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PIMA 7020G /FILM7032G : Artistic Process in Contemporary Community/Special Topics in Film HistoryMain MenuAbout VHS Archives, Spring 2020: PIMA 7070G / FILM 7032GCourse InformationSyllabus, ScheduleVideo Librarya selection of digitized tapes from the A. Juhasz collectionReadings, Viewings, ResourcesStudent Projectsdocumentation of student workFAQsFrequently Asked QuestionsAlex Juhaszc0be57b868e56707771f1f762f65c995e7248b34Jennifer McCoy24dc1edd83f5ff5615bc3b1b784b5803ed849c7dBrooklyn College OER Project
Personal Archives: February 5: Bring in documentation or original material from a collection or archive that is personal to you OR present an artist working with the idea of an archive. ungraded
A Video from the Class Collection (Annotation Presentation): February 19: Which video or videos speaks to you. Why? What do you see; what are you looking for? What details will be relevant to later researchers? ungraded
Remix/ReSearch Project: March 4 or 11: Using media or writing from one or more tapes or readings in our collection and other sources, create a video or other work that celebrates, detournes, compiles, updates, or analyzes the ideas in the works. (graded)
CHANGE to DISTANCE LEARNING segment Please add all reports and notes to SCALAR site
Archive Report and Digital Methodology Report:March 25: ungraded
Community Partner Report:April 1: Presentation of materials related to your community partner. ungraded
Research Reports, Worksheet 1: April 22: What shape is your final project taking? How are you making use of the materials, knowledge and analysis of your group and others? Why this form? How is each member of the group participating and contributing? Share a draft, or a problem set. graded.
Final Project: May 13: graded
The goal of this class is to demonstrate how documentary material from the past in a nearly obsolete format can be re-used, re-mixed, and re-interpreted to be of use to contemporary audiences and communities. Some of your work on the class collection will be public and exhibited online, thereby extending its use. Some of your work will be live, in communities. Your final project will be some organic mix of live and digital, and should be documented in an exhibit on the class site.
Projects can be in the form of traditional research (a paper, a talk, digital scholarship)
Projects can be in the form of an artwork, exhibition, performance or digital work.
Ideally projects will be a hybrid of one or more of these forms.
Projects will be collaborative
Projects will allow students to offer their personal skill sets but not be limited to them
Projects need to link to a community partner which can make good use of it
Projects must also include materials that will be added to the class archive: written research, project documentation, videos, readings, etc.