Intermedia Syllabus
Ben Pranger, Professor
Description:
This intensive workshop looks at the relationship between creative media--including ideas, text, sound, images, movement and objects--as a means to develop performance and other artwork.
Students will work on collaborative and individual projects, with an emphasis on making digital scores as a way to organize material in time and space.
Class projects will be presented to the public in a final collaborative event. Reading and discussion provide context for this rich and emerging field.
Objectives:
-discover compositional principles shared by all media
-move between creative media
-see how one media influences another
-combine media in unexpected ways
-make interactive, digital scores for performance
-research contemporary trends
Required text:
Multimedia: From Wagner to Virtual Reality, ed. Packer and handouts.
Projects
Throughout the semester we will work on a collaborative piece made from material collected by class members.
A final performance will merge, morph and combine diverse material ina fluid, multimedia event.
1) Collaboration
Collect two or more examples of the following material--one found and one made by you.
We will work with these materials in the studio and collect themon a Media Lab "Database".
a) images photos/drawings/and digital
b) words instructions and quotes
c) sounds ambient, music and verbal
d) movement films, dance studio, animation
e) objects found and made
2) Score
Remix selected material from the Database.
Make a digital score for performance containing instructions/maps/diagrams that organize the material in space/time.
Your score can be interactive--the viewer can participate in the process of composition.
3) Individual Projects
Actualize the database and scores through performance and making.
Each student will develop a concentration working between at least two media--for ex., sound/movement,text/installation.
Continue to work collaboratively and interrelate projects for a final performance.
Class members (and friends) will perform the piece at a predetermined location--the score may become part of the piece.