| Course Syllabus Summer Course: Project in Moving Image Application Period: 4 March–4 April 2024 |
Introduction
The course Individual Project in Moving Image is aimed at those who want a focused work period and a forum to deepen and discuss issues related to moving image within their own and other students’ artistry. Large parts of the course are based on the student’s own work where the student focuses on their artistic process and works with their project. The course includes individual supervision where we discuss the content, technique and form of each student’s work in order to deepen the understanding of one’s methods of creating moving images and develop their work process. The course also includes moments when the works are discussed with the whole group and invited artists. These moments create a forum for discussion and knowledge sharing. The aim is also to contribute to a dialogue about what the moving image as an art form can be in today’s hyper-mediated world and how your own creative process relates to this.
Your project can be within different forms of moving image, such as multi-channel spatial installations, documentary film, animation, essay film, 360 video or other. However, participation in the course requires that you have the technical skills needed to independently film, collect and edit video or film material for your project. The course does not include basic instruction in filming or editing, nor can we provide technical equipment other than editing computers.
Course Content
Never before have there been so many moving images as there are today. They surround us through devices such as mobile phones, game consoles, screens, projectors, at home, in the workplace and in commercial and public environments. For many of us, technology is available to create, reproduce and disseminate moving images. But what images are being created? We are almost constantly fed with impressions from different sources, senders and for different purposes. What role can the moving images created by artists play in this audiovisual world? Do they disappear in the mass of images or can they, through their form, material, purpose and context, provide a counterpoint or reflection of today’s vast flow of moving images? Since the emergence of video art, artists have experimented with the medium’s potential to tell stories over time, combining colour, sound, image and text. They have approached film as a mass medium, questioning its commercial nature and its importance in documenting and representing reality and creating fantasy worlds.
In Individual Project in Moving Image, the student works on and develops a project of their own. Within the course, the student will receive both personal and group supervision to deepen, critically reflect on and develop their own artistic work in moving image. The conversations and guidance are based on the type of questions, mediums and methods that exist within the group and reflect on how these relate to the present.
Course Structure
At the centre of the course is the student’s own individually designed project and the work to achieve the goal that the student has set for the project. During the course we will have a number of counselling sessions and joint meetings to reflect, discuss and help the student in the artistic process.
The course starts in the beginning of June with two introduction days. During these days, the course participants will present themselves and their projects to the group. Then these days are followed up with individual supervising meetings with the teacher responsible for the course, Rut Karin Zettergren, where the students receive guidance to further develop their projects and project plans. After this, the students have a period where they work independently on their projects. At the beginning and end of July, the students have further sessions with individual guidance on their projects, this time with the visual and film artist Theresa Traore Dahlberg. At the end of July, a joint seminar day is also organised where an invited artist presents their work in moving image.
During August, the students continue to work independently on their projects until the last common course week. During this week, the students present the work they have done during the summer and receive feedback from the rest of the student group, the teacher responsible for the course and an invited guest artist.
Throughout the course period, students have access to the Royal Institute of Art’s video department. The Royal Institute’s video department with editing computers at Mindepartementet on Skeppsholmen, are open Monday to Friday between 8.00-16.30. Please note that the Royal Institute of Art’s other workshops, including Teknikförrådet (the technology lending centre), are closed during the summer.
| Credits | 18 hp |
| Level | First cycle course, not beginners |
| Language | Swedish and/or English |
| Entry Requirements | General entry requirements: General requirements for freestanding courses at a first cycle level. Specific entry requirements: 60 ECTS in fine arts or equivalent knowledge/experience |
| Selection | Selection is based on a proposed individual project plan of maximum 2 A4 pages. The project plan should describe the project idea, including artistic issues, processes, technological choices and theoretical aspects, and preferably a timetable and 3-4 work samples, out of which at least one should be within moving image. |
| Course Period | 3 June–30 August 2024 |
| Responsible teacher | Rut Karin Zettergren |
| Contact | rut-karin.zettergren@kh.se (regarding course content) helena.falldin@kkh.se (regarding study administrative questions) |