning from a selection of archival material.

1. Re-edit clips provided to add new meaning to the work.

2. Use Dialectics and create visual tension and patterns with montage

3. You can add visual effects to the piece, remove the sound, or re-edit the sound and image to create a third effect.

4. VIDEO must be atleast 1 minute long.

Optional:

4. Use Vide Effects Tools: Warping, color, to shift the look of the image.

Links to Found Footage Videos:

MATTIAS MUELLER HOME STORIES

EXTRA CREDIT:

READ "ARCHIVAL APOCALYPSE" IN CATHERINE RUSSELL'S "EXPERIMENTAL ETHNOGRAPHY" AND WRITE A SYNOPSIS OF THE CHAPTER/REPSONSE. 200 WORDS.

ARCHIVAL APOCALYPSE

Assignment January 24:

1. Create a Foound Footage Montage ROUGH-CUT
2. Attend the Whitney Museum's Dreamlands Exhibition and Write a Response.

DREAMLANDS AT THE WHITNEY


Write a 300 word response to the exhibition. How did the videos address appr!priation?
How did they use motnage editing techniques? Watch the Bruce Conner piece! How
did the repetition work in this video? How did it affect you? Did you find the work
in this show truly immersive? Which pieces did you think were strongest and why?