ARTS443. Time Arts II UIUC School of Art + Design Tuesdays + Thursdays, 7-9:40pm Spring 2007
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		ASSIGNMENT 04........ DUE ON TUESDAY APRIL 10 Choose one item from the CONTENT PARAMETER column below (in this case "Routine - Break the Routine," "Chance," "Trap"). Then choose one item from the TECHNICAL PARAMETER column (for this assignment the technical parameters - "Installation" or "Performance" are also content parameters - the choice you make will effect the content). Edit your piece with Final Cut Pro. Make a 5-10 minute installation or performance that uses video. Let the Content and Technical Parameters inform your decisions - visually, technically and metaphorically. Use the limitations to shape your piece. FOR THIS ASSIGNMENT YOU ARE OFFICIALLY ENCOURAGED TO WORK IN PAIRS OR GROUPS OF 3
			CONTENT PARAMETER ROUTINE - BREAK THE ROUTINE It seems to me that one of art's purposes is to help us see the world with fresh eyes - to help us feel alive, outraged, hopeful, NOT DEAD. Routine is comfortable, safe, ordinary, and - sometimes- dead - not many stories are told about routine. LOTS of stories are told where the routine is established and then something (something small/huge/catastrophic/surprising) breaks the routine. Surprise is very useful in storytelling and art. Establish a routine. Break the routine. Epiphany. Awakening. Possession. Transformation. Invasion. CHANCE Ancient cultures would throw criminals over cliffs. The wisefolk of the tribe would study how the broken bones of the criminal's corpse were arranged to help predict the future. Same idea as fortune tellers reading tea-leaves or coffee grinds at the bottom of the cup. They tapped into the spirit-world through chance. John Cage used the I-Ching to compose music. He developed a system where rhythm, meter, tune were all determined by the shake of the dice. By sticking strictly to this system, he made art without an author - in a way the Divine was the author. William Burroughs used his idea of "cut-ups" to rearrange and create new poems/prose - he would take a page of text, use a pair of scissors, cut out words and phrases, close his eyes and pick out the cut-out words one at a time and form new sentences/poems. Poetry straight from the void without interference from the author's ego. Use this idea. TRAP Have you felt trapped in your life? Stifled? Stuck? Make a piece about no-escape... about almost getting over the wall, but being dragged back into the labyrinth and lost all over again.		TECHNICAL PARAMETER INSTALLATION or PERFORMANCE Make an installation or performance using video. This assignment requires you to consider WHERE (the site) and HOW your video is presented (scale? broadcast? in a living room? in a class room? on a laptop? on Youtube?). In some ways this assignment is about using video as sculpture. The video can serve as a source of light, color, meaning. But meaning is also embedded in the place the video is shown - every place/site has a story. Consider the site. What type of video "device" will you use? Projection? A monitor or tv? A laptop? A combination of multiple video "players"? We will not look at any projects in the usual rooms (41 or 225). You must arrange where your work will be shown and you must tell us how to get there.