Course Projects

To Watch and Be Watched: Interactive Projection

course: Advanced Multimedia, level 300-400

For this project, students use a Kinect motion sensor and software to create a video that responds to interaction with the audience. As an introduction to responsive technology, students create two videos, one that will be projected and one that will appear in the silhouette of the person moving in front of the motion sensor. The two videos must have a relationship.

Savannah Goerres

Bradlee Hertrick

Sarah Anderson

Public Service Announcement: Large-scale Outdoor Projection

course: Advanced Multimedia/BFA Digital Art, level 300-400

Public Service Announcement Project Prompt

For this assignment, students creating videos that would send a message in a public space. We then project the videos using a 10,000 lumen projector.

Pattern and Play: Animated Wallpaper

course: Advanced Multimedia, level 300-400

Animated Wallpaper Project Prompt

For this project, student are challenged to create a video loop that incorporates pattern and animation to create a digitally animated wallpaper. We project the animations to fit a wall from floor to ceiling so it appears as wallpaper. Students were asked to think about how elements of surprise and play can be engaged in a work of art, as well as how we interact with images in our daily lives and how we can infiltrate those spaces to send a new message. What does it mean when something we thought was a still images becomes moving? What types of imagery are typical of wallpaper and what do they represent in our culture?

Kaitlin Jones

Merlin Lee

Jordan Reidinger

More Than Words: Animated Type

course: Digital Foundations/Video Art, Level:200

More Than Words Project Prompt

For this assignment, students are encouraged to use type to convey a message. They are taught how to animate type in Adobe After Effects but can choose their media and output for the final project.

Site Specificity and the Projected Image

course: Video Art, level: 200

Site Specificity and the Projected Image Assignment Prompt

For this project, students worked in groups to create videos that were be projected onto surfaces in surprising spaces around campus. Student’s video needed to create a relationship with the site on which it is projected, physically and conceptually. We did do this visually by mapping each groups video to fit on a certain element of architecture. Think about what is happening in your video and how those elements relate to the shape of the architecture. Does your video need to be very large and overwhelming or does it need to be small and intimate? What is your video saying about the site, how people interact with the site, what the social purpose of the site is? This is considered a public artwork so it important to think about “public,” as opposed to “private,” as a site as well. What is important to convey to the public? How do people interact with the piece?

Libby Sobieski

Brooke Wessel, Sydney Powell, Hailey Williams

Cody Tevis, Nash Laney, Erin Spinks

Paul Robey, Alexandria Montgomery

SpaceLab Gallery Exhibition

course: BFA Digital Art, level: 400

The SpaceLab Gallery is a student gallery at IU Southeast. For this assignment, Digital Art juniors are asked to have solo exhibitions in the gallery.

Bradlee Hertrick

Alex Montgomery, soil and projection on floor

Jordan Reidenger, custom-made books, video, audio cassette tapes

Cinemagraph

course: Intermediate Multimedia, level: 300

Cinemagraph Project Prompt

For this assignment, students are taught to create “moving photographs” using DSLR cameras and Adobe After Effects.

Short Film

course: Video Art, level: 200

Short Film Project Prompt

For this project, students create a short film, 3-5 minutes long, in the genre of either narrative or documentary cinema but through an experimental cinematic lens.

Michael Kopp, Identity Curated

Alexandria Montgomery, Pandora

Nash Laney, Monotony

Digital Negative / Historical Print

For this assignment, student create a digital image using DSLR’s, appropriated imagery, or digitally created graphics, transfer their image into the negative, and print it on transparency film. Students use the digitally created negative to create a cyanotype print. The content of the students’ works must address the historical cyanotype process in some way. Students are encouraged to think about Anne Atkins, architectural blueprints, what the world looked like in the mid 1800’s compared to what it is like today, etc, and are asked to how using a historical printing process could be pertinent today. This project was a collaboration between the advanced Printmaking class and the advanced Digital and Interactive Media class, and was team taught with Printmaking Professor Susanna Crum.

The Medium is the Message Project

course: Video Art, level: 200

Medium is the Message Project Prompt

For this assignment, students are taught to corrupt still and moving images and audio files to create a work about the consequences of a particular medium.

Shelby Kaiser

Faith Lilly

Morgan Daniel

Storytelling Project: creative podcast

course: Advanced Multimedia, level: 300 and 400

Storytelling podcasts like “This American Life,” “Serial” or “Radiolab” are powerful avenues for people to listen and learn about other humans’ experiences. Audio storytelling allows the listen- er to imagine their own visuals for people, places and events that unfold. For this project, students were asked to tell a true story with only audio.

Faith Lilly

Alexandria Montgomery

Hailey Jimnak

The Happening: Performance Project

course: Four-Dimensional Studies, level: 100

For this project, students investigate the idea of the “Happening” in performance art. In groups of three, they create an event or a series of events, or performances, that disrupt or alter “normal” everyday life.

Maggie Cassaro, Chris Austerman, Kaelin Steinrock

Pablo Abarca, Kristin Sharpe, Callie Borgman

Taylor Hines, Robbie Lee, Kristin Sharpe

Abstract Video Portrait Project

course: Digital Foundations, level: 100

This project is a lesson in abstraction and is meant to help students move away from the traditional cinema format they are accustomed. For this project, students create a portrait (the story of someone or something) without ever showing the audience who or what your portrait is about.

Shelby Kaiser

Michael Popplewell

Joe Dicken

Super 8mm film Project

course: Advanced Multimedia, level: 300-400

For this assignment, students shot their own color or black and white films on Super 8mm cameras. The content was guided by each student’s conceptual focus.

Shelby Kaiser

Dakotah Gibson

Alex Montgomery

Stop Motion Animation

course: Digital Foundations, level: 100

Bradlee Hertrick

Ethan Pickett

Morgan Eberts