PIMA 702: ARTISTIC PROCESS AND CONTEMPORARY COMMUNITY; INTERACTIVE MEDIA PROGRAMMING II

A three-part class combining community-based arts theory, community production, and a lab in interactive media programming.

The community segment of PIMA 702 affords opportunities to create art in a community-based context. In addition to weekly class time, students will work collaboratively with a community based organization in the creation of an artwork. These organizations can include: community centers, psychiatric facilities, nursing homes, cultural organizations / institutions, schools, and health care facilities. Class meetings will be devoted to discussions of methods of research and development of community focused art, approaches to working with people in diverse situations, as well as the use of media for a variety of community oriented topics and purpose.

The production portion of the class is a workshop for evolving new artworks which cross-disciplinary boundaries, including but not exclusive to theatre, music, performance art, interactive video, dance / movement, or any combination of these disciplines.

Students also develop and present proposals for their collaborative PIMA 703 production.

Class meetings also include lectures, guest speakers, readings, and panels.

The lab in concepts and techniques of interactive media programming includes a continuing exploration of multimedia programming, practical programming projects, and strategies for developing software to facilitate cross-disciplinary artistic collaboration.

PIMA 702 continues the investigations and production work begun in PIMA 701. The course keeps the three-segment format used in PIMA 701, and is team-taught by two or three instructors.

The Production Segment
In the production segment, students compile documentation of their work from the previous semester. In class they analyze and critique their work from the previous semester, and the work of PIMA 703 students. They develop collaborative, community-based works for production during the semester, and draft proposals for and begin work on their culminating projects to be completed in PIMA 703.

In their collaborative community-based productions, students create ties with communities in the New York metropolitan area, and develop their productions for presentation in off campus venues, and ideally community-based venues. Class time in this segment is devoted to the discussion and critique of content, publicity, and organizational issues of productions under development. Class time is also devoted to technical considerations of the productions, and a continued discussion of lighting, sound, video and documentation.

The PIMA 703 culminating projects are large-scale community-based events, which require more than one semester of planning and pre-production work. The production segment of PIMA 702 gives students an opportunity to workshop their concept for this culminating production, complete a well-developed proposal, form a collaborative group, and begin the production process.

Community-Based Theoretical Segment
In the theoretical segment, students study community media and performance projects to inform their production work in this area. Reading, writing, research and discussion are central features of this segment.

Students prepare research presentations that analyze the work of an artist or community media organization, and present samples of that work to the class in a historical and critical context.

The Interactive Media Programming Lab
The remaining class hours are devoted to a continuation of the Interactive Media Programming Lab. Students independently and collaboratively build expertise in interactive media programming. Students develop a specialized area of programming skill related to their performance and/or production goals, and develop a greater technical and conceptual understanding of the use of software in facilitating collaboration across artistic disciplines.

Projects
Students shall complete the following projects during the course of the semester:

Compiling documentation of PIMA 701 culminating project, including a DID, texts, a website, and software.
Weekly assignments (see calendar)
Journal: Students will keep a weekly log or journal in which they will write their responses to the class discussions, integrating readings, as well as community field visit assessments, &c....
An series of small interactive programming projects to be presented in class (see calendar)
Establishment of a relationship with a community group in the New York City area
Collaborative group and project proposal for PIMA 703
Attend and write up your responses to at least on event /panel from a community focused conference
Students’ work will in all three sections of the class will culminate in a collaborative produced performance event with the following characteristics:

The work will be presented off-campus, at a venue arranged by students. Multiple works can be presented in the same venue, and single works can ‘tour’ to multiple venues.
The work will be created in a community-based context. This context will be created by the artists doing one or more of the following:
- involving the community in the creative process
- presenting work in a community venue
- presenting and/or addressing community issues within the work
- basing the work in whole or in part on the values, history, literature, or art of the community
- including members of the community in the work; either as performers, or through their words, images, or creative contributions
- presenting the work in such a way that it reaches a broad audience within the community.
An essential portion (or all) of the work will be created through a process of “deep collaboration,” or total co-authorship by collaborative group members. Part of this co-authorship process will involve using computer programming as the common language bridging the disciplines represented by the artists involved. This is the core of the PIMA program, and is an essential element of the experience of this project.
The work will be documented

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