Skills Tests
There will be 2 skills tests: one for setting up a DSLR camera for shooting video on the fly, and one for setting up the Zoom H1 audio recorder. The following two videos demo everything you need to know. Additionally, we will use the same check-sheet that I will use to grade you to practice...
Documentation Disk
Why we’re doing this: We will develop our professional skills by practicing digitally archiving our work. It is important to learn how to create effective high-quality photos, videos, and audio of our work because it will not only prepare us for the basic requirements of being an arts professional, it is also a skill that...
Exhibit Receptions
You must attend the exhibit receptions this semester. Keep track at the Sleeth Gallery Website or the Sleeth Gallery on Facebook. The Student Art League is also on Facebook. You will dedicate 1 page of your sketchbook to this assignment. Each time you attend an opening, Phil McCollam, the Gallery Manager, will ask you a...
Our Class Exhibition
WHAT ARE WE DOING? We will be putting up an exhibition of our work. WHY ARE WE DOING THIS? After you leave college, you will often have to organize and execute exhibitions on your own. This project is excellent practice for the future. HOW WILL WE EXECUTE THIS PROJECT? Everyone will serve on a committee:...
Sketchbook
You need a sketchbook for this class with at least 20-30 blank pages. It should be at least 8.5"x11". Make sure to clearly sign, date, and label each page in your sketchbook so I know what I'm looking at, and to ensure you get full credit for the work you've done. You will keep all...
Performance – Directions
Why we’re doing this: -- To explore how your ideas about performance and your work as a performer can be made manifest and available for discussion -- To explore how you use the performances created by others and through processes of interpretation, refashioning, rehearsal, and performance make them your “own” -- To explore who or...
Performance – Durational
Why we’re doing this: – To explore how your ideas about performance and your work as a performer can be made manifest and available for discussion – To explore how you use can use repetition and duration to make an action your “own” – To explore the effect of time on both the performer and...
Performance – Reprise
Why we’re doing this: To practice researching performance work To practice the act of creative interpretation To consider authorship - does your reprise create the sense that the viewer has taken in the original performance or your interpretation of the work? How does the nature of the performance affect the reprise (it might be very...
Discussion Questions
There will be 22 discussion questions over the course of the semester. Each one can earn up to 2 points. For tips on writing good discussion questions, visit this resource.
Critiques – Written
We will do a written critique 3 times during the semester. The first will reflect on our performances, the second will reflect on our videos, and the third will reflect on our installations. These critiques are quizzes on Angel. PERFORMANCES For this critique, each student will write about one 10-second performance, one 10-minute performance, one...
Field Trip – Pittsburgh
We will be going on a field trip to Pittsburgh, Saturday, Feb 23, 2013. Put that date on your calendar. WVWC will cover the cost of the van rental, gas, and parking. If you are unable to attend the museums with the class on that date, you will be required to visit the exhibitions on...
Video – Self Portrait
Why we're doing this – To explore how your ideas about video and yourself can be made manifest and available for discussion – To explore how you use the videos created by others through processes of interpretation and refashioning to make them your “own” – To explore who or what “owns” the ideas, approaches, processes,...
Video – Nature Experiment
Why we’re doing this – To explore how your ideas about nature, video, and yourself can be made manifest and available for discussion – To explore the use of the scientific process as an artistic approach – To explore pans, tilts, the rule of thirds, and a dolly shot – To explore how we judge...
Video – A Walk
Why we’re doing this – To explore how your ideas about walking, nature, video, and yourself can be made manifest and available for discussion – To explore the use of walking as an artistic approach – To explore low angles, using your car to shoot, a cut-in/insert shot, and a close-up shot – To explore...