Expectations: Conceive and create new multimedia projects which involve sound and aspects of the visual arts, music, theatre disciplines, and do two public performances.

Requirements---Regular class attendance is expected, as well as your participation in discussions. Feel free to bring any visual (or other) aid(s) which can shed light on your ongoing process, and invite us to give feedback. Begin the multimedia project with a discussion on your scheduled day aimed at sharing the basic ideas which may guide or influence the direction of both the multimedia and sound projects you will be considering. You are responsible for reserving/bringing any equipment you will need.

Syllabus, structure-- Prepare for these projects by "exploring & sharing ideas" through in class discussions.

Lead discussions and contribute to ongoing class brain storming about your particular artwork and interests in the areas you've chosen, discusssing the art forms and personal directions you are already most familiar with, and the new ones you intend to explore and combine. Before your turn, get going on some UMD Library, Internet, or comparable research. If you are not presently working in any art form, you may discuss your current observations about art as a viewer or listener. Several discussions are planned and they will follow the schedule we've set today in class. Your discussion and in-progress class presentations will be scheduled for the dates you will draw. We'll complete these before the In-progress discussions and tech days.

-Jan 22 & 24 What can you bring for openers on Monday? continue available hardware demos, slides, video & computer projections and sound.

C A D---Lead participant discussions (Present videos/sounds/visuals/computer projections and any other material which possibly could relate to your multimedia and sound projects by 'exploring' through class discussions/feedback.):Jan 29 Leif Brush; Feb 5 ; Feb 7 Jesse; Feb 12 Trish, Kassie,Tony Notto; Feb 14 Dan, Dani; Feb 19 Eric, Emily; Feb 21 Maggie, Mike, Forrest;Feb 26 work day ; Feb 28 ; Mar 5 Trish; Mar 7 Dan, Jesse, Forrestt;Mar 19 Maggie, Kassie;Mar21 Mike, Eric; Mar 26 Tony, Emily, Dani, Tony Notto Tech days/work days: Mar 28 work day;Apr 2 tech/work day ;Apr 4 tech/work day ; Apr 9 tech/work day ; Lead in progress discussions: Apr 11 Dan Senn in Tweed; Apr 16 & 18 Project focusing. Are your familiar w/the equipment you'll be using? & work days; Apr 23 & 25 tech/work days

Soundworks in BohH 90: Apr 23 or 25 May 2 or 7 ??

Multimedia performance in Bull Pub? 3PM- 'til May 9

CAD Bibliography & URLs in progress

When you're ready to visit the UMD library, try to have an artist or author name, a specific subject, or category of an art form, and a title on hand before looking into the computer on-line catalog: "Periodicals owned by the UMD library." Ask also for the Magazine Collection Issue Guide (Artforum, Art In America, Flash Art, High Performance, New Art Examiner, Art International). Their help desk is just that, and they're on the second floor. Note: Two helpful individuals in the library are Marilyn Russell-Bogle and Mary Anne Carlson. They'll help you locate most anything from videos (film on videos too), to any specific name, topic or subject.

have a look at some URLs (do you have any to include here?):

music/ sound/to digitalediting noise/ music, multimedia, photography, film, video, et cetera, other

John Hudak's artificial indexing

www.k2snowboards.com

BINGO GAZINGO songwriter of such

songs as Psycho/Psycho, Indecent

Proposal, Up Your Jurassic Park, I Love

You So Fucking Much I Can't Shit,

What is the Meaning of the Garbage

Can, Let It Rock Let It Rip Let It Roll,

David Letterman FFFFFFFFFFFF You,

Is This the Chicken Market, I Left My

Fart in San Zbisco, I'm So Used to

Losin' Will I Lose You Too, Groove On

Hairy Mary Flying Through the Air, Love

Me All the Way to Heaven, and I'm

Gonna Ping Pong You With a Ping

Pong Ball, has been seen in venues

from street corners to MTV's Oddville

and Live With Regis and Kathy Lee. He

has been on the Dr. Demento Radio

Show, and appeared on access cable in

Tromeo and Juliet.

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PATRICIA HOFFBAUER is a

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JON KEITH is a writer and performer

whose creative work began in Chicago.

He consistently focuses on the processes

through which memory and desire

shape perception, and contemplates

these processes in object-oriented

performance and storytelling. Since

moving to New York City in 1993, Jon

has presented his work in Manhattan at

the Trocadero Cabaret, P.S. 122, Dixon

Place, Surf Reality, the Kraine Theatre,

and in the Field's Performance Zone

Festivals. In 1997 he created his

one-hour solo theatre piece, Tales

From the Dancing Egg, which he

performed that year during August and

September at the 13th Street Repertory

Theatre. Jon will perform Sunday

Afternoon in the Unisphere, a

fictionalized reminiscence of the 1964

New York World's Fair -- in part, an

exploration of how the Fair's vision of

"the future" collides with the culture of

the 90s. Peculiar souvenirs and tour

descriptions are woven into a tale in

which the past and present are

conflated.

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HALONA HILBERTZ was born in Austin, Texas and grew up in Munich and Dusseldorf. She studied painting and performance at theHochschule der Bildenden Kunste Saar, Saarbrucken, and at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, before moving to New York in 1996. Halona will present Pseudo Studio Walk, dealing with virtual and actual space. A very elementary physical action-walking/running is used within a medium that normallysymbolizes a very different spacial experience. Using the actual of a venue reserved culturally for virtual spaces, the performance emphasizes different meanings of "space." It is a thing, an effort, an action that, unlike the usual information on the internet, cannot be reproduced. In this sense, it cannot be seen as an action representative of our information age - it is rather an action within a certain medium but also contrary to it. Ms. Hilbertz' performances are influenced strongly by the audience's presence; this time, the mode of transmission to the audience dominates.

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JASON BOWMAN is a Glasgow-based

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JASON BOWMAN is a Glasgow-based

artist whose practice as a cultural worker

is established not solely on the creation

of art objects but on a diversity of

practice. His works are predominantly

produced by residency format. Jason's

"site-sensitive" projects have been

presented in various contexts including

art institutions, academic institutions,

soup kitchens, factories, hostels for

homeless people, and disused

warehouses. Untitled (Performance for

Cyber Broadcast) will involve the

durational force of one continuous

action which will question the virtual

one-to-one relationship between the

performer and the viewer/browser that

the cyber broadcast may appear to

offer.

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NORA YORK is an international

performer with two recently released

CD's, To Dream The World (Evidence)

and Alchemy (Polystar, Japan). York's

performances are a collage of musical

and theatrical elements, taking well

known songs and reorienting the listener

through the shifting gender of the lyrics,

or altering the emphasis of the song; her

original songs are a mixture of poetry

and musical genre. For Franklin

Furnace At Pseudo Programs Inc., she

will premiere her collaborative work with

the visual artist NANCY SPERO. Spero's

archetypical female images move from

one York song to the next creating a

visual context and persona for the songs

to inhabit. York will focus on her

reinterpretations of the male dominated

rock-n-roll songs remembered from her

own history, attempting to recode the

sexual stereotypes experienced in her

own coming of age. Along with these

she will introduce evocative original

songs written specifically to explore

Spero's world. York with Spero, explores

the terrain that lies between high art

and entertainment.

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