The very nature of Digital Media requires that we are constantly innovating and creating new forms of classroom experiences to match the changing technological and critical landscape.
DIGITAL & EMBODIED CINEMA
This pair of courses offered during the Spring 2010 Quarter introduces students to the study and creation of media for digital planetariums; visual and sonic creation for theater, dance, and musical performance; and a variety of immersive and interactive experiences. The classes will emphasize issues and practices of "embodiment" in new cinematic spaces. Content and tools will be introduced in "Digital Cinema, Theory & Practice," while the "Embodied Cinema" workshops will emphasize the development of student-directed, collaborative projects
DMST 3690 Digital Cinema, Theory & Practice
Professors: Trace Reddell and Jim LaVita
Mon/Wed, 2-3:50pm, Sturm 434
This course introduces students to the history and current state of cutting-edge digital cinema formats and practices by combining the study of exemplary artists and works with hands-on, tool-based instruction. Practices explored include live cinema performance, VJing, large-scale video projection for theater, dance and musical concerts, as well as immersive and interactive cinema. Special attention will be given to questions of "the body" in these new cinematic spaces, ranging from audience members and participants to the bodies of actors, dancers and performers. Students who have taken this course before as "Special Topics" may take again for credit as this team-taught course will differ in substantial ways from previous offerings. This course counts toward DMS critical requirements.
DMST 3230 Interaction and Collaboration: Embodied Cinema
Professors: Jim LaVita and Trace Reddell
Mon/Wed, 4-5:50pm, Sturm 434
The "Embodied Cinema" workshops will take the content of DMST 3690 Digital Cinema, Theory & Practice into a practical laboratory exploring new forms of immersive and interactive cinema, theater and dance, with an emphasis on collaborative projects. Students taking the "Embodied Cinema" workshops should also enroll in DMST 3690 if they have not previously taken that course. This course counts toward DMS technical requirements.
Contact Trace Reddell or Jim LaVita with your questions, as well as requests for permissions, instructor approvals, or prerequisite overrides for these classes at treddell@du.edu or lavita@du.edu
VISUAL PROGRAMMING W/ DARWIN GROSSE (CYCLING 74)
This new course introduces the creative manipulation of sound, still images, video, and 3D models in an entry-level programming environment. Students will have an opportunity to work with Darwin Grosse, Director of Engineering of Cycling 74, the company responsible for "Max/MSP and Jitter," one of the most widely used applications in digital media and arts. Darwin is also an artist and musician, recording engineer/producer, media software developer, and a prolific writer. He has been described as "one of the top two or three music/media technologists in the world today" by Professor Brad Garton, Director of the Computer Music Center at Columbia University.
DMST 3213 Visual Programming
Instructor: Darwin Grosse, Director of Engineering, Cycling 74
Tues, 6-9:50pm, Sturm 434
This course introduces Max/MSP and Jitter as tools for learning programming concepts and computer-based media manipulation. The class assumes no previous programming experience, and it will focus on learning programming techniques through the creative manipulation of sound, still images, video and 3D models. Students will experiment with generative methods, hardware interface and cross-platform application building. Students taking DMST 3213 may pair this course with the special offering of DMST 3230 Interaction and Collaboration: Embodied Cinema. This course fulfills DMS technical requirements.
Contact Darwin Grosse with your questions about the class at ddg@cycling74.com
Contact Trace Reddell with your requests for permissions, instructor approvals, or prerequisite overrides for this class at treddell@du.edu
