week 1 discussion

screened in lab:

Gus Van Sant's 'Discipline of Do Easy':
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ochyO45Jb0g

media / multiple mediums, various examples

Interactive/ Internet - Aaron Koblin, artist working with Mechanical Turk: 
http://www.ted.com/talks/aaron_koblin.html

Interactive/ GPS - Ricardo Dominguez' boarder-crossing GPS devices
(n.b. also an example of news reportage: 'the only continuity [...] an abstract categorial designation (e.g., national) and the recurrent shots of the newsmen, actors who project some well-defined character considered appropriate for this part of the show, such as informed concern, alert aggressiveness, world-weary moralism, or genial confidence.' - David Antin):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uQTwKIpgaU8&feature=related

   - Jerome Louis' GPS tree-marking device in the Congo (printed hand-out)...

Sound as medium, installation - Susan Philipsz' 'Lowlands', site-specific sound projection
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UWeKzTDi-OA&feature=related




Formal Elements:

Time: Christian Marclay's 'The Clock'
footage/ discussion: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rB3CgEnxnYY
news article: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-11692234

Scale: Carl Sagan. Poetic science. The TV science documentary.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VuJ3Tjj40P8&feature=rellist&playnext=1&list=PL720F404A66AB6C14
"My parents were not scientists. They knew almost nothing about science. But in introducing me simultaneously to skepticism and to wonder, they taught me the two uneasily cohabiting modes of thought that are central to the scientific method."

Inside/Outside the frame: Dogtooth, by Giorgos Lanthimos.
- World within a world, edited and constructed worldview Vs shot composition, editing of footage and screenplay. Hermione has the film if you want to see it.
Link to trailer: http://www.imdb.com/video/screenplay/vi2813789721/ 


Camera use, for reference:
PD170 tutorial:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FVL1LlWDZY0