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The Fourth Dimension: Video, Space and the Broken Screen

School of Visual Arts
This course offers pathways through the visual language of nonlinear narratives, split screens, fragmentary visual planes and their relationships with space and spatial design. We will read, view and discuss contemporary examples from selected projects made by artists, filmmakers, designers and architects that speak to these issues. Through critical discussions students will gain a fresh look at new practices of art-making that make use of emerging technologies. Topics include: object and projection, video and sound installation, multichannel video work, digital media and architectural space, nontraditional spaces, and video art in public spaces. The course is guided by the work of artists such as Bruce Nauman, Joan Jonas, Doug Aitken, Lars Von Trier, Jane and Louise Wilson, Olafur Eliasson, Pipilotti Rist, Eija-Liisa Ahtila, Robert Wilson, Douglas Gordon, and Matthew Barney as well as by concepts and pronouncements by critics and visionaries such as Rosalind Krause, Lev Manovich, Walter Benjamin, Hans Ulrich Obrist and Rem Koolhaas.

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The Fourth Dimension: Between The Cinematic and the Theatrical

School of Visual Arts
On the crossway among performance, cinema and visual arts, this course will focus on the contexts of contemporary video-based works. New viewing conditions as well as the poetics and politics of contemporary illusion will be discussed and we will look at the dynamic relationship between stage and screen, from a single act to a story line and from acting to non-acting. We will examine contemporary examples from selected projects made by artists, filmmakers and performance artists that speak to these issues. Through critical discussion, students will gain a fresh look at practices of art-making that make use of emerging technologies. Topics include: media and performance, postlinear narrative, narratology between the disciplines, (re)staging, Fluxus, happenings, new media performances and performative architecture, among others. The course is guided by the work of artists such as Joan Jonas, Yvonne Rainer, Vito Acconci, Lars Von Trier, Robert Willson, Pierre Huyghe, Stan Douglas, Matthew Barney, Isaac Julien and Catherine Sullivan, as well as by concepts and pronouncements by critics and visionaries, including Walter Benjamin, Mikhail Bakhtin, Rosalind Krauss and Mieke Bal.
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Sculpture, Installation and New Media Art
Summer Residency Program, School of Visual Arts

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past teaching and presentations:

2008
Artists in Conversation, Ofri Cnaani and Jin Shin, Asian Contemporary Art Week, Gallery Korea, NYC.

2007
School of Visual Arts, Artist Residency, Sculpture department.
Artist talk, Trinity College, Trinity, MA.
By Foot, By Boat, By Feather Wings,Art and Urban Practices Conference - New City-Territories. Collaboration with: IUAV and Venice Biennial, Venice, Italy.
Makor – Steinhart Center Artist Residency, visual arts continuing group.
Curator talk, Legal Aliens, SPACES Gallery, Cleveland, OH.

2006
The Blind Scenario, artist talk at Wesleyan College, MA.
Subjectivity Under Construction, Information Science Department, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY.
Curator, Legal Aliens - Changing Territories, Shifting Identities, Moving Images, Smack Mellon, Brooklyn, NYC.
Text and the City, lectures series at JCC in Manhattan, NYC
Mirrors and Masquerades, lectures series at, JCC in Manhattan, NYC

2003
Teaching Assistant to Prof. Constance DeJong, Hunter college art department BFA program, Video-Art course.

2001
Adjunct professor “Midrasha” - Beit Berel College - School of Art,
” Sculpture” course as part of the ‘non-formal art instructors program’.
Visiting lecturer at the Video-Art Program in MATAN (a summer-school for gifted young artists).

2000
Assistant Editor, Ha-Midrasha, Magazine of Art Critique. Beit Berel College- School of Art.