Pratt Digital Arts Bootcamp Fall 2015

Studio seminar providing incoming MA Media Studies students with an introduction to digital arts practices and themes necessary for more advanced graduate study

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I know that this doesn’t look like much, but for me this was a lot of work actually! I had another vision in mind, but after 10 hours I started over and went for making just a gif, nothing special, but it is still a gif and I made it!  Now, it is officially Halloween week and so I wanted to do something in this flavor!  This is one of my favorite moments from Nosferatu, with the word ‘spoopy’ (yes spoopy not spooky, it is a thing here on Tumblr that was a typo that turned into its own thing up there with the skeleton war!) What I like about this it looks like he is dancing, which is hilarious to me!  I also used Comic Sans Bold for the font because it adds to the comedic factor for the gif! 

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Abbi Sings in Space

“Abbi Sings in Space”

We just watched “Molhulland Drive” in Cutting Edge Cinema and there is a scene where a singer gives a truly compelling performance. She collapses on the floor, but her song continues. Her performance is prefaced with with the line “everything is pre-recorded”. The central character in “Molhulland Drive” goes on to have a nervous breakdown, and the concert is a nod to her delusion, but here the point is how fulfilling it is to visually experience a performance, even if the audio is coming from a different source. Somehow the trickery of it all is even more amusing. This is Abbi Jacobson from “Broad City”. In this video she is lip syncing Jennifer Hudson’s “Dreamgirls” version of “And I’m Telling You I’m Not Going”. She delivers performance that evokes a lot of emotion, just by taking on the “role” of the singer. She was so out of this world I put her in fake outer space. 

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“Un Narco Mató a mi Hijo” (A Cartel Member Killed my Son)

México lindo y querido means Mexico, sweet and loved. Since the peak of the cartel war in Mexico in 2007 mass media across the globe has inaccurately determined, stated and quickly assumed that there is a relationship between the regular citizens of this country (who actually want peace) with the “sicarios.”

Stereotypes apply to every country and every country has one.

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This is my Cubot and Mr. Simpson. I am trying to make an animation about this Cubot, so this is for trying out.

Judy

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Hannah Black - My Bodies

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wolfgoreshow - The Baby Bullet

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Cory Arcangel - Arnold Schoenberg op. 11 - I - Cute Kittens

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Tara Sinn - Mixed Grill

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Michael Mallis & Mikey McParlene - Love Puddles

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Nicole Killian - Attention

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Claudia Bitran - The Zone

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Anne de Vries - Forecast

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Laura Hyunjhee Kim - Sharing is Caring

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Jennifer Chan - *A Total Jizzfest*

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Part of a special section in this issue of OCTOBER on the theory of "relational aesthetics" advanced by Nicolas Bourriaud, then director of the Palais de Tokyo in Paris. I examine the theory in relation to the work of Pierre Huyghe. The

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Rosalind Krauss

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Lorna Mills, Ways of Something Episode 1