This studio seminar explores the creative landscape at the intersection of the aesthetics and ethics of representational media.  Students working in single channel films, installations, socially engaged practices using video, site-specific projections, video performances, VR, and on-line/social media platforms will have the opportunity to imagine the potential that lies between poetics and the document.  Through their practice students will investigate how the public presentation of imagery shapes the fundamental process of creating work with representational media. The seminar will conclude with a presentation of student projects on Jim Campbell’s’ public video canvass on the top of the Salesforce Tower.
The intertwining histories of experimental film (rooted in the materiality of celluloid) and video art (rooted primarily in sculpture) will be examined as a means to explore the intersection of these two histories in contemporary art practice.  Contemporary artists will be investigated in relation to their historical precedents as a means to develop a critical discourse around the representation of truth, the concept of point of view, the objective/subjective paradox, and the dynamic forces of context.  Guest artists and field trips will bring us out of the classroom and into locations where work is created and exhibited.  This course continues the instructional model from Graduate Film Studio 2. Practicum modules will address specific craft and aesthetic areas relevant to student thesis work, craft skills, and further development of their filmmaking vision.

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