A wide shot of a ceramics studio, featuring students working with pottery wheels and other tools.

Tirtza Even

Professor

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Bio

Professor, Film, Video, New Media, and Animation (2010). BA, 1989, Hebrew University, Jerusalem; MA, 1993, MPS, 1995, NYU. Exhibitions/Screenings: Museum of Modern Art, New York; Whitney Biennial; Johannesburg Biennial; Rotterdam Film Festival; Postmasters Gallery, New York. Distribution: Heure Exquise, France. Collections: Museum of Modern Art, New York; Jewish Museum, New York; Israel Museum, Jerusalem; Conseil General, Territoire de Belfort Art Collection, France. Bibliography: Switching Codes; The Jewish Identity Project: New American Photography. Awards: Jerome Foundation; New York State Council on the Arts; Syracuse Film Festival; L'immagine Leggera Festival; San Francisco International Film Festival, Golden Gate Awards; Fulbright Foundation.

Courses

Title Department Catalog Term

Description

The goal of the course is to understand, analyze and confront in practice various aspects of installation art in general and video installation in particular. The course will focus on themes such as site specific work; positive and negative spaces (use of light and projection); formation of an event or a situation (use of material, gesture and movement); the integration of video within sculptural/architectural, as well as narrative configurations etc. The examples shown in accordance with each topic will demonstrate various solutions to the issues discussed in class, and will include gallery and museum field trips as well as possible guest artist lectures. Visual examples will range from Cornell's boxes, minimalist and post minimalist art work, site specific projects by artists including Walter de Maria and Smithson, through pioneer installation makers such as Nauman, Bill Viola, Gary Hill and up to contemporary video installation makers such as Eijal liisa Ahtila, Stan Douglas, Isaac Julian, Doug Aitkins and many others. Readings will include articles by Peter Selz, Michael Archer, Fried Michael, Barbara London, Chrissie Iles, John Hanhardt and numerous others. Students will be required to plan and draw installation sketches as well as to videotape and construct actual video installation work. Class Requirements include weekly reading of relevant articles, two in-class team presentations of relevant artists, as well as 3 short installation production assignments and a more elaborate final project.

Class Number

2234

Credits

3

Description

The goal of the course is to understand, analyze and confront in practice various aspects of installation art in general and video installation in particular. The course will focus on themes such as site specific work; positive and negative spaces (use of light and projection); formation of an event or a situation (use of material, gesture and movement); the integration of video within sculptural/architectural, as well as narrative configurations etc. The examples shown in accordance with each topic will demonstrate various solutions to the issues discussed in class, and will include gallery and museum field trips as well as possible guest artist lectures. Visual examples will range from Cornell's boxes, minimalist and post minimalist art work, site specific projects by artists including Walter de Maria and Smithson, through pioneer installation makers such as Nauman, Bill Viola, Gary Hill and up to contemporary video installation makers such as Eijal liisa Ahtila, Stan Douglas, Isaac Julian, Doug Aitkins and many others. Readings will include articles by Peter Selz, Michael Archer, Fried Michael, Barbara London, Chrissie Iles, John Hanhardt and numerous others. Students will be required to plan and draw installation sketches as well as to videotape and construct actual video installation work. Class Requirements include weekly reading of relevant articles, two in-class team presentations of relevant artists, as well as 3 short installation production assignments and a more elaborate final project.

Class Number

2149

Credits

3

Description

The seminar will explore the concept and implementation of autoethnography in film and video work (both single channel and installation) through readings, viewings and in-depth critique of students� studio work. Readings will include Catherine Russell, Paige Sarlin, Pooja Rangan, Alisa Lebow, W.G.Sebald and Trinh T. Minh-ha as well as Walter Benjamin�s Arcades Project, Deleuze�s analysis of the fold, Stuart Hall's 'Cultural Identity and Cinematic Representation' and others.

Class Number

1310

Credits

3

Description

The seminar will explore the concept and implementation of autoethnography in film and video work (both single channel and installation) through readings, viewings and in-depth critique of students� studio work. Readings will include Catherine Russell, Paige Sarlin, Pooja Rangan, Alisa Lebow, W.G.Sebald and Trinh T. Minh-ha as well as Walter Benjamin�s Arcades Project, Deleuze�s analysis of the fold, Stuart Hall's 'Cultural Identity and Cinematic Representation' and others.

Class Number

2150

Credits

3

Description

Taken every semester, the Graduate Projects courses allow students to focus in private sessions on the development of their work. Students register for 6 hours of Graduate Project credit in each semester of study.

Class Number

1746

Credits

3 - 6

Description

Taken every semester, the Graduate Projects courses allow students to focus in private sessions on the development of their work. Students register for 6 hours of Graduate Project credit in each semester of study.

Class Number

1293

Credits

3 - 6