Class of 2012 is in the house today.? What’s it like to see your photograph catagorized and hung by someone else?? Maybe your photograph screamed ETHNIC to you but it was put with PORTRAITS, or you saw NATURE and the curators saw HOME?? Makes me think of that Freud quote I always liked:? “A work grows as it will, and confronts its author as an independent, even an alien creation.”
Then the class breaks up into small groups to take videos with their flip cams, re-curating the exhibit anew through their eyes and imagination.? I saw one video that was a newscast; students interviewed each other, then cut to one of the photographs for illustration. Very cool; iMovie makes it look easy, but the creativity is the hard part.
Snapshot started a few years back as a singular and static exercise and now has morphed into a collaborative and interactive one.? Congrats to Sylvia Tomasch and Joe Ugoretz and the Instructional Technology Fellows for making this such a wonderful signature Macaulay project.
Check out the videos on the Macaulay channel for Snapshot 2009.? Should be up on YouTube soon!