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Intermediate Digital Imaging:
Fall 2021
ARTS 2040-01  

Credits: 4
Prerequisite: ARTS-1020 Media Studio Imaging or permission of instructor
Tuesday/Thursday 6:00 -7:50
West Hall 214

Kathleen Ruiz, abd, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Integrated Arts
email: ruiz@rpi.edu  
office: West Hall 314c (but due to Covid regulations we will meet virtually)



office hours: Thursdays 2:30pm to 4:30pm by appointment
(please email me ruiz@rpi.edu for an appointment

Intermediate Digital Imaging is a second level studio projects course exploring the use of digital technologies for augmenting and expanding creative thought in making visual art. The interplay between the observer, the observed, and the process of observation is explored. Concepts in modes of expression, contemporary issues, history/theory, and technique are interwoven through a series of short studies that explore: surveillance, hyperrealism in high dynamic range photography, panorama, portraiture, and augmented reality. Emphasis is placed on creativity, critical thinking, and conceptual and aesthetic decision making relating to expressive content. The final work is a project that uses the potency of visual art and installation to activate public spaces. Students complete a web portfolio of all studies and projects.

Innovation and experimentation are highly encouraged as we explore, discover, and investigate digital imaging as a tool, as a medium, and beyond, dialoging with the physical world, using in-depth photographic, raster and vector imaging techniques, archival printing, and mixed media practices. Students expand their understanding of contemporary digital arts practice through readings, short lectures/discussions, and critiques.

Goals: To develop creative ability and depth of expression using raster and vector based imaging, photographic, mixed media, and emerging genres. To heighten awareness of the interplay between the observed, the observer, and the process of observation and apply technical/aesthetic knowledge in the completion of a series of visual art projects, culminating in a creative student directed final project.



Course in a Nutshell:

short studies 50% total

Surveillance photo essay
10%
He Served in Silence by Igor Vamos 
The Panopticon by Jeremy Bentham, skim though his letters http://cryptome.org/cartome/panopticon2.htm
 and see some of the history of surveillance thinking

 The Creative Process  by Alan Hurlbert  pgs. 10-15 how to get your creative juices flowing

Hyperrealism: HDR High Dynamic Range Photography
10%
technical readings and research about HDR
Associated tutorials


Panorama
10%
 (VR, print, mixed media, or experimental techniques)
Techniques of the Observer by Jonathan Crary

AR Mural
10%
 Simulations by Jean Baudrillard
Baudrillard and Hollywood: subverting the mechanism of control and The Matrix by Jim Rovira 


The Human Body: Physicality and the Ephemeral 10%
research readings

Nov 30    6pm-8pm install IDI Exhibition in SAGE Dean’s Lounge & Vertical Galleries
Dec 2   6 to 7pm Opening IDI Exhibition SAGE Dean’s Lounge & Vertical Galleries

Final project Art Activating Public Spaces 35%
Critical Issues in Public Art: Content, Context, and Controversy  by Harriet F. Seni, & Sally Webster, eds.

Critical Issues in Public Art: Phillips Temporality and Public Art  by Harriet F. Seni, & Sally Webster, eds.

Malraux, André. Museum Without Walls. Translated from French by Stuart Gilbert and Francis Price. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1967.

https://culturalvirtualspaces.wordpress.com/2014/06/17/malraux-and-the-musee-imaginaire-the-museum-without-walls/

On the Museum's Ruin
by Douglas Crimp

https://selforganizedseminar.files.wordpress.com/2011/11/crimp-museums-ruins.pdf

 

Participation in class, critiques & reading reactions 15%
create a short reaction paragraph about each of your views and interpretations


In this class we learn a great deal, have lots of fun, and produce great work. Students seem to love the course and many times go on to take Advanced Digital Imaging thereafter. We do works about Surveillance, HDR, panorama, Augmented Reality Murals, The Body, and Art Activating Public Spaces. Throughout students learn techniques, but also are encouraged to interpret the studies in unique and creative ways. For instance, we had an amazing student who did fabulous vector imaging based on photographic studies, while another student invented his own interactive Kinect gesture drawing system for studies with the human body. A CS student made a facial recognition system for the study on surveillance that would take the viewer’s image and then bring up everything about the person from various databases. Each student brings their unique background to the mix – from Art to Astrophysics, Biomedical engineering, Computer Science, Architecture, Engineering, etc. and are encouraged to do so.

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For a 3d Virtual Gallery of previous student works in IDI and ADI please see The Mind Palace:
https://sites.google.com/d/1FMiPbr5RPxd41hlgjxTfOQ95mpP_x4Cz/p/1dMF_-4j2MjHtIOhnYjWn8vuNCMMvgir1/edit

Please be aware that at any point the class may need to pivot to other types of contactless forms of instruction due to health and safety.

Please click here for helpful info for on and off- campus Support Resources from our Dean.

Student Learning Outcomes:
Upon successful completion of the course, students will be able to:

1. Demonstrate a deeper creative ability and depth of expression using digital imaging, emerging, and mixed media art-making methodologies.

2. Articulate and be more fully aware of the interplay between the observer, the observed, and the process of observation.

3. Develop applied technical/aesthetic knowledge in the completion of a series of visual art projects, culminating in a creative student directed final project.

4. Examine the work of several artists, theoreticians, and institutions who engage in digital and mixed media art creation.

5. Design and plan a detailed artist statement document which expounds upon individual concepts, processes, creative exploration, technical experimentation and documented references for the final project.

6. Compare, contrast, describe and critique the strengths and weaknesses of their own artwork and that of their fellow classmates relating to formal, aesthetic, and content attributes.

7. Successfully articulate informed, philosophically and socially aware ideas relating to art, technology, and culture as demonstrated in class discussions and critiques and in short written reaction papers to the relevant readings and events.

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Course Assessment Measures & Grading Criteria:
These outcomes will be evaluated in a series of short study projects at the intermediate level that include studies in digital photography, raster, & vector based imaging, digital painting/drawing, and emerging genres. Students will produce works utilizing multiple outputs, high end archival digital printing, mid-range digital printing, installation and experimental methodologies. Students must demonstrate satisfactory achievement of course objectives through fulfillment of course projects and
by contributing to class discussions and critiques

The short studies include the following: 50% total in the following increments:
* Surveillance: photo essay 10%
* Hyperrealism: HDR High Dynamic Range Photography 10%
* Panorama (VR, print, mixed media, or experimental techniques) 10%
* AR Augmented Mini Mural 10%
* The Human Body: Physicality and the Ephemeral 10%

The final project is a purposeful installation work in Art Activating Public Spaces 35%

Participation in class, critiques & reading reaction papers 15%

 

A final web portfolio of all perfected works is handed in on labeled DVD or non-returnable thumb drive on the last day of class for final grading purposes.

Adherence to deadlines is expected. It is the individual student's responsibility to keep track of deadlines and to present the work to the class and instructor on the specified dates. 15% per day will be subtracted from late assignments not previously discussed with the instructor.

Grades:
A Excellent: consistent effort, timely 4.00 - 3.68
A - 3.67 - 3.34
B + 3.33 - 3.01
B Good: effort, timely 3.00 - 2.68
B - 2.67 - 2.34
C + 2.33 - 2.01
C Satisfactory: some effort, timely 2.00 - 1.68
C - 1.67 - 1.34
D + 1.33 - 1.01
D Passable: little effort 1.00 - .68
F Failure 0.67 – 0

Students will be provided with assessment of their progress at the time of critique. Projects needing further work will be so declared. Students can then perfect the work within the
next week to change the grade. If you have any questions at any time about your creative work trajectory or your grades, please speak with your instructor at your earliest convenience. Students receiving less than a grade of B will be informed immediately.

 

Class Attendance Policy: As an enrolled student, you have made a commitment to this class and your attendance is a significant part of that commitment. Attendance will be taken at every class. An absence is considered excused if the student has informed the course instructor by email or in person before the beginning of the class and the excuse is considered reasonable by the instructor. All students are required to be on time and in attendance for each and every class. Students arriving to class more than 10 minutes late may be counted as absent. Two (2) unexcused absences will result in a reduction of one entire letter grade. Four or more unexcused absences will result in expulsion from the class.

Do the readings and tutorials and come prepared to ask questions. Turn work in on time. Contribute to the discussions.

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RESOURCES:

* Helpful Resources and Tools

*
Box Info (you first need to register for a Box and then you will then be invited to join our IDI class box)

* Art Sites and Reference Resources

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Provost’s  info for on and off campus support for students:
Click here

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EVENTS:

Please try to attend 3 events at EMPAC or the Sanctuary for Independent Media or an approved event elsewhere and write a short critique for each, print, and hand in on the first class after the event.
Click here for a guideline for writing a short critique if needed.
 
EMPAC http://empac.rpi.edu/ 

The Sanctuary for Independent Media
http://www.mediasanctuary.org/
(Please carpool together if going as The Sanctuary is beyond walking distance from campus.)

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Syllabus subject to change. Please check online often.

PROJECTS & READINGS:
Please upload all assignments to your folder on our IDI BOX (please see above)

Short Study Project 1 due Sept. 9, 14, 16
Surveillance photo essay
Project: The idea of photography as a research tool
You will increase your observational skills by looking at how the world looks at you, or how you look at the world
Create an original Photo-essay about surveillance in 3 parts: (You must use your own images here.)

1. Observations: due Sept 9
take at least 24 photographs of various types of surveillance you see or are aware of. Reflect on what you photographed and why your gaze or attention was drawn to this particular type of surveillance. Try to become aware of the roles of observer, observed, and the process of observation. Who is looking at whom and why?

2. Statement: Sept 14 Next take a point of view on what you observe. Do you like what you saw... why? Or are you critical of what you saw…why? Go back to the particular site or sites and take 24 more photographs with either an empathetic or antagonistic eye towards the issue.

3. Photo Essay: due Sept 16
Edit all of the images down into a clear statement piece of 10 images. You can use just straight photography, or you may use photomontage, with or without text to make your photo essay express your viewpoint. Consider the placement of your images and your layout design for maximum impact.
Some broad examples of straight photo essays are below; however, you are encouraged to use your imagination and be creative! Trust your intuition!
* the social life of wireless urban spaces http://www.mysocialnetwork.net/downloads/WirelessPlacesPhotoEssay.pdf

* Photo Essay - American Birding Association 
www.aba.org/nab/v65n2sparrows.pdf
* Situated Technologies Pamphlets
http://archleague.org/category/publications/publications-situated-technologies/
Download the pamphlets there and study the use of image/text/layout

Readings: due Sept 2
* He Served in Silence by Igor Vamos 
* The Panopticon by Jeremy Bentham skim though his letters http://cryptome.org/cartome/panopticon2.htm
 and see some of the history of surveillance thinking

* The Creative Process  by Alan Hurlbert The Design Concept pgs. 10-15 how to get your creative juices flowing
create a short reaction paragraph about each (your views and interpretations)

* Associated tutorials:
Please utilize the  Adobe CC embedded tutorials to expand your skill sets

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Short Study Project 2 due Sept 28
HDR High Dynamic Range Photography: Hyperrealism
Project: After our lecture/discussion in class on HDR, take your handout, (found here) camera and tripod out into the field to explore ways of making HDR (High Dynamic Range) photography. 

Set your ISO to 100 or the lowest value possible, as the HDR technique creates additional noise.

Take a number of shots using Camera Raw (with an accompanying high resolution JPEG) of the same scene.
Use you tripod! Any shake in your exposures will create ghosting in HDR post processing.
Use auto-bracketing if your camera has this function: Auto Exposure Bracketing (AEB) and select exposure increments for bracketing: +2EV, 0EV, -2EV (EV=Exposure Value).
Make sure your camera is set to Aperture Priority (AV).
Also select the Continuous Shooting mode to enable one press of your shutter button, per your three AEB exposures. This will ensure each image exposure is registered to each other seamlessly. 

(However, if you do not have Auto Bracketing you can exposure manually, but do not change your Aperture as that would change the depth of field of the photos. Simply change your speed: for example if your EV 0 photo taken at 1/60 second with f/8, the lighter one (+2EV) should be shot at 1/15 second with f/8, and the darker one (-2EV) should be shot at 1/250 with f/8.)

Bring the images into Photoshop: File > Automate > Merge to HDR Pro
 (or an HDR program such as Photomatix  or Dynamic Photo-HDR).)
Tone Map In Photoshop (Image > Mode > choose either 8-bit or 16-bit) or in Photomatix or Dynamic Photo-HDR.

Utilize the techniques learned to help you express your message through a mood or tone. 
Experiment with different subjects, objects, environments, landscapes, skyscapes, lighting conditions (outdoor/indoor/studio).
(You can also experiment with taking only one Raw image of the same scene and compare the amount of shadow or highlight detail after processing. Using one image will have much less richness of details.)

Create at least 15 excellent, in-focus, high quality HDR images that utilize the technique and software for creative impact. Show the works on the large monitors in class and we will select one of your images to print on the Epson 9800 archival printer.

Readings:
due Sept 21
* technical readings and research about HDR
* Associated tutorials

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Short Study Project 3 due Oct 5
Panorama (QTVR, print, mixed media, experimental techniques)

Project: Using the idea and technique of panorama, tell a story or narrative through the use of various photographic or graphic elements, object scans, textures, etc. which work together to give visual form to your ideas. Text can be used if desired, either incorporated as part of the image or as captions.

Print your work on the large format printer at the VCC or on the Epson 9800 archival printer in sizes that utilize panoramic vision. You could instead create a virtual panorama, or a VR panorama. Experiment with ideas including polar panoramas, cycloramas, or encompassing dioramas. You can use straight photography or digital and/or physical photomontage, collage or assemblage techniques. Discover new forms of panoramic vision!

 Readings: Due Sept 28
* Techniques of the Observer by Jonathan Crary
create a short reaction paragraph
* Associated tutorials
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Short Study Project 4 due Oct 21
Mini AR Mural: form meeting function
(creating image ideas with augmented reality art experiments)

Project: Experiment with potential mural images that could inspire and ignite the imagination about the history, the future, the socio-cultural resonances (hidden and overt) that specific places have for you. Your still image will also contain an AR marker for augmented reality experiences that amplify your idea further through the use of either animation/audio/video/film/IT digital/code/processing, etc. Your image could be printed, painted or stenciled, but must be applicable to your message and intent. (please do not deface any illegal surfaces)

Please note:
This study could be enlarged up later on for the final project culminating in the creation of an actual mural.

Readings: Due Oct 12
* Simulations by Jean Baudrillard
* Baudrillard and Hollywood: subverting the mechanism of control and The Matrix by Jim Rovira 
create a short reaction paper
* Personal Research readings
* Associated tutorials

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Short Study Project 5 due Nov 11
The Human Body: Physicality and the Ephemeral:
(vector/raster based imaging, 2 or 3d mixed media/or AR)

Project:
Using a choice of tools such as digital drawing, vector, photography, or traditional drawing or painting, we will work in studio with live models to explore the body as the zero point of experience, its physicality, its architecture, its strength and its weakness. You will generate one image that will serve as an AR marker image that will open up to amplify your idea using animation/audio/video/film/IT digital/code/processing, etc.

Readings: Due Nov 4
* research readings

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Nov 30    6pm-8pm install IDI Exhibition in SAGE Dean’s Lounge & Vertical Galleries
Dec 2   6 to 7pm Opening IDI Exhibition SAGE Dean’s Lounge & Vertical Galleries

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Final Project due Dec 7
Art Activating Public Spaces

Project: Activating public spaces with digital images, installations, and art delivery systems

Final Project pre-REVIEWS: Nov 14, Nov 23

Artist Statement & Digital Ideograph –

The artist statement and digital ideograph begin the development of your individual ideas and starts the trajectory towards the final project. It utilizes the techniques, theory and history learned in class and in individual research. It is, in essence, a digital ideograph of your art delivery system in action, virtually. Create a web page that illuminates your idea and its location in terms of what you want to reconstruct in it. Photograph the exact location and then digitally create your ideas within it. You are required to articulate your final project in an artist statement of from one to two paragraphs whereby your concept, methodology and at least 5 bibliographic references/influences are stated.


FULLY REALIZED FINAL PROJECTS DUE (IN SITE) – D
ec 7

The actual project manifested as an original (billboard, large poster series, drive by car art, aerial art, photo projection, data projection, etc.) art system device that carries your message to those who may not have the opportunity to see your work inside a normal gallery environment. Your work must be realized physically and you must photograph the work in the site for inclusion in your final project CD web site file.

Readings: (Due Nov 16)

Critical Issues in Public Art: Content, Context, and Controversy  by Harriet F. Seni, & Sally Webster, eds.

And

Critical Issues in Public Art: Phillips Temporality and Public Art  by Harriet F. Seni, & Sally Webster, eds.

And

Malraux, André. Museum Without Walls. Translated from French by Stuart Gilbert and Francis Price. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1967.

short essay about https://culturalvirtualspaces.wordpress.com/2014/06/17/malraux-and-the-musee-imaginaire-the-museum-without-walls/

And

On the Museum's Ruin
by Douglas Crimp

https://selforganizedseminar.files.wordpress.com/2011/11/crimp-museums-ruins.pdf

create a short reaction paragraph


* Associated tutorials & your personal research readings

 

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Final Web Portfolio due Dec 13
in West Hall 314c

Project: Web portfolio & documentation: create a simple website that features all of your perfected works and documentation of works in situ. This will be used for your presentation and for final grading purposes.
Readings:
* Associated tutorials & website creation research

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Class Schedule:

Week 1 Aug 31 & Sept 2
* Introduction to the course,
* Lecture & discussion overview on digital imaging, the power of images, “truth” and images 
* See best works to date and articulate student aspirations
* Technique overview on composition, form, perspective, light, color, proportion, motion
* working in Camera Raw, Image file formats
* Lecture & discussion on Surveillance

Week 2 
Sept 7 NO CLASS Institute follows a Monday Schedule.

Sept 9
* Review & discussion of short study projects: Surveillance part 1
* Technique overview: handouts on studio set ups: going off automatic: the triangle of using aperture, shutter and ISO
* Brief discussion of readings:
the history of surveillance thinking: He Served in Silence, The Panopticon, and The Creative Process
* Critiques of initial short study Surveillance Observations Photos
* Technique overview:
* studio practice in tabletop photography with objects using Aperture/ Shutter / ISO. 
Practice being able to demonstrate in your studies an understanding of:
~ Aperture (Av), lens, and subject distance to show depth of field 
~ Time Value (Tv) Shutter priority in freezing action or in blurring action, panning
~ Manual 
(Bring in cameras, tripods, lighting kits, a collection of small objects, and one that moves or a ball)

Week 3 
Sept 14
Brief review of Surveillance studies in  progress, work in studio
 (Bring in cameras & tripods)

Sept 16
Critiques of Surveillance studies

Week 4 
Sept 21 & Sept 23
* Lecture & discussion on High Dynamic Range photography and how these lighting techniques are used in games, cinema, ads, architecture, and beyond
* Technique overview: HDR photography (distribute HDR technique handouts) 
* Field studies in HDR landscape photography 
* studio practice in HDR: Raw, tripod, AEB (Auto Exposure Balance, -2, 0, +2), Aperture priority (Av), continuous shooting, low ISO for the least grain possible, bring your 3 AEB images into Photoshop>File>Automate>Merge to HDR Pro . merge for tone mapping and  experimentation for creative expression using the techniques
(Bring in cameras & tripods and wear sturdy shoes.)


Week 5 
Sept 28
Critiques of short study projects: HDR

Sept 30
* Lecture & discussion on Panorama, Cyclorama, VR, Immersion, Polar Panorama, HDR & Panorama, Stereo Imaging, and contemporary viewing techniques
* Technique overview:
studio practice panorama: stitching, content aware, and selection tools 
(Bring in cameras & tripods and wear sturdy shoes.)

* Technique overview: compositing, masking, histograms, levels

* Discussion of the Techniques of the Observer by Jonathan Crary & viewing conventions over time
Please ensure all perfected work to date is in your class Box folder for midterm review next week.


Week 6 
Oct 5
* Critiques and discussion of short study projects: Panoramas

* Technique overview: high end archival printing on multiple substrates
(please ensure all perfected work to date is in your class Box folder for midterm review)
Oct 7 MIDTERM REVIEWS

* Introduction to the mini AR Virtual & Ephemeral Images study
using high end archival printing with seamlessly embedded markers for AR experiences using a range of multimedia and sound compositions
* studio practice: initial experiments with a range of multimedia, blended/augmented reality/code art

Week 7 
Oct 12
Continued work on AR project ideas, inspiration, experiments, and technical research.

(Bring in cameras & tripods for field recordings for inspiration and reference.)

Oct 14
Please bring a good camera or drawing implements

 for life studies and movement studies
* Technique overview: studio practice in composing an augmented experience using video, image sequencing and stop-action animation, using the motion of people.
We will conduct a series of modeling sessions in studio to further develop drawing/imaging/photographic skills with the human body with an eye towards obtaining high quality still and moving images for use for panorama and/or AR studies.

Model (if available) in class for life studies and movement studies
* Technique overview: studio practice in composing an augmented experience using video, image sequencing and stop-action animation, using the live model
We will conduct a series of modeling sessions in studio to further develop drawing/imaging/photographic skills with the human body with an eye towards obtaining high quality still and moving images for use for panorama and/or AR studies:
8 - 30 second poses = 240 seconds (4 minutes)
8 – 60 second poses = 480 seconds (8 minutes)
4 – 3 minute poses = 720 seconds (12 minutes)
3 - 5 minute poses = 900 seconds (15 minutes)
Request poses (15 minutes)
Break, then repeat  as time allows.
lighting kits
(Bring in cameras or drawing implements, tripods, lighting kits)

Week 8 
Oct 19
* Review of AR works in-progress, suggestions, technique sharing
* Intensive studio in development and printing of high end archival AR print works containing incorporated AR markers, multimedia and sound production.
* Review and discussion of Simulations by Jean Baudrillard, and Baudrillard and Hollywood: subverting the mechanism of control and The Matrix by Jim Rovira 

Oct 21
* AR Mural critiques
prep for our upcoming exhibition

Week 9 
Oct 26
in studio work on Human Body: Physicality and the Ephemeral studies

Oct 28
in studio work on Human Body: Physicality and the Ephemeral studies

Week 10
Nov 2
in studio work on Human Body: Physicality and the Ephemeral studies

Nov 4 in studio work on Human Body: Physicality and the Ephemeral studies

Week 11
Nov 9
in studio work on Human Body: Physicality and the Ephemeral studies

Nov 11
 Critiques of the Human Body: Physicality and the Ephemeral studies

 
Week 12
 
Nov 16
* overview of the final project, lecture/discussion/video on Public Art
 and discussion of readings

Critical Issues in Public Art: Content, Context, and Controversy  by Harriet F. Seni, & Sally Webster, eds.

And

Critical Issues in Public Art: Phillips Temporality and Public Art  by Harriet F. Seni, & Sally Webster, eds.

And

Malraux, André. Museum Without Walls. Translated from French by Stuart Gilbert and Francis Price. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1967.

short essay about https://culturalvirtualspaces.wordpress.com/2014/06/17/malraux-and-the-musee-imaginaire-the-museum-without-walls/

And

On the Museum's Ruin
by Douglas Crimp

https://selforganizedseminar.files.wordpress.com/2011/11/crimp-museums-ruins.pdf

* studio in creating initial ideations and field practice scouting
*refining of final project ideas and research trajectories
* for those working in teams or on individual projects: gather visual sketches and on-site ideations and materials and begin mural projects
* Site photography and in class studio ideation development
(Bring in cameras & tripods)

Nov 18
Final Project Pre-Reviews A

Intensive work studio for individual final projects: ideation creations in virtuality from field image recordings.

Week 13 
Nov 23  
Final Project Pre-Reviews B  Private scheduled virtual meetings
Please note:
All work for final projects must have a pre-review signoff from Professor Ruiz before leaving for Thanksgiving break
That is, an artist statement & research trajectory: that includes the following:
 - an articulation of the idea,
- the artistic influences,
- the technical research, and
- the ideation.

* final project pre-reviews


Nov 25 * off for Thanksgiving

Week 14
Nov 30
Nov 30    6pm-8pm install IDI Exhibition in SAGE Dean’s Lounge & Vertical Galleries
Dec 2   6 to 7pm Opening IDI Exhibition SAGE Dean’s Lounge & Vertical Galleries

Dec 2
7-8pm Intensive work studio on final projects


Week 15 last week of classes
Dec 7
* Critiques of Final Project works in situ A: Art Activating Public Spaces
* photographing documentation of your actual works on site 
(Bring in cameras & tripods)

Dec 9 Last Day of Class
* Critiques of Final Project works in situ B: Art Activating Public Spaces
* photographing documentation of your actual works on site 
(Bring in cameras & tripods)


Dec 13 ALL Final Web Portfolios due West Hall 314c 
web portfolio of all your perfected short study works for the entire semester due, including your reading and event reactions, and your Art Activating Public Space final project ideation, artist statement/research, and in situ documentation on a (non-returnable) DVD or thumb drive (Please label with Your Full Name, and the words: IDI Fall 2021) with your website address. This will be used for final grading.

Also, all final web portfolios must be uploaded to your class box folder.
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Academic Integrity
Trust: Student-teacher relationships are built on trust. For example, students must trust that teachers have made appropriate decisions about the structure and content of the courses they teach, and teachers must trust that the assignments that students turn in are their own. Acts that violate this trust undermine the educational process. The Rensselaer Handbook of Student Rights and Responsibilities and The Graduate Student Supplement define various forms of Academic Dishonesty and you should make yourself familiar with these. In this class, all assignments that are turned in for a grade must represent the student’s own work. In cases where help was received, or teamwork was allowed, a notation on the assignment should indicate your collaboration. If you have any question concerning this policy before submitting an assignment, please ask for clarification.
Plagiarism: All work produced in this course must be original and created by the student. First infraction will result in a failure for the course and a report to the Office of the Dean.

Class Specific: Collaboration and discussion about class projects is actively encouraged, and is in no way considered cheating. This is a studio course, and personal ownership of information is not deemed to be appropriate. Original work and images are required. Projects are expected to reflect personal endeavor, but may also be collaborative in nature as long as the collaboration is clearly defined and approved by the professor previously.

Gender-fair language: Because the way we speak and write affects the way we think, everyone in this course is expected to use gender-fair language in all discussions and writing. A guide to gender-fair language is available from the Writing Center and from the Library.

Other Course Specific Information:

Required materials:
* A laptop computer (bring laptops to class every class)
* An active RCS account.
*High capacity external hard drive, or usb drive (minimum 64GB)
* A camera (preferred: digital, 35 MM DSL, or the new mirrorless cameras, or high end point and shoot with manual overdrive). A variety of cameras can be signed out from the equipment room as well.
* Software for Intermediate Digital Imaging: Adobe CS6 Design Edition (which includes: Photoshop, Illustrator, Dreamweaver and Flash) suggested to purchase, but you can use the mac computers in Studio WH 214 that have this software.
* Other materials on a project basis
* Journal: it is highly recommended that you keep a working journal of ideas, drawings, photographs, dream records, etc. which will act a source for your creative process. You should carry this with you at all times to record your creative insights.

Fabrication costs/materials:
You will be making a number of digital prints/manifestations of your work. The costs of digital printing vary, but be prepared to incur approximately $50 to $100 in fabrication/material costs.

Assumed Knowledge and Skills: Awareness of digital imaging and interactivity concepts, skills, and topics in electronic arts from media arts studio classes (ARTS-1020) and/or other personal achievement. These include basic knowledge of formal topics (light, scale, color, composition, form, motion, proportion), scanning; basic raster and vector imaging skills; resolution; ppi; dpi; ability to draw with a digital stylus and understand gesture, point, line, plane; basic digital photography skills; and basic printing skills.

For Issues in Lab: Please contact hasshelp@rpi.edu

Corridor of Creativity
https://hass.rpi.edu/corridor-creativity

Printing: please see Helpful Resources and Tools for more detail.
For high end archival printing: Location: Sage 2410
This suite contains the Epson Pro 9800 large format archival printer operated by a specialized print coordinator available by appointment only. 
Please setup appointment with Michael Rosado rosadm@rpi.edu well in advance to your printing due dates.
Info:
http://hassinfo.rpi.edu/large-format-printing-information/

 

 

 

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