Screening "Transient" and reviewing experimental filmmaker Cade Bursell's latest, "Where are you Mission Blue." Also attending panels and workshops about "The Future of Media Education."
Student, Shannon Ragan, becomes a semi-finalist in the Film and Video category of this year's Adobe Design Achievement Awards.
Using a summer research grant through WWU to begin work on co-authoring the latest edition of "Producing for TV and New Media."
Developing title sequence, poster, and website for feature film, "Everything Went Down", of which I am co-producer.
Creating visual effects for a new music video for singer-songwriter, Kate Tucker.
With the help of my mentorship, students, Jessica Lohman and Cassy Meyers finished the new and improved Design Department's website. www.wwu.edu/design
"Transient" showing in "Abstracts" exhibition in WomanMade Gallery in Chicago until June 30th.
"Ten Seconds" is now showing at St. Petersburg, FL film festival.
"Ten Seconds" is showing at this year's San Francisco's International Women's Film Festival
"Ten Seconds" is premiering in Queens, NY.
"Travel, Vanish" is on exhibition at the Faculty Show in Western Gallery until March.
I spent my winter break working on this video installation for the upcoming Faculty Show at Western Gallery and have plans to submit it to other exhibitions in the future."
In this video, popular busy landmarks versus possibly more 'local' environments are compared and juxtaposed throughout several spaces in London. Each pair of environments is within approximately a few blocks distance. One can try and make this distinction between travel and tourism by observing these locations. Which destination allows a person to have a 'true' experience and gain 'full' perspective?
While addressing this inquiry, this video frees the viewer from the limitations of the standard viewfinder, allowing them to experience the surrounding spaces in full 360-degree entirety by stitched together separate frame areas.
The viewer is also liberated from experiencing a standard passage of time, the video fragments time across several minutes so one can see how the space is used over a prolonged period. Watch the passing of large masses of people and cars, as one blends into the next becoming almost faceless, and observe the quieter moments of individuals ghostly appearing and disappearing in and out of frame.
Just wrapped production on Dustin Morrow's feature film, Everything Went Down.
"This film stars singer-songwriter, Kate Tucker, and Vancouver theatre artist, Noah Drew. Everything Went Down follows a young college professor who has become a shell of a person following the death two years earlier of his wife. Crippled by a numbing grief, he's shut himself off from the world emotionally. In the same small Pacific Northwest city, a young singer-songwriter is starting to lose faith in the struggle to make a name for herself as a musician. Bogged down by the pressures of turning her art into commerce, she has begun to lose sight of why she wanted to make music in the first place.
Unfolding over the space of a couple weeks, the film chronicles the budding friendship between the professor and the singer, as the energy and beauty of her music begins to bring him back to life, and the value of her music to this man reawakens her to the true merit of music as an art. "
Six of my senior new media students at Western Washington University are semi-finalists in the prestigious Adobe Design Achievement Awards for browser-based design, mobile design, and application design.
Continuing post-production on an experimental narrative video that follows a man and a woman as lonely tourists in two very distant foriegn countries. Even though the locations greatly differ, many experiential similarities are discovered and a mysterious unknown connection exists between these lonely travelers.
Finished an experimental video entitled Ten Seconds. For one week, eight people around the country took videos at the same designated times; the videos were edited and organized, discovering similarities in people's mundane lives. The sound was manipulated to draw attention to a particular area of the screen over another. The visual structure of the multiple screens enhances the viewer's experience beyond the mundaniety of the familiar content and creates relationships between the people and time zones.
New experimental video, Transient, premiered at Ladyfest, in Bellingham, WA. "Ladyfest is a community-based, not-for-profit global music and arts festival for female artists that features bands, musical groups, performance artists, authors, spoken word and visual artists, and workshops; it is organized by volunteers.
Completed experimental video, Transient. This video is a culmination of collecting footage from airports and flights for about 3 years. For frequent flyers, the process of going to an airport can be very routine and waking up in a new place can be disorienting. Through sound and split-screen this video presents air travel in a complex non-linear fashion.
Presented a paper entitled Motion, Space, and Time in Design. In my presentation, I showed a brief history of the representation of time in the visual arts and design, examples of my own and other contemporaries' experimentations with time manipulation, discussed the importance of storytelling, non-linearity, and designing for interaction. I also thereby initiated discussion about the future of utilizing time, motion, and space in visual communication and interaction design. If time allowed, I could have also touched upon methods for teaching time-based media in the classroom.