Project Assignments & Readings
What messages are you compelled to express?

All readings require a short one paragraph typed reaction paper outlining your reactions to the material presented,
your ideas and what the reading meant for you.Please upload all reactions to your folder on our class exchange drop box.

Projects:

Techniques

Readings

Lectures

Emotion Sketches (7)
due Feb 2
3 points

Freeing up
expressive gestures

 

Introduction

Emotion Sketching

Gesture Drawings (7)
due Feb 9
3 points

Illustration Study Prototype:

(create one)
create a digital drawing or painting or photograph or processing work or combination that illustrates a concept, environment, event or character in the following story:

Saunders, Escape from Spiderhead

Use your imagination and let go. This work could be either realistic or abstract.

what is the figure, landscape or object doing?


Gesture Drawing  
due Feb 2



 

 

 

Saunders, Escape from Spiderhead
due Feb 9

Gesture Drawing
Model in Studio:

Feb 2, 5:45 to 7:45pm

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

11” x 17” Laser Prints (7)
due Feb 23
on high quality laser printer cardstock
3 points

 



due Feb 23
Photo microscopy

 

 

 

Photography Basics

Portrait Photography Lecture

Large Format Printing on the Epson 9800

Large Format Archival Prints (3)
due March 22
(minimum size 42” x 36”, max size 84” x 42”)
one on canvass
(20 points) montage, collage, drawings, photographic works or combinations thereof

Could include studies in:
* Photo microscopy (meet in photomicroscopy lab 5 top 7:50PM


* Table Top Photography
* Toy Techniques
* 3D Roundtable Photography
* ECU Photography
* Portrait Photography
* Landscape Photography
* High speed photography of transient phenomena

or other in- process research  
 including:
* Photographic Sculpture
* Montage & Collage
* Printing and Painting on Digital Canvass

 due Feb 23
Photo microscopy

 

due March 1
Barthes 15,16
Barthes 46-48

due March 8
Oliver Sacks SPEED
and
Hito Steyerl In Defense of the Poor Image



 







 


The Unseen World


Barthes Lecture


Evelyn Behance liquify series
https://www.behance.net/evelynbencicova

Rutger Prins
http://create.adobe.com/2016/1/29/when_computers_fly.html

Michelle Rogers Pritzl
http://www.michellerogerspritzl.com/soma#1

Toys of Today are the Realties of Tomorrow Lecture

Table Top TiltShiftToy,
3d Roundtable,
ECU Lecture

Photographing Transient Phenomena

Montage_Collage_
InspiringArtists.htm


Landscape Photography Lecture

 

 

 

SPRING BREAK
March 15

 

due March 15
Solso
Context, Cog., &  Art 
and
Solso Visual Perspective

 

Augmented Reality:
due April 5
(Re-imaging Public Space/Revitalizing Parks/ Making Parks / Geoparks and Geocaching)
(10 points)

 

Lev Manovich: The Poetics of Augmented Space
due March 22

 

 

Lecture on AR and revitalizing parks and public spaces

 

 

 

Due April 19
(6 points)

 

Choose one of the following for the final short study:

 

Assemblage (1)

using digital and/or analog techniques, found objects, textures, etc. create  1 expressive 3d mixed media that self generates power or comments upon energy  & sustainability

composing image & object, juxtaposition, making meaning

MoHoly-Nagy Contributions of Arts to Social Reconstruction
and
Make a Light Modulator

Assemblage Lecture

Stencil Art


Portraits, graffiti, digital to analog

Stencil art Lecture

Projection


imaginary places and spaces from light

Chrissie Iles: Into the Light:  Between the Still and Moving Image

Projection Lecture

 

 

 

 

FINAL PROJECT
with artist statement and at least 5 references

due May 10

personal expression, and direction

Personal research readings

Your inspirations, art historical referencing, philosophical influences, theoretical background, and technical documentation will be articulated in an artist statement properly cited and footnoted in
 
The Chicago Manual of Style

web portfolio &
documentation
due May 10

summation of all perfected works and documentation of works in situ

 

You can make your web portfolio in html or Dreamweaver or hand coding or use a web template service.

Links to some web how to and designs