Examples of Student Work. Project: Line. Brie Losago (MArch) and Alex Echeverry (MArch) Chaitra Garrick (MFA) Chaitra Garrick (MFA) Assignment given:

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1 Project: Line Assignment given: The line video must be exactly 1 minute (60 seconds). There must be between three and twelve cuts/transitions that convey a specific narrative. The project may be conducted in a collaboration of no more than two people. Due: Thursday, February 8, 2007 in class. Brie Losago (MArch) and Alex Echeverry (MArch) Chaitra Garrick (MFA) Chaitra Garrick (MFA)

2 Project: Line Devorah Bowen (MFA) Here Devoral explored the lines defining edges as she walked across various materials. Eduardo Calil (MArch) This project investigated the potential of line in the creation of patterns that are both man-made and found in nature. Below is a second still from this video. Eduardo Calil (MArch)

3 Project: Line Jason Pistana (MArch) and Javier Sanchez (MArch) In this still and the following, Jason and Javier examined the ways light and shadow form and reform lines. Jason Pistana (MArch) and Javier Sanchez (MArch) Jason Pistana (MArch) and Javier Sanchez (MArch) Here, Jason and Javier consider line as a linear path of a stairway. With references to Terragni and the path created in the Danteum, Jason and Javier take the viewer from night at the bottom of the stair to daylight at the top.

4 Project: Line Sabrina Pena (MFA) In this video Sabrine collages the ideas of a line of music and a drawn line, and utilized video as a dynamic means to explore both simultaneously. Here she draws/ composes the music that is performed in the video. Sabrina Pena (MFA) Vanessa Monokian (MFA) In this video a series of objects and instruments required to draw and illuminate lines are animated in an act of disembowling the pencil sharpener. Maria Lino (MFA) Here Maria uses the line to reconsider architectural urbanism focused on meaningful monuments. She very simply and elegantly follows the path of the sun until it passes directly through the tip of the Statue of Liberty, thereby connecting Englightenment ideals of freedom to environmental rhythms of light.

5 Project: Recontextualization Assignment given: Appropriate existing video footage authored by someone else. Apply a new conceptual framework to the existing footage that will explain/critique/deconstruct/reinterpret the original context. The project will be evaluated on the strength of video s conceptualization and originality. It is recommended to use more than one source for the project. The project may be conducted in a collaboration of no more than two people. The recontextualizing video must be no more than 1 minute (60 seconds). Due: Thursday, February 15, 2007 in class. Brie Losago (MArch) and Alex Echeverry (MArch) Chaitra Garrick (MFA) Here Chaitra edited President Bush s State of the Union speach to form the lyrics of and anti-war song. Devorah Bowen (MFA) This video re-examined an historic video about the creation of the automotive arteries of New York City.

6 Project: Recontextualization Fred Karrenberg (MFA) Here the tale of the man who was the closest living human to the center of the atomic bomb blast in Hiroshima describing what he saw and heard. Sabrina Pena (MFA) Sabrina challenged the viewer to a reconsideration of the internet when seen through a variety of visual screening devices. Devorah Bowen (MFA)

7 Project: Conflict Assignment given: Conflict in the City The conflict video must be no more than 1 minute (60 seconds). Find and document a conflict existing between two or more people in the city. Include parts of this footage in a short commentary on the issues found in the conflict and the measures taken to resolve it. The project may be conducted in a collaboration of no more than two people. Brie Losago (MArch) and Alex Echeverry (MArch) Due: Thursday, March 1, 2007 in class. Chaitra Garrick (MFA) In this piece, Chaitra tested the boundaries of social norms by wearing a sign that said Tell me to go away and videoing the reponses she received. Chaitra Garrick (MFA)

8 Project: Conflict Devorah Bowen (MFA) Here Devorah examines the medieval practice of jousting and questions nostalgia for past forms of conflict. Eduardo Calil (MArch) In this video Eddie considers conflicts as they are presented in gaming environments. Eduardo Calil (MArch) Here Eduardo looks uses video editing to explore the underlying (or blatant) aggressions behind suburban baseball games.

9 Project: Conflict Fred Karrenberg (MFA) In this video Fred and several of his colleagues look at how linguistic conflicts are addressed and resolved in the everyday environment of a Cuban restaurant. Maria Lino (MFA) Maria takes an inside look at the role conflict and Oedipal issues are explored through one man s fiftieth birthday, which was celebrated, at his insistence, by boxing each of his grown sons until exhaustion. Maria Lino (MFA)

10 Project: Projection Assignment given: 1. Select or create an architectural space/condition in the PCA building to serve as a projection surface. 2. Appropriate or create a video element; it must be no more than 60 seconds. It should be projected as a loop. 3. Prepare a digital mockup documentation/ proposal of your project. 4. Execute your site-specific intervention on the day of the critique. The project may be conducted in a collaboration of no more than three people. Brie Losago (MArch) and Alex Echeverry (MArch) Due: Thursday, March 15, 2007 in class. Devorah Bowen (MFA) In this project, Devorah explores the architectural frame and the project of still photography within it. Eto Ottigibe (MFA), Sabrina Pena (MFA), Dan Mintz (MFA), and Eduardo Calil (MArch) This was a large and complex piece that involved a series of sayings and images projected simultaneously on various parts of the building and accompanied by music.

11 Project: Projection Fred Karrenberg (MFA) Here Fred projected a dynmic image of water consumption in South Florida on a three dimensional model of Miami. Brie Losago (MArch) and Alex Echeverry (MArch) Brie and Alex used the translucent glass found throughout the building to explore issues of voyeurism and desire. Vanessa Monokian (MFA) In this piece Vanessa constructed a projector in her car and projected an image of a dancing monster onto houses as she passed by, thereby drawing into question the distinctions between public and private.

12 Project: Sketches and Final Works Assignment given: Students were asked to present video and/or drawn sketches of their final works for class discussion. The topic of the final work in the class was determined by each student or teams of students. Chaitra Garrick (MFA) For her final project Chaitra explored the world and expressions of her grandmother in a reflection on memory and time. Devorah Bowen (MFA) For her final project Devorah determined to create a video entirely of found surveillance images of herself. She discovered the process to be much more difficult than she imagined and used the video to document not only herself, but the lack of access any of us has to our own images. Eto Ottigibe (MFA), Eduardo Calil (MArch), Sabrina Pena (MFA), and Dan Mintz (MFA) In this project images of childhood innocence are recontextualized and projected onto buildings where they take on new and sinister overtones.

13 Project: Sketches and Final Works Jason Pistana (MArch) and Javier Sanchez (MArch) Jason and Javier undertook a thorough reconsideration of the main stairwell in the School of Architecture by incorporating a series of carefully choreographed video and live feeds. Fred Karrenberg (MFA) In this piece (a preliminary sketch is to the right and the final piece is below), Fred commented upon the paradoxical beauty of cranes and development when considered in light of environmental degredation. Fred Karrenberg (MFA)

14 Project: Sketches and Final Works Juan Alvarenga (MArch) and Julio Eduardo Miguel (MArch) In this complex piece that was projected on the side of the School of Architecture, Juan and Julio used Maya to create a bombing of the FIU campus with advertizements to join the armed services. Over this aerial bombardment they placed a sound track of soldiers discussions during an attack on Fallujah. Vanessa Monokian (MFA) In her final work Vanessa follows the epic plight of a phalanx of spray-can top soldiers against an invisible foe.

15 Maria Lino (MFA) In a piece entitled Obsession, Maria very carefully traces the frames and material changes with her video camera in an effort to question how construction techniques and materiality might be considered in the identity of two specific spaces, one in New York City and the other in Miami.