Randall Packer, Visiting Associate Professor
For our warmup micro-project, we will use Twitter to displace ourselves in the third space (networked space). Be sure you have a Twitter account and the Twitter app on your phone. Each student will take their phone or computer to a place at ADM that has special significance, photograph the space or object, embed the… Read more »
Video Double: Using your iPhone or computer with photo booth (or similar Webcam video software), create 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. Do… Read more »
This project explores the narrative possibilities of the blog as an instrument for stories that involve creative writing, photography, video, etc. Write a micro-story about yourself, choosing one of the stranger stories you can think of, documenting it with photography or images that support the narrative. The stranger the better! The above photo comes from… 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 »
As we have seen pirate radio and television was a popular form before the Internet, enabling anyone with the right equipment to transmit over the airwaves, albeit illegally. Nowadays, we can live broadcast to anyone, anywhere using Skype, Facetime, Adobe Connect, etc. Anyone can pirate their broadcast! From your mobile phone, you will simulate a… Read more »
How do we collapse boundaries in the third space? In our study of the third space we are investigating this idea with the Micro-Project: Third Space – Collective Space. We will conduct a series of gestures that bridge ourselves across the third space. Unlike the Collective Body project, in which we were photographing ourselves asynchronously… Read more »
Drawing from the work of Jon Cates, Rosa Menkman and other glitch artists, this project will explore the aberrations, failures, and artifacts that signify this artistic form. Glitch Manipulation Process The following alterations are intended to show the results of “hacking” an image by altering its code as text. The idea is to show what… Read more »
Reflecting on the idea of public and private, use Instagram to “broadcast” your everyday life. Choose one photo per day of things you do in or outside of school: with friends, family, or just taking a walk or having a meal, sitting in your reading, anything. Imagine that everything you do is documented online (this… Read more »
Overview of the Project Hyperessay The Project Hyperessay is intended to provide a step by step method to help catalyze the process of creating a final project. Using the form of the hyperessay, integrate a textual description with relevant graphics, video, sound, and links drawn from micro-projects, readings, discussion, updates and other research to develop… Read more »
Internet Television: a live streaming broadcast project The topic for this semester is “Internet Television.” How do we think about the medium of TV in the age of the Internet, how is it changing, what are the key technologies involved, and how do artists create broadcasted works made specifically for live streaming. Students will collaboratively… Read more »