TUESDAY:

Research for Arboretum Videos – post on blog and present ideas in class.

Video recording outdoors demo with Nathan

THURSDAY:

https://x23.experimentalstudio.ca/2023/09/more-environmental-video-art/

Video editing refresher demo with Nathan

Discuss ideas for videos, work time in studio/ arboretum if needed

Note – Next week will be all work time in arboretum/studio as needed. Videos are due Thursday Oct. 12th for critique.

https://www.cbc.ca/arts/nuit-blanche-toronto-2023-must-see-artwork-1.6970135

Tuesday:

Meet at the lab at 11:30 sharp!

Together we will be walking to the Arboretum nature centre to participate in an environmental conservation activity: Bird Banding with Chris Earley.

Please come dressed for weather and walking, and bring a water bottle and snacks if needed.

Thursday:

Please come to class – we will have a special guest artist: Megan Arnold

See her video – Are We Human, Or Are We Skater

Megan will be showing some of her own work in video – and introducing you to our local video art and media support centre: ED VIDEO

https://www.edvideo.org/programming?/events

During the final 1. 5 hours of in-class time – please develop loose video art ideas – related to an artist, and environmental subject of your choice. Make a blog post and prepare to discuss your research and ideas in the next class.

Each student will make a blog post that includes some images/drawings/notes as needed – you must include research, images, and reflections on ways you might interpret and respond to the information in a video to be shot in the arboretum, or in controlled, studio conditions. Choose a partner to work with today – but each student will make their own blog post reflecting on the themes and ideas for working.

This research and process notes are the foundation for your video art project. You must have a completed blog post due for show and tell during our next class – where we will be discussing your research, and video art ideas.

Tuesday:

Lecture and Upcoming Assignment

Please view the following lecture, and read the upcoming assignment instructions. You will be working as partners in groups of 2 for this project. Read/scan relevant articles linked in the lecture, watch the videos linked, and explore the websites and larger ouevre of artists presented as examples. This should take approximately 1. 5 – 2 hours during class time.

https://x23.experimentalstudio.ca/2022/09/environmental-video-art/

1. Follow up with a deeper dive into one of the artists presented in the lecture. Discuss your interest in their ideas and their works by using two examples of their works (they may or may not be included in the lecture, include images in your post). What are some of the strategies they use to make their work? Can you summarize their system/task they assigned themselves in a sentence?
2. How does the artist you chose respond to nature, creatures, or environmental conditions in their work? What kind of fact-based research did they do to work in the environment? What kinds of ideas and values inform and motivate their work? How do these ideas resonate in their final works?

Thursday:

Book Stacks critique – post work on blog

Introductions

Tech orientation to studio, blogs, and equipment

Assignment: Book Stacks (After Nina Katchadourian)

Demo on using cameras/phones at home for shooting/high res.

Demo on using home lighting

MONDAY:

Tattoo design and printing on tattoo paper demo

Sample works inspired by Micah Lexier

WEDNESDAY:

Research proposals, discussion and development

Designing and printing

Come to the SHENKMAN LECTURE AND MFA OPEN STUDIOS!

Monday:

Lecture: Artist Tattoos

Tatoos in Contemporary Art

Assignment: Artist Tattoos

ASSIGNMENT: Make an Artist Tattoo

RECOMMENDED MEDIA: Tattoo transfer, drawing for the body, performance, video

Due: See schedule for details

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Human beings have been tattooing themselves for thousands of years. For religious and spiritual reasons, for beautification, remembrance, for rites of passage, for sex, as expressions of identity and belonging; of protest, of love and sometimes – of possession and hate.

Artists have explored many of these ideas in artist-tattoo projects, utilizing self-conscious, and conceptual strategies in designing and applying tattoos. The resulting works are sometimes surprising, provocative or difficult, funny, or emotionally moving.

Students will create a tattoo piece. You can use the transfer paper or other print and drawing techniques to make one, or multiple tattoos. You can also consider ways to present your work – on a body, in a performance, or in a video. Finish your tattoo somehow – to present to the class and on the blog as a finished artwork.

**** While your work may be a proposal and sample of a permanent tattoo, I would recommend you do NOT apply a real permanent tattoo/mark on yourself or others to complete this assignment. After critiques you are free to do what you like with your own body – but for class, you will not make a permanent body alteration, please.

Consider artist tattoos by:

Jana Sterbak

Douglas Gordon

Catherine Opie

John Murchie

Shannon Gerard

Artur Zmijewski

Michelle Lacombe

David Shrigley

Jordan Bennett

Santiago Sierra

Alethea Arnaquq-Baril

Students will document finished works for addition to the blog. Include a title, a short description and one to two images or video of your work.

Works must be posted on the blog ONE WEEK after final class –  with a title and description to receive a final grade.

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Prep for in class exercise on Wednesday – SHOW US YOUR TATTOOS

Wednesday:

Complete late critiques for Parents Video – LAST CHANCE

All updated blog posts for Parent’s videos will be due next week on MONDAY.

In-class exercise – Make a collective video montage of community tattoos called:

SHOW US YOUR TATTOOS