| Take aspects of one of the
following four items and attempt to
"translate" them into another medium (sound, image, movement, text,
animation, etc.). |
| Identify salient features of the original that you wish to translate. |
| Explore different and creative "mappings" between the media. |
| Try to be as literal as possible with the translation. |
| Present your translation to the class. Be prepared to discuss the decisions you made and what the process revealed about properties of the original object and about the meaning of translation. |
| 1. Painting: Composition A by Piet Mondrian |
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| 2. Painting: Everything (2) by Squeak Carnwath |
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| 3. Sound: Amuma (Inuit vocal
game) - click here
for .mp3 |
| 4. Text: Vowels by Christian Bök | |
| loveless vessels we vow solo love we see love solve loss else we see love sow woe selves we woo we lose |
losses we
levee we owe we sell loose vows so we love less well so low so level wolves evolve |