*Schedule*

Week 1: September 3
In class
—Introductions
—Review syllabus
—Slides: Introduction to extended media art
—In-class exercise: Timed photomontages

Assignments
—Complete student survey
—Watch remainder of John Berger’s “Ways of Seeing,” episode 1
—Read “Ways of Seeing Instagram” by Ben Davis
—Interests presentations

Week 2: September 10
In class
—Interests presentations
—Discuss “Ways of Seeing” and “Ways of Seeing Instagram”
—Slides: Crop, overlay, absence, and collage
—Tutorial: Photoshop (creating new files, types of images, resolution, selection tool, brush tool, transform, layers, blend modes, layer masks, adjustment layers)
—Begin Assignment: Image Mash-Up

Assignments
—Finish Assignment: Image Mash-Up

Week 3: September 17
In class
—Classroom agreement
—Share Assignment: Image Mash-Up
—Lecture: Gestalt (principles of proximity, closure, similarity, common region, continuity, symmetry, figure/ground)
—Tutorial: Illustrator (workspaces, setting up artboards, raster v vector, image trace, paths, pen tool, shapebuilder, exporting), template to download
—Begin Assignment: Gestalt Compositions

Assignments
—Finish Assignment: Gestalt Compositions

Week 4: September 24
In-class
—Share Assignment: Gestalt Compositions
—In-class exercise: Common Fate GIF Animations
—Screenings: Early film + documenting a place with video examples
—Tutorial: Frame rate, resolution, types of shots/angles/motion

Assignments
—Assignment: Documenting place video (Collect at least 20 shots from location and bring to next class to edit)
—Review guide to camera shots

Week 5: October 1
In-class
—Kuleshov Effect
—Tutorial: Premiere (file organization, setting up project/sequences, importing files, cutting clips, duplicating, changing speed, keyframes, exporting)

Assignments
—Assignment: Documenting place video (compile clips into 1–3 minute video)

Week 6: October 8
In-class
—Connotation v denotation
—Critique: Documenting place videos
—Screenings: Sound art, noise, and musique concrète

Assignments
—Read “The Art of Noise” (1913) by Luigi Russolo
—Assignment: Musique Concrète Composition, part 1 (make/find noisemaker and record three sounds of it, bring noisemaker to next class)

Week 7: October 15
FALL BREAK - NO CLASS

Week 8: October 22
In-class
—Share noisemakers and recorded sounds, noisemaker player
—Discussion: “The Art of Noise” (1913) by Luigi Russolo
—Tutorial: Editing sound in Premiere
—Screenings: Additional sound art examples

Assignments
—Assignment: Musique Concrète Composition, part 2 (create 1–3 minute composition)

Week 9: October 29
In-class
—Share Assignment: Musique Concrète Composition
—Screenings: Fluxus + performance art
—In-class exercise: Fluxus covers

Assignments
—Assignment: Performance
—Read section 17 "The A-Effect as Procedure in Everyday Life" by Bertolt Brecht and “Art as Technique" by Viktor Shklovsky

Week 10: November 5
In-class
—Share Performances

Week 11: November 12
In-class
—Discuss Brecht and Shklovsky readings
—Screenings: Defamiliarization and the alienation effect
—In-class exercise: Brainstorm defamiliarization

Assignments
—Assignment: Defamiliarization Test Video

Week 12: November 19
In-class
—Share Assignment: Defamiliarization Test
—Introduce Final Exercise Re-edit assignment and final portfolio
—Tour of A/V and digital lab equipment
—Tutorial: InDesign (Creating new project, creating pages, adding and modifying type, character v paragraph styles, master pages, swatches, exporting, grids/guides)

Assignment
—Fill out self-assessment sheet to plan for final

Week 13: November 26
In-class
—Visiting Artist: Sophie Auger, artist and designer of Brooklyn Rail
—Tutorial: Lay out final portfolio in InDesign

Assignment
—Final portfolio rough draft

Week 14: December 3
In-class
—Discuss Exercise Re-edit proposals and final portfolio rough drafts
—Continue to work on final portfolios, InDesign follow-up
—AV equipment checkouts

Assignments
—Final Exercise Re-Edit rough draft

Week 15: December 10
In-class
—Work day
—Individual meetings about Final Exercise Re-edit rough draft and Final Portfolio rough draft
    2:00-2:15pm: Christina
    2:15-2:30pm: Paige
    2:30-2:45pm: Claire
    3:00-3:15pm: Karma
    3:15-3:30pm: Xany
    3:30-3:45pm: Mylo
    4:00-4:15pm: Rooney
    4:15-4:30pm: Max
    4:30-4:45pm: Zach

Assignments
—Final Exercise Re-Edit and Final Portfolio
—Any project re-submissions, due December 19

Week 16: December 17
Completion Day, we will meet as class
In-class
—Critique: Final Exercise Re-Edit and Final Portfolio

Assignments
—Any project re-submissions, due December 19