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Art’s Exquisite Corpse (a video in nine parts)
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Author Archives: Zoe Sheehan Saldana
NY Times Arts, 12/1-12/7 (The last one!)
NYTimes Arts is coming to a close. In your comments this week, draw connections between at least two different articles AND at least one event you’ve attended this semester. Provide your own original thinking, not merely a summary of an article. Make it a good one–it’s the last one.
Add your comments to this post. And, please save your comments on your own computer, in case the blog crashes.
Upcoming due dates
Weds Dec 7: Blurb 4 due. Post to blog and to class Google map. ALSO, print out all four of your blurbs to turn in. Finally, bring your charged computer, camera (video or still), and a means to connect your camera to your laptop to class. We’ll be using them during class this week.
Weds Dec 14: No class meeting. Reporting work 4 due. Your choice to make a review, illustrated feature, or interview in written, podcast, or video format. Post to blog no later than 5pm on Weds Dec 14.
Weds Dec 21: Final exam period from 3:30-5:30PM in our usual classroom, VC4-214. Creative work 4 due. Post your work to the blog and come to class ready to present and participate. If your work is time-based, please keep it to 4 minutes or less. If you combine forces with a classmate, you can take longer–add your 4 minutes together to make 8!
NY Times Arts, 11/24-11/30
NYTimes Arts rolls on! In your comments this week, draw connections between at least two different articles AND at least one event you’ve attended this semester. Provide your own original thinking, not merely a summary of an article.
Add your comments to this post. And, please save your comments on your own computer, in case the blog crashes.
Creative Work 3, to-do this week
Now that you have a better sense of what you want to make, it’s time to get to work making it. Your final piece will be a 5 minute video or podcast that creatively presents a personal narrative and connects somehow to the work you chose from the Rubin Museum’s exhibit, Once Upon Many Times. Put time, thought, and effort into the project every day and you will have time to develop your vision and ideas. Have fun, take risks, try something new, surprise us. Final work due 11/30.
Interview due 11/23
As you know, your Interview is due on 11/23. Your complete work should be a 5-7 minute video. Upload your video to Vimeo and post a link to the video to the blog. Kiersten’s instructions on video are posted here.
If you have not already you need to sign up for a Vimeo account and send me your username and the email address you associated with the account, so that I can add you to our class Vimeo group. Abishek, David, Jason, Jenny, Josh, Ivan, Mariama, Nikkel, Sean, Shannon, Ryan, and Zarif… that means YOU! Sign up for Vimeo and send me your info ASAP.
NYTimes Arts, 11/17-11/23
NYTimes Arts rolls on! In your comments this week, draw connections between at least two different articles AND at least one event you’ve attended this semester. Provide your own original thinking, not merely a summary of an article.
Add your comments to this post. And, please save your comments on your own computer, in case the blog crashes.
Class trip on Thursday Nov 17 7:30pm
NYTimes Arts, 11/10-11/16
NYTimes Arts is back! In your comments this week, draw connections between at least two different articles AND at least one event you’ve attended this semester. Provide your own original thinking, not merely a summary of an article.
Add your comments to this post. And, please save your comments on your own computer, in case the blog crashes.
Creative Work 3, components due 11/16
To continue building your work, begin making and/or collecting texts, images (still and/or moving), sounds, objects, etc. that you think are relevant to the narrative you are developing. Take inspiration also from the artwork you chose from the Rubin Museum. Are there images, colors, objects, sounds, texts, etc. that feature somehow in that artwork and that might be evocative or relevant for your narrative? Come prepared to share your findings from this week and last week with the class on 11/16. Continue reading
Blurb 3 and Interview due dates
Remember, Blurb 3 is due on November 16 and the Interview is due on November 23. Plan accordingly!
NYTimes Arts takes a holiday, 11/3-11/9
That’s right, you’re getting a break. Take advantage of it by focusing on creating your feature story podcast and getting the next phase of your creative work underway.
Creative Work 3, overview and parts due 11/9
Your third creative work focuses on narrative. Ultimately you will be creating a short (5 minute) video or podcast exploring a personal narrative and presenting your work to the class on November 30. You’ll build up to that piece in stages over the next few weeks. To get the project underway, you need to do the following this week: Continue reading
Podcasts due 11/9
Create a podcast of your feature story. Your final work should be 5-7 minutes long. You can and should revise the text of your feature to work with the podcast format. Include images. Feel free to add other sound (music, effects, location sound, etc.) as desired. Feel free to ask others to read/perform the text for you if you’d rather. Make sure your final podcast is a feature story! and make sure it is audible, clear, and engaging. Post your work to the blog when complete, and mark it with the categories ‘Feature Stories’ and ‘Podcasts’.
Zoe’s three+ weeks of haikus
[October 7]
Orange specks bob
on early autumn currents—
monarch butterflies.
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NY Times & IDC do Don Giovanni, 10/27-11/2
For this week’s comments you may have to do some searching in past issues of the NYTimes. You can do this by using the search function at http://www.nytimes.com.
Find a NYTimes article discussing any aspect of the Metropolitan Opera’s current or past productions of Mozart’s Don Giovanni (the opera we will be seeing on 11/3). Include a link to the story, a synopsis of the article, and three questions the story left you wondering.
You may NOT discuss an article that a classmate has already commented on. First come, first served!
Finally, read this synopsis of the opera . You will have a much better experience if you have a sense of what the opera is ‘about’ and can focus on the singing, music, acting, staging, etc. when you are there. If you have a pair of opera glasses, get them ready! and if not, borrow a bird-watcher’s binoculars, you will not regret it.
Daniel Hope, Thursday 10/27
Daniel Hope, violin & “East Meets West”
Date: Thu, Oct 27, 2011, 8 pm
Venue: 92 St. Y, Kaufmann Concert Hall
Location: Lexington Avenue at 92nd St
Duration: Approx. 1hr 45min
Musicians:
Daniel Hope, violin
Gaurav Mazumdar, sitar
Simon Crawford-Phillips, piano
Vishal Nagar, tabla
Program:
DE FALLA: Suite populaire espagnole (arr. Paul Kochanski for Violin and Piano)
TAKEMITSU: Distance de fée for Violin and Piano
RAVEL: Tzigane for Violin and Piano
MAZUMDAR: Hommage to Ravi Shankar for Violin, Piano Sitar, Tabla, Tampura
ZWILICH: Romance for Violin and Piano
BARTÓK: Romanian Folk Dances (arr. Székely for Violin and Piano)
RAVEL: Kaddish from Deux mélodies hébraïques (arr. Hope for Solo Violin)
MAZUMDAR: Hommage to Yehudi Menuhin for Violin, Piano, Sitar, Tabla, Tampura
This Wednesday October 26, Rubin Museum of Art
This week’s class will take place at the Rubin Museum of Art, 150 West 17th St. (between 6th and 7th Ave.). Arrive promptly no later than 2:30pm. We will have a guided tour of a current exhibition. Bring your feature articles with you.
Daily Haiku, 10/20-10/26
Add your second week of haikus to your collection from the first week to make a single post. Delete the old, single-haiku, posts. Be sure to mark your compilation post with the category Daily Haiku. Again, look at your own work and see if you identify any words, themes, images, structures, moods, etc. that recur in your poems. Learn from what you’ve done. Develop and strengthen your “voice” as you continue to write and post a new haiku every day.
Consider the two weeks of haikus presented by your assigned classmate. Write another haiku that you think belongs in your classmate’s compilation. Do not write about his/her work; instead, write the haiku as though you were that person. Add this haiku as a comment on your classmate’s compilation. In another comment, discuss what you see as the characteristics of that person’s haikus. Some aspects to consider include use of language, rhythm, subject, imagery, mood, time, place, etc. What do the poems describe? What do they evoke? When you wrote the haikus as though you were that person, what prompted you to make the choices you did? Finally, what connections (if any) do you see between your classmate’s haikus and her/his daily photos?
NY Times Arts, 10/20-10/26
This week I’m shifting the emphasis to the Feature Story, to encourage you to look more closely at how feature articles work. So, your job is to:
- identify at least one feature story
- discuss how the “lede” paragraph(s) develops major motifs and attracts the reader’s attention
- identify and summarize the “nutshell” paragraph(s) (what the article is about)
- point out the ways in which the “meat” of the article develops and builds on the motifs established in the lede and the subject explicated in the “nutgraf”
- if the article is illustrated with photographs, drawings, or video, how do the images work with the text to illuminate, describe and/or evoke?
You may not comment on a feature article that a classmate has already discussed. First come, first served!
