This course will be based on Sara Ahmed’s theories on orientation and dis/orientation and her questioning of “What do such moments of disorientation tell us? What do they do, and what can we do with them?” The course will focus on finding recipes for the concept of dis/orientation using immersive audio technologies and expanded images and will focus on materializing the texts that are written by Black and queer feminist scholars/artists. The students will produce time-based and performative audiovisual pieces that utilize spatial audio and expanded images as compositional methods.
Learning Outcomes:
Across this term, students will:
- Build their visual and aural compositional skills.
- Experiment with modes of immersive and multi-channel presentation.
- Learn new techniques to support new modes of making.
- Engage with ideas and works important to critical discourse around their medium.
Delivery Method: Fully in-person
Prerequisites:
Previous coursework in sound and video. Please email the instructors (mariamghani@bennington.edu; senempirler@bennington.edu) to express interest in enrolling and include relevant work samples. If the course is directly related to your Plan, please include that information in your email.
Course Level: 4000-level
Credits: 2
W 10:00AM - 11:50AM (Full-term)
Maximum Enrollment: 10
Course Frequency: One time only
Categories: 4000 , All courses , Canceled Courses , Film and Video , Fully In-Person , Media Studies , Sound Design and Recording , Two Credit , Updates , Visual Arts (VA)
Tags: Black Studies , collaboration , composition , critical discourse , expanded image , immersive , multi-channel , production , projection , queer studies , sound , video