Application Deadline: April 1, 2012
Web address: mfaphoto.sva.edu/about-us/lens-and-screen-arts-summer-residency
The MFA Photography, Video, and Related Media Department at the School of Visual Arts announces the return of the Lens and Screen Arts summer residency – The Still and Moving Image. This engagement is an intensive, four-week summer session for professional photographers, filmmakers, and artists to develop their creative visions with new camera technology.
A new discipline is developing in the lens and screen arts. With technological advances in still and moving imagery, professionals no longer work solely in the traditional divisions of photography and video. High-definition, video-capable DSLR cameras have transformed the conventional image and enabled us to create professional-quality films. While still and moving imagery may be produced with the same set of tools, each requires very different approaches and practices. The still photography practitioner must understand the language of the moving image, and vice versa.
Available for four undergraduate credits, this summer residency program will introduce video to photographers in four areas:
TECHNIQUE: This component of the residency addresses the technical issues of making moving images. It will include instruction for using equipment and production methods as well as editing and post-production workflow. Technical assistance provided by FotoCare.
CONCEPTUAL: Senior faculty members Charles Traub and Grahame Weinbren will hold a twice-weekly seminar on the theory and history of the lens arts. Lectures include The End of Indexicality, The Digital Challenge, Stillness in Cinema, Motion in Photography, Narrative and Abstraction, and Composition and Editing.
CRITIQUE: Residents will attend two critique sessions per week, one led by core faculty and one led by a visiting critic. Critics will be in the form of artists, curators and other faculty from the department.
LECTURE: Twice a week, the residents with gather together for a lecture and a screening in the department. The screenings will consist of rare films and videos discussed in the conceptual module of the program. Lecturers will be in the form of artists, curators, industry professionals and directors.
The program will conclude with a screening of the participants’ work created during this four-week session.
Participants have 24-hour access to shooting studios and video labs. Workshops, equipment, facilities, critiques, screenings, history/theory seminars, field trips and consultancies are all included.
The Lens and Screen Arts summer residency – The Still and Moving Image runs June 4–30, 2012. Applications are reviewed on a rolling basis with a priority deadline of April 1, 2012. Early application is highly recommended.
Department Chair
Charles Traub
Core Faculty
Grahame Weinbren
Michelle Leftheris
Lecturers, Guest Speakers and Critics have included:
Alan Berliner
Jennifer Blessing
Chris Callis
Anthony Forma
Roger Phenix
Bob Richman
Shelly Silver
Amy Taubin
How to apply: www.sva.edu/ce/index.jsp?sid0=3&sid1=54&page_id=429
For further information, please contact SVA Continuing Education Program Coordinator, Keren Moscovitch at [email protected].
