Welcome to 𝕰𝖝𝖕𝖊𝖗𝖎𝖒𝖊𝖓𝖙𝖆𝖑 𝕾𝖙𝖚𝖉𝖎𝖔 II/III 💛

This split-level studio course is designed around critical and creative experimentation in expanded studio practices, particularly new media. Level IIs will continue to develop technical familiarity with digital video and audio processing software in order to expand formal and creative applications. They will also begin to develop an understanding of experimental studio methods in relation to their broader artistic practice. Level IIIs will advance their technical familiarity with digital video and audio processing software in order to expand conceptual, formal, and creative applications; as well as develop a more thorough comprehension of experimental studio methods in relation to their broader artistic practice.

Readings, screenings, and artist talks will provide a base for assignments and initiate class discussion, providing participants with the critical awareness for a rigorous exploration of their work in the context of a rapidly changing technological and media landscape. Works and writings produced for class will be documented and archived by students on this blog throughout the term.

Still from Sistership TV, The Powers (2019)

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CALL FOR VOLUNTEERS! The annual MFA and Capstone Open Studios is just around the corner and they need your help! Volunteers will mostly be directing visitors around campus. The duties may include handing out brochures, providing information, helping with setup or takedown of signs, and being enthusiastic! You are also encouraged to sign up with your friends. Sign up via this Google Form.

CALL FOR MEDIA ARTS INSTALLATIONS! Broken Film Festival is an independent film festival founded in 2024, focused on exhibiting work that cleaves open spaces for maneuverability through limit-pushing and filmic transgression. We aim to explore the possibilities of emergence, resonance, the fantastical, and the phantasmagorical in the search for a cinematic otherwise. Submit by March 1st: https://www.instagram.com/p/DUTlh1akZot/?img_index=1

“Men Explain Things To Us… And We Like It!”
Friday February 13 10:30-11:30pm
Friday February 20 10:30-11:30pm

Tickets from $6.50: https://www.tickettailor.com/events/wequittheatre/2013186

SNOW DAY (NO CLASS) – JANUARY 26
–see schedule changes–

SCREENING LINKS FROM JANUARY 21

  1. Maya Deren – Meshes of the Afternoon (1943)
  2. Martha Rosler – Semiotics of the Kitchen (1975)
  3. National Film Board Kinngait Arctic Workshop Reel 1 (1973)
  4. Amy Lockhart – Jessica (2014)
  5. Theo Cuthand – You Are A Lesbian Vampire (2008)
  6. Kiera Boult & Alex Jacobs-Blum – As Above, So Below (2021)