LIVESTREAMS
Day 1 (Archive)
Day 2 (Archive)
Day 3 (Archive)
Day 4
Live streams will be posted here any time between 9:30 am through 7pm eastern standard time – each day for four days
The instagram pages of @strata_cut @ellard_devane / @masonlindroth / @taymations / @paddedlife will also have live streams sporadically throughout the ganza.
INFORMATION
The first ever STRATA GANZA comes to NYC for one week – October 3rd-4th-5th-6th at the Pratt Institute, Department of Digital Arts in Brooklyn.
Eight of the top Strata Cut Innovators bring their blades from around the world. They join forces for a chance to ‘Think Strata.’ This group will describe, share, make, show, and cut in eight different and distinct ways during this ‘shape over time teach-in spectacular.’
Each day will take place on the 4th floor of the DDA at Myrtle Hall. Sessions will be in the Gallery, Hall, and Stop Motion Studio rooms. Students and ticketed public will participate and see how shape-programmed clay works before we also help them to make their own first ‘time-sculptures’.
5 Artists will be sharing and teaching in person throughout the week.
2 will present strata presentations/discussions by Zoom call
2 will watch the final night showing of all the work – along with all of us. Steffie Yee and Jordi Tager will bring fresh reactions to the week of everyones work.
GET TICKETS!
— https://strataganza.eventbrite.com
Please help this project happen!
The ‘Ganza’ will include;
1-The power of vivid electric textures of Ellard DeVane
2-Strata Cut latte and video game sprites/gifs of Mason Lindroth
3-The smooth-cutting graphic design of Taylor J Wells / Strata guillotine
4-The stop-mo/strata teacher and shape-over-time artist Toni Alarco.
5-The sculptural stop-mo variation angle cut-ups of Terrance White
6-Luca Tarantini gives a peek at synthetic time sculpting – with CG Strata and Strata AI. This will be the dawn of hallucination engines for generative psycho-morphia
@SteffieYee could not attend, but will watch with us, the last class of the Ganza, showing all its work at the end of a busy creative week. Jordan Tager @jordi_up_late also was slated for Tuesday, but has to rain check this one.
@ellard_devane / @masonLindroth / @taymations / @tonialarco / @paddedlife / @lucatarantini
@SteffieYee could not attend, but will watch with us, the last class of the Ganza, showing all its work at the end of a busy creative week.
Each artist brings a unique clay slice story – different insights into seeing world lines and motion flow outcomes – different program approaches for clay layers, twists, dynamic angles, and geometry distortions.
The Ganza will also include David Daniels – @strata_cut / stratacut.com (insanimator)
‘DD’ has taught how to program and cut strata over four decades: at festivals, art schools, stop motion studios, and classroom workshops all across the world.
Friday, he will also be showing prototype methods for shooting multi-cams and spindle cams of each cut being sliced from more than one angle, to reconstruct them as a simulation later. These multi-stream captures are for future use in AI Neural Radiance Field NERF reconstructions – (with Gaussian Splatter) a high speed vividly real method to store and replay the block of structural mass conveyed in post-VR spatial cinema. He hopes to have a working demo of this Strata Cut and Stop-Motion future! (Could happen … )
The Ganza is four days long. Each day has four periods. Each teaching block is @ two hours long. The periods begin at 9.30, and end by 7 each day – during the week of Oct 3,4,5,6.
A streaming list for those who cannot attend – will be updated during the show at stratacut.com/strataganza under the “Streaming” section. Each of us will take turns streaming bits and sections as we can during these hours and days.
Each day – there will be 3 periods of hands-on instruction for Students at Pratt Institute of the Arts. Lunch will be discussions and media sharing on Strata Topics. Each of these sessions will also be open to the wider public – based on room capacity. Public sign-ups on Eventbrite.
LOCATION
Pratt Institute of the Arts Street address is — 200 Willoughby Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11205. We will meet in Myrtle Hall, 4th floor.
TICKETS
— https://strataganza.eventbrite.com
The public can attend by buying specific session tickets, or purchase a single ALL-DAY Pass for each day. A small amount of clay is provided but bring your own. And after you get a ticket – please bring tools you like to sculpt with.
UPDATE
Most all-day tickets have now been sold. Some specific large classes during lunch are still available. 1.5 pounds of clay is provided each class, but bring your own if you can to supplement the general 400 lb donation from Van Aken International and a 300 lb donation from David.
SCHEDULE
TUESDAY OCT 3 – Fundamentals: Texture Basics, Texture Fun, Latte Textures and Double Boilers, Cut Up Abstract Block / Stop Mo Room – Begin to Cut Up Rotating Atom
Session 1 – Morning 9:30am to 11:50am – Gallery: “Basics of Time Geometry and Textures” with David and Ellard
David Daniels – shape over time basics. Ellard Devane – electric textures and re-boxing. Negative space or support clay for heavy soft medium.
Session 2 – Lunch 12:20pm to 1:50 pm – Lecture Hall: “Ganza Keynote / A Sampler of Strata Cut Artists – Week Ahead & Hypno-Morphic Moving Density Plasma Mosiacs”
What it is good for (and not good for). Strata medium and advanced theory.
Session 3 – Afterlunch 2:00pm to 4:00pm – Gallery d: “Strata Latte Barista and Time Braiding”
with Mason Lindroth
Session 4 – Evening 4:30pm to 7pm – Gallery: “Electric Kinetic Textures and Oregami Clay Adventures” with David and Ellard
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WEDNESDAY OCT 4th – Animations: Rotations / Walking / Swimming
5 – Morning 9.30 to 11.50am – Gallery: introduce the swimmer block. Explain with additional clips. Walk over to stop mo room and begin to cut this. Return to Gallery – Follow up with acetate showing rotating P — DD – cuts up the rotating box from mold on tuesday. Builds a rotating P for Pratt – (students can make more textures for fireworks or candle flames for later tutorials)
6 – Lunch 12.20pm to 1.50 pm – Hall: TONI ALARCO via video link – mixes stop mo with Strata Cut. Strata Monsters and other teaching and social events. DD will go onto teach micro tutorials difficult shape over time concepts. Begin Early History of Strata Cut. May distribute clay to mix for rotating heads later on period 8
7 – Afternoon 2pm to 4pm – Gallery: Terrance White – Sculptures with abstract strata inside from Adult Swim. DD – Birds Flying silhouette, and human stick figure swimming. With blue water flowing past. Send Rotating P off to be cut up in stop mo room.
8 – Evening 4:30pm to 7pm – Gallery: Rotating Heads / Rotating Pepe. Cut up Swimming in blue water. Finish Early Early History of Strata Cut.
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THURSDAY OCT 5th – Animations Part 2: Rotations / Growing Hemp Leaf / Spinning Clocks
9 – Morning 9.30 to 11.50am – Gallery: Taylor J Wells shows and cuts up his block. Cut up P for Pratt. Re use the slices in re boxxing. DD micro tutorials. Rotating head or pepe cut up in Stop mo Room.
10 – Lunch 12.20pm to 1.50 pm – Hall: The Later History of Strata Cut slide deck. Gallery work (and the stills tomorrow in session 13) – Prep for Spinning Dali Clock.
11 – Afternoon 2pm to 4pm – Gallery: DD – repurpose cut up class made for swimming in blue water, show how to add more liquid water effects on a second pass. Begin the spinning Dali clock.
12 – Evening 4:30pm to 7pm – Gallery: Finish spinning Dali clock – Begin Rotating Heads / Rotating Pepe. Talk about strata cut mushrooms for Friday Morning.
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FRIDAY OCT 6th – Strata Stills: Reuse Slices, and Preservation – CG Strata and AI Strata – NERF Strata capture for Spatial Cinema – Wrap all exsiting blocks to cut up, and finish. Group showing of all work during the week.
13 – Morning 9.30 to 11.50am – Gallery: Students make strata cut Mushrooms. Students can also make more textures for fireworks or candle flames for later tutorials. Begin cutting up Dali Clock in Stop Mo room. Begin making STILL IMAGES with leftover strata – continue this in period 15
14 – Lunch 12.20pm to 1.50 pm – Hall: LUCA TARANTINI via video link – CG Strata creation from Live Action – AI strata cut. Show Blue Marble and Pepe, and Trump as examples of Grid Cam shooting. Then show how to PROPERLY do it. Why this business will grow – techno tainment. Stop motion will be re-invented again …
15 – Afternoon 2pm to 4pm – Gallery: DD – Thinking Strata – What does it mean, art in the age of AI? Strata Goo – Pepe or other memes as a Digital / Physical Asset. Double D’s – candy coated misfits, trying not to be eaten, or to be melted in the hostile climate that is coming with slice deck. Discussion of Strata Future – what kind of effects and other ways – e.g – MAKERBOT strata – a liquid clay nozzle spits out colors onto an xyz table. Meat and food. Finish making more Sill images with leftover strata, as other blocks are finished being cut up.
16 – Evening 4:30pm to 7pm – Gallery: Group showing of all work during the week.
Party somewhere after last class TBD
Classes will change due to scheduling, talent, and participant interaction. This is the best preliminary idea I can write (for now.) I will try to update as things change.
FINAL THOUGHTS
So bring your slicing methods and your sculpting tools. Bring any plasticine clay you may already possess. For each session except lunch – a pound of free clay is given to any who attend, so they can begin to practice the craft.
Thanks to Van Aken International for donating much of the clay students and the public will use. Thanks to Pratt for allowing you the public to participate (beyond first-priority students.) Please help this project happen! And help fund the collection and sharing of video material lessons and video recordings taken during the event. This takes a lot of organization and time to sort and re-distribute, so a copy of the teach-in has the ability to be shared far beyond the week itself — https://gofund.me/c63a9b59