Time Based Composing class 12
TBC week 12
- Screen and discuss remaining examples of text/image relationships
- The machine is us/ing us
We’ll need to rethink a few things: Copyright, authorship, identity, Ethics, aesthetics, rhetorics, governance, privacy, commerce, love, family, ourselves
Text is linear (handwritten)
Digital text is different
It can link
Html – formatting – with each new kind of formatting, you have to do less to achieve more
Form and content became inseparable in html
XML separates form and content – so non expert users can upload content
Who will organize this data
We are the web
We teach the machine
- What are the formal elements of the work?
- writing on skin:
aidswalk: [[1]]
body painting: [[2]]
- Pillowbook excerpt
9:35 – 17:53
Using handwritten text:
Sadie Benning
Storytelling in segments:
- Scott McCloud [[3]]
Alternative narrative: Quark Star
- Text – using it in its natural habitat
- Resolution – does it matter? What does it say?
- How stories are constructed – by the viewer
In class exercise
Find an image
Choose a word or phrase
Create a text animation that works – corresponds to the character of both text and image
Style
German Expressionism Nosferatu VIDEO. 791.43 N897DVD255
Metropolis VIDEO. 791.43 M594DVD576
Edward Scissorhands VIDEO. 791.437 E25 DVD2659
Sin City (trailer) [[4]]
The brothers Quay – dream sequence from Frida [[5]]
- What do they have in common thematically?
- How are they similar visually?
- How does form relate to content?
