A Selection of Student Work

Media Arts at the Hartford Art School

a suite of cruft images that are a sample of cruft and elegy to the american republic images

Intro to Media Arts
A second year studio course using images, found footage, and video shot themselves to create a silent video 3-5 minutes in length. Issues explored included motion, lighting, darkness, point of view, theme, narrative, and/or non-narrative. Students learn HTML/CSS and basic sound editing and then create a hypermedia collage and audio composition.

Digital Video/Explorations in Live Art
A senior level studio course tracing the development of technology and performance art in the 20^th century. Individual projects consisted of performance and video.

The students called the following work SQURL Art, and it can be seen in it's original context at http://www.robertspahr.com/squrlart/ (this link will open a new browser window).

SQURL Art (Social Questions for Unified Radical Liberation)

Squrl Art - video by eli davis

01.eli_davis_squrl_art.jpg 1 min 50 sec

Devil's Night - video by eli davis

02.eli_davis_devils_night.jpg 3 min 12 sec

Candle - video by kevin matthews

03.kevin_matthews_candle.jpg 4 min

Requiem - video by steve rand

04.steve_rand_requiem.jpg 2 min 50 sec

CartoonDADA - video by rayna sassano

05.rayna_sassano_cartoondada.jpg 47 sec

Untitled - video/performance by justin fritz

06.justin_fritz_untitled.jpg 43 sec

Happy? - video by eric terino

07.eric_terino_happy.jpg 2 min 40 sec

Public Service Announcement - video/performance by phil weinholtz

08.phil_weinholtz_psa.jpg 6 min 13 sec

You Can't See My Eyes - video/performance by sarah boehmke

09.sarah_boehmke_you_cant_see_my_eyes.jpg 15 sec

Shoes - video by dana ciotola

10.dana_ciotola_shoes.jpg 1 min 10 sec

Explorations in Sound: Sampled and Created

Sound Machine, Performance and Score
Part A - Sound Machine: Create a sound machine (using our definition of a machine) that creates a variety of sounds. This can be created out of anything. This can be a physical object, or a virtual machine. Write a 1 minute composition for your machine and be prepared to play it for the class. The score for your composition must be written on paper and presented at the time of your performance. The methodology you use should make sense to you and your machines capabilites. You will be graded on the aesthetics of your machine, performance and written score.

Part B - Sound REMIX: Using Audacity create a 1 minute piece using the recording of your composition from Part A and combine that with a sound sample from the Internet. Be sure to use editing, pasting and multi-tracking.

score, soundmachine and recording by dana ciotola
sound machine

11.dana_ciotola_soundmachine.jpg 1 min 05 sec

score, soundmachine and recording by eric terino
sound machine

12.eric_terino_soundmachine.jpg 59 sec

score, soundmachine and REMIX recording by jennifer giachinta
sound machine

13.jennifer_giachinta_soundmachine.jpg 1 min 04 sec

soundmachine and REMIX recording by nina szot
sound machine

14.nina_szot_soundmachine.jpg 53 sec

score, soundmachine and recording by tim wengertsman
sound machine

15.tim_wengertsman_soundmachine.jpg 1 min 11 sec

Hypertext / Hyperimage Collage

Using the name of the street where you grew up as a starting point, create a hypertext/hyperimage collage expanding and interpreting the meaning, metaphors and thoughts the street name contains. Consider the formal choices of color, image, scale, text and composition when you compose your collage. The site navigation can contribute to, and/or eliminate discovery and mystery, as well as structure the unfolding of a narrative.

hypermedia collage by justin fritz