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 ==Procedural Cut: Algorithmic Micro-editing==
-Micro-editing is a technique of rearranging tiny fragments of media to form a new work. In the context of music, [[wikipedia:Microhouse|microhouse]] is a subgenre of house which employs this technique. [[wikipedia:Akufen|Akufen]]'s ''Deck the House'' from 2002 may serve as an example. Experimental filmmaker [[wikipedia:Martin Arnold|Martin Arnold]] compiled his 1989 work “Pièce Touchée” entirely from one found-footage by copying frames in a specific order with an [[wikipedia:Optical printer|optical printer]], emphasizing and amplifying gestures from the original movie.  Steina Vasulka, Granular Synthesis and many other artists followed in exploring an aesthetic of deconstruction and reassembly of the timeline in moving images. In pop culture this “audiovisual cut-up” was used to expand the visual language of music clips and to have the audiences of live performances spellbound. This technique is used in different contexts from media art, experimental filmmaking to music clips and advertising.
+Micro-editing is a technique of rearranging tiny fragments of media to form a new work. In the context of music, [[wikipedia:Microhouse|microhouse]] is a subgenre of house which employs this technique. [[wikipedia:Akufen|Akufen]]'s ''Deck the House'' from 2002 may serve as an example. In the context of experimental film, [[wikipedia:Martin Arnold|Martin Arnold]] compiled his 1989 montage “Pièce Touchée” entirely from found-footage by copying frames in a specific order with an [[wikipedia:Optical printer|optical printer]], emphasizing and amplifying gestures from the original movie.  Steina Vasulka, Granular Synthesis and many other artists followed in exploring an aesthetic of deconstruction and reassembly of the timeline in moving images. In pop culture this “audiovisual cut-up” was used to expand the visual language of music clips and to have the audiences of live performances spellbound. Micro-edits are used in different contexts ranging from media art, experimental film-making to music clips and advertising.
-Today digital video is an almost infinite source of found footage which has been made accessible to anyone, anytime through platforms like YouTube, essentially databases for moving images of almost any kind. They enabled pop culture phenomenons like supercuts: compilations of short shots of the same action. In the context of those subcultures Arnolds’ tedious montages from 30 years ago appear like archaic YouTube Poop.
+Digital video has become an almost infinite source of to-be-found-footage which is accessible to anyone, anytime through platforms like YouTube, which are essentially databases for moving images of almost any kind. They enabled pop culture phenomenons like [[wikipedia:Supercut|supercuts]]: compilations of short shots of the same action, or [[wikipedia:YouTube Poop|YouTube Poop]] mashups of videos with a comical and at times immature humour:
-Today, meta information, close captions, machine learning analysis and advanced tools of music information retrieval can provide the means to generate edits and real time reassembly of media
+Today, meta information, close captions, machine learning analysis and music information retrieval can provide the means to generate automated edits. Real-time reassembly of media fragments based on databases, feature extraction or meta-information has become entirely feasible.
-In the class Procedural Cut: Algorithmic Micro-editing we are working with audiovisual material bridging Audio and Video. We will survey and discuss examples of creative Works from media art, experimental filmmaking and popular culture and create own works with the possibilities of today. On the way we will learn the tools which enable us to do so: Pure Data and Open Frameworks.
+In the class Procedural Cut: Algorithmic Micro-editing we will learn to let algorithms cut and edit.
-This class builds upon previous classes like [[GMU:Breaking the Timeline]] and [[GMU:Bits, Beats & Pieces]].
+This class builds upon two previous classes [[GMU:Breaking the Timeline]] and [[GMU:Bits, Beats & Pieces]].
 ==Syllabus==