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UMass Boston || English 600 || Spring 2015 || Prof. Erin Anderson

Tag: appropriation

Blog Post #9: Aurality, Audio, and Ethics

After reading Charles Hardy III’s essay, “Painting in Sound: Aural History and Audio Art,” and listening to the four audio pieces assigned for this week, write a critical reflection considering the particularities (aesthetic, material, ethical, etc.) of sound/voice/audio in archival appropriation, drawing on whatever additional course texts you find productive.

For next week, you will produce a “mini project” working with appropriation of archival audio (originally the plan for this week!) Please come to class prepared with a found/archival audio clip (or more!) that you would like to work with and we will have time to experiment in class.

 

Blog Post #7: Image, Materiality, and Affect

Create a very short (less than 30-second) video from an even shorter (less than 5-second) clip of found video footage. OR make some other appropriative intervention of your own design into a found footage or “archival” clip of your choice.

See Martin Arnold “Alone. Life Wastes Andy Hardy”  and Dara Birnbaum’s “Technology/Transformation: Wonder Woman” for inspiration.

Upload your video experiment to YouTube or Vimeo and embed it in your post. Write a brief reflection considering your practice in conversation with this week’s reading/viewing materials.

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