CLASS INTERVIEWS:
The ability to think creatively is helpful in many ways to produce unique things (both in the field of art and out) and to solve many kinds of problems (both in the field and art). Your ability to articulate the power of your visual or creative ideas and the ideas of others is a critical tool in any field.
Today, interview one fellow student about their Project 1 Video with the following questions based on the video work that you have seen over the last week in the galleries. The interview both asks you to consider the work that you have seen and compare it to the work of your fellow students. Type up your three questions first (based on questions specified below) and interview the student. Type in the three answers and post to Class Interviews on the blog before mid-class break. Focus on the student’s work as a work of art.
1.
Artist [name] used X technique (camera angle, camera movement, POV, juxtaposition of imagery etc) to evoke Y. I see you using X technique. Why and how does that function in your work? (Very important to focus on what the strategy evokes).
2.
We are all making work in the context of a long and varied history of video art and media culture. I see a connection between your work and X [a reference to an art work in the CLASS readings or CLASS youtube screenings. Just the art videos, not the films]. Tell me more about how you see this connection or another connection to video art history/media culture?
3.
Open question. Ask an in-depth question about the student’s work.