Randall Packer & Galina Mihaleva
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 »
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 »
Drawing from the work of Jodi, Jon Cates, Rosa Menkman and other glitch artists, this project will explore the aberrations, failures, and artifacts that signify this artistic form. The assignment as described below is for the Mac using Preview and TextEdit. If you have a PC, please use the similar applications that allow you to… Read more »
This micro-project is a preparation for the final performance and explores the potential of how your dreams can be incorporated as material for movement in live performance. Follow the directions below so that you do not come to dance rehearsal empty-handed. For the Micro-Project: Dream Notation, you have the following tasks. Task #1: Visit my… Read more »
The next step after conceptualising the idea and narrative of your description of the dance performance is to visualise your costume idea in sketch form, the costume that you will wear. The costume should be an abstract representation of your concept of the dance. The garments must be designed for ease of movement. The interactivity… Read more »
Social Broadcasting This micro-project will be preparation for the final project, to explore the potential of live broadcasting as a social, collective medium. We will use the Twitter app, Periscope.tv, to conduct live broadcasts via our mobile devices to one another, and to a global audience. Periscope.tv extends across the globe, integrating live Internet broadcasting… 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 the 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, workshops, updates and other research to… Read more »
Touch A live networked performance work Randall Packer • Galina Mihaleva • Angeline Young and students of the School of Art, Design & Media at NTU • Singapore Thursday, April 21, 11am-12pm SGT Performed in Singapore + Arizona = Third Space Concept The final project will be a live performance entitled “Touch.” In the age of social… Read more »