Continuing Education

Focusing on using the Risograph as an animation tool, this course will explore how to print animations with the Riso, achieve color separations for moving-image sequences, rotoscope atop printed contact sheets, and how to create an animation directly from the scanner bed. Working with the scanner bed and automation processes in Adobe Photoshop, we will take a hybrid analog/digital approach to sequencing frame-based media. The final animation might be displayed as a poster, a flipbook, a digital animation file, or a part of a larger film. While the decline of printed matter has been predicted for decades, artists have been busy continually proving that print media-and the nimble Riso in particular-offers new possibilities for experimentation. This machine has supercharged the international small press movement, which challenges both the traditional scarcity-based economy of the art market and the myth of the lone artist. We will incorporate this spirit as a starting point, working together as a small community to push the Risograph into more experimental territory. Access to the RisoLAB for the duration of the semester is included.

Prerequisite: A full-semester course at the RisoLAB, or previous enrollment in Open Lab Access, or equivalent. Students who have not attended a RisoLAB course and who have experience in Riso printing should contact the RisoLAB to obtain a waiver for the prerequisite.

Note: This course is held on campus at SVA.