This semester-long assignment will serve as a diary, vlog, obsession, conversation (with yourself), an (in)vulnerable and (in)visible corner for yourself to play with ideas of public and private. You can use any recording equipment/method from Nintendo DS and PSP to a pin-hole and GoPro cameras. Think about the environment you choose, words you select and objects you pick when starting a record. There will be one group discussion around the mid-term period to check-in.

Every Wednesday, each one of us will bring a piece of short media for us to consume. The only requirement is that the chosen piece of media has to be screen-based, no rule on the size. Think of this as a mood set in for the studio day:

In pairs, you will explore what distance between two people means through visually communicative and sculpturally notable interventions throughout the Pollak building. The main goal of this project will be to see, understand another person, then share it with the public. The level of opaqueness will be up to you to decide. Through interviews each week of the project, words will be connected with the tactile elements that you will find. What are the means of recording and what non-conventional methods of keeping track can be used to record a person?

See exercises as a build up for this final project that we will start working on from W10. This study will find itself in the end of the semester exhibition/intervention. Focusing on sound and image, start from the classroom and pick an object. The object should be a part of a bigger topic that interests you and that you would want to talk about. Reiterate the “lore” of this object until it reaches a place and a context it shouldn’t belong to but you have a feeling that it should. No need to justify it, make us feel in that space.