From Photoshop and Snapchat filters to Deepfakes and AI generated images, simulation has become commonplace in media culture today. Yet the technique of combining layers of content to create impossible imagery is as old as photography itself. This workshop will look at various technical and conceptual approaches to compositing, the practice of combining visual elements from separate sources into one image to create the illusion of a singular reality. Sarah Lasley will screen her film work, which uses the shifting verisimilitude of composited images to examine our socio-political climate, and then take us behind the scenes to show the technical side of her practice in Adobe After Effects.
Sarah Lasley is a video artist from Louisville, Kentucky and an Assistant Professor of Film at Cal Poly Humboldt. Her current film “Welcome to the Enclave” premiered at Nitehawk Cinemas in Brooklyn this spring and recently screened at the Chicago Underground Film Festival, Cucalorus Film Festival, and The Wrong Biennale. She was awarded the grand prize for Blue Star Contemporary’s Projection/Projektion video program in collaboration with Darmstädter Sezession in Germany, where she was an artist in residence in summer 2023. She holds an MFA from Yale School of Art and a BFA from University of Louisville and was a resident at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in 2004.
Location: Sever 416