Media Sketchbook: Light, Space and Time

"Media are our infrastructures of being, the habitats and materials through which we act and are."..."At some level, expression and existence merge.: (John Durham Peters, The Marvelous Clouds).

In this course students will plumb the reaches of their own archive of collected material (photography, text, film an d video), creating works that encourage a heightened awareness of the means through which we absorb and share expressions of ourselves and our world. Engaging with a wide range of forms (collage, writing, photography, drawing, collecting) this course explores how cultivating creative and personal practices outside of filmmaking can both enrich and relieve the cinematic imagination. In workshop settings, we look at what happens as hand speaks to eye, and how such primary gestures have evolved into a fugitive complex of remote cause and effect. Through screenings, readings, discussion and in-class collaborative exercises, we will consider the notions of speculative representations, media as self-portraiture, and forms that both trouble and harmonize inner and outer worlds. Students will complete a fully realized work a the course conclusion.