HIGHER EDUCATION (COURSES TAUGHT)

Digital Literature Survey (with Loss Pequeño Glazier)

This course offers students the opportunity to conduct an intensive survey of the field of digital literature through a focus on literary, visual, and aural elements of language art in the media age. Primary emphasis will be on "reading" the digital texts assigned. Course content includes the screening of digital texts, the reading of critical writing about the medium, film screenings, and presentation of other media related to contexts of meaning making in the digital age. This course, invoking innovative poetry's relation to digital media, extends media investigations to related issues in film, theory, the phenomenon of the Internet and its relation to "the I", meaning-making through the context, design, and writerly qualities of Web pages, traditions of hypertext, the materiality of code, the history of e-poetry, and digital media poetics. 

16mm Film Production

This course provides a basic introduction to 16mm film production. Classes will include screenings, lectures, and demonstrations.  Students will learn basic concept design, camera operation, lighting, editing, and sound acquisition.  In addition, the course will explore the critical relationship between theory and practice in the context of film production. Students will be required to complete collaborative class projects, individual assignments, and a critical paper.  Each student will also be required to complete a short, non-sync, 16mm film project.

Latin American Cinema  (with Loss Pequeño Glazier)

This course exposes students to screenings and scholarship related to Latin American Cinema.  Focusing on Brazilian, Cuban, and Mexican productions, we will examine movements like Cinema Novo, Latin American ‘Documentalism’ and Magical Realism; through the lens of Psychoanalytic, Post-Structuralist, Post-Colonial theory, and other critical pedagogy.  Weekly screenings and readings, attendance and participation, three responsive texts, an oral presentation, and a final paper are required.

Media Arts Production (TA for Tony Conrad)

Media Art Production is a symposium for graduate students who are already active in film, video, digital, documentary, or theory. We will explore contemporary premises for producing media art works, through readings and discussions, by examining our own and others’ media work, and in the course of producing new work to test our ideas. Main topics include: (1) the migration of experimental independent media art from alternative spaces into the gallery and onto the internet in this decade, (2) new historical perspectives that encourage a rethinking of the contemporary media arts scene, and (3) recent European and New York gallery installations and other media activity. A part of this course will be conducted by remote learning by the instructor, from studio, gallery, and other sites in New York and Europe. A series of short essays will be assigned throughout the semester.

World Cinema

This course exposes students to a broad range of screenings and scholarship related to World Cinema.  Surveying renowned filmmakers from across the globe, primary emphasis will be on exploring different ways of seeing and ‘reading’ the cinematic texts we engage with in class, with special attention to crucial moments and movements that have helped define and shape aesthetic approaches to innovative cinema practice today. Weekly screenings and readings, attendance and participation, three responsive texts, an oral presentation, and a final paper are required.

Video Analysis (TA for Tony Conrad)

Video Analysis is a survey of historical and contemporary practices in video, with an emphasis on the work of independent media artists. Since this course is centered upon a body of work that is not widely distributed, much class time will be devoted to critical viewings of video works. This means that much of the informational substance of the course must be supplied by the readings, which will include a large course packet and two textbooks. A part of this course will be conducted by remote learning by the instructor, from studio, gallery, and other sites in New York and Europe. A series of short essays will be assigned throughout the semester.

COMMUNITY WORKSHOPS

16mm Film Production

Video Production

Writing with Light Photography Program

Lighting for Film and Video

Pedagogy for Dissent through Experimental Documentary

PUBLICATIONS

Strange Matter & Liquid Logic – The Cinema of Phenomena