Intro: What does it take to be successful in class?
Art
Art is about creating something unique, it’s about expressing your view of the world in a different way.
Your exploration of digital sound and its integration with visual elements is a fascinating approach that bridges multiple sensory experiences in screen-based art. By combining sound and visuals, you can create immersive and dynamic works that communicate on multiple levels.
Styles
The spirit of the course is extraordinary, where a student’s time is spent developing a style that is part of the discovery process and finding/experiemting the appropriate method for one’s work.
You are encouraged to try new stylistic, conceptual, and technical approaches to creating time-based works.
Each student’s style of work is expected to be recognizable, distinctive and compelling.
Each project will require research, idea development, production, presentation and critique.
Originality and external resources
There is no such thing as “absolute originality" — Think, Do or Create something that never existed before — neither in culture nor in art.
How could a person create a completely original piece of work from nothing?
Originality does not exist in our lives either. All are a result of connections, combinations and interactions of old (other) ideas, previous evidence and proven facts.
Creative people combine and connect existing things, ideas or thoughts in unusual ways.
They find new angles and approaches to problems in an inspiring, independent and individual manner. So the ideas they create at the end are different, novel, unusual and unique.
It may be a “fresh” idea, but not absolutely original. It is a mix, combination or connection of existing things in a different way.
It is about linking known stuff in an unknown way. So we find surprising, interesting, out-of-box solutions.
Responsibility
Students are required to make high-quality, personal, and experimental works.
You will develop analytical skills for viewing and appreciating animated films or time-based work that challenge the norms and conventions of mainstream production.
Students who have no training or experience in learning how to make sound tend to use stock sounds and music in their screen-based art, game designs, and animation, when original sound would be more creative and effective.
Work samples
Sound plays important roles in contemporary art.
The artists discussed in this class are primarily concerned with animated films (screen-based works) as a form of artistic expression.
They also fulfill another important need by providing others with innovative and exciting technical directions.
Abstraction might mean non-figurative painting, but many emotive and artistic media today are so abstract. They cannot be seen, touched, or felt.
Some artists below appeal to the "ears", not the eyes.
Sound art is the most direct way of engaging with art without any thought or explanation.
Some artists explore sound in its pure state, simultaneously bridging and muddling barriers between sound, noise, and music in the contemporary or historical sense.
Blank City (2010) by Celine Danhier
... the bankruptcy of New York City coincided with a no-budget flowering of film and music on the Lower East Side,...
A fierce democracy ruled, in which qualification was secondary and "simply doing it" was the whole point. Willpower was more important than skill.
... talent was beside the point. Film people started bands, musicians made films,...
The documentary gathers many of the artists to recollect a time of heedless youth.
Variously described as No Wave, the Blank Generation or the Cinema of Transgression, their art was more an expression of their existence than a larger statement.
Blank City (2010) by Celine Danhier
Lignes verticales (1960) Norman McLaren & Evelyn Lambart
Synthetic Love (2016) Joon Sung
Created solely for the purpose of aesthetic pleasure with non-linear approach which allows me to combine, rearrange, manipulate, and blend the rendered clips to create a new animation.
One Collective Breath: Janet Cardiff's 'The Forty Part Motet
Sea Organ - Zadar, Croatia: The Sea organ is an architectural sound art object located in Zadar, Croatia and an experimental musical instrument, which plays music by way of sea waves and tubes located underneath a set of large marble steps.
We Don't Care About Music Anyway (2009) by Cédric Dupire and Gaspard Kuentz
