CANCELED: DIY and High-Speed Approach to Creating Audiovisual Works
Instructors: Kimia Koochakzadeh-Yazdi and Stephanie Sherriff
This online workshop has been canceled.
DIY and High-Speed Approach to Creating Audiovisual Works
Dates: August 8-12
Time: 9am-2pm PDT
Location: CANCELED
Fee: $250
Description:
Digital sound and image are embedded in every aspect of contemporary life. The wealth of audio and visual material available to anyone able to download, duplicate, and record media are endless. How can resourceful and playful experimentation with community, free tools, digital media, and physical objects create meaningful worlds that reflect the human experience?
Join us for an experimental, collaborative online workshop rooted in a DIY, fast-paced approach to creating audiovisual work. Over the course of one week, students will be introduced to a range of free tools, archives, and processes meant to aid in rediscovering and reconstructing found material. There will be an emphasis on creating work from everyday life objects for the digital world and to either blur the line between the two or highlight it. References featuring animation, video art, installation, and audiovisual performance will guide conceptual frameworks for class discussion and lectures, while challenging students to think differently about the possibilities of sharing time-based work.
"DIY & high-speed approach to creating audiovisual works” is open to musicians, visual artists, programmers, designers, writers, dancers, actors, or artists of any discipline. We will meet online everyday from 9AM to 2PM PDT, with the final day resulting in the online premier of the participant’s works. Minimum hardware requirements for this workshop are a computer (PC or Mac) and a camera (webcam, smartphone camera, camcorder, DSLR, etc.). No previous experience required.Diversity Scholarship:
We recognize the value of diversity within the classroom and we are committed to cultivating an environment that supports creative voices and viewpoints from a wide-range of backgrounds. To promote the engagement of students from underrepresented backgrounds in the field of electronic and computer music, including women, ethnic minorities, gender minorities, low-income, and 1st-generation students, a limited number of full and partial tuition scholarships are available to students whose participation would not be possible without financial aid. The deadline for applications is 11:59pm on July 25th. Apply to the Diversity Scholarship HERE.
About the instructors:
Kimia Koochakzadeh-Yazdi (b. 1997 Tehran, Iran) is a California/Vancouver-based composer and performer. She writes for hybrid instrumental/electronic ensembles, creates electroacoustic and audiovisual works, and performs electronic music. Kimia explores the unfamiliar familiar while constantly being driven by the concepts of motion, interaction, and growth in both human life and in the sonic world. Being a cross-disciplinary artist, she has actively collaborated on projects evolving around dance, film, and theater. Kimia’s work has been showcased by organizations such as Iranian Female Composer Association, Music on Main, Western Front, Vancouver New Music, and Media Arts Committee. She has been featured in The New York Times, Georgia Straight, MusicWorks Magazine, Vancouver Sun, and Sequenza 21. Her work has been performed at festivals around the world including Ars Electronica Festival, Festival Ecos Urbanos, Tehran Contemporary Sounds, AudioVisual Frontiers Virtual Exhibition, The New York City Electroacoustic Music Festival, Yarn/Wire Institute, Ensemble Evolution, New Music on the Point, wasteLAnd Summer Academy, EQ: Evolution of the String Quartet, Modulus Festival, and SALT New Music Festival. She holds a BFA in Music Composition from Simon Fraser University’s Interdisciplinary School for the Contemporary Arts, having studied with Sabrina Schroeder and Mauricio Pauly. Kimia is currently pursuing The Doctor of Musical Arts program in Composition at Stanford University.
Stephanie Sherriff is an interdisciplinary artist, composer, and performer currently based in San Francisco, California. Their work with sound, video, and physical phenomena is ephemeral in nature and culminates as time-based installations and performances that deconstruct fragments of daily life through experimental processes. They received a BA from San Francisco State University in 2014 and an MFA in Art Practice from Stanford University in 2019, where they are currently a lecturer at the Center for Computer Research in Music & Acoustics (CCRMA). Their work has been featured both nationally and internationally at creative centers such as the Institute for Research Coordination in Acoustics/Music (IRCAM), the Sfendoni Theater, the Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM), O. Festival, Sonorities Festival, Gray Area, The Lab, Artists Television Access (ATA), and the Center for New Music (C4NM).