Student Work Samples The selection below represents work by graduate, undergraduate, and high school students in my digital media courses at Western Oregon University, the University at Buffalo, and the New York State Summer School for Media Art. |
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Photographing Places The task was to photograph two environments - one manmade, one natural - with similar compositions. The top photograph at right is a close-up of a tree, the lower image is a crack in the sidewalk.
Art 260: Basic Digital Photography Fall 2007, Western Oregon University , Monmouth, OR
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digital photographs by Olivia Maruame |
Junk Collages Students wandered around the downtown area of Ithaca, NY, in search of interesting objects. They found a variety of ephemeral, natural, manmade, and discarded materials: leaves and twigs, glass, bottle caps, french fries and a high school yearbook from 1990. Back at the lab, we scanned the objects we'd collected and created new images and collages in Photoshop.
Intensive High School Computer Art Course New York State Summer School for the Arts Summer 2007, Ithaca, NY |
digital collage by Edward Schultz |
Animated Autobiography Animation gives us the ability to create characters and worlds that may or may not resemble people we know or places we inhabit. Students drew from their own life experiences in order to develop characters, stories, and places using Flash 8.
Intensive High School Computer Art Course New York State Summer School for the Arts Summer 2007, Ithaca, NY |
Flash animation by Dante DelGiacco |
Video in Everyday Life Students used small video cameras to document their daily activities, then traded these tapes with one another. They then interpretted this footage in a variety of ways, re-enacting behaviors and turning them into new performances.
Art 573: Performative Actions, Guest Instructor Spring 2007, State University of New York at Buffalo
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Doug Barrett scored the material he received from his partner, generating sounds corresponding to the actions in the video. He then performed this piece live.
Sarah Paul's partner gave her documentation of a late night encounter with a possum in the basement. She chose to re-enact the possum's role in this situation. |
Final Video Projects
Advanced video students worked in a variety of modes including video installation, documentary, and other alternative forms. These pieces screened at an end-of- semester group show, Just the Six of Us at Squeaky Wheel Media Resources.
Media Study 441: Advanced Video Production Fall 2006, State University of New York at Buffalo
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excerpt from documentary by Dan McKenna |
