This studio investigates monitor and projector based installation through critical readings and studio practice. Emphasis is placed on concerns of material, site, space and interactivity. The course revisits the television monitor and television viewing context as the original video installation site. Students also explore the projector and projection beam, including its shape and volume, capacity to serve as a pure light source and as a means of resurfacing three-dimensional objects. Active installation artists visit the class for lectures and critiques.

Estimated Materials Cost: $150.00 Deposit: $150.00

Elective

In this interdisciplinary critique-based class, advanced students take a rigorous look at the various ways time-based imagery functions in their work. With an emphasis on post-cinema, research- based, site-dependent, and performative practices, students in Meeting Points: Open Media examine their studio projects in-depth, through group critiques, a close analysis of critical concepts, and working with focus and discipline in their medium of choice. This course is required for FAV seniors in Open Media and is well-positioned to be a critical support for senior and graduate students looking for additional insight into the development and refinement of their work in the area of cross-disciplinary media art practice. Course work includes research, readings, critique sessions, group discussions, and visiting artist lectures. Fall semester includes a recommended field trip to a relevant exhibition or performance, and visits by related working artists and curators. Spring semester includes an emphasis on curatorial exhibition strategies, a recommended field trip to a relevant exhibition or performance, and visits by related working artists and curators.

Offered as FAV-5291 and IDISC-5291

Please contact fav@risd.edu for permission to register.

Major Requirement | BFA Film/Animation/Video | Open Media

In this interdisciplinary critique-based class, advanced students take a rigorous look at the various ways time-based imagery functions in their work. With an emphasis on post-cinema, research- based, site-dependent, and performative practices, students in Meeting Points: Open Media examine their studio projects in-depth, through group critiques, a close analysis of critical concepts, and working with focus and discipline in their medium of choice. This course is required for FAV seniors in Open Media and is well-positioned to be a critical support for senior and graduate students looking for additional insight into the development and refinement of their work in the area of cross-disciplinary media art practice. Course work includes research, readings, critique sessions, group discussions, and visiting artist lectures. Fall semester includes a recommended field trip to a relevant exhibition or performance, and visits by related working artists and curators. Spring semester includes an emphasis on curatorial exhibition strategies, a recommended field trip to a relevant exhibition or performance, and visits by related working artists and curators.

Offered as FAV-5291 and IDISC-5291

Please contact fav@risd.edu for permission to register.

Major Requirement | BFA Film/Animation/Video | Open Media

This course is a seminar/studio hybrid focusing on the fabrication of language for the moving image. Voicing, reading, telling, reciting, narrating, delivering, dialoging, interviewing, bearing witness, testifying, confessing, demanding, claiming, speaking, speaking up, singing, humming, shouting, whispering – silence.

Those various modes of expression and speech talk about positionality. In this class, exploring your voice and the voices of others will drive a method of research in practice. We will investigate how fabricating language is to shape complex sets of meaning, affect, information, trouble, references, etc.

Through this class, you will learn how to position yourselves as critical readers, writers, and voices –this will be crucial for the development of your own creations. The study of a broad range of artworks in which language is both tool and subject, will inform how we engage in writing, reading, and recording exercises. Notions in editing and sound recording are preferred for this class. SD card, personal headphones and notebook are required.

Estimated Cost of Materials: $75.00

Non-majors and graduate students are welcome. Please contact fav@risd.edu to register.

Elective

A video production course designed to supplement / stimulate / reinforce ideas and concepts learned in other media production courses. We will achieve this by focusing on how artists meditate on (or consider the process of) media creation, and how drawing attention to the fabrication and making of a work can manifest itself in a finished work. The only prerequisite is familiarity with some video editing software. Students will produce video projects to explore how reflecting on the process of filming and producing can offer a deeper understanding of media and our role as artists. Reflecting on the process of making has been explored by artists for hundreds of years. Film/Video is no exception. Through introductory exercises, as well as group and individual projects, students will explore and engage with the concept of the self-reflexivity in their artwork. In-class screenings of examples from the early cinema and video to the present will allow us to examine how makers have introduced an element of self- reflexivity in works of narrative, documentary and experimental media. Open to sophomore and above; permission of instructor required. Contact fav@risd.edu to register.