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Course Description

Summary

Intermediate Video builds on the concepts and technical skills introduced in Intro to Video, and has a different theme each term. This semester of Intermediate Video will be focused on the following thematic, conceptual and formal questions. Video (etymology: I see) has historically been a medium dominated by the visual. What other senses can be evoked through moving images? What happens if we focus on sound or on the bodily effects of electromagnetic signals? If we mine the underlying geo-data embedded in so many of the videos we make or find? And how can we expand our approach to the visual itself? We will explore moving image works that operate at the limits of attention, or tune into non-human modes of perception, as well as artworks where image follows sound and expanded acoustic frequency ranges are tapped. We will dive into the technical aspects of sound and image production that underlie these experiments. And we will look at how these ideas and formal innovations are surfacing in more mainstream narrative and non-narrative work. Students will be expected to produce two assigned projects and one final project of their own design; projects can be discrete or form parts of a series. They will also work in groups to complete several in-class technical exercises.