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School of Media Arts !!!
Free your imagination and be part of an
inspiring adventure in the cutting-edge fields of video, filmmaking, photography, or
computer graphic arts in the School of Media Arts held at
Ithaca College, Ithaca. We will require your intense focus,
motivation, and commitment in this program. Your reward will be exciting and challenging
classes, work sessions, critiques, lectures, field trips, and presentations by visiting
artists.
While the curriculum stresses creative production,
it is not exclusively goal-oriented. Exploration, experimentation, and discovery are
stressed. The process — an awareness of the avenues of discovery and stimulating
detours — is as important as product.
Your classes will include an introduction to
the specific facilities; a review of fundamentals; an exploration of new techniques and
processes; an overview of aesthetics; surveys of contemporary work, trends, and ideas; and
extensive production work that emphasizes individual or small group projects. Ongoing
critical overview and critique will be directed toward your presentation of a final
project.
The program culminates with a final show and
screening. All students are strongly encouraged to finish work for display in this show.
Photographers and computer artists will display their work on walls and in computer
monitor installations. Film and video makers will present their projects in installations
and/or a theatrical presentation.
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Robert Harris,
a nationally known media artist, is the Artistic Director of the School. He has assembled
a faculty of outstanding media artists for the program. |
Application Process
Please follow these instructions for submitting your work for
adjudication:
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Any work you submit must include the appropriate forms and
identification. Mail the completed Student Application Form to the
address indicated on the application. The Adjudication Form with the
student portion completely filled in, including the Statement of
Artistic Intent on the back of the form, must accompany all submissions
to the adjudication site or person.
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In the area of film or video, one or more works may be submitted on
VHS, mini-DV or DVD. The work must be clearly identified in terms of
your role in the creation of the work. If you created the work with
several students, you must clearly state what work you did on the film
or video.
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In the area of photography, classes will involve darkroom/chemistry
work. One year of darkroom experience is required. Your portfolio should
include at least eight, but not more than twelve, individual photographs
or slides.
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In the area of computer arts, your portfolio should include at least
five, but not more than fifteen, examples of works on disk, DVD, VHS,
slide,
photocopy, or paper print.
You can have your work adjudicated in one of two ways:
METHOD 1
Send sample(s) of your work to:
NYSSSA - School of Media Arts
State Education Department
89 Washington Avenue
Room 866 EBA
Albany, New York 12234
All applications and media works
must be received by
April 10, 2008.
METHOD 2
Have your work adjudicated at one of the New York State Youth Media Arts
Shows held regionally throughout the state.
Rating Criteria
Content of Work: Is the purpose of the work clear? How
well do the images and ideas relate to each other? Does the title fit
the piece? Is there a point of view?
Structure of Work: Is more information presented than
needed? Are the edits, crops, splices, layering of sounds, etc.,
technically correct? Is there a design, a plan for the work such as a
score or storyboard? If the student is working in one of the moving
media (film/video), is a good variety of shots, special effects, etc.,
used? In computer arts, is the software used creatively, effectively,
etc.? If titles or credits are used, are they readable, creative,
suitable?
Use of Media and Its Elements: Have you explored what the
chosen media can do? Depending on the media, are color, light,
shape/form, movement, time, line, texture, etc., used effectively to
enhance the piece’s message? Has your technological knowledge been a
vehicle for fulfilling the work or has it become intrusive?
Overall Rating: This is not a single tabulation of the
rating categories, but an intuitive, holistic evaluation of the student
and the work. Considerations include whether there is a balance between
content, structure, and media; whether your work reveals your ability to
conceptualize; and whether there is a rightness and fitness to the work?
Tuition and Financial Aid
The entire cost of attending the School of Media Arts,
including tuition, instruction, room and board is
$1,500. NYSSSA’s summer programs are open to all New York State students
currently enrolled in grades 8 through 12 who qualify through the
audition process. Tuition, room, and board costs should not discourage
any talented young artist from auditioning. A student who auditions is
under no obligation to attend and every effort will be made to allocate
suitable financial aid.
We want any talented young artist who is accepted through our audition
process, regardless of his or her ability to pay for the school, to be
able to attend, so tuition assistance is available. Tuition assistance
forms are mailed to students after the audition process. NYSSSA awards
financial assistance based upon individual need.
For more information, please
contact:
NYSSSA School of Media Arts
The State Education Department
89 Washington Avenue
Room 866 EBA
Albany, NY 12234
(518) 474-8773
e-mail: nysssa@mail.nysed.gov
Pictures of the 2006
School of Media Art
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School of Media Art
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