Penn State University - School of Visual Arts
Fall 2013
ART 316 Video Art
Professor: Eduardo Navas (ean13@psu.edu)

Mondays & Wednesdays 11:15 AM - 2:15 PM

Office Hours: Mondays and Wednesdays 10 AM by Appointment
Please contact at: ean13@psu.edu

Syllabus:
Online
PDF

Project 1: Stop Motion (no sound)10%
Project 2: Stop Motion (with Sound) 10%
Project 3: Graphics/Still Images and Video (no sound) 10%.
Project 4: Graphics/Still Images and Video (with sound) 10%
Project 5: First Advanced Video 15%
Project 6: Second Advanced Video 15%
Project 7: Final Project output to DVD 20%.

Research Methodology

After Effects
Final Cut


 

ASSIGNMENTS WEEKLY SITES

Week 16:

Wednesday, December 11, 2013
Final Project (#7) Critiqued | Turn in DVD in Class


Monday, December 9, 2013
Trouble-shoot for final project | Finalize discussing readings online


Week 15:

Wednesday, December 4, 2013
Critique of Project 6, second half of students | Continue discussing Deleuze Cinema
Assignment: prepare all meterial for 7th and final project, due December 9 and 11.

 

Monday, December 2, 2013
Critique of Project 6, first half of students | Continue discussing Deleuze Cinema 1


Week 14:

Monday, November 25, 2013
Thanksgiving

Wednesday, November 27, 2013
Thanksgiving

 


Week 13:

Wednesday, November 20, 2013

Lab Day | Work on Project 6 & 7 |

Make sure to double check on progress with instructor before Thanksgiving Break

 

Monday, November 18, 2013
DUE: Proposal for Project 6 | In Class Lecture on Video Art Installation | In Class Lecture and discussion on Cinema 1, Deleuze, Chapter 2

Assignment: Begin preparing material for final DVD to turn in as Project 7: Guidelines released

 


Week 12:

Wednesday, November 13, 2013
Lab Day | Work on Project 6


Monday, November 11, 2013

Lecture on video installation and examples for Project 6 | Begin in-class discussion of Gilles Deleuze, Cinema 1, pp. 1-28 | Discuss Cinema 1 online



 

Week 11:

Wednesday, November 6, 2013
DUE: Project 5, First Advanced Video | Class Critique
Homework: Concept proposal for Project 6 (Guidelines to be released on Thursday November 7)
Read: Gilles Deleuze, Cinema 1, pp. 1 - 28


Monday, November 4, 2013

Ninth Reading Discussed | Tenth Reading Distributed | Lab time to work on project 5



Week 10:

Wednesday, October 30, 2013
Eighth Reading Discussed | Seventh Reading Distributed | View Re-edit of Pulp Fiction in chronological order.


Monday, October 28, 2013
Due: One paragraph concept proposal with storyboard for Project 5 (upload to Forum no later than October 30), First Advanced Video | Lecture on Advanced Video Editing: View Pulp Fiction

 



Week 9:

Wednesday, October 23, 2013

Due: Project 4, Graphics/Still Images and Video (with sound) 10%
Homework: One paragraph concept proposal with storyboard for Project 5, First Advanced Video (Guidelines to be released on Thursday October 23)


Monday, October 21, 2013
Seventh Reading discussed | Eighth Reading Distributed | Work Day for Project 4

 


Week 8:

Wednesday, October 15, 2013
Sixth Reading Discussed | Seventh Reading Distributed | Lab time to work on Project 4


Monday, October 13, 2013
Due: One paragraph concept proposal with storyboard for Project 4 on Graphics/Still Images and Video (with sound)
Lecture on Editing Image, Sound, and Text


Week 7:

Wednesday, October 9, 2013
Due: Project 3, Graphics/Still Images and Video (no sound) 10% | Class Critique

Homework: One paragraph concept proposal with storyboard for Project 4 on Graphics/Still Images and Video (with sound). Guidelines for Project 4 to be released on Thursday, October 10.


Monday, October 7, 2013
Fifth Reading Discussed | Sixth Reading Distributed | Lab time to work on Weekly Assignment

 


Week 6:

Wednesday, October 2, 2013
Fourth Reading Discussed | Fifth Reading Distributed | Lab time to work on Project 3

Monday, September 30, 2013
Due: One paragraph concept proposal with storyboard for Project 3 on Graphics/Still Images and Video (no sound)
Lecture on Image, Text, and Sound

 


Week 5:

Wednesday, September 25, 2013
Due: Project 2, Stop Motion (with Sound) 10% | Class Critique
Homework: Develop one paragraph concept proposal with storyboard for Project 3 on Graphics/Still Images and Video (no sound) Guidelines for Project 3 to be released on Thursday, September 26

Assignment: fourth reading, New Media in Art, chapter 2: 82 - 121.

 

Monday, September 23, 2013
Lighting and Sound Lecture | Work Day | Third Reading Discussed



Week 4:

Wednesday, September 18, 2013
Lecture on Sound | Second Reading Discussed | Third Reading Distributed | Lab Time

Assignment: Third Reading, New Media in Art, pages 56 - 81


Monday, September 16, 2013
Due: Concept proposal and storyboard for Project 2, Stop Motion (with Sound)
Basic Editing Techniques | Principles of Narratives and Montage

 


Week 3:

Wednesday, September 11, 2013
Due: Project 1, Stop Motion (no sound) | In Class Critique
Homework: Develop one paragraph concept proposal with storyboard for Stop Motion (with Sound), after Project 2 Guidelines are available | Second Reading Assigned:

Assignment: Second Reading, New Media in Art, pp. 36 - 55

 

Monday, September 9, 2013
Work on online Tutorials
Work on First Project

 


Week 2:

Wednesday, September 4, 2013
Online Discussion of First Reading
Weekly Assignment Due/Online Discussion of Weekly Assignment
Work on First Project due on Wednesday September 11, 2013 | View links for week 2, questions to be posted as part of online discussions


Monday, September 2, 2013

Labor Day, no class

 


Week 1:

Wednesday, August 28, 2013
Lecture on film language continued | Stop Motion and Time Based Media Lecture | Weekly Project Assigned, due on Wednesday September 4.

Weekly Assignment:

Weekly Project due on Wednesday, September 4.

View the selection of fluxus films and choose three that you find most interesting. Choose a still that best represents each film. Write about your interest for each in no more than 15 words per film.

Upload your selected stills with your corresponding commentary to Angel's forum. We will discuss them as we develop project 1.

 

Monday, August 26, 2013
Introduction to Class | Concepts of sequential media | Lecture on Film | Examples | First Reading: New Media in Art, pp 7 - 35

 

Week 15

Sites for the Week of December 2, 2013

Adobe Encore CS6 Tutorial: Navigation and Burning a DVD
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3mHpoOuBDBo

Adobe Encore - Authoring a DVD Part 1 - Preparing assets
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V-97OIrds3A

How to Add Motion Backgrounds and Video Thumbnails to Menus in Encore Tutorial:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cl1Esi0PwgA

Encoding Video with Adobe Encore
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aUWbGvwudnk

 


Week 13

Sites for the Week of November 18, 2013

Study these pieces. I will discuss how they were installed during our class meeting:

A Modular Framework Exhibition:
http://navasse.net/modular/center.html
http://navasse.net/modular/tecla.html

Notes on Sweden's Approach to Art and Exhibitions:
Fargfabriken: http://remixtheory.net/?p=401
Magasin 3: http://remixtheory.net/?p=403
Mejan Labs: http://remixtheory.net/?p=405

The State of Swift Production: Interactivos?'08, Madrid, Spain
Part 1 of 3: http://remixtheory.net/?p=315
Part 2 of 3: http://remixtheory.net/?p=319
Part 3 of 3: http://remixtheory.net/?p=320

 


Week 12

Sites for the Week of November 11, 2013

Jeffrey Shaw (1989)
http://www.jeffrey-shaw.net/html_main/frameset-works.php
Jeffrey Shaw, Legible City:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61l7Y4MS4aU

Nam June Paik, Electronic Super Highway (1995)
http://americanart.si.edu/collections/search/artwork/?id=71478
YouTube clip of Paik's piece:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=llZTDXh7kp0

Ray Rapp at Black & White Gallery
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Icxi1WCoIT8

Bruce Nauman, Corridor
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9IrqXiqgQBo

Julia Scher, Recovery Agent (R.A.), 1987
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4_r-cA7vMU4

Designing Video Installations with Douglas Gordon
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n3mm-LNkmXU
Douglas Gordon - Play Dead; Real Time
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q-XD6fuf0ho

Diana Thater at EGS:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D9scN4Fn7-I

 


Week 10

Sites for the Week of October 28, 2013

Infographic of Pulp Fiction in Chronological order:
http://www.uproxx.com/webculture/2012/06/pulp-fiction-in-chronological-order-infographic/

What Watching 'Memento' in Chronological Order Can Teach About Story Structure:
http://nofilmschool.com/2013/06/watch-memento-in-chronological-order-story-structure/

Timeline for Memento:
http://www.thehighdefinite.com/2012/02/the-timeline-for-memento/

Memento Chronological Order (make sure to watch the original film before viewing this):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ishi0TyiBrs

 

Look over the following remixes. They are not direct examples of what you are supposed to do for your assignment but they give you an idea of how meaning changes when footage is re-edited:

School of Rock - Trailer (2003)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r7oMq0Vswhc
School of Rock Remixed
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wGg7KFcZp30

The Shining (1980) trailer
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1G7Ju035-8U
The Shining Recut
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KmkVWuP_sO0

Forrest Gump TRAILER
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uPIEn0M8su0
Forrest Gump Horror Trailer Remix
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7AEuqFURRHQ

Pop Culture Pirate:
http://vimeo.com/user2932697

 

 


Week 8

Sites for the Week of October 13, 2013

Christian Marclay: The Clock
http://wexarts.org/exhibitions/christian-marclay-clock
About an hour of Christian Marclay's The Clock
http://kottke.org/13/06/about-an-hour-of-christian-marclays-the-clock

 

Readings and reviews about The Clock:

Christian Marclay's "The Clock" is the World's Most Elaborate Timepiece
http://www.sfweekly.com/2013-04-17/culture/christian-marclay-the-clock-sfmoma/full/
Telling Time with Christian Marclay's 'The Clock'
http://www.kqed.org/arts/movies/article.jsp?essid=118979
Christian Marclay's The Clock: a masterpiece of our times
http://www.theguardian.com/film/filmblog/2011/apr/07/christian-marclay-the-clock

 

Matthew Barney
http://www.cremaster.net/

Cremaster Cycle Trailer
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6xWtS9HsP4U

Cremaster 4 (1995):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eR1TUXBdYCQ
Cremaster 1 (1995)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o0eHHJzk1uo
Cremaster Cycle Part 5 (1997):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DytlwEZJedM
Cremaster 2 (1999)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-6cDx8d-3kQ
Cremaster 3 (2002)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AtjvyQqim50

 


Week 7

Sites for the week of October 7, 2013

The Text Animation Tool - Adobe After Effects tutorial
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o1h97XYUByo

After Effects Tutorial - Basic Typography & Motion Graphics
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F3h2pbZkMT4

 

The Vasulkas:
http://www.vasulka.org/
Scan Processor Studies
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=De4DWMyQBfU
About video and the arts, interview met Woody en Steina Vasulka
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ekKTfufP3Wk
Woody Vasulka - Explanation
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xQEe7PLSN5I

 


Week 6

Sites for the week of September 30, 2013

Typography:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tWFWJGA7qrc

Akzidenz Grotesk - The History of a Typeface
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jtvq46zafOk

Brand New School 2006 Reel
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iAnnN6i_LWQ

Imaginary Forces
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GBmVBrusEmo

Imaginary Forces
http://www.imaginaryforces.com/

 

Yoko Ono - Fly
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5u9unRCk-2g

Nam June Paik
http://www.paikstudios.com/
Nam June Paik, TV Bra for Living Sculpture:
http://www.walkerart.org/collections/artworks/tv-bra-for-living-sculpture

Nam June Paik / Charlotte Moorman - TV Bra for Living Sculpture
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3G3XomkkTPY

Joan Jonas, Vertical Roll (1972)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-oqJZOFzbfA

Bruce Nauman
http://www.pbs.org/art21/artists/bruce-nauman
Bruce Nauman: "Art Make-Up" (1967)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cOB5L89cC8A
Bruce Nauman - Working in an Exagerated Manner around the Perimeter of a Square
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qml505hxp_c
Bruce Nauman - Clown Torture (1987)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YorcQscxV5Y

Vito Acconci - Undertone 1972 (extract)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dZaD9CHZecE
Vito Acconci - Theme Song (preview)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l0iyVeUhF3s

Valie Export
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B3R2qCEFnUU

In Focus: Michael Smith - Artist Video Projects - MOCAtv
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=neB8NPXfRGk

Wavelength (Michael Snow, 1967)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aBOzOVLxbCE

 


Week 3 and 4:

Sites for the Weeks of September 11 - September 18

Consider how montage and editing is used in the following films/experiments to create a complex narrative that the viewer can follow:

Basic Shot Types
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=laU2MI6X48I

Camera Angles and Shots
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZwbsYgZ7d-8

The 5 Deadly Sins of Amateur Video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=etVxvl6mcJ8

 

Battleship Potemkin (1925) - Full Movie; English
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7TgWoSHUn8c

La jettee, by Chris Marker:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ezkAeQuUqCg

Basic montage principle, experiments by Kuleshov:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_gGl3LJ7vHc

The Kuleshov Experiment (ORIGINAL)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zUZCPPGeJ1c

Hitchcock's Pure Cinema- "The Kuleshov Effect"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TNVf1N34-io

Blow up - Michealangelo Antonioni - The last scene of film
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YgsiCjU0HQ8

 

The following links provide information on how to develop cinemagraphs:

Popular Films Cinemagraphs:
http://laughingsquid.com/seamless-cinemagraphs-of-popular-films-by-tech-noir/

50 Cinemagraphs:
http://www.tripwiremagazine.com/2011/07/cinemagraphs.html

Cinemagraphs:
http://cinemagraphs.com/

Cinemagraph Music Video:
http://nofilmschool.com/2013/04/ian-cooper-cinemagraphs-red-epic-monochrome-music-video/

How to create your own cinemagraph:
http://www.digitalcameraworld.com/2013/01/06/cinemagraph-tutorial-how-to-make-animated-photos-using-photoshop/

How to Create a Cinemagraph Video:
http://www.videostatic.com/blog/2013/05/28/how-make-cinemagraph-music-video

How to create a cinemagraph in After Effects:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y-CwJyKnM6M

How to make a Cinemagraph with Photoshop and After Effects:
http://vimeo.com/23163811

 


Week 2:

Sites for the Week of September 4, 2013

The Man With The Movie Camera Dziga Vertov (1929)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Fd_T4l2qaQ

Andy Warhol's Screen Tests and excerpts of other films:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2tvEfwTj2C8

Andy Warhol - Kiss (1963):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FmzqNUaCGQU
Andy Warhol - Eat (1963):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XoQcGAczNTE
Andy Warhol - Blowjob [Edit] (1964)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=frrO6A1AYbE

Yoko Ono - Cut Piece (1965)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Sc47KfJjcI

 


Week 1:

Sites for the Week of August 26, 2013

Stop Motion Studies by David Crawford
http://turbulence.org/studios/crawford/index.html

Visualizing newspapers history: The Hawaiian Star, 5930 front pages, 1893-1912
http://lab.softwarestudies.com/2012/03/visualizing-newspapers-
history-hawaiian.html

Fluxus Films:

Yoko Ono - 1965 - One (Fluxus Films)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P7wfaJupGQw
Fluxus - Wolf Vostell - Sun in your head
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z5krhw54oqs
Fluxus Film: Zen For Film (Nam June Paik, 1962-1964)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8z1sOsIrshU

Fluxfilm 08 George Maciunas - 1000 Frames (1966)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kbWUQpUG1Gg
YouTube Mix of various art videos:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z5krhw54oqs&list=
RD02P7wfaJupGQw

Fluxus Films:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F56A0J8v32E&list=PLwfb7Wa-
00Rk4X3Rp98Ja2nBJqJl4MQ9r

Vito Acconci
http://www.ubu.com/film/acconci.html
Laurie Anderson
http://www.ubu.com/film/anderson_l.html
Joseph Beuys
http://www.ubu.com/film/beuys.html
Chris Burden
http://www.ubu.com/film/burden.html
Paul McCarthy
http://www.ubu.com/film/mccarthy.html
Yoko Ono
http://www.ubu.com/film/ono.html
Nam June Paik
http://www.ubu.com/film/paik.html

Bill Viola, Reflecting Pool
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D_urrt8X0l8
Bill Viola, Acceptance, 2008
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UJQmV8aPNao

Bill Viola - The Quintet of the Astonished (2000)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MR9av-I35ME

Storyboarding:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Storyboard
http://accad.osu.edu/womenandtech/Storyboard%20Resource/
http://www.sotherden.com/video101/storyboard.htm

La jettee, by Chris Marker:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ezkAeQuUqCg

Law and Order Introduction:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aTVSTnYIxEA

Michael Jackson Thriller:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TqgUm1UvVYg
Thriller with Legos:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MThEoxSWURA

Wizards 1977:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vgol5_00prc