CSV day one
Hello All,
It was a wonderful day yesterday for me too! Thanks for the positive feedback.
I will email you Aleesa's email as well as the digital of the screening list and my notes.
Here is the url for the flash animation I told you about: http://ic3.deviantart.com/fs12/f/2006/268/c/e/redkangac.swf
You have to download it to see it.
You will need extra memory to run Avid Free DV so I have sent in a request for a quote to upgrade the computers to 2 gigs of RAM. I will let you know asap.
Please see the 8 previous posts - and comment on the movies as you wish - also please respond to this post with any other items you would like to discuss. I will try to check here daily.
Kathy
posted by kathyama59 at 8:30 AM
3 Comments:
I thought it was a good day. We're already getting into issues that don't necessarily come up in my media arts class. It will be interesting to see how we can find a way to introduce students to the theory of video art in an engaging and profound way. Not easy I suspect. I know that most of the videos we saw in the afternoon would have received two thumbs down by many students, trained as they are to look for the entertainment value of a piece, and having no context for that kind of work.
I think we'll need to work at creating a context, so that students know what they're looking at, and looking for, while viewing specific pieces. I realize that this limits the openness of their response in some cases, but my experience tells me that an open ended approach to viewing many pieces will result in no articulated response beyond "that sucked".
The last few pieces, starting with the boyband video, are fairly accessible, and are good examples of the kind of video art piece that might intrique students and provoke discussion.
I'm thinking as I write this that the theory needs to be linked with the practice closely, so we should define the kind of practices we want students to engage in and explore, and then provide them pieces that serve as exemplars of this practice in an accessible way.
With regard to the compilation, I think that it would be most effective if it is more than a collection of videos, but rather it needs to provide commentary by the artists, and perhaps by critics. Perhaps it should be structured so that someone on screen provides an introductory critical framework that allows viewers to better understand the theoretical perspective behind each piece of video.
I know this is more ambitious. What would be great is if the compilation were interactive in some way.
Just some ideas.
Looking forward to next session.
Bruce
3:51 AM
I agree with your insights Bruce,
On possible reason why the latter videos seemed more accessible might also be that they are related to our time.
The earlier works needed the context of their time, in some cases, to be understood, and as our students do not know this context, the work will not have the same impact.
Possibly working across a theme might be a better connector?
3:32 AM
I am just checking on the identity issue for Tanya.
Here goes.
1:59 PM
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