Multi-channel Video Installation
IMA 78076: Multi-Channel Video Installation
Spring 2024, Wednesday 6 pm to 9 pm
Room: 543 Hunter North + Black Box
Instructor: Andrew Demirjian
Office: 401-c Hunter North
Office hours:
Monday 1:30 pm - 3:30 pm (via Zoom)
Wednesday 4 – 5 pm (in person)
and by appointment
Email: ademirji@hunter.cuny.edu
In this hands-on production course, we will create new multi-channel video installation artworks that are in conversation with the rich and diverse histories of this practice. We will engage with the technical, theoretical and aesthetic concepts that inform the production, post-production and exhibition of producing these immersive works.
Using both hardware and software methods for synchronizing sources, we will experiment with different vertical and horizontal configurations of multiple monitors and projectors to display student work. Projection mapping and sculptural techniques that investigate methods for breaking the rectangular frame will also be explored. In addition to multiple channels of video, we will also work with multiple channels of audio to create immersive environments. Students will gain hands-on experience working with a quadraphonic sound system and sub-woofer along with other speaker configurations.
Through a series of short readings, we will survey diverse perspectives, contexts and topics in this mode of production. We will also screen, critically analyze and discuss a wide array of practices from artists working in this medium. The course will be taught as a hybrid, with some classes via Zoom for discussing texts and learning post-production techniques and others in-person to set up monitors, projectors and speakers to test our work. Documenting the pieces created in class will be part of our working method, ensuring students are able to easily show the outcomes of their work for crits, grant proposals and future exhibitions.
Required Readings:
Due dates listed in the course schedule
“Video Installation: The Body, The image and the Space in Between”, Margaret Morse
“The Editor”, Stefano Basilico
“A History of Presence”, Brooke Belisle
“Beyond the Cinematic Screen: Installations and the Internet”, The Essay Film After Fact and Fiction
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“Certain Obliqueness”, Renée Green
“From Ten Thousand Waves to Lina Bo Bardi via Kapital”, Isaac Julien
Suggested Readings:
Eye and Mind, Maurice Merleau-Ponty
“Off the Wall: Video Sculpture and Installation”, from A History of Video Art by Christopher Meigh-Andrews
Expanded Cinema, Gene Youngblood
Critical Response Process, Liz Lerman
“Sites of Screening: Cinema, Museum, and the Art of Projection”, from Surface by Guiliana Bruno
Virtual Art from Illusion to Immersion, Oliver Grau
Musical Thinking: New Video Art and Sonic Strategies, Saisha Grayson
Beryl Korot, Dachau
Method of Evaluation:
1. Diptych Sketch 10%
2. Appropriation or Visual Sound Sketch 15%
4. Reading Responses 15%
5. Class Presentation 10%
6. Final Project 35%
7. Participation: 15%
Class Slides, Resources, Tutorials:
Class 2 slides Morse and Diptychs
Video Tutorial for creating Diptychs
Class Four Slides Aesthetic Strategies for Found Footage Artwork
Class Five Slides Image + Sound + Pattern
Class Seven Slides Video Sculpture
Class 8 slides Video Installation Video Essays
Beryl Korot pdf with chart
Click here for Equipment List
Research Presentation Suggestions 2024
Slides for working with diptychs and triptychs in Premiere and After Effects
March 12th updated triptych setup and export tutorial
Updated 2024 Diptych and Triptych Max patches
Class 9 slides Masking
PDF Explanation of quad audio in Max
Class 11 Slides Multi-channel Audio Three Ways
Quad Pan Max Patch with comments
Class 12 Slides Bright Signs + Multi-channel Video
Bright Sign tutorial video BrightSign:Connected
Class 12 Slides Final Project Workflow
Senga Nengudi, Warp Trance
Required Reading Prompts:
Reading Response #1 Morse
Reading #2 - The Editor
Reading #3 A History of Presence
Reading #4 - Video Essay
Student Presentation Slides
Merleau-Ponty, Eye and Mind, Anne Sofie
Bill Viola, Carlos
Kulex, Mariam
Shu Lea Cheang, Camila
Tony Oursler, AK
