RENDER FEST

Motion 24 Final Projects

UCLA Design Media Arts

Summer Session C 2020

Have a Great Summer! This 2020 Summer Sessions, we present to you the final projects of our class without a room. One might say it is a class with many rooms. 16 rooms. Due to the remote nature of our circumstances, students across different cities in California (& some beyond) were pressed to learn about, experiment with, and create moving image pieces from their personal laptops. Our favorite classes were our quasi-synchronized screenings (offset by factors such as: the latency of the user click, a dog barking, a poor connection, a kettle screaming, or the wrong link posted to the discord). In our discussions that follow, students asked why moving image spectacles harbor implications around appropriation and representation. We also wondered why experimental motion is often about visual deformity and capacity while "clean" and slick aesthetic treatment of moving images are often a product of scale and class. How do students learn and create while aware of these speculations? How do students create at all when they are running computationally intensive protocols and programs from their 2015 Macbooks? Well, they did it. How? Countless efforts at negotiating creative expression between concept, practicality, and execution perhaps. Render Fest is an ode, not so much to the struggle, but, to the finesse of creating otherwise graphically demanding or time-intensive experiences into a commitment first to the realization of self-directed, personal, time-based works using today's graphical tools.

-Dalena & Hirad

Soda Cans

by Graham Akins

With You

by Min Li

The Curio Truck

by Nick Leivers

Benchwarmer

by Maria Tassone

Winter Wonderland

by Anya Chen

Candy Crush

by Rossy Kostova

CoronaBye-rus

by Korak Sengupta

See You Again

by Haowen Liang

Persona Builder

by Caelynn Hwang

Finding Home

by Christopher Ikonomou

Taste of Home

by Karen Li

Honourable

by Haley Penn

Fly: The Sequel

by Delaney Kough

Breathe

by Kim Quach

NO ONE EVER DEADNAMES A BUTTERFLY

by Natalee Decker and Emma James

Monday

by Natalia Beltran