ASSIGNMENTS
Media Practices-The Moving Image
FVNM 2001-001 / Fall 2003
Ruth Leitman and jonCates
TA: TBA
Room 517-112 S. Michigan (Unless otherwise stated)
Tues 9:00-4:00
Contact:
Ruth Leitman (email: ruthlessfilms@comcast.net)
Office hours by appointment.
jonCates (email: jcates@artic.edu)
Office hours by appointment.


ASSIGNMENT LIST
IMMEDIATELY: Email contact information to Ruth and jonCates.
DUE: SEPT. 9

DUE: SEPT. 22
Writing #1 TRAJECTORY
Write 100 words or more on where you have come from and where you are headed. The format is open with the only exception being that this should be text which can be sent to your instructors and/or physically delivered to class. This writing assignment is to be interpreted as creatively as you prefer, although spelling errors will be assumed to be accidental and should be corrected.

DUE: SEPT. 22 (In-Class shoot)
Project #1 PRECIOUS
5 minute, In-Camera Edit Piece. In your groups, begin by identifying what is precious. Share your interpretations with your group. What kinds of images convey these ideas? The group must decide on one idea, which could include some or all the ideas present. However, the final piece must be coherent.
You can shoot your piece, in the Michigan Ave. building or you can shoot out on location. You will need authorization to leave the building with equipment and you will need to identify exactly where you will be shooting so that faculty can come by to see how things are going.
You must plan to shoot so that you return to the school by 3:30pm. If someone in the group has a cell phone please give that number to either Ruth, or jonCates.

DUE DEC. 1
Writing # 2 optionalArtist
Screen work from the optionalArtist of your choice and write a two-page paper about how the work affects you. What kinds of feelings, thoughts, ideas, etc does the work inspire? Cite reference material used.
optionalArtists:
{1. Matthew Barney} {2. Lynn Hershman Neeson} {3. Gene Youngblood}
{1. Matthew Barney}
Cremaster Cycle
<http://www.cremaster.com>
{2. Lynn Hershman Neeson}
Collected Works
<http://www.lynnhershman.com>
{3. Gene Youngblood}
Expanded Cinema
<http://artscilab.org/expandedcinema.html>

DUE OCT. 6
Portable SOUND Producing Devices/Systems

DUE OCT. 13
Writing #3 WITH OR WITHOUT
Write 2-page proposal on theme of "With or Without"
(define as you feel appropriate) - consider how to convey this idea through image alone (via literal or abstract means). The presence and absence of things, feelings and ideas explored (or not) Paths taken (or not) etc....
Think about the use of space-negative and positive and tonality from black to
white.
This project will be shot in 16mm Black and White film. One 100 foot roll of film- 3 minutes. Silent. It will be an in-camera edit. Be prepared to shoot the film in a four- hour time frame in class. In other words make your ideas possible to film in that time frame. Proper planning / pre-production is essential.

OCT. 27 (In-Class shoot)

DUE NOV. 24- Project #2 WITH OR WITHOUT

NOV. 24 - Begin shooting/aquiring media for Final Project #3 CONNECT

DUE NOV. 11
Writing # 3
optionalArtists
Screen work from the optionalArtist of your choice and write a two-page paper about how the work affects you. What kinds of feelings, thoughts, ideas, etc does the work inspire? Cite reference material used.

DUE NOV. 11
Writing Assignment #2
ARTIST STATEMENT
Using the trajectory of your work before SAIC and your experiences since
you've arrived here, write an Artist Statement. Cite specific work, experiences that influenced and changed your work and concerns as an artist. This statement will be used later in a new- media project. It could be a summation, a roadmap or a puzzle of your artistic life so far. Think about being able to take the viewer/ participant to the space where your work is made. Consider temporal elements and other directions for how you would like your work to be seen.

DUE DEC. 15
Final project #3 CONNECT
Using your Artists' Statement as structuring element, you will create a Linker. Your final project will be a piece authored with MongrelSoft's Linker software. Mongrel, the UK-based collaborative, wrote Linker which is centered on the principle of linking, a core principle to new-media artworks and freely distributes this artware. Linker was written in Lingo, authored in Director, and will be the authoring environment used in this project.