VISA 0120 Foundations Media: Computation + Art

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Monday, February 23 at 7:00 PM
“Energy, Community, Communication”
Jegan Vincent de Paul, Wendy Jacob, Jae Rhim Lee
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‘Collision’ is a cross-disciplinary lecture series that examines the intersection of research in science, technology and contemporary art. This event pairs current research from the MIT Visual Arts Program with cutting edge research in other disciplines including mobile communication design, neuroscience, and robotics. The kick-off event introduces research-based artistic practice, presenting three current projects initiated in and supported by the MIT Visual Arts Program and the MIT School of Architecture and Planning (SA+P).

Location:
Joan Jonas Performance Hall, MIT Visual Arts Program, Bldg N51-337, 3FL
265 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02139
(see directions below).

For more information:

http://visualarts.mit.edu

vap@mit.edu
617-253-5229

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SPEAKERS
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Jegan Vincent de Paul – Community Grid Project

Jegan Vincent de Paul is a second-year graduate student in the MIT Visual Arts Program. His current work deals with global energy access. With a background in architecture, Vincent de Paul has worked with Lot-ek, New York and Ai Wei Wei, Beijing. Project collaborators (UROPs Rachel Cheney and Jennifer Tran, and CMS graduate student Jason Rockwood) will also be present. The Community Grid Project envisions a novel utilization of advances in ultracapacitor technology: using human labor to close the gap between communities with access to energy resources and those without, through the physical transport of personal ultracapacitors. Human labor and capacitors are combined to bring essential levels of energy to everyone.

Wendy Jacob – Autism Studio

Wendy Jacob is an artist and research associate at the Center for Advanced Visual Studies, MIT. She directs the newly-established Autism Studio in the MIT Visual Arts Program. Since 1989, she has also been part of the artists‘ collaborative Haha, whose site-based projects and public interventions have been shown internationally. Autism Studio is conceived as a multi-disciplinary studio where new and creative responses to living with autism are developed. In the United States, the prevalence of autism spectrum disorders has risen to one in every 150 children. The studio aims to explore perceptual features afforded by the broad range of autistic experience, and to create objects, spaces, and events that resonate with these experiences. Projects include a club to explore open space, an evening of video screenings and paper shredding, and the design of chairs that hug and clothing and architecture that extend the sensory reach.

Jae Rhim Lee – FEMA Trailer Project

Jae Rhim Lee is a Visiting Lecturer and alumna of the MIT Visual Arts Program. She also directs the FEMA Trailer Project. Her artistic practice includes N=1=0=Infinity, a post-apocalyptic, urban eco-burial system. The FEMA Trailer Project transforms one of the 94,000 surplus trailers into an alternative vehicle, to be donated to a community or non-profit organization. The FEMA Trailer has come to symbolize many of the environmental, social, economic, and administrative challenges associated with temporary disaster housing. The FEMA Trailer Project catalyzes positive change in these areas, and applies environmental justice and permaculture principles to the conceptualization and re-design of the trailer.

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SPECIAL THANKS
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Thanks to the Council for the Arts at MIT and the Office of the Dean, MIT School of Architecture and Planning for support for these projects.

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DIRECTIONS
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The MIT Visual Arts Program is located adjacent to the MIT Museum at 265 Massachusetts Avenue in Cambridge. Enter through the grey door on Front Street and take the elevator to the third floor. Exit to your left and go down the ramp. The Joan Jonas Performance Hall is located on the right. .

By Public Transportation
Take the Red Line to Central Square. Walk four blocks along Massachusetts Avenue towards Boston and the Charles River or take the #1 bus to the Front Street stop.

Martin Arnold was born in 1959 in Vienna. He studied Psychology and Art History at Vienna University.

YouTube – Martin Arnold – Alone.

Useful tutorials. Apple – Final Cut Studio 2 – Tutorials.

CHECK IT OUT IF YOU HAVE TIME!

LVAC Film Night: Life in Loops ( A Megacities RMX), directed by Tim Novotny

Location: BARTOS THEATRE, LOWER ATRIUM LEVEL
Date: February 19, 2009
Time: 7:30 pm – 9:30 pm
Thursday, February 19, 7:30PM, Bartos Theatre

Life in Loops (A Megacities RMX), directed by Tim Novotny (Austria, 2006, 80 min.)

Timo Novotny labels his new project an experimental music documentary film, in a remix of the celebrated film Megacities (1997), a visually refined essay on the hidden faces of several world “megacities” by leading Austrian documentarist Michael Glawogger. Novotny complements 30 % of material taken straight from the film (and re-edited) with 70 % as yet unseen footage in which he blends original shots unused by Glawogger with his own sequences (shot by Megacities cameraman Wolfgang Thaler) from Tokyo. Alongside the Japanese metropolis, Life in Loops takes us right into the atmosphere of Mexico City, New York, Moscow and Bombay. This electrifying combination of fascinating film images and an equally compelling soundtrack from Sofa Surfers sets us off on a stunning audiovisual adventure across the continents. The film also makes an original contribution to the discussion on new trends in documentary filmmaking. Written by KARLOVY VARY IFF 2006

For More Info: 617/253-4400

via LVAC Film Night: Life in Loops ( A Megacities RMX), directed by Tim Novotny | List Visual Arts Center.

CARPENTER CENTER LECTURE

WILLIAM POPE.L

Thursday, February 19, 2008

6pm

Reception to follow

Presented in conjunction with the exhibition Corbu Pops

Pope.L is a visual and performance-theater artist and educator who makes culture out of contraries. He has created multi-disciplinary works since the 1970s, and exhibited internationally, including New York, London, Los Angeles, Vienna, Montreal, Berlin, Zurich, and Tokyo. Select recent projects have been sited at Art Institute of Chicago, Santa Monica Museum of Art, Galerie Catherine Bastide and Sammlung Falckenberg. He is a featured artist in Intersections edited by Marci Nelligan and Nicole Mauro, and How to See a Work of Art in Total Darkness by Darby English.

The artist in Corbu Head mask, courtesy of the artist. © 2008 William Pope.L

via Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts – Galleries and Programming.

PART ONE
Write a comment on three of your colleagues final stop motion video posts. Please respond to comments on your own work. Please offer constructive criticism and justify your thoughts. Avoid using language like “I like…” or “the work is really great.” Your comments should be descriptive and thoughtful, as if you are critiquing work for a journal. See the art reviews in Frieze Magazine for reference.

PART TWO
Make two one-minute videos: one in which time appears to be moving quickly, the other in which time appears to be moving slowly. (Consider using a tripod. Make a third one minute video of your choice. (All videos must be exactly one minute or 60 seconds.)

This unit asks you to express emotional qualities of your choice by creating a rhythm and/or procession of events through editing. Use as material for your video your physical self in space, possibly in relation to objects, props, processes or movements. Sound must be self generated. You may use drawings, but only as a prop. You may not shoot your film in your dorm or dorm room.

NOTE: You will need to share cameras for this assignment. You are free to use each others footage, but must create your own videos.

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Paul Sharits was a film maker whose experimental work came to define the structuralist film movement.

Viking Eggeling’s “Symphonie Diagonale” (1921) is an early experimental film animation that balances abstract visual form and sound. Viking Eggeling is a Swedish filmmaker.

I have added a flash media player plugin to our blog so we can upload videos directly to our blog server instead of using YouTube or any other video site. This way we can control our own video quality and data. Here’s what you need to do:

1. Open your video in Quicktime Player. If you don’t have it, use the computers in the Media Lab. Go to a frame of video that you would like to use as your poster frame. (This will be the still image that people will see in your post.)
2. From the File menu, choose “Export for web”. From the drop-down menu, choose Export version for: “Desktop” and Create poster image from “The current frame of the movie”. Then click “export”. At this point, the program will compress your file and then create several files for you. You will use only two of them: the .m4v and the .jpg file.
3. Change the .m4v and .jpg files to the same name (“myfile.m4v” and “myfile.jpg”).
4. Go to the blog. Upload both of these files using the Media -> Add New link. (You can also upload your files directly in the post interface using the appropriate upload/insert icon link.)
5. Make a new post and use the following code in your post to embed the file, but delete the spaces after the starting bracket ” [f... " and before the ending bracket " ... 360] “:
6. [ flv:http://pathtofile/yourfile.m4v 480 360 ]
7. (Note: Replace the URL above with the path to your file following this convention:http://camp-er.net/teaching/sp09/foundations/wp-content/uploads/2009/02/yourfile.m4v)
8. Preview to be sure your video will play and that your poster frame image is being used. If the file names for the m4v and jpg files are the same, this should work.
9. Include an appropriate title for your post, your write-up, and use the correct category and tags. You’re done.

here’s a test…

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