Nature, Site, and the Ephemeral
FNDT 127 Ceramics
Students were asked to consider the relationship between the land, the environment, and a particular site using clay as a material. In this online ceramic class, students used the outdoors as studio, and incorporated it into the content and context of the work. The work itself contemplates ideas related to observation, impermanence, and intervention, and was submitted as a photograph or a video.
Core Media Animation
Tracing Loops involved making drawings or isolating elements of video that students initially recorded.
The prompt was to produce a creative documentation of a particular process or activity. The intention was not to make a conventional, how-to, instructional video. Instead, imagining a collage approach was encouraged, to suggest a narrative of sorts, as a poetic observation.
To achieve this, the students envisioned a composition that consisted of cycles. With cameras, they were to record short actions that repeat, that make loops, material that could then be composited by way of editing, drawing, extracting, processing, and animation.