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 Martha Skinner Notation A/V The University of Michigan - College of Architecture and Urban Planning USA 1999-2000, 15’ “Notation A/V” explores the possibilities of digital audio and video recorders as tools of notation - to study and document the city. It takes these readily available devices and exploits them - using them as drawing tools. A series of initial short exercises investigate a different condition of city while singularizing a specific feature of the tool. As the city is analyzed, taken apart - so is the medium at hand. The notations are collected on site by critical in camera editing - an improvised orchestration of takes and gaps led by the environment in observation. Audio notation and video notation, which are initially investigated separately, begin to be recombined through post-production editing to create more complex yet concise notations - a process by which the mechanics and capacities of the lab editing equipment are learned but more importantly is learned the impact that removing and rearranging can have on the initial thought. A final investigation of the city using this tool is proposed and developed by each student. Martha Skinner born in Bogota, Colombia, studied architecture at the University of Florida and at the Cooper Union and is presently a Lecturer at the Taubman College of Architecture & Urban Planning at the University of Michigan and a partner with Douglas Hecker in FieldOffice (formerly Hecker+Skinner). While a student at the Cooper Union in 1995, Skinner began her explorations with video and sound. She has developed urban studies through drawing as well as video, film, photography and sound. As the 1998-99 Walter B. Sanders Fellow at the University of Michigan, she began the development of “Notation A/V”, a course that explores the possibilities of digital audio and video recorders as tools of notation - to study and document the city. With Hecker+Skinner, she received the 2nd prize on the Van Alen Institute and AIA Young Architects Group Sun Shelter Competition as well as the Best of Category Award in the 44th Annual ID Magazine Review. This year, Skinner received an award from ID Magazine for her Small Environments project. |
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