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Cinema Image: A Small Array of Computer Film Techniques – Gray Area Festival Workshop

Cinema Image: A Small Array of Computer Film Techniques – Gray Area Festival Workshop

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The relationship between artists writing code and experimental film and video is a long and rich history. In this workshop for beginners and intermediate coders, I’ll share a few code examples written in Processing that process 2D images to create time-based visual experiences. We’ll have time to explore these examples and to make things together.

We’ll start the workshop by looking a relevant historical examples including “flicker films” and collage films from artists including Man Ray, Tony Conrad, Paul Sharits, and Stan Brakhage. The Expanded Cinema book by Gene Youngblood featured by Gray Area in 2020 is our guide. We’ll look at some examples from my own work over the last twenty years, then we’ll walk through code examples that take images apart and use the image data to create videos that abstract the original images. These small code examples have been developed in my studio over the years to assist with making my work.

This workshop is part of the  Gray Area Festival 2024.

Marking Gray Area Festival’s 10th anniversary, Gray Area 10 continues our annual survey of culture through the lens of creative practice, featuring a conference, performances, and workshops.

Course Logistics

Dates
Sunday September 15, 2024

Location

Gray Area
2665 Mission Street
San Francisco

Time
2pm-4pm

Cost
Sliding scale $40-$90 for a 2hr hands-on workshop 
Suggested price: $45

We also offer Diversity Scholarships, find out more and apply here

Experience level: Beginner

Course Requirements:

  • Participants will need a computer and should join the workshop with images they want to work with. Any kind of image can work. What’s interesting for you?
  • Download the latest Processing software and have it installed. It’s also useful to have an image editing program like Gimp or Photoshop that you can use to create and edit images during the workshop.

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Instructor(s)

Reas' software, prints, and installations have been featured in numerous solo and group exhibitions at museums and galleries in the United States, Europe, and Asia. His work ranges from small works on paper to urban-scale installations, and he balances solo work in the studio with collaborations with architects and musicians. Reas' work is in a range of private and public collections, including the Centre Georges Pompidou and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Reas is a professor at the University of California, Los Angeles. He holds a master's degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Media Arts and Sciences and a bachelor's degree from the College of Design, Architecture, Art, and Planning at the University of Cincinnati. With Ben Fry, Reas initiated Processing in 2001; Processing is an open-source programming language and environment for the visual arts.