Author: Diane
More Environmental Video Art
Natasha Lavdovsky
http://www.natashalavdovsky.com/
Atmosphere manipulation
Lichen works
Plastic Bag
Aislinn Thomas
Rock Camoflauge
Mountains Used To Be Ugly
Darcy Wilson
Week 4
TUESDAY:
Research for Arboretum Videos – post on blog and present ideas in class.
Video recording outdoors demo with Nathan
THURSDAY:
Video editing refresher demo with Nathan
Discuss ideas for videos, work time in studio/ arboretum if needed
Note – Next week will be all work time in arboretum/studio as needed. Videos are due Thursday Oct. 12th for critique.
Go to Nuit Blanche in Toronto this weekend:
Week 3
Tuesday:
Meet at the lab at 11:30 sharp!
Together we will be walking to the Arboretum nature centre to participate in an environmental conservation activity: Bird Banding with Chris Earley.
Please come dressed for weather and walking, and bring a water bottle and snacks if needed.
Thursday:
Please come to class – we will have a special guest artist: Megan Arnold
See her video – Are We Human, Or Are We Skater

Megan will be showing some of her own work in video – and introducing you to our local video art and media support centre: ED VIDEO
https://www.edvideo.org/programming?/events
During the final 1. 5 hours of in-class time – please develop loose video art ideas – related to an artist, and environmental subject of your choice. Make a blog post and prepare to discuss your research and ideas in the next class.
Each student will make a blog post that includes some images/drawings/notes as needed – you must include research, images, and reflections on ways you might interpret and respond to the information in a video to be shot in the arboretum, or in controlled, studio conditions. Choose a partner to work with today – but each student will make their own blog post reflecting on the themes and ideas for working.
This research and process notes are the foundation for your video art project. You must have a completed blog post due for show and tell during our next class – where we will be discussing your research, and video art ideas.
Week 2
Tuesday:
Lecture and Upcoming Assignment
Please view the following lecture, and read the upcoming assignment instructions. You will be working as partners in groups of 2 for this project. Read/scan relevant articles linked in the lecture, watch the videos linked, and explore the websites and larger ouevre of artists presented as examples. This should take approximately 1. 5 – 2 hours during class time.
- Follow up with a deeper dive into one of the artists presented in the lecture. Discuss your interest in their ideas and their works by using two examples of their works (they may or may not be included in the lecture, include images in your post). What are some of the strategies they use to make their work? Can you summarize their system/task they assigned themselves in a sentence?
- How does the artist you chose respond to nature, creatures, or environmental conditions in their work? What kind of fact-based research did they do to work in the environment? What kinds of ideas and values inform and motivate their work? How do these ideas resonate in their final works?
Thursday:
Book Stacks critique – post work on blog
Week 1
Introductions
Tech orientation to studio, blogs, and equipment
Assignment: Book Stacks (After Nina Katchadourian)
Demo on using cameras/phones at home for shooting/high res.
Demo on using home lighting
Lily
Artist Tattoo Party – 2023







































WEEK 11
MONDAY:
Tattoo design and printing on tattoo paper demo
Sample works inspired by Micah Lexier



WEDNESDAY:
Research proposals, discussion and development
Designing and printing
Come to the SHENKMAN LECTURE AND MFA OPEN STUDIOS!
