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Peixuan Ouyang

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Bio

Education: BA, 2018, Carleton College; MFA, 2021, School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Awards: Special Mention, International Short Film Festival Oberhausen; Jury Award, Iowa City International Documentary Festival; Best Work, D-Normal V-Essay; First Prize, ExFest. Exhibitions: Walker Art Center; Gene Siskel Film Center; Arab Digital Expression Foundation; Zawya Cinema; DCTV Firehouse Theater; Zhou B Art Center; Central Conservatory of Music; Syros International Film Festival; Winnipeg Underground Film Festival

Personal Statement

Peixuan Ouyang is interested in how images infiltrate and mediate everyday life, and how we negotiate the world and connect with one another through these images. Peixuan’s work primarily lives through light and readily shapeshifts into films, videos, prints, books, installations, or a combination thereof. Many projects investigate the intersection of monumentality and the absurdity of living, exploring the complexities of globalization, migration, and the human body within and beyond digital and material landscapes.

Courses

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Description

Form and Meaning is a rigorous investigation of the art of moving image editing and provides a historical and theoretical understanding of both classical film editing and newer modes and models of editing and perception. The course provides a working foundation and framework.

A close reading of films will train the student in the core aesthetic decisions, structures, strategies and demands of editing cinematic works. In addition, we will look at examples and discuss how editing functions for the installation artist, and further, how the Internet, New Media, television and video art have made an impact on concepts surrounding editing. Weekly readings will expand on the work presented in class.

Students should expect to research and write both a midterm and final papers as well as a few short responses to works presented in class. Form and Meaning is a theory-based seminar and is not designed to offer critique for works in progress.

Class Number

1426

Credits

3

Description

Sonics and Optics is an intensive study of lenses, optics, sensors, stocks, materials, laboratory processes, microphones, and recorders as essential tools in film/video making. Throughout the semester students will learn the fundamentals of a lens (focal length, aperture), its relationship to the camera (shutter, ISO), and aesthetic options available. The course will offer the same immersive perspective of sound technologies; including choosing microphones (stereo, cardioid, shotgun, contact, etc), recording options (sound device, field recorder, mixing board), and methods of field recording. This course is an essential technical base for all advanced moving image work.

In-class screenings of films and videos and weekly readings will expand on the technical workshops at the core of the course.

Students should expect to complete a series of quick technical exercises as well as a more in depth final project.

Class Number

1576

Credits

3