New Course Proposal; IAT 443-3 Image, Sound and Motion


Monique Silverman

January 13, 2005

Calendar Information


Course Number: IAT 443-3

Course Title: Image, Sound and Motion


Credit Hours: 3


Vector:


Course Description:

IAT 343-3 Image, Sound and Motion (DME)
The advanced moving images course allows students to further develop their communicative and artistic expression through the use of moving images in new media. This course offers a strong studio orientation based on conceptual, aesthetical and technical training integrated within screenings, seminars and critiques. Students are exposed to experimental film, video and multimedia screenings. The class engages in themes of physical and conceptual assembly, transformations of light and form, movement, spatial and time based composition through digital video production from initial premise to final presentation. Students will have an opportunity to develop an original and mature body of work that reflects the student’s interest and passion for moving image and digital media.


Prerequisite: IAT 242


Recommended:


Corequisite: None.


Special Instructions: None.


Course(s) to be dropped if this course is approved: None


Rationale for Introduction of this Course

This course offers advanced skill and conceptual strategies in computational media installation creation and post-production for NME, SIAT, SCA and other interested students.


Will this be a required or elective course in the curriculum; probable enrolment when offered?

This will be one of a choice of several required courses for Upper Division NME; enrolment estimated at 60 per year.


Scheduling and Registration Information


Indicate Semester and Year this course would be first offered and planned frequency of offering thereafter.

2005-1 and annually thereafter.


Which of your present CFL faculty have the expertise to offer this course? Will the course be taught by sessional or limited term faculty?

Dulic


Are there any proposed student fees associated with this course other than tuition fees?

No.


Is this course considered a `duplicate' of any current or prior course under the University's duplicate course policy? Specify, as appropriate.

No.


Resource Implications


Note: Senate has approved (S.93-11) that no new course should be approved by Senate until funding has been committed for necessary library materials. Each new course proposal must be accompanied by a library report and, if appropriate, confirmation that funding arrangements have been addressed.


Provide details on how existing instructional resources will be redistributed to accommodate this new course. For instance, will another course be eliminated or will the frequency of offering of other courses be reduced; are there changes in pedagogical style or class sizes that allow for this additional course offering.

This course does not utilize library resources.


Does the course require specialized space or equipment not readily available in the department or university, and if so, how will these resources be provided?

This course uses pre-existing digital cameras.


Does this course require computing resources (e.g. hardware, software, network wiring, use of computer laboratory space) and if so, describe how they will be provided.

This course utilizes computers, software and lab space already available at SIAT.


Course Outline

2005/2006 Academic Year


Courses Objectives:

In this course students will:


Further develop their communicative and artistic expression through the use of moving images in new media.


Build on the fundamentals of experimental film and installation concepts and techniques.


Explore several techniques of the image and sound analysis as well as the camera-based motion tracking system.


Develop flexible editing engines that can be driven by sensor-based interface.

Gain theoretical, historical and cultural perspectives on their own artistic practice




Course Description:

Image, Sound and Motion course allows students to further develop their communicative and artistic expression through the use of moving images in new media. This course offers a strong studio orientation based on conceptual, aesthetical and technical training integrated within screenings, seminars and critiques. Students are exposed to experimental film, video and multimedia screenings. The class engages in themes of physical and conceptual assembly, transformations of light and form, movement, spatial and time based composition through digital video production from initial premise to final presentation. Students will have an opportunity to develop an original and mature body of work that reflects the student’s interest and passion for moving image and digital media.

This course is based in digital video production, with an emphasis on building an expanded, interactive or installation based video work for the final project. In this course students review and further develop camera, lighting and digital video editing skills as they use Final Cut, Premiere and After Affects. In addition to the video production and experimental film and video making this course offers basic techniques for interactive, responsive, algorithmic and multi-modal media work within MAX MSP and Jitter programming environment. Final projects may take form of installation based work, video sculpture, experimental film, network and media performance, interactive film and narrative. We will look the machine vision and hearing—camera and microphone—as a sensory input that can register movements and sounds from the environment.


Delivery Method: Studio Lab (SL)


Learning Activities and Evaluation

Activities:

Required readings 1.5 hours

Lecture / Screenings 2 hours

Workshop 2 hours

Exercises/Assignments 1 hours

Research and development for final project 1.5 hour

Total 8 hours


Evaluation:


Research Report 40%

Portfolio Project 40%

Participation 20%


Texts, Resources & Materials

Course Pack


Platform Requirements: None


NOTE: these outlines are drafts and are subject to change. Official textbook list should be consulted.