Friday Night Seminar


On Friday, March 15, teachers fron Audubon School (Chicago Public Schools) came to Video Documentation Fund for an introductory session on the nature and application of video imagery. Together we reviewed recent work and work in progress to encounter the video image as information file and the accumulation of video clips, freeze frames, photos, text, and sound as a co-creative data gathering stored in an image container.

We watched sample videos and discussed the techniques used in their construction.

Order and Chaos -- an assembled clips of video, photo, freeze frame and sound that is a work in progress that forms an example of data base construction.


Nelson Gill Concert at Northeastern Illinois University -- where the composition of imagery around an event is being authored to illustrate how data base converts to story. (Also a work in progress)


Light in Shadow -- a finished work developed with Professor Tom Mokaitas for the National Presbyterian Church on a peacemaking trip to Bosnia Herzegovina. It is an example of a videograph constructed out of the images and sounds collected by members of the group and donated to the project. This work is being re-edited for distributation at the television studios of the Presbyerian Church. (We anticipate more Video Documentation Fund videographs will be upgraded to videotapes at more equipped studios.)


The Artist as Social Critic -- a work "to be continued" from the LEAP program (Lake View Arts Partnership) which is a student/teacher authored example of multimedia authoring based on an academic project (taught by visual artist Esther Charbas.) In this video the statements of students about their experience in the project is authored with images of their murals, project materials, additonal images from the art history portion of the project and self-documentation of the project by teachers and students including photographs and video clips.

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