ARCHIVED - This course was held during Pandemic Pedagogy 1, Spring 2021
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Facilitator: Chantal Feitosa
Chantal Feitosa is a Brazilian American artist from Queens, New York. Her process shifts between digital media, collage, performance art, and language to address themes of racial bias, beauty standards, and belonging. Her video work has been selected for multiple film festivals across the country including the Harlem International Film Festival (NY), Vidlings & Tapeheads (MI) the Every Woman Biennial (NY), and the Anti-Racist Classroom’s Represent Film Festival (CA). She has been awarded artist residencies at the Anderson Ranch Arts Center, Residency Unlimited, and Smack Mellon as a Van Lier Fellow. Chantal received her BFA in Film/Animation/Video from the Rhode Island School of Design with a concentration in Literary Arts & Studies, and she is an alumna of the Studio Museum in Harlem's Museum Education Practicum. She currently works as a teaching artist for the Queens Council on the Art’s High School 2 Art School program.
✨WHAT is this course?
This remote course will carve out a supportive space for artists who navigate multiplicity within their identities (be it through race, gender, sexuality, language, borders, and beyond). We will explore how the role of digital spaces, the camera lens, and the glitch can coexist with the practice of social shapeshifting or navigating otherness. As levels of exhaustion in 2020 begins to hold a heavy presence in both the physical world and through our devices’ screens, this class will give students the opportunity to dream and scheme their way into affirming relationships with space and time. What can our personal definitions for storytelling through technology look like? How can it be sustainable or joyful? How do we keep in mind our physical bodies in these digital processes?
✨WHO is this for?
This course will serve as an independent study / support group for up to FIVE (5) individuals who are :
Students of color currently working in time based art forms and/or digital media (film, video, net art, programming, performance, etc).
AND
Undergraduate Juniors/Seniors who are taking a leave of absence due to COVID-19 or other extenuating circumstances
✨HOW is it done?
This class will alternate bi-weekly between seminars and critiques over SEVEN (7) sessions.
Each session will be 90 minutes long. Seminars & Critiques will be held remotely and synchronously over video.
SEMINARS will reference critical texts and contemporary art projects in order to address a specific Focus Question around identity and digital media such as :
How do you see digital media serving as an extension of your multiple identities?
How is your technology / digital platform of choice allowing you to express love and care for your body and spirit? How can our multiple selves inform us in becoming polymaths?
How has your relationship to digital media taught you about your place (or lack thereof) in the world*?
Is your work’s relationship to technology* informed by the past, present or future?
Students will have the opportunity prior to seminar days to provide a response to the Focus Questions of the day in whatever format feels most comfortable to them (writing, audio recording, sketches, etc). We will use these responses as a starting point for class discussions.
CRITIQUES will serve as feedback check-ins for students to present their own independent research, ideas and projects. Each critique session will also rely on a Focus Question from the previous seminar as a catalyst to direct discussions and feedback.
Students will receive a Welcome Packet prior to the first day of class outlining readings, focus questions, and other resources.
✨What about the 💸? :
Students must pay a $25 deposit which they will receive back upon concluding full commitment to the course.
For completing the course successfully, students will also be awarded an additional Learning Honorarium of $105.