ICA Teen New Media Program

Thursday, November 8, 2007

Fast Forward Newsletter - Fall 2007

Hello Fast Forward students and alumni.

The new year at the ICA has started out well. We’ve got 19 students, and we are hoping to be at 24 as soon as we can. The Digital Workshops are generating a new crop of media artists, with classes in Flash Animation, Digital Photography, Sound design and Digital Design. Cool stuff going on. If you haven’t been to the new ICA yet, you need to come check it out. Some great shows are on display in the galleries. It is always free on Thursday nights.

UPCOMING DATES

Nov. 15 – Screening of FF work at the Washington Street Art Center in Somerville
Nov. 16 – Teen Night at the ICA (free for teens)
Jan. 15 – Fast Forward Alumni Screening at the ICA

FESTIVAL CIRCUIT
This summer had FF films showing in 5 different film festivals around the country…

Light Control (Rasenas, ‘06) won Best Experimental at the Future Filmmakers Festival in Chicago
May/CAUSE (Katz, ‘07) was screened at the Hamptons International Film Festival
The Countdown (Dongo ‘07), When the World Runs Dry (Gregory) and Drifting (Harrington) all screened at the Roxbury Film Festival in August.
Guidance (Anderson), May/CAUSE and The Countdown screened at the On the Verge Festival in Chicago in August.
Pianoforte (Giunta), Guidance and May/CAUSE all screened at the Plymouth Independent Film Festival.

Congrats to all!!

ALUMNI

I want to have an alumni event in January when people are back from college, maybe screen a movie in the new theater and have some dinner. Does Tuesday, January 15^th work for everyone? We could start in the afternoon so you can see the exhibits in the galleries, and then move into the theater for a movie screening. Let me know.

Do anyone of you have

new videos posted that we can link to?
Blogs or other websites?

Send me the links.

Other alumni news? Send it my way.

KEEPING IN TOUCH

Check out the latest videos and work at:
http://icafastforward.blogspot.com
http://fastforward.blip.tv
http://icads.pbwiki.com

Befriend me in facebook so we can keep connected. If you are already in Facebook you might have noticed Branden Harrington announcing on Rene’s wall that Beth and I will be having a baby in the spring! Thanks for the PR, Branden!

That’s it for now. Keep me posted on what’s up. Let’s all keep in touch. Have a great fall.

Joe Douillette

Fast Forward Program Director and Digital Studio Manager

Thursday, August 9, 2007

Philip-Lorca DiCorcia, Heads - Response by Students

Click on this post to view responses from the ICA Teen Video Boot Camp students.

Dave Mckenzie, Present Tense - Repsonse by students

Click on this post to view responses from the ICA Teen Video Boot Camp students.

Video Boot Camp 1 in the ICA Digital Studio

Students from around the greater Boston area came to the ICA in early August to generate video work over the course of a week. The group visited the galleries to repsond to ICA Momentum 8 artist Dave Mckenzie's piece, Present Tense. The group also traveled to Georges Island in the Boston Harbor to view Office dA's Voromuro.

Responses to this work, along with the videos created this week are posted on this blog. Click on vbc107 in "Areas" in the left sidebar to view work generated in this class.

Tuesday, June 19, 2007

MAY/Cause

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Friday, June 15, 2007

Fast Forward Newsletter June 2007

Hello Fast Forward.

We are wrapping things up at the ICA for the school year. We will be running some summer new media classes, and then Fast Forward will start up again in the fall in full swing. I thought that doing a periodic newsletter might be a good way to keep everyone posted. So, here goes…

FESTIVAL CIRCUIT
Good news! Good news! The Future Filmmakers Festival, part of the Chicago International Film Festival, has again accepted several FF videos to be screened at its annual event. Power Play, The Battle of Ardmore, Light Control and Inspiration were all accepted into the festival. Light Control has also been nominated as Best Experimental!! Congrats to all of you, especially you festival first-timers (Kerry, Patricia, Kameko!) The event is at the end of June, and the festival coordinators have some low-cost options for people if they want to attend. I don’t think we will have time to raise the money to go, but if someone has a rich Aunt that wants to fly us all out, be in touch ASAP!

Hugh Guiney just got back from the Reel Teens USA festival in NYC where his piece Twenty One was screened as part of a three day festival. We are waiting to hear back from the T Tauri festival in Arkansas, and the Roxbury Film Festival here in good ole Beantown. I’ll keep you posted.

ALUMNI
For you alumni, now including Rene, Andrew and Mike, I want to initiate our alumni group. How does Thursday, August 2^nd look for everyone for a gathering? Let me know if you will be around. Maybe we can grab some dinner, or hang out at the new ICA, or anything.

Another thought I had was to invite you alumni back for a week (July 30 – August 3) to make a video here in the new building. I will be here that week, and a couple of the current FF students will be here. Any thoughts?

Janine Quarles just finished up a session in New Orleans as part of the New York Times Student Journalism Institute. Check out her profile and her work at the following:

http://www.nytimes-institute.com/article/bios/quarles_j
http://www.nytimes-institute.com/article/features/BounceMusic_052607

Michael Coughlin will be in Sunny California interning with Sesame Street this summer. Congrats to him, and maybe when he gets back he can tell us how to get to Sesame Street. Tough luck for me though. I’ll have to pay for my food at Fenway Park this summer L

Other alumni news? Send it my way.

KEEPING IN TOUCH

I am starting a Fast Forward blog/website. This will change dramatically over the course of the next year, but in the meantime, you can check out the latest videos at:

http://icafastforward.blogspot.com/

and also at:

http://fastforward/blip.tv

That’s it for now. Keep me posted on what’s up. Invite me to join your facebook friends list, and let’s all keep in touch. Have a great summer.

Tuesday, June 5, 2007

Tardy

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By Michael Chew
An experimental narrative around the dynamics of sleep and late night phone calls that make you late for school.

May Cause

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By Andrew Katz

Mark Culver finds himself consumed by an internal struggle between his own creative identity and the accepted standards of conformity and intelligence as prescribed by society. Becoming increasingly tempted by the praise and acceptance of normality, Mark cannot help but question what such life changes may cause.