PNCA Opens Registration for 2015 Boundary Crossings Institute in Animated Arts
May 12, 2015
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May 12, 2015
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PNCA Opens Registration for 2015 Boundary Crossings Institute in Animated Arts
Portland, OR — May 12, 2015 – Registration is now open for Boundary Crossings Institute in Animated Arts at Pacific Northwest College of Art (PNCA). Boundary Crossings is a two-week intensive institute open to working professionals and graduate and upper-level undergraduate students interested in a hands-on exploration of animated installation as a medium and a site for investigation of moving image interdisciplinary practice.
Boundary Crossings explores animated spaces, expanded screens, and cinema. It embraces the hybrid moving image by combining digital technology, fine art practices, and critical theory.
With a faculty of internationally renowned teachers, scholars, and practitioners, the institute includes hands-on making, intensive tutorials, skills-based learning, lectures and screenings, and theory and practice sessions. The goal is to provide an intensive experience of being on the cutting edge of animation and fine art. Boundary Crossings culminates with a public exhibition on August 7, 2015 of animated installations created during the two-week Institute.
The strands of study in this summer’s Institute are Animating Community and Ecology of Place.
A basic knowledge of animation is required. Prospective participants can register online: http://pnca.edu/programs/c/boundarycrossing.
About Boundary Crossings
PNCA’s biennial Boundary Crossings aims to foster innovation and creativity by exploring animated spaces, expanded screens, and cinema. This two-week institute embraces the hybrid moving image by combining digital technology, fine art practices, and critical theory.
With a faculty of internationally renowned teachers, scholars, and practitioners, the two-week institute includes hands-on making, intensive tutorials, skills-based learning, lectures and screenings, and theory and practice sessions. The goal is to provide an intensive experience of being on the cutting edge of animation and fine arts. Boundary Crossings culminates with a public exhibition of animated installations created during the two-week Institute.
Institute Director
Rose Bond
Faculty
Rose Bond
Pedro Serrazina
Visiting artists
Julie Perini
Marina Zurkow
About Rose Bond, Institute Director
Rose Bond, animator and media artist, has been internationally recognized for her monumental, content driven animated installations. Rear projected in multiple windows, her themes are often drawn from the site – existing at the juncture of memory, architecture and public/private space. Since 2002 her installations have illuminated urban spaces in Zagreb (2013), Toronto (2011), Exeter UK (2010), New York City (2004), Utrecht Netherlands (2008) and Portland (2002 & 2007 & 2014). Bond’s direct animation films have been presented at major international festivals including: Annecy, Ottawa, Hiroshima, Sundance, New York and are held in the MoMA Film Collection. Canadian born, Bond is based in Portland Oregon and teaches at Pacific Northwest College of Art.
About PNCA’s Animated Arts concentration
The Animated Arts concentration within the Media Arts major embraces the hybrid-moving image by combining fine art practice and digital technologies. At a time when the boundaries between live action, animation, painting, photography, illustration, and design are dissolving, an interdisciplinary fine art approach encourages students to re-imagine and create frame-based work for multiple contexts.
In addition to learning principles of animation, students can expect to experiment with a variety of media, production methods, and narrative strategies as they produce work for multiple or varied platforms. A history of animated arts will be taught in the context of a broad engagement with both cinema and fine art. Students will engage in research to probe and hone their ideas in a setting that values innovative thinking, risk taking, collaboration, and fine craftsmanship. The curriculum is structured with low walls in order to offer students from diverse disciplines expanded opportunities to pursue their own relationship to the creation of animated art.
About PNCA
As Oregon’s flagship college of art and design since 1909, PNCA has helped shape the region’s visual arts landscape for more than a century. Today PNCA is a dynamic platform for 21st century art and design education at its new campus in the heart of downtown Portland. PNCA offers four BFA programs with ten concentrations, six graduate programs within the Hallie Ford School of Graduate Studies, and a Post-Baccalaureate program.