Lecture Topic:
Introduction to the course
& Gesture & Emotion
What the course is about
The syllabus, important information, due dates, criteria for projects
Who we are
Where we can be located and where we can be reached
Plenary exercise I :
Find and show two examples which exemplify your idea of what digital imaging is.
Show varied ideas of digital imaging
from pixel art http://pixel.nascimpact.com/pix_tank.php
to high resolution digital photography , http://www.tawbaware.com/maxlyons/gigapixel.htm
to interactive multimedia http://www.aec.at/en/prix/awards2006.asp
constructs soda play http://www.sodaplay.com/
to net art
to public art http://graffitiresearchlab.com/?page_id=6#video
to animation
to visua
to game simulation http://www.msu.edu/~bonddenn/screenshots/secondlife.jpg
to games with insects: http://www.livescience.com/scienceoffiction/060707_pacman_insects.html
to ….. Pigeon blog http://www.beatrizdacosta.net/
The power of images:
911, http://jameshudnall.com/archives/images/911.jpg
Danish artist cartoon of Mohamed, http://thedefeatists.typepad.com/apoplectic/images/mo.JPG
Abu Ghraib prison http://www.sikhtimes.com/torture_in_iraq.jpg
or tearing down Saddam Hussein’s statue http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_depth/photo_gallery/2933629.stm
the beautiful, the horrific, the sublime, the mundane, images as weapons
Living in a Visual culture:
Photography, Painting, Sculpture, Fashion, Advertising, TV, Cinema, Digital Culture
Within Digital Culture:
digital sketching, scanning traditional sketches, paintings, objects, etc., pixel art, raster imaging, digital photography, vector imaging, web, animation (2d, 3d, combo), gaming, digital interactive installation, robotics, etc.
Resources, Using References, a word of caution on Wikipedia http://uncyclopedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
Plenary exercise II:
Tangrams,
thinking intuitively, non linear
Gesture & Emotion
Lecture Topic:
Intuitionand creativity: breaking out of the
art/science box
Screenings:
Genius - Leonardo da
Vinci 50 min.
Visiting artist:
Lev Manovich, “What is
New Media: Eight Propositions”
Create a short reaction paper
Project:
Create a series of 5 different emotion studies using
gestures with a mouse, a drawing tablet, and pencil or marker on paper which is
then scanned into your computer.
Studio skills:
* (Software needed for the semester: Photoshop,
Illustrator, Dreamweaver, Flash)
gestures & emotions
Drawing with traditional tools
Drawing with digital tools (ms paint, photoshop
* Photoshop: orientation to the interface and
tools, getting started, scaling images, bitmapped/ object oriented images, size
and resolution, overview of basic file formats: eps, jpeg, tiff, png, etc. ,
converting modes, calculating the file size/quality of a bit mapped image,
basic color concepts, RGB, CMYK, HSB colors and issues of tone, hue and
saturation, re-sampling, cropping
* Sketches and expressive mark making with mouse,
stylus, traditional pen, pencil etc.
* scanning
* file preparation for upload
Deliverables:
5, 640 x 480 pixel, 72 pixel per inch,
non-representative sketches using the pencil tool in Photoshop with mouse, or
with digital drawing stylus, or with scanned in traditional drawings.
Grading Criteria:
1. Assignment completed on-time.
2. Adherence to the size and file format
specifications
3. Appropriate use of Photoshop tools. (e.g. if
jaggies are intended as an aesthetic, that’s fine, but they shouldn’t be in the
image because you used the wrong image resolution for the size of the images)
4. Exploration and application of creative tools
in Photoshop.
5. Quality and clarity of class presentation
6. Expressiveness and imagination as illustrated
in your images.
