Fachmodul
Lecturer:
Isabella Lee Arturo
When: Monday 13:30 - 16:30
Description:
This course allows students to explore the integration of spoken and written words into interactive performances and art installations.
It will offer an experimental playground for using speech recognition and live transcription technologies, allowing spoken language to be translated to text in real-time.
The use of voice in performances bridges symbolic and embodied experiences, and allows the artist to practice through poetic, satirical, and political expressions. At the end of the semester, the students will prepare an event for the Summaery 2025 in the style of an “open mic” night, getting the experience of performing with a live audience.
Objectives:
- Develop programming skills and learn to use various tools to create interactive performances and installations.
- Creative Explorations of ways to use voice and text in performances.
Participants will collaborate with the students from Ting-Chun Liu’s course <<Unexpected Imageries - programming generative art>>
Requirements:
There are no specific requirements, but having a basic understanding of programming syntax can be beneficial.
Experience in performance arts is not necessary.
Final Task:
“Open Mic” or Show Night during the Summaery 2025.
Syllabus:
| 14-04-2025 | First Session | Course and Students Introduction
*Introductions to Wiki and Moodle Tools |
| 21-04-2025 | Holidays | No class |
| 28-04-2025 | Together Session #1 (1 hour) | STT tools (Plug and Play - TouchDesigner and Python) |
| 05-05-2025 | Together Session #2 | Body and Interactivity Workshop |
| 12-05-2025 | Together Session #3 | Camera Image interactive |
| 19-05-2025 | [Students presentations]
[Students presentations] |
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| 26-05-2025 | [Students presentations]
[Students presentations] |
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| 02-06-2025 | [Students presentations]
[Students presentations] |
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Nicolás Quintero - Topic |
| 09-06-2025 | Holidays | No class |
| 16-06-2025 | Together Session #4 | Idea Proposal for Summaery 2025 |
| 23-06-2025 | Voice Workshop | Voice Warm Ups and Excercises |
| 30-06-2025 | Rehearsal | |
| 07-07-2025 | Students Exhibition Summaery 2025 |
Recommended Artists:
Barbara Kruger (text, Art Installations)
Lisa Strausfeld (Media Art)
Josefina Báez (Lecture Performance, activism)
Guerilla Girls (Activism and Public Art)
Eduardo Kac (Media Art and Bio Art)
Dora García (Text , art installations)
Adrian Piper (activism)
Pedro Pietri (Poetry, Activism)
Xavier Le Roy (Lecture Performance)
Jonathan Burrows(Dancer Performer)
Fluxus playbook (Instructions, text art)
Recommended Books:
- Arola, K., & Wysocki, A. F. (Eds.). (2012). Composing (media)= composing (embodiment): Bodies, technologies, writing, the teaching of writing. Logan, UT: Utah State University Press.
- Henry, J., & Baker, T. H. (2015). Writing to learn and learning to perform: Lessons from a writing intensive course in experimental theatre studio [Special issue on WAC, WID, and the performing and visual arts]. Across the Disciplines, 12(4). Retrieved from https://wac.colostate.edu/docs/atd/arts/henry_baker2015.pdf
- Knoblauch, A. A. (2012). Bodies of knowledge: Definitions, delineations, and implications of embodied writing in the academy. Composition Studies, 40(2), 50-65
- Dixon, Steve (2007). Digital Performance A History of New Media in Theater, Dance, Performance Art, and Installation. Boston: MIT Press. pp. 2, 3, 4, 5, 6. ISBN 9780262042352.
Grading:
For your final grade you need to summit the following:
- Midterm Presentation / Performative Lecture
- Performance action during the Summaery 2025.