The Art of Archives

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

Tag: image

Blog Post #8: Ephemera, Nostalgia, and Collage

Take up appropriated archival images, graphics, photographs, and/or other ephemera—either digitized or born-digital—use Photoshop to create a composite image that places them into new relationships or contexts toward a desired effect/affect. Try things. Have fun. Make an inventive intervention. Then write a brief reflection considering your practice in relation to course texts and topics – around questions of materiality, memory, nostalgia, collage, fiction, imagination, etc.

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.

© 2024 The Art of Archives

Theme by Anders NorenUp ↑

Skip to toolbar