Randall Packer
August 17th Video Wall This micro-project explores social broadcasting as the organization of distributed media flows, spaces, locations, images, and sound aggregated in the immediacy and simultaneity of their performance. As an in-class assignment, each student will broadcast via Facebook LIve and their feeds will be aggregated in real-time on to a Web-based interactive video wall. Despite… Read more »
Video Double: Using your iPhone, Android or browser, broadcast via Facebook Live a one minute video of yourself that constructs your “artistic alter ego:” the artist you want/choose/aspire to be. Choose a location that you find best expresses this constructed sense of identity: studio, campus, apartment, park, café, garden, etc. Be sure you are in the… Read more »
The Collective Body: This micro-project involves the construction of a “collective body” made up of our body parts randomly reassembled and reconfigured into a single composite body. Using your iPhone or Photo Booth and your built-in Webcam, shoot six photographs of yourself close-up: (3) face – 2 profiles, one frontal, (2) each hand, (1) upper… Read more »
“You’re either on or your off the bus.” – Ken Kesey, as quoted by Tom Wolfe from his book, the Electric Kook-Aid Acid Test In the 1960s, Ken Kesey catalyzed the hippie generation in the US and the around the world by conducting a social experiment with his collective, the Merry Pranksters. In 1964, they… Read more »
Our desktops are a repository for files and downloads and miscellaneous attachments that will someday be filed and organized. We don’t know when! The above screenshot shows my background image as a personalized space of imagery, files, notes, hard drives, etc. It is my other world, the one that is distinct and apart from the… Read more »
If you look on the right side of this grid from top to bottom… you will see a mobile broadcaster (Curt Cloninger, an artist developing this idea) on an inner-tube flowing down a river; in the middle is a desktop broadcaster capturing the image of the mobile broadcaster (myself); and then on the bottom a… Read more »
Due: Thursday, September 28th This semester we have discussed the work of video and Internet artists, as well as reviewed key concepts of net culture and its relation to media art. For the first Hyperessay assignment, students will write a summary by synthesizing ideas culled from your research posts, as well a ideas that you… Read more »
Experiments in Social Broadcasting Due Thursday, November 16 Project Description This semester, we have focused on various aspects of social broadcasting, collective narrative and collaborative work on the Internet. The final project for Internet Art & Culture will involve a group project that will be entirely the invention of each group of students. The class… Read more »