Funded by a grant from the CSU Entertainment Industry Initiative, the Art Department is hosting a series of guest workshops around the theme of storytelling in the digital arts. The Visual Storytelling workshop will be led by Rob Fatal, and will consist of five-hours of hands-on instruction in which CSU students develop an idea in a digital medium.
This is a FREE workshop, but space is limited. RSVP jgomula [at] csustan [dot] edu
Rob Fatal is an Oakland, California-based media artist, filmmaker and media scholar whose work investigates the concepts of narrative, genre, and cinema tropes as they pertain to identity construction and human communication. He uses photo, performance, writing and video to sample and dissect visual and structural cliches from Hollywood films. These snippets of cinema are re-arranged in odd, jarring and perverse manners in an effort to deconstruct and challenge the way societies perceive and consume their various identities and realities.
Fatal’s works have been exhibited in galleries, journals, magazines and festivals including the San Francisco Underground Short Film Festival, Leeds International Independent Film Festival, Everybody’s Perfect Film Festival [Geneva], The Journal for Women’s Studies, The Center for Contemporary Arts Tel Aviv, Mix NYC video festival, Wattis Institute of Contemporary Art, Stranded In Stereo Magazine [Los Angeles / Boston], The Bakersfield Museum of Art, African American Art Complex, Make8elieve Art Magazine [Ohio/Switzerland], The National Queer Arts Festival and the Galeria de la Raza [San Francisco].
His various projects have been funded through numerous grants and awards including The Ginny Klekker Commitment to Art Award, The San Francisco Queer Cultural Center and The Berkeley Film Foundation. He is currently an artist in residence at the Kala Art Institute [Berkeley] and teaches video art at Sacramento State University.
This series of workshops will conclude with a public exhibition of student work in the CSU Stanislaus’ Building Imagination Center, and select students will travel to the CSU Media Arts Festival. The 2015 CSU Media Arts Festival will be held on Saturday, November 7, 2015 at CSU Los Angeles! This 25thAnniversary of the MAF will feature a full day of interaction with media faculty and media and entertainment industry professionals, screenings, and an awards ceremony.
