Sensory Experiences and Expressions: A Digital Video Project

Title: Sensory Experiences & Expressions

Summary: Sensory Experiences & Expressions is a four-part digital video piece that explores my sensory relationships with the natural world, painting, cooking, and dancing.

Description: Sensory Experiences & Expressions is a four-part digital video piece that I created in the Spring of 2006 in Multimedia Authoring. The assignment, Video Stories, was to create a series of short digital video narratives with a specific theme, point of view, and concept in mind, completing one video a week for the last month of school. Video footage was captured and edited using Final Cut Pro, and then compressed and posted on a blog for online viewing. During the week I began working on this project many exciting things were happening in my life: my senior year was reaching its final stretch and I was starting work for final critiques in painting and printmaking; the first Student Art Show at the Katzen Museum opened, showing three of my pieces; my dance performance took place, which included a piece of my original choreography; and spring was coming into bloom. With my involvement in the arts a launching point, I dove into some of the sensory experiences of my last month as a senior at AU. The final product is a short video series covering my sensory relationships with the natural world, painting, cooking, and dancing.

Part I: Spring


Part II: Painting


Part III: Mango Dinner Party


Part IV: Dance


These pieces can also be viewed at the American University Multimedia On-line Gallery, along with the videos of my classmates and other multimedia works.

Vlog4: Dance

Vlog 4: Dance

Dada Sound Poems

"Dada Sound Poems" is a two-part audio piece that I created in the Spring of 2006 for a class called Multimedia Authoring. At the time, the National Gallery of Art was exhibiting a large show on the Dada art movement. Our assignment was to create an audio tour 'in the spirit of Dada' that we would upload to the web in a format that would allow listeners to podcast the projects and listen to them as they viewed the Dada show at the National Gallery. I allowed my piece to lead me in a slightly different direction, and created two sound poems: "What is Dada?"; and "Who is Dada?" that would serve as an introduction or summary of the Dada movement. My goal was to make works from the stance of a Dadist, and in the Dada style. The pieces are each about a minute long, and were created using Pro Tools. All of the sounds and voices, with the exception of the man singing in the second piece and the obvious crashing and shooting sound clips, are my own.

Part I: What is Dada?



Part II: Who is Dada?

Vlog3: Mango Dinner Party

Vlog3: Mango Dinner Party

Vlog2: Painting

Vlog2: Painting

Vlog1: Spring

Vlog 1: Spring