Schedule
Week 1:
Jan
Discuss-
* the creative process, the importance of journal keeping, studio practice
* perception/vision/allegory/context
http://www.science.mcmaster.ca/Psychology/psych2e03/lecture6/psych.2e03.lecture6.html
Review- compositing/montage
Composition
Form
Perspective
Light
Color
Motion
Proportion
The Golden Mean http://www.arts.rpi.edu/%7Eruiz/IMAGING/goldensec.html
Looking
and Seeing: Micro/Macro Surveillance
Rush, Michael. New Media in Late 20th Century Art London, Thames & Hudson, 1999.Chapter 4:Digital Art, pg. 168-21.
Students show- Short Study 1-
Discuss:
Week 3:
Jan
Review- Illustrator, text + image=meaning
Studio work
Jan
Students show- Short Study
2 - Identity:– id Tag
Crary, Jonathan. Techniques of the Observer: On Vision and Modernity in the Nineteenth Century. Mass,: MIT Press, Cambridge, 1990.
Week 4:
Feb
Studio work
Feb
Students show- Short Study
3 -
Paul Virilio, The Information
Bomb AND
Week 5:
Feb
Discuss-
Bosch
Allegorical construction, fiction, fantasy
Studio work
Assignment: Short Study 4
Feb
Students show- Short Study 4 -
Read-
Week 6:
Feb 18 OFF, class meets on Tues
Feb 19
Feb 21
Review-
Assignment: Short Study 5 Inclusion/Exclusion in Photo-journalism
Read- Lunenfeld, Peter. Snap to Grid: A User's Guide to Digital Arts, Media, and Cultures, Boston, The MIT Press, 2000. Chapter 5: Digital Photography: The Dubitive Image, pg 55-69.
Week 7:
Feb 25
Students show Short Study 5 Inclusion/Exclusion
in Photo-journalism
Feb 28
Week 8:
March 4
Studio work
Read-
Edward R. Tufte. Visual Explanations "Chapter 7:Visual Confections: Juxtapositoins from the Ocean of the streams of Story, pg 121-151.AND
Wollscheid, Achim,"A few attempts at thinking about the computer as a means",
Assignment -Short Study – 6 The Restoration of Memory: Your
Personal Visual History
Week 9:
March 11- March14 OFF for Spring Break
March
the work of John Simon http://www.numeral.com
& others
Studio work
March 21
Students show Short Study – 6
Week 11
March 25
Discuss – Web space/Physical space
Review – Image prep for the net, html &
Dream weaver
March 28
Final Project Studio Work
Discuss- final project ideas, artist statements, ideographs, art delivery systems, public art, printed digital billboards & murals
Assignment- Artist Statements & Digital Ideographs
Read- Senie, Harriet F. & Webster, Sally, eds. Critical Issues in Public Art: Content, Context, and Controversy. New York: HarperCollins Publishers. 1992.
Week 12
April 1
Discuss- Critical Issues in Public Art
Artist Statements & Digital Ideographs
Due
April 4
Artist Statements & Digital Ideographs Due
Week 13 April 8 - April 11
Week 14 April 15 - April 18 ALL FULLY REALIZED FINAL PROJECTS
DUE
Week 15 April 22 - April 25 Photograph all final projects (in site) Create class website
Week 16 April 29 End of Semester Review - Journals Due