Time Based Composing class 1

Day 1 TBC

Intro to class Discussion of syllabus Turning in assignments Create a web page for TBC Look at TBC wiki for eg. Copy and supply your own links Create a directory in your publish directory called TBC

Linear media sequences in interactive media projects Use when other methods – ie, static images and/or text – won’t do Can include realistic/photographic images, abstractions, text, music Structure can be traditional narrative structure Introduction, complication, resolution Beginning, middle, end Ask question, answer it Moments of tension and release

Or can be structured according to a framework or rule system that you make for the individual piece

Class screening: – Sleep- Doug Ing -bEL.mov -cat.mov Kevin Richey based on Muybridge cat walking http://www.temple.edu/photo/photographers/muybridge - The Funeral - Missed Connections – Jewel journal Thomas Castillo

Copyright is a big issue http://www.copyright.gov/circs/circ1.html Copyright is a form of protection provided by the laws of the United States (title 17, U. S. Code) to the authors of “original works of authorship,” including literary, dramatic, musical, artistic, and certain other intellectual works. This protection is available to both published and unpublished works. Section 106 of the 1976 Copyright Act generally gives the owner of copyright the exclusive right to do and to authorize others to do the following: 0. To reproduce the work in copies or phonorecords; 0. To prepare derivative works based upon the work; 0. To distribute copies or phonorecords of the work to the public by sale or other transfer of ownership, or by rental, lease, or lending; 0. To perform the work publicly, in the case of literary, musical, dramatic, and choreographic works, pantomimes, and motion pictures and other audiovisual works; 0. To display the work publicly, in the case of literary, musical, dramatic, and choreographic works, pantomimes, and pictorial, graphic, or sculptural works, including the individual images of a motion picture or other audiovisual work; and In the case of sound recordings*, to perform the work publicly by means of a digital audio transmission.

Fair Use: http://www.copyright.gov/fls/fl102.html -quotation of excerpts in a review or criticism for purposes of illustration or comment; -quotation of short passages in a scholarly or technical work, for illustration or clarification of the author's observations; -use in a parody of some of the content of the work parodied; -summary of an address or article, with brief quotations, in a news report; -reproduction by a library of a portion of a work to replace part of a damaged copy; -reproduction by a teacher or student of a small part of a work to illustrate a lesson; -reproduction of a work in legislative or judicial proceedings or reports; -incidental and fortuitous reproduction, in a newsreel or broadcast, of a work located in the scene of an event being reported.”

Now, maybe more than ever, artists have a foot on each side of the issue. “They want to protect their own work,” Rattner says, “but they want to use the work of others.” William Rattner (of Lawyers for the Creative Arts) from reader article http://www.chicagoreader.com/features/stories/thebusiness/070202/

Although a work of art is automatically copyrighted the moment it’s created, Lingren says she usually advises clients to formally register.

You have to have permission and it has to come from the copyright owner.

Another view:

Copy-it-right (Phil Morton)

“It’s OK to copy!” was the rallying cry of video artist and wild man Phil Morton, who joined the faculty of the School of the Art Institute in 1969 and created what would become SAIC’s Department of Film, Video, and New Media as well as the nation’s first BA and MFA programs in video studies. “Believe in the process of copying . . . with all your heart,” he wrote. “Copying is as good as any other way of getting ‘there.’” In the early 1970s Morton hooked up with UIC physicist and artist Dan Sandin, creator of the Sandin Image Processor (a sort of Moog synthesizer for video), in the promulgation of the Distribution Religion, a philosophy of sharing that was a precursor to today’s open-source movement. Sandin made the plans for his processor available to anyone who would pledge to keep any improvement they made on it free as well, and Morton promoted a general anticopyright ethic he called “Copy-It-Right,” the granddaddy of efforts like Copy Left and Creative Commons. Morton died in 2003, but professor Jon Cates has brought his work back to SAIC in the newly established Phil Morton Memorial Research Archive. In celebration of its opening, Cates will present a selection of Morton’s work Thursday, February 15, at the Siskel Center.

Examples of open source: Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page open source software Office: http://www.openoffice.org/ Imaging: http://www.gimp.org/ Music and image synthesis/manipulation: PD/Gem: http://puredata.info/

Viral Communications Anti Copyright Policy: http://detritus.net/vircomm/projects/anticopy/

Larger issue – rights and responsibilities as a creator When is something really made by you?

Post 2 images to Flickr and create a creative commons (some rights reserved) or copyright (all rights reserved) on them. Post a link to your Flickr page on your TBC page. Flickr: http://flickr.com/ Creative Commons (some or no rights reserved) http://creativecommons.org/ http://creativecommons.org/about/licenses/

Asn. 1 (countdown)

For next week: Do 5 sketches of the idea, and adopt one to execute Things to vary: scale of the numbers Placement of the numbers Color Type style Texture/color of number and BG Form of the numbers – text, objects, think about different ways of counting- fingers, abacus, hourglass, etc.

in class exercise Make an image 320x240 with 5 layers in photoshop – one number on each Import into AE as composition Placement on the timeline Use the transform functions (T,R,S) to create a countdown Creating keyframes Rendering a movie

For next week: have TBC web page made have countdown created and linked have Flickr page with two images and Creative Commons or traditional copyright license specified linked