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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