Creating Across Disciplines Fine Art 1200 (46489), 5200 (46494) FA 1200/5200 4 Credits Jan 17, 2001 CAD Aliases (fa1300-1-s2001) ( fa5300-1-s2001) Room: ABAH 345 or as announced Monday and Wednesday 2:00-4:20 Instruction, Leif Brush www : Office MWAH 76 Office Hours: 2:00-3:00 by appointment via E-Mail or 7268220 Telephone: 8220 or Art Dept.mailbox, H317 Expectations Conceive & create a new multimedia project which involves s[Image]und and aspects of the visual arts, music, & theatre disciplines, and do two public performances: the 1 multimedia project & 2 a sound work. Examples 1 A choreographer might create a dance based upon sounds and projected computer images and videos. A poet might create a project which alternates live-mic/real time words with recorded words and with slides and photographs. A composer could incorporate visuals projected on dancers and use machine sounds into a scored perfromance. A collaborative team could combine surround sound, QuickTime Web projections, live video camera and sound manipulations. The sound piece may be an excerpt from your project, or be a separate work. Two people collaborations are possible. 2 For the soundwork, it should be original (i.e., not involving the complete recorded works or compositions of others). Various analog and digital recording and editing equipment will be available for check out, and digital video editing and a Mac computer cart will be available for digital sound & video editing. 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 your multimedia project this week, with your discussion on your scheduled day aimed at sharing the basic ideas which may guide or influence the direction of both the sound and multimedia projects you are considering. You are responsible for reserving/bringing any equipment you will need. Syllabus structure: Lead and contribute to ongoing class discussions 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 (above). We'll complete these before the In-progress discussions and tech days. Your discussion and in-progress class presentations will be scheduled for the dates you've drawn. Jan 17 select 2 presentation dates : #A-Lead discussions; #B-In-progress report * Start in room MWAH 75, 76, 78, BullPub, Equipment Loan & return to ABAH 345 for slides, computer projections, previous CAD performance videos and other videos, slides and sound cassettes/CDs. *What to bring on Monday? Jan 24 * continue slides, videos, sounds *Lead discussion dates: (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.) [Image]* UMD Visiting Artists & CAD discussion participants- [Image]Jan 22 & 25 continue slides, videos, sounds; [Image]Jan 29 Leif Brush; [Image]Jan 31 [Image]Feb 5 ; [Image]Feb 7 ; [Image]Feb 12; [Image]Feb 14; [Image]Feb 19 ; [Image]Feb 21 ;[Image]Feb 23 ;[Image]Feb 26 ; [Image]Feb 28 ;[Image]Mar 5; work day; [Image]Mar 7 ;[Image]Mar 19 ;[Image]Mar 21 ; [Image]Mar 26 ;[Image]Mar 28 ;[Image]Apr 2 ;[Image]Apr 4 ; [Image]Apr 9 ; [Image] Apr 11 [Image] Apr 23 [Image] Apr 25 [Image] Apr 11 [Image] Apr 30 B *In-progress updates: (sound and environmental sculpture tapes) *Apr 16 & 18 project focusing - are you familiar w/the equipment you'll use? work days TECH DAYS / WORK DAYS *Apr 2, 4, 9, 11, 23 or 25 soundworks in BohH 90--3:13-3:45--2 days?? *Apr 23 & 25 TECH DAYS / work day *May 2 or 7 ? Multimedia performances in _from 3PM-'til *May 9 Meet in ABAH 345 for final Group Crits and feedback; instructor evaluation . Deliver cassette tapes, CDs videos loaned to Kirby Listening Room ? Points to remember You will be expected to formulate projects which combine the influences of three art forms (e.g., dance, (movement),drawing, sculpture, sound, painting, and theatre.) We will schedule technical run-throughs for both public performances. The target dates : April 16 & 18 are focusing days and equipment checks, PR details & final program-proof check: deciding who goes first; April 23 & and April 25th are tech days. Our sounds will be in BoH 90 ___and the multimedia performance in the Bull Pub on May 2 or 7. * Any student who is not a fine arts major or who has no prior experience with any of the art forms discussed in class may instead write a paper (approximate length ten pages) describing how he or she thinks arts dicsciplines might be merged, referencing the works of specific artists. CAD Bibliography & URLs 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 and videos too), to any specific name, topic or subject. have a look at some URLs (EMAIL me yours.): ideas / concepts / projects / traditional art / now art / developing artforms Student World View: Critical Thinking on Art and Society the virtual institution theatre/"Performance...someone is always watching" virtual theatre The Digital Acropolis Theatre Without A Theatre?? Z to Annoyance Theatre?? Adrianne Wortzel's Globe Theater Students page, University of Wollongong; almost any area of theatre Lissa's Theatre Page Technical Theatre Handbook: sound?? Set Designer?? Visual Arts/ painting/ computer\ et cetera World's Women World Museums,e.g.,The Andy Warhol Museum to Norrköping Museum of Art Web's temporarily closed for reconstruction. Your welcome to visit us again later this spring?? Candy Factory Danish sculptor JensGalschiot Christophers?? Drawing?? Michael Tracy a founder of the graffiti art movement Rafael Gray, computer scans of paintings Outsider Art word as image word as sound optophonix project challenge Vuk Cosic's History of Art for Airports Black & white animations: Olia Lialina's My Boyfriend Came Back From The War Infowars *painting, drawing, printmaking, fibers, photography, sculpture, illustration, computer, video, installation *netdreams; artists-A-Z, Sculpture:Artists minumental sculptures (PAUL St GEORGE: Minumentals question the supremacy of scale, subvert the authority of ownership and challenge the condition of uniqueness)?? Diane Bertolo's Frontier Town music/ sound/to digital[Image] editing noise/ music, multimedia, photography, film, video, et cetera, other Index of world Labels New Zealand, England, Australia, New York; computer/electronic robert c f mulder's skyharp the sound of traffic lets you know where you are Sound (text, ambience, city, etc.) Seth Ellis' and Beth McLendon's "Shift City" Ed Osborn Last Call Groundswell Radios Appear Skyfill Fence Sitters Whisper Down Blindfield Sound Fan Spur Flatfoot Zaku Zaku Sunny Vista Attempting Ziggurats what becomes (imprint) Carol Selter's photographs: ... explorations of animal locomotion. "...cows really do wear bells around their necks..." [Image]John Hudak's artificial indexing Laura Baigorri: Arte en Red (contemporary & electronic art) Wildlife Sounds and more, Cafe techno Soundz and other links, sci fi cyberwar Society_and_Culture/People/Personal_Home_Pages/White_Pages Self-Rescue Mechanism Videotheque of France The Sound School PETER DUIMELINKS/FRANS De Waard's"... tracks consist of one for contact mics scratching various surfaces... Casa das Rosas ((...leap to a new [electronic] civilization in Spanish and English)) search for a Canadian point of view: audio, documentaries, animation, humor, installations, performance, personal documentaries, sexuality & gender, social change 1982-1996,et cetera Cas de Marez "...explores all the sounds her voice is capable of..."CHRISTOPH HEEMANN"...works with natural sounds, acoustic instruments..." ROBIN RIMBAUD:'telephone terrorist...' is a techno-data pirate whose scavenging of the electronic communications highways provides the raw materials for hisaural collages of electronic music and 'found' conversations. "He is very experimental because he is searching in a realm of sound which is not usually used for music...he has a good sense of atmosphere." (Karlheinz Stockhausen on Radio 3, August 1995) artists AMBIENT LOUNGE & EARCUT MICROPHONE SKIRT (1995) is a skirt made from 20 microphones hanging from an elastic belt. Celebrating information overload, Techno Animal Brian Eno ...you can hear it when you want and where you want." Karlheinz Stockhausen ELECTRONIC PURGATORY / Kristi A. Allik, Robert C F Mulder performance/ virtual performance http://www.channelp.com/index2.html Dance Genesis Canyon choreographer Susan Crow & dancer Pippa Emmanuel mixed-media, interactive installation and dance "...The role of the observer becomes so to speak the role of a performer who has yet to create the object of his contemplation. The fact that it has existedalready before is thus being questioned, as the thing that has been here before, is something else..."Katharina Gsöllpointner writing about Dan Graham's THREE LINKED CUBES performance piece Annette Weintraub's "Pedestrian The Pedestrian Project POMO COMO IMmediaCY "IMmediaCY, a technological theatre" is an integrated media performance where the stage is a huge computer and the audience its user. forced entertainment performancechannel Split personality collaborative+performance gpoetry/ Hyperfiction Truth is a Moving Target, Erwin Redl's Q and As " ...the Web with its randomness and possibilities of linking and bridging distances..." confrontation+art Environmental Art (Earth Art) ECOLOGICAL ART earth art www.k2snowboards.com franklin furnace [Image]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. [Image] to to [Image]PATRICIA HOFFBAUER is a Brazilian-born choreographer, director, writer and educator who has been working in New York City since graduating from New York University's Tisch School of the Arts in 1984. The last installment of her series, Who Killed Carmen? -- Carmenland, The Saga Continues, was part of the Whitney Museum of American Art at Philip Morris Performance Series Second Sight, and marked the beginning of her collaboration with writer/performer George Emilio Sanchez. The collaborative relationship continues in The Architecture of Seeing, a work developed and performed over the last two years. Using mambo, cha cha chas and rock n' roll, this trilingual multimedia work takes the National Geographic cultural archetype of the serape clad peasant, the living Noble Savage, and the slick talk show hostess, turning these caricatures inside out to reinvent them. This is a combination of a pomo vaudevillian/slapstick performance environment that incorporates post-colonial themes. It explores the space where high art intersects with elements of popular entertainment creating a cross-cultural piece with an improvisatory structure. [Image]to to [Image]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. [Image]to to [Image]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. [Image]to to [Image]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. [Image]to to April 3 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. [Image]to to May 1 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. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Comments, feedback and [Image]s are welcome! class evaluation [Image] to course listings [Image]to top [Image]January 16, 2001: "The views and opinions expressed in this page are stricly those of Leif Brush. The contents of this page have not been approved by the University of Minnesota."