The Artistic Director of NYU Tisch Asia

Oliver Stone

Will present an all-school session on
WALL STREET I and II

Friday Jan 29th
Stage II
2-6pm

NYU Tisch Asia Grad Film
in association with the
ANDA Acting Class conducted by John Martin
will present an interview with
Academy Award™ nominee

ELISABETH SHUE
star of Leaving Las Vegas, Karate Kid, Back to the Future II, Deconstructing Harry and Hamlet 2

Friday Jan 29th
Black Box Theatre
10:30-11:00
(arrive a little early as time is subject to shift slightly)

In anticipation of this exciting event please attend a special screening of
LEAVING LAS VEGAS
Monday evening
7pm Theatre II

As part of our 5th anniversary next year, the Asian Film Archive and Tisch Asia are presenting

Film Preservation

Feb 26th
2pm-3pm
Theatre II
All Tisch Students Welcome

Our talk will introduce the concept and importance of film preservation to your students. It will begin by outlining the various types of technical damage that result from the careless treatment of film. More importantly, the talk aims to clear up the common misconception that film preservation is only for films that have outlived their marketable value or is reserved exclusively for prominent filmmakers. In fact, the talk will highlight the importance and usefulness of preserving materials from the beginning of a film shoot such as storyboards and student films. The talk will also clarify how film preservation extends across mediums: the preservation of both film and digital mediums will be addressed.

New York University Tisch School of the Arts Asia
presents

“Brown Bag Lunch w/ Judd Pillot & Kris Trexler”

EVENT SYNOPSIS: Come meet this Emmy award winning duo as they share
their insights working in Hollywood for top sitcom productions. Bring a brown bag, your questions and conversation.

Date: 21/1/2010, THURSDAY

Time: 11:30 am to 12:30 pm

Venue: Tisch School of the Arts, 3 Kay Siang Road – 4th Floor Conference Room

Mirek, Lenka and Zdar come to teach a Master Class and work with the animation students next week. They will give a talk  called “Traditional animation in modern times” on Friday 29th January at 6pm Classroom 1 level 4. The talk will cover introduction into history and contemporary production of animated films in Czech Republic.

Please RSVP Theeba if you want to attend

Date: Monday, February 1st 2010

Time: 10am – 1pm

Venue: NYU Tisch School of the Arts Asia

Project: “The Boy with the Magic Paintbrush”
Production painting by Huang Xin Hui

Description:
The workshop will give an overview of Southeast Asian animation history and explore how to create new content for the multi-cultural puzzle. Singapore, with its vibrant multi-cultural society, provides an ideal springboard for such explorations. The workshop will provide a fascinating insight into the traditions of animation from Singapore, Malaysia, Vietnam, Indonesia and Philippines.  Other topics will be new ideas for Asian animation, how  to develop new design ideas for animation from Asian art and mythologies. Visual development and preproduction will be covered with many examples of storyboards, character designs and model sheets, concept art and animated sequences.

Panel:
Hannes Martin Rall Assistant Professor, NTU’s School of Art, Design and Media, Hassan Muthalib,  animator, film director & writer, Artistic & Creative Technology, Universiti Teknologi MARA, Shah Alam, Malaysia,  Jean-Marc Gauthier, Director, Tisch Asia Animation and Digital Arts Program

“Interactive Media & Urban Screens Workshop”

by Morgan Barnard – New Media Designer, Film-maker, Lecturer

Date:      23rd January 2010, Saturday
Time:      12:30pm to 3:00pm
Venue:      Black Box Theatre, Level 2

Animation & Digital Arts Department presents

“Improvisation & Live Cinema”
by Morgan Barnard – New Media Designer, Film-maker, Lecturer

Presentation Summary: “As a composer, I feel that visual elements, organized using structural techniques commonly associated with musical architecture, provide exciting possibilities for conceptual exploration”.

- Frank Zappa

In music, improvisation can be seen as a real-time composition tool using principles and structures of musical theory. Often seen as unstructured or completely random, improvisation relies on skill, training, and a deep understanding of music theory. Live Cinema is the practice of performing cinematic content live, as a real-time composition, rather than a fixed form. A Live Cinema work is a live visual performance, a real-time edit, assembled and mixed live before an audience with variations that occur only at the time of the performance. This ephemeral, momentary aspect of Live Cinema is a unique way for audiences to experience content and for new kinds of stories to emerge. This talk will focus on a survey of the Live Cinema field and show project examples that explore linkages between live visual performance and musical improvisation.

Morgan’s Bio: Morgan Barnard is a new media designer, filmmaker, and lecturer from Los Angeles California. For the past 12 years digital media and newtechnologies have been a core element that has informed his practice as an innovative artist and designer. From the early days of interactive digital media production at the California College of the Arts to film & video industry experience in Los Angeles and New York, he has worked with media through digital technologies to tell stories, create experiences, and engage audiences. In 2005 Barnard received a master’s degree from the Interactive Telecommunications Program in New York University creating a thesis project that explored interactive storytelling and immersive narrative experiences. After graduating from NYU ITP, Morgan stayed on as an adjunct faculty member teaching courses in new media video  production and interactive media. In 2006 he was awarded a Production fellowship at Eyebeam Atelier where he worked with artists creating documentaries and designed interfaces for live video performance. His background in documentary, music video, motion graphics, and post-production informs his artistic and academic practices. He is currently working on interactive installations, locative narrative and live visual performance.

Date:      22nd January 2010, Friday

Time:      6:00pm to 7:00pm

Venue:      Black Box Theatre, Level 2

Some exciting announcements about the 2010 edition of the Next Reel International Film Festival coming up in Singapore, 31 January – 5 February.

We are pleased to announce that Oliver Stone, the Academy Award winning filmmaker, will be the guest of honor at the opening night of the Next Reel International Film Festival 2010. A special screening of one of his films will be held 31 January 2010 followed by a Q&A with the director. More details on this event will be released soon.

For more information visit www.nextreel.org.

Check out the festival trailer here:

Check out our photo gallery from the Animation and Digital Arts 2009 Winter Show here.