This UARTS Faculty Engineering/Arts Student Team (FEAST) is open to artists, designers, visual and audio engineers, filmmakers, writers and other imaginative thinkers and makers who desire to work collaboratively on a new multi–media artwork produced through printmaking, animation, and storytelling. I seek to visually stretch the boundaries of analog and digital realms of art–making into a multi–media experience. The project will imagine a range of eventualities, from invented and hybridized narratives to unexpected scenarios suggested through visual and audio representations. I am looking for a diverse team of creative minds and makers interested in bringing their full range of talents to carry this project to fruition. Every team member will play a crucial part.
My current creative research, a visual project titled Dream, consists of a series of short, experimental animated films standing as a counterpart to a 50-feet long allegorical color woodcut hand-carved and printed on Japanese paper. While the animation and woodcut are visibly apart from each other in terms of their format of delivery, tactility, and interaction with the audience, both are envisioned to coexist as a single wholistic act. The animation exists as an encircling narrative, and the panoramic woodcut stands as a still picture. In its present state, Dream has been selected into invitational art exhibitions/conferences in which a partial or full project will be presented in the United State, Asia and Europe in 2021-2023.
I seek to explore possibilities of editing my current woodcut prints from Dream Series and integrating them with other visual and audio resources into experimental animated film(s), which, when completed, can be presented in both art galleries and museums, as well as staged in open public spaces.
Each part of the project, storytelling (writing), drawing, photography, printmaking, sculpted props, digital animation, audio editing and more, will inform the others. Disparate images, photographs and sculpted props will be scanned as blueprints and, via animation, brought into short film(s). As written, visual and audio amalgamations and translations emerge, they will form new narratives and scenarios that will exist precisely because of such calculations.
FEAST members will be involved in all aspects of production. From an operative angle, they will work on generating and processing visual and audio data, as well as filming, animating and editing. Creatively, they will be contributing to storyboarding, brainstorming, making and presenting completed work, and more. Once the initial collaborative experiments begin to emerge, potential for additional creative work will present itself.
Meeting Details
Tuesdays, Wednesdays, or Thursdays, 4:30–6:00pm
Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design
Some meetings may take place at the Green Road Faculty/Graduate studios on North Campus
Modality: In-person (interested in the project but unable to be on campus? Contact us to inquire!)
Students apply to a specific role on team as follows:
Digital Arts (2 Students)
Preferred Skills: Analog and digital drawing, photography, photo-montage, digital montage, basic operative skills using Adobe suite
Likely Majors/Minors: ARTDES, THTREMUS, CS, FTVM, AMCULT, ENGLISH, HISTART, HUM
Digital Fabrication & Prototyping (1 Student)
Preferred Skills: CNC milling, laser engraving, 3D printing
Likely Majors/Minors: ARTDES, ARCH, THTREMUS, PAT
Animation (4 Students)
Preferred Skills: Basic knowledge of digital and analog, (stop-motion) animation
Likely Majors/Minors: ARTDES, ARCH, THTREMUS, PAT
Audio Editing & Sound Design (1 Student)
Preferred Skills: Basic audio editing, music for film, sound design
Likely Majors/Minors: PAT, EE, CE, CS, FTVM
Theatre & Stage Design (1 Student)
Preferred Skills: Basic experience with various operative skills in carpentry, stage and prop building, sawing
Likely Majors/Minors: ARTDES, ARCH, THTREMUS, FTVM
Writing/Storyboard (1 Student)
Preferred Skills: Storyboarding, fiction/poetry writing, editing
Likely Majors/Minors: ARTDES, THTREMUS, FTVM, HUM
Faculty Project Lead
Born and raised in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Endi Poskovic was educated in Yugoslavia, Norway, and the United States. His print works have been exhibited worldwide in numerous important international biennials and triennials, and have brought him many notable awards and honors, including grants and fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, the United States Fulbright Commission, the John D. Rockefeller Foundation, the Pollock-Krasner Foundation, the Norwegian Government, the Camargo Foundation, the Flemish Ministry of Culture, the New York State Council on the Arts, the Macdowell Colony, and the Art Matters Foundation, among others. Museum collections which hold works by the artist include the Philadelphia Museum of Art; the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University; the Detroit Institute of Arts; the Art Museum of Estonia, Tallinn; Fondation Fernet Branca, France; Jincheon Art Museum, South Korea; and many others. Professor Endi Poskovic has been teaching at the University of Michigan since 2008. Learn more about Poskovic’s work HERE.Students: 10
Likely Majors/Minors: AMCULT, ARCH, ARTDES, CE, CS, EE, ENGLISH, FTVM, HISTART, HUM, PAT, THTREMUS
Meeting Details: Tuesdays, Wednesdays, or Thursdays, 4:30-6:00pm, Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design – some meetings may take place at the Green Road Faculty/Graduate studios on North Campus (interested in the project but unable to be on campus? Contact us to inquire!)
Summer Opportunity: Summer research fellowships may be available for qualifying students.
Citizenship Requirements: This project is open to all students on campus.
IP/NDA: Students who successfully match to this project team will be required to sign an Intellectual Property (IP) Agreement prior to participation.
Course Substitutions: CoE Honors