NYU IMA Low Res, Spring 2024 // Instructor: Carrie Sijia Wang
Time: Wednesdays 7:30 – 10:30pm (New York)
Instructor: Carrie Wang / [email protected] / Office Hour Signup
Resident: Ada Huang / [email protected] / Office Hour Signup
This course engages students in a dynamic series of workshop-style experiments, looking into different possibilities of live-streamed performance. Through an exploration of language, media, time, space, body, and object, students are encouraged to develop their unique artistic voices while utilizing the class as a platform for performative inquiry into subjects of individual interest.
Throughout the course, we will examine a wide range of examples, spanning from durational performances by artists such as Tehching Hsieh and Marina Abramović, to online interactive performances that invite audience participation. We will explore how we can apply emerging technologies to design live-streamed projects that tell stories, convey ideas, and express feelings.
A few weeks into the course, students will propose final project ideas and develop the performances in subsequent weeks with support from the instructor. The class will culminate in a virtual event featuring live-streamed projects by the students.
Grades will be determined according to this criteria:
Attendance is mandatory. Please email your instructor if you are going to miss a class. Two unexcused absences is cause for failing the class. An unexcused lateness of 10 minutes or more is equivalent to 1/2 of an absence.
ITP/IMA is a community whose mission is to explore the imaginative uses of emerging technologies — to make people’s lives safer, more just, more beautiful, more meaningful, and more fun. We pledge to act and interact in ways that contribute to an open, welcoming, diverse, inclusive, and healthy community (excerpt from ITP/IMA Code of Conduct).
This course is committed to providing an inclusive, welcoming, and harassment-free space for everyone in our community. Harassment or discrimination in any form will not be tolerated, and this applies to any interactions and content.
Tisch School of the Arts is dedicated to providing its students with a learning environment that is rigorous, respectful, supportive and nurturing so that they can engage in the free exchange of ideas and commit themselves fully to the study of their discipline. To that end Tisch is committed to enforcing University policies prohibiting all forms of sexual misconduct as well as discrimination on the basis of sex and gender. Detailed information regarding these policies and the resources that are available to students through the Title IX office can be found by using the following link: Title IX at NYU.
Academic accommodations are available for students with documented disabilities. Please contact the Moses Center for Students with Disabilities at 212-998-4980 for further information.
24/7 Mental / Physical Health, Wellness, Counseling, and Crisis Response resources can be accessed via Wellness Exchange online or by phone at the 24/7 hotline at (212) 443-9999
More detailed for medical, wellness, counseling and crisis response resources see here:
https://www.nyu.edu/students/health-and-wellness.html
For emergency response:
dial 911 for NYC Medical, Fire, or Police
NYU Campus Safety at (212) 998-2222 to report the emergency
For more emergency and urgent NYU resources:
https://www.nyu.edu/students/health-and-wellness/wellness-exchange/emergencies.html
Excerpt from the NYU Tisch School of the Arts Policies and Procedures Handbook, please read the full text for additional information:
The core of the educational experience at the Tisch School of the Arts is the creation of original academic and artistic work by students for the critical review of faculty members. It is therefore of the utmost importance that students at all times provide their instructors with an accurate sense of their current abilities and knowledge in order to receive appropriate construc- tive criticism and advice. Any attempt to evade that essential, transparent transaction between instructor and student through plagiarism or cheating is educationally self-defeating and a grave violation of Tisch School of the Arts community standards.
Plagiarism is presenting someone else’s original work as if it were your own. More specifically, plagiarism is to present as your own: a sequence of words quoted without quotation marks, a paraphrased passage from another writer’s work, ideas, sound recordings, computer data, or images composed or created by someone else.
Students are expected to build their own work on that of other people, just as professional artists, scholars, and writers do. Giving credit to the creator of the work you are incorporating into your own work is an act of integrity; plagiarism, on the other hand, is a form of fraud.
You must cite the source (link to) of any material/code you use with the exception of examples specifically provided by the instructor or demonstrated for the course. Please note the following additional expectations and guidelines:
March 20
In Class:
Homework #1: Find My Collaborators
Fill out the Find My Collaborators doc and use it to start conversations about working together for the final.
If you already have a group or have decided to work solo, please put your names under “Decisions.”
Homework #2: Stream Something
March 27
In Class:
Homework: Watch a Performance
April 03
In Class:
Homework: Experiments with Time and Space (Solo or Collaborative)
April 10
In Class:
Homework: Final Performance Pitch
See Final Project Assignment here.
Consolidate your ideas into a final project pitch presentation and add your presentation slides to this folder. Be prepared to share your pitch with the class. Make sure you include the following in your pitch:
April 17
In Class:
Homework: Get Ready to Rehearse
01. Keep working on your performance. Rehearse on your own and record your rehearsal.
We will have an in-class rehearsal next week. Get ready to perform in front of the class. The piece should be 9o% complete by the time of rehearsal next week.
02. Complete the Performance Schedule and Description sheet with a livestream link, a project title and a one-sentence description.
April 24
In Class:
Homework: Get Ready to Stream
May 01