Introduction to Course
Examples of time-based work
Web Resources page, CTools discussion section
Visit Play Nation Animation Station in Duderstadt, Design Lab I
In-class time measurement exercise

• Discuss Homework Assignment #1: Understanding Comics Chap. 3
• Stop-action Animation workshop using Frame Thief (download to your laptop) and a camera, Frame Thief tips here
• Screenings of animations: PES, Jan Svankmajer, Norman McLaren
  
  

• Bring in 3 images printed out 8.5x11" paper AND in digital form: (choose 3)
  -from another decade (not 2000's)
  -showing a pattern
  -showing an action
  -expressing embarrassment
  -showing/suggesting a conflict
  -piece of evidence
  -an object
• In-class demo/bring cameras!-image sequencing/Final Cut Express
  Get software DVDs
• Review of students' finds on web
  

• Flipbook workshop with Witt Visitor Marlene Witt
• In-class exercise for making flip books--due on WEDNESDAY
  

• In-class flipbook workshop, printing
• Flip books due at end of class, more info here
• Final Cut Express intro workshop, bring cameras
  
  

• Homework#2: Bring in your ideas/storyboard for Project #1: Sequential Imagery
  (Individual meetings)
• View contemporary, historical work, documentary on Norman McLaren
• Work in class in Final Cut Express while others are in meetings
  

• Work Day
  
• View contemporary, historical work

• Project 1: Sequencing Images due today

• Class Cancelled
  
  

• SPECIAL CLASS-WITT VISITING ARTIST PES (ADAM PESAPANE)
  See his animations here
  

• Re-do's of Image Sequencing Assignment due today
  
• Homework: Read Einstein's Dreams, Quizlet on Monday

• Discuss Einstein's Dreams - time and everyday life
• Discuss next assignment: "Acts of Art: Art in Real time", various artists
  Paul Zaloom, Diane Nerwen's video "Spank", Patty Chang performances, Film "Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge"

• Homework #4 due: Research on Live Art, Performance

• Discuss various performance works and real time art
• "Yes Men" movie, other activist art
  

• Homework #5 Due: But is it ART? Origins of Non-object Art
• Discuss 1950s, 60s, 70s art and politics
• Acting out an "impossible task"

• Homework #6 Due: Storyboard of Performance Projects
• Individual meetings to discuss Performance Projects

• In class group performance on Central Campus: "FREEZE"

• Special visiting speaker, Mary Glover on "doing time"
• Project #2: Performance/Real Time ACTS due today!!

• Homework #7 Due: Research on artists using sound
• Active listening exercise
• Be prepared to make 3 sounds in class: 1) mental/thinking, 2)physical/doing and 3)feeling

• Bring in 10 digital audio files (AIFF preferred over MP3):
  5 sounds that you generated or made yourself
  5 sounds that you "found" or appropriated
  These sounds will go into the class audio "database" for all of you to use
  
  
• Using audio recorders, contact mics, editing audio with Final Cut Express
  
  
• More examples of sound art, installation, performance

• Visiting Artist/musician Eugene Chadbourne
• More sound art concepts and tools

• Audio workshop w/Michael Flynn
  
• Project #3: Sequencing Sound Part 1 due today

• Visiting speakers: 3rd Coast Audio!

• Project #3: Sequencing Sound Part 2 due today!

• Special Class: Build your own speaker

• Homework #8: Kinetic Art Research due today
• Kinetic art workshop

• Kinetic art workshop