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Survey of World Art I

Course Details
  • Course Number AHD-1010-A
  • Day(s) M,W
  • Dates May 29 - Jul 17
  • Hours 03:00PM - 05:50PM
  • Credits 3.00
  • Cost 2400.00
  • Additional Fees 0.00
  • Status Canceled
  • Location 380 2nd Ave

Description

As an introduction to the art of Western and non-Western cultures, this course will examine art from the Paleolithic period to 1450. Key monuments and styles will be explored in architecture, sculpture and painting through methods of visual analysis. Discussions will link the ways in which concepts in art develop and change within different cultural contexts. Field trips and museum visits will augment the course as appropriate.

Instructor

Ann-Sargent Wooster

Artist, art critic

Education:

BA, Bard College; MA, Hunter College; CUNY

One-person exhibitions include:

Franklin Furnace, Artists Space

Publications include:

7 Days, The Village Voice, Art in America, Afterimage, Video Times, Glass, Artforum, ARTnews, High Performance

Author:

American Art Since 1945; Quiltmaking, a Modern Approach; catalog essays in Buky Schwartz and The First Generation: Women and Video 1970-1975

Awards include:

New York Foundation for the Arts; New York State Council on the Arts; Helena Rubenstein Fellow, Whitney Museum of American Art; Reva and David Logan Grant

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Introduction to Film History

Course Details
  • Course Number AHD-1050-A
  • Day(s) T,TH
  • Dates May 28 - Jul 18
  • Hours 12:00PM - 02:50PM
  • Credits 3.00
  • Cost 2400.00
  • Additional Fees 0.00
  • Status Canceled
  • Location 136 West 21st Street

Description

Serving as an introduction to the theatrical motion picture, this course will examine its nascence along with the silent era and early sound. While American narrative film will be emphasized, examples of world cinema will be screened. Political, cultural and aesthetic history will form a background for viewing selected film - both important works and more transitory ones-to gain an understanding of how the medium developed and its cultural impact.

Instructor

Amresh Sinha

Filmmaker

Education:

BA, Patna University; MA, Jawaharlal Nehru University; MA, SUNY Buffalo; PhD, York University

Director:

Convict & the Trial, Quit India Movement

Publications include:

Millennial Cinema: Memory in Global Film; Connecticut Review; Spectacular Optical; The Making of Modern Bihar; Patriot; Lost in the Archives; German Culture and Society; The Review of Education, Pedagogy, and Cultural Studies; In Practice: Adorno, Critical Theory and Cultural Studies; Subtitles: On the Foreignness of Film; Film-Philosophy; Colloquy: Text, Theory, Critique; Scope; Transformations; The New York Times

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Expressionism in Films

Course Details
  • Course Number AHD-2733-A
  • Day(s) M,W
  • Dates May 29 - Jul 17
  • Hours 06:00PM - 08:50PM
  • Credits 3.00
  • Cost 2400.00
  • Additional Fees 0.00
  • Status Canceled
  • Location 209 East 23rd Street

Description

Expressionism, briefly defined, is art in an agitated, anxious mode that distorts the normal appearance of things by presenting them through a perturbed consciousness. It is an art of exaggeration and intense subjectivity; giving primacy to the disquieted self, it characteristically portrays the world as a disrupted, menacing place. This course will examine various manifestations of expressionism and its influence in the art of film. The first flourishing of expressionism in films took place in Weimar Germany, and we will study several notable instances: Dr. Caligari, Fritz Lang and Murnau. We will consider how expressionism took root when transplanted to American films: in the American work of German filmmakers, in the gangster films, the horror film, film noir, etc. We will look into the work of such expressionist-influenced filmmakers as Alfred Hitchcock, Orson Welles, Ingmar Bergman and the new Germans. We will also consider expressionism in the broader context of other art forms and of contemporary life.

Instructor

Thyrza Nichols Goodeve

Critic, writer

Education:

BA, Sarah Lawrence College; MA, New York University; PhD, University of California, Santa Cruz

Professional experience includes:

Research associate, Whitney Museum of American Art

books and anthologies include:

How Like A Leaf; Ellen Gallagher, A Painter in III Acts; Peter Halley; Louise Bourgeois; The Monster’s Progress: The Art of James Barsness

Publications include:

Artforum, Parkett, Art in America, The Village Voice, Guggenheim magazine

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Introduction to Animation

Course Details
  • Course Number AND-1020-A
  • Day(s) T,TH
  • Dates May 28 - Jun 25
  • Hours 12:00PM - 04:50PM
  • Credits 3.00
  • Cost 2400.00
  • Additional Fees 0.00
  • Status Canceled
  • Location 380 2nd Ave

Description

The basic concepts of storyboard, layout, exposure sheets, extremes, timing, in-betweening, weight, squash-and-stretch, overlapping action, hook-ups, arcs, walk cycles and head turns will be covered in this course. Most importantly, this course emphasizes drawing skills, and the relationship of one drawing in the context of many. Basic construction, line of action, perspective and looking, all before touching pencil to paper, are essential to developing drawing skills and personal style. Character mode sheets, animal anatomy and live models will be drawn in each session.

Instructor

Martin Abrahams

Producer, director, designer, animator, video editor

Education:

School of Visual Arts

Animated projects include:

ABC News, Sesame Street, Great Bear, Burger King

Music videos include:

Rolling Stones, Lou Reed, Lords of the New Church

Fashion projects include:

Vogue, Bazaar, CFDA Awards

Multiple monitor exhibitions include:

Xerox, Sony, Nynex

Awards include:

Alumni Award, School of Visual Arts; CLIO

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Acting for Animators

Course Details
  • Course Number AND-2171-A
  • Day(s) T,TH
  • Dates May 28 - Jul 09
  • Hours 10:00AM - 01:50PM
  • Credits 3.00
  • Cost 2400.00
  • Additional Fees 0.00
  • Status Canceled
  • Location 214 East 21st Street

Description

How does the animator make his/her characters "good actors?" How does the animator infuse his/her creations with a soul, a life that is both universal and unique? By learning the basic skills of the craft of acting in this course, through exercises and scenes, the animator will have the visceral experience and tools that will help transform their work into a viable art form.

Instructor

Stella Pulo

Actress; singer; columnist, The Age (Australia); acting coach; member, The Actors Studio

Education:

B.Ed., Melbourne University

Professional experience includes:

Founder, artistic director, Stel Productions; No Grant Theatre; Theatrix; Other People's Business World; Speeches. Peaches.

Film projects include:

Sarah, Whadda Ya Doin' Here Anyway?!, Maltese Connection, SBS, Every Night Something Awful, Crossroads

Television projects include:

Australia's Most Wanted, Truckies, Flight of the Conchords

Theater projects include:

Rashomon, Walking on Sticks, The Maids, Alien From Down Under, Crazed!

Publications include:

Victorian Lifestyles; Right Words at the Right Time, vol. 2; American Theatre; Antipodes: A North American Journal of Australian Literature; Shrimp Shells in My Cleavage

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Introduction to Production

Course Details
  • Course Number CFD-1020-A
  • Day(s) T,TH
  • Dates May 28 - Jun 25
  • Hours 10:00AM - 03:50PM
  • Credits 3.00
  • Cost 2400.00
  • Additional Fees 0.00
  • Status Canceled
  • Location 209 East 23rd Street

Description


Designed as an introduction to the art of filmmaking, this course will emphasize the essential differences between film and other visual art forms through screenings of various film genres to illustrate style and process. Working with 16mm ARRI-S and HD cameras, as well as written material from storytelling courses, students will break down projects and work on storyboards. We will discuss and practice directing and cinematography techniques and explore the director/actor relationship. Students will present a series of selected scenes-preproduction through postproduction- for critique.

Instructor

William Garcia

Writer, director

Films include:

A Whole New Day, A Day At A Time

Screenplays include:

Whitter, Killing Willie Davis, Exposed

Awards include:

Crystal Heart Award, Heartland Film Festival; Golden Apple, National Educational Film and Video Festival; Chris Award, Columbus International Film Festival; Best Short Film, Northampton Film Festival; Breckenridge Festival of Film; New York State Council on the Arts; New York Foundation for the Arts

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Printmaking: Silkscreen

Course Details
  • Course Number FGD-2433-CE
  • Day(s) W
  • Dates Jun 12 - Aug 14
  • Hours 06:00PM - 10:00PM
  • Credits 2.00
  • Cost 1600.00
  • Additional Fees 0.00
  • Status Open
  • Location 133/141 West 21st Street

Description

Silkscreen, one of the most versatile and widely used methods of printmaking, will be fully explored in this course through demonstrations and self-initiated projects. Painters as well as photographers will find a new way of expressing their ideas through screen printing. Images can be made using hand-drawn separations, photographic film, digital separations and photocopied images. Large-scale work and printing on canvas, T-shirts, wood, metal and glass are all possible with silkscreen. Water-based silkscreen ink is used, allowing for soap-and-water cleanup. Large-scale digital output is available.

Instructor

Sara Varon

Illustrator

Education:

BFA, School of the Art Institute of Chicago; MFA, School of Visual Arts

Books include:

Bake Sale, Chicken and Cat, Chicken and Cat Clean Up, Sweaterweather, Robot Dreams

Clients include:

The New York Times, Nickelodeon magazine, Scholastic, First Second Books, Unicef, Walker Art Center, Roaring Brook Press

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Type Smarts: Style and Substance

Course Details
  • Course Number GDD-2052-CE
  • Day(s) TH
  • Dates Jun 06 - Aug 15
  • Hours 06:00PM - 09:30PM
  • Credits 2.00
  • Cost 1600.00
  • Additional Fees 0.00
  • Status Open
  • Location 380 2nd Ave

Description

Learn to solve design problems with typography that has both visual and conceptual impact. We will improve your basic typesetting skills (font, spacing, hierarchy choices, and more), then move into the development of meaningful ideas as well as eye-catching, stylish layouts. Attention will be paid to current trends, while also reviewing fundamental principles and traditional standards. The relationship between letterforms, images and all the elements of a total design will be explored in a series of practical assignments. These projects emphasize type as a primary focus and are appropriate for creating or enhancing a professional portfolio: magazines, posters, books, logos, branding, packaging, motion graphics. Sessions will include audiovisual presentations and guest speakers.

Instructor

John Sposato

Designer, illustrator

Education:

BFA, Pratt Institute

Professional experience includes:

Art director, ABC, Chicago Tribune/Washington Post Corp., Franklin Mint, RCA Records. Consultant, DGT/Jupiter Media, Newsweek, Random House

clients have included:

Nabisco, Coca-Cola, HBO, CBS Records, Paramount Pictures, NBC, Federal Express, Esquire, Playboy, New York magazine, Simon & Schuster, AT&T, Warner Communications, General Motors, Sony, U.S. Army

Awards include:

Type Directors Club, Art Directors Club, Society of Illustrators, Communication Arts Annual, Graphis posters, AIGA, Graphis Annual, Advertising Club of New York, Print Regional Design Annual

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