Dance in media enjoys wide recognition in world culture and in art practice. The Department of Media Study and Department of Theater and Dance propose a joint course in learning how to document performance for camera. This intensive production class will be co-taught in two separate studio locations by Elliot Caplan, Professor/Film, and Melanie Aceto, Assistant Professor/Dance. DMS students will have the opportunity to observe and document Modern 5 dance technique class with cameras for the purpose of learning how to photograph the moving body in space. Through weekly, repeated exposure to selected movement phrases, students will collect, create and assemble edited movement sequences. Students will be guided in the recording process step-by-step through lecture demos by both professors to include camera-specific activities as related to theatrical performing space, exercises in perception, looking at dance and learning its terms through choreographic tools including change of space, relative front, force, repetition, and solo vs. group/unison/cannon. Selected films will be screened and discussed as well as examples from painting, photography and architecture. Students will be given the opportunity to explore the world of dance on film. $100 lab fee.
DMS 516
Reflections on Film Narrative
TBA
MW 1:00pm – 2:50pm
CFA 232
Reg #339917
DMS 517
Film Workshop
Elliot Caplan
TR 3:00pm – 4:50pm
CFA 286
Reg #458035
Undergrad/Grad
This is an advanced film production course designed for students who have successfully completed the intermediate film production class and have produced at least one short 16mm film. This course will explore the key components of independent production. Students will develop a major project from pre-production through the initial stages of post-production. Students are required to come to the class with an initial concept for a substantive project to be completed during the spring semester. Students will maintain a journal, produce a pre-production package, produce a production book and a fine cut of their final film project. In Addition, students will make a short autobiographical film and explore Narrative, Documentary, and Experimental elements in filmmaking. Students can expect to spend $450 for materials and processing for the course. Students will receive some assistance with supplies and film stock.
DMS 518
Experimental Non Fiction
Sarah Elder
TR 3:00pm – 4:50pm
CFA 235
Reg #360607 Theory Section
Grad
This graduate lecture explores new directions in non-fiction film and video. We will look at experimental documentary, hybrid forms of nonfiction/fiction, new diary forms, post modern influences, activist media, new domestic ethnography and newly emerging video practices. This section of the course if for students who will submit a final writing project.
DMS 518
Experimental Non Fiction
Sarah Elder
TR 3:00pm – 4:50pm
CFA 235
Reg #tbd Production Section
Grad
Same course as above. Students submiting a final production project register for this section. $100 Lab fee.
DMS 523
Programming Graphics
Dave Pape
TR 1:00pm – 2:50pm
CFA 265
Reg #303915
Grad/Undergrad
This production course will introduce students to the concepts and practice of programming 3D computer graphics and audio using OpenGL and other libraries. The major focus will be on creating interactive art or games experiences by programming both graphics and sound. The course has three goals: to demystify computer code - we get behind the Graphic User Interface to the machine below; to explore the potential of programming - writing our own code means we can create customized computer tools as well as customized visuals; and to teach the fundamentals of graphics programming. Prerequisites are experience in a programming language such as Python, C, C++, or Java (DMS 121, CSE 113/4/5 or equivalent). Permission of Instructor required. Lab fee $100. Contact: dave.pape@acm.org
DMS 531 CON
Seminar in the Image I
Caroline Koebel
T 7:00pm-9:50pm
CFA 232
REG# 007449
Grad
In this course we will strive for a self-reflective, creative setting that allows for critique and well-informed debate of your work. We will investigate net cultures with both, the due euphoria and the necessary criticism. The group will examine the potential for creative, innovative and surprising uses of emerging networked media. The course offers you a specter of role models that artists using emerging networked media inhabit: from the virtual intellectual to the net.artist, from HTML slave to online guerilla. "Screen-Based Culture" will draw from net criticism, art (history), cultural studies, anthropology, critical theory, poetry, and the news.
DMS 530
Asset Production for Games
Anton Hand
M 6:00pm - 10:00pm
CFA 242
Reg # tba
This course explores the creation and implementation of 3d models constructed in Autodesk Maya. We will learn the pipeline for creating objects, textures and animations that can then be imported into various 3d environments, game mods, engines and virtual worlds. Projects will focus on collaborative development of asset sets into simple games or projects in satellite classes. $100 lab fee.
DMS 534
Virtual Worlds: Constructing Social Spaces
Anton Hand
M W 1:00pm-3:00pm
CFA 242
Reg #tba
Undergrad/Grad
In this course we will delve into some of the most popular, expansive, and cosmopolitan Virtual Worlds both online and in development. We will study, critique and experiment with social spaces spaces like SecondLife alongside learning the various toolsets for asset production. Students will work in teams exploring several facets of content creation in VWs such as machinima, games, commercial spaces, avatar customization. We will also explore the intersections of gaming industry as they relate to VW content creation to providing a greater breadth of application to students of the digital arts. $100 lab fee.
DMS 538
New Media I
Lecture
T 5-6:50pm
112 CFA
Grad
Register though one of the labs.
Grads only.
DMS 538 A1
Lab
Thursday 5-6:50pm
244 CFA
REG#273134
DMS 538 A2
Lab
Thursday 7-8:50pm
244 CFA
REG#343037
This course provides an introduction to design and the production of interactive multimedia. The content of the class will focus on the theoretical and practical aspects of creating and integrating digital media with authoring/presentation tools. This class will lay the foundation for creating interactive projects for the web and CD-ROMS, and will integrate art, journalism, and music through hands-on developmental projects in our Mac lab. Students will learn the process and skills necessary to create a web site and an interactive CD-ROM which integrates animation, graphic design, sound, and text, working in Adobe Photoshop, Macromedia Dreamweaver, and Flash animation. Lab fee $100.
* Register for lab.
DMS 555
3D Synthetic Animation Characters
TBA
W 5:00pm – 8:40pm
Reg #298462
Comparative analysis of the development of three-dimensional synthetic characters in cinema with examples from early stop motion films to contemporary 3D digital animation. Students must conduct original research on an approved topic, and present a final paper for successful completion of the course.
DMS 598 (1-6 cr. Variable)
Project Supervision
Permission of Instructor
A student may enroll for this course after completing course requirements and while working on the thesis project. This course is for non-written projects only. One to six credits of the “project supervision” may be applied toward the MAH degree. Course syllabus form should be prepared prior to semester start and one copy should be on file in the Media Study office. Lab fee: $100. For registration information, see Nancy King in 231 CFA.
DMS 599 (4 cr. Variable)
Supervised Teaching
Permission of Instructor
See Nancy King in 231 CFA.
600 LEVEL COURSES
DMS 600 (1-8 cr. Variable)
Independent Study
Permission of Instructor
Students may arrange for special courses of study with faculty through “independent study.” The instructor will set the guideline for the course on an individual basis. It permits the student to study independently in an area where no course is given. Course syllabus form should be prepared prior too semester start and one copy should be on file in the Media Study office. For registration info, see Nancy King in 231 CFA. Lab Fee: $100 For registration information, see Nancy King in 231 CFA.
DMS 603
Seminar in Expanded Cinema: Mind, Memory, and Multiculturalism
Vibeke Sorensen
M 1:00pm – 4:40pm
CFA 242
Reg# 025689
Grad only
This is a seminar course in which students develop projects that explore their dreams, cosmologies, and personal and cultural memories by working with a combination of physical and digital media. They will transfer the richness of their own cultural backgrounds, experience and influences to media as a way of making it more responsible and diverse. With a special focus on material cultures and the ecology, students will be encouraged to work with world music and folk art as a way to understand and express differences and similarities in points of view, and propose alternative approaches to film and digital media that foster respect between people and cultures. This course will include screenings, discussion, and lab meetings.
DMS 604
Technology of Production
Carl Lee
TR 1:00pm - 2:50pm
CFA 286
Reg #115597
This graduate level course will explore and experiment with the media of film, video and sound through a series of short projects geared toward establishing a proficiency in media production. Improvement of technical skills will be emphasized and creativity encouraged. This course will guide students through the acronymic maze of HD and SD, BNC, VGA, RCA and HDMI, mpeg2 and h.264; through circles of confusion surrounding film stocks, F-stops and depth of field; sample rates, signal to noise and pick-up patterns. Students will be introduced to the array of equipment available to them in the Media Study Department, from 16mm film loopers to doorway dollies to the latest solid-state high-definition dv cameras, and will be given hands-on instruction as to their use. Specific topics to be covered will include film and video formats, cameras and projectors; compositional concepts and shooting techniques; sound recording & editing (ProTools); lighting for the studio and in the field; digital video editing (Final Cut Pro) and DVD authoring (DVD Studio Pro); preparing video for the web and additional topics to be decided. Regular screenings of experimental, documentary and narrative work will be included. A lab fee of $100 is assessed for this course.
DMS 605
Sound Media Poetics
Loss Glazier
T 3:30pm - 6:30pm
CFA 232
Reg #483387
Grad only
Experimental poetry, sound poetry, and digital media poetry share certain features of improvisation, composition, and structure. This seminar will concentrate on a close examination of innovative literary and media forms from the perspective of sound. It will involve careful reading of experimental poetry, close listening to sound poetry, and examination of digital media works, where applicable. The point will be to establish a framework for what might be innovative in relation to digital media design. This seminar will allow students the chance to examine a wide range of experimental poetry and sound works, with an emphasis on hearing the potential for innovative sound through a focus on the marginal, the "other", jazz, dissonance, and works where meaning is problemmatized. Attendance is crucial. Students will design a final project based on material discussed in class. Primary text: Adalaide Morris, ed., Sound States. Other texts: Stacy Doris: Conference (Poets & Poets); Rodrigo Toscano, The Disparities (Green Integer); Juliana Spahr, poetry works; Bruce Andrews, Getting Ready to Have Been Frightened (Sun & Moon). Also required: Listening/reading of numerous recorded works and online materials. Recommended: Charles Bernstein, ed., Close Listening.
DMS 608
Performing Texts
Gagliardi
F 11:00am - 2:40pm
CFA 286
Reg #047992
Undergrad/Grad
In this class we will explore the use of text in performance through a combination of studio practice and theory. Looking at examples from avant-garde theatre, performance art, experimental music, film, and video we will examine different ways in which artists have used textual and visual scores, instructions, non-narrative scripts, animated scores, manifestos, automatic writing, diary entries, historical documents, etc. for the production of work. Through a series of exercises and workshops, we will experiment with different ways of generating and performing experimental texts, and with different modes of aural and visual composition. This interdisciplinary class is intended for anyone interested in performance from a critical or practical standpoint. It should be especially valuable for dancers, actors, and anyone interested in directing for the stage or for the camera.
DMS 610
Media Arts Production
Caroline Koebel
TR 1:00pm - 2:50pm
CFA 232
Reg #271892
Grad only
Production course. Description to follow.
DMS 627 (1-8 cr. Variable)
Supervised Reading
Permission of Instructor
This course permits a student to do independent reading in an area where no course may be given. The instructor will set the guidelines for the course on an individual basis.
Course syllabus form should be prepared prior too semester start and one copy should be on file in the Media Study office. For registration info, see Nancy King in 231 CFA. Lab Fee: $100
DMS 690
Media Arts Internship
DMS 627 A-X
Supervised Reading
Staff ***
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CFA ARR
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DMS 691 CAP
Capstone Internship
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CFA ARR
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700 LEVEL COURSES
DMS 700 STA
Theisis Guidance
Staff ***
Reg.#000000
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CFA ARR
Permission of Instructor
A student may enroll in this course after completing course requirements and while writing the thesis. This course is for the written thesis only. One to six credits of Thesis Guidance may be applied toward an MAH degree. Permission of the instructor is required. Course syllabus form should be completed before the semester s start, and one copy should be on file with the department. For registration info, see Nancy King in 231 CFA.
