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CONCEPTS
WORKS VIEWED
PROJECTS
PROJECT #1: TIME AND MOTION STUDIES
PROJECT #2: SPACES INSIDE & OUTSIDE TIME
TUTORIALS
EQUIPMENT
ARTISTS
PRESENTATIONS
READINGS
KEYWORDS
LINKS

Winter 2010
Time: Wednesday 3-7 PM
Location: Accolade West 102 / 103
Course director: Marc Couroux (couroux@yorku.ca), 322 J Goldfarb Centre for Fine Arts
- Office hours: Wednesday 2:00 - 3:00
FACS new media technician: David Han (dhan@yorku.ca)

Video in the Expanded Field is a studio course dedicated to an exploration of video through its interdisciplinary intersections with sculptural, installation, performative, musical, and other practices. The history of video will be explored, from the pioneers of the 1960s and 1970s to internet-based and real-time environments, from documentary to reality-based practices, from single channel to video installation practices, from early activist video to explorations of present day panoptic conceptions, from early filmic practices to materialist / structuralist conceptions, to a study of the framing mechanisms of television from its beginnings to the present, through both analog and digital manifestations.

The student will produce video projects applying both analog and/or digital technologies within the context of their own discipline and practice, or as free-standing works. Potential projects may include video processing experiments (within analog or digital realms), installation /spatialized works (monitors, televisions or projections), surveillance / CCTV critiques, collage / appropriation-based work, critiques of popular usages, durational performance pieces, webcam-enabled internet-networked video, and may involve the use of low-fi technologies (VHS/Hi8), digital acquisition media (HD/DV cameras), non-linear editing / compositing systems (Final Cut Pro).

The course consists in weekly lectures focused on the presentation of artwork and ideas germane to the course, paired with lab time geared towards working out technical and conceptual aspects of the student’s projects. In-process work will be periodically discussed in an environment of open exchange, in which alternate / future creative, conceptual or technical ramifications will be elaborated upon.

Grading for practical assignments in this course will be based on a portfolio format, in which the growth of the student through the technical and theoretical environment of the course is valued above punctual production. The student will be evaluated on his/her practical work at the end of the term. In addition to practical work, each student will be required to deliver a 15-minute presentation on a video work (samples of possible works included on the course website). Students are also required to contribute regularly to an online class viewing log, focusing on a discussion of theoretical and technical issues.
The final grade for the course will be based on the following items weighted as indicated:
- Project #1: 25%
- Project #2: 25%
- Field trip report (questions): 15%
- In-class presentation: 20%
- Participation + presence:15%