Lisa Steele and Kim Tomczak have been active in the media arts since the 1970s, profoundly influencing video and related media in Canada since beginning their collaboration as artists, administrators, teachers, writers, curators, and originators of events and projects in 1983.
Adobe Digital Video: Foundations of Video Design and Production
Digital Video is a year-long, project-based curriculum that develops key digital communication skills such as design, project management, research and communication, and video and audio design and production technical skills using Adobe tools.Digital Video can be used in video and audio production education or in more general career and technical education. Each project builds on lessons learned previously and contains an instructor guide (with learning objectives, step-by-step teaching instructions, assessment rubric, and details on alignment to the Adobe Certified Associate exams) and a series of activities to teach students. Activities include student technical guides, worksheets, and best practice guides. Utilize the entire curriculum, individual projects, or individual activities to adapt this content to your course.
The popularity of online video-sharing sites has led to the ad hoc curation
of archives and thematic reblogs of all sort. Recently, curator Joao
Ribas
started Expanded Cinema, a blog that aggregates web-posted archival videos
from the history of avant-garde cinema, including 'experimental film,
early
video, and sound-based, durational work.' Choice finds include pieces
by
Martin Arnold, Walerian Borowczyk, Charles and Ray Eames, Harun Farocki,
Peter Kubelka, Toshio Matsumoto, and others. Ribas's comments on the
videos
often include external links to critical essays or other historical details
that help frame the work. Quite often, there is a sense of desire to
place
the work within a timeline of influences, as in the case of 'Le Vol d'Icare'
(1974), Georges Schwizgebel's 'pioneering animation,' that 'looks more
at
home today than it ever did in the early 1970s.' In many of the works,
there
seems to be a tension between the use of film or video as a means of
documentation, and as an art practice of its own. The most interesting
piece
blur the boundaries, as is the case with the Eameses' 'SX-70' (1972),
which
also meditates on the formal properties of film and video. Once again,
focused internet users are taking art history into their own hands, making
'playlists' that elevate works from the status of hiddenness or obscurity
to
central in our imaginations--which to say on our desktop. - James Petrie
Popcorn Maker Ryan Merkley: Online video -- annotated, remixed and popped
Videos on the web should work like the web itself: Dynamic, full of links, maps and
information that can be edited and updated live, says Mozilla Foundation COO Ryan Merkley.
On the TED stage he demos Popcorn Maker, a new web-based tool for easy video remixing.
(Watch a remixed TEDTalk using Popcorn Maker -- and remix it yourself.)
Ryan Merkley is the Chief Operating Officer at the Mozilla Foundation, and is dedicated to
making the web a more user-friendly place. Full bio »