Shaping Time: Contemporary Practices in Time-Based Media, Technology, and Science
Shaping Time explores audiovisual practice through the expanded field of contemporary art, bringing together moving image, sound, performance, installation, computation, and live systems.
Drawing from the artistic practice of Interspecifics, the class approaches time as both material and structure. We will investigate how duration, repetition, synchronization, latency, feedback, accumulation, spatialization, and transformation can shape an artwork, and how relationships between sound and image can move beyond illustration toward more complex forms of composition.
A central focus of the semester will be the transition from the screen to the live situation. What happens when an audiovisual work becomes spatial, performative, or responsive? How can an artistic system unfold in real time? How is agency distributed between artist, performer, software, machines, space, and audience?
The class functions as a laboratory for developing individual and collaborative projects. Conceptual discussions will coexist with practical experimentation, technical sessions, critiques, and live testing. Technology is approached not as an end in itself, but as a material through which artistic ideas can take form.
The semester culminates in a public presentation of live audiovisual works, expanded installations, performances, and hybrid formats.