Projects
Short Study 1 -
Observer
or Observed?: Micro/Macro Surveillance (Due week 2, Jan. 22/23)
Using an image from either global
surveillance satellites or internal visualizations of the physical body create
a visual statement about a specific geographic or physical area that has personal
significance to you. Use scale- take two different photographs (for instance
one of a satellite image and one of you or your house or residence). Scale them
unusually so that new meanings emerge which challenge our perception of the
accepted world. Color - selectively recolor specific aspects of this
image for emphasis.
Short Study 2 -
Looking/Seeing:
Veracity in Telling a Story: Inclusion/Exclusion in Photo-journalism (Due week 3, Jan.
29/30)
After studying
various types of photojournalistic approaches in making a visual statement,
create a short photographic essay about a real person, event, or occurrence.
Without using any special visual effects (except color correction, red eye reduction
or defocusing), use cropping, experimental composition, and other techniques
of inclusion and exclusion to illustrate at least 24 ways of looking at the
same "real" visual information. Show all 24 images and pick 5
of the best images to illustrate your story. Text can be used as captions if
desired.
Short Study 3 -
The Restoration of Memory: Your Personal
Visual History (Due week 5, Feb. 12/13)
Part one: expert photo-retouching
of an old family photograph.
Part two: photomontage a new family
portrait which defies time and "truth".
Short Study 4 -
Personal ID (Logos/Pathos/Ethos) - (Due week 6, Feb. 19/20)
After a survey
of how identity is manipulated, created, stolen and re-presented in contemporary
culture, make an original vector based id tag for your computer or journal that
sets it apart from others and identifies it uniquely as yours. You may use text
as well.
Short Study 5 -
Movement
in Still Space (Due week 8, March 4/March 5)
sequential still imaging of movements – photograph or
videotape a human, animal or object in movement with a camera. (If the movement
is recorded on video - digitize it and cut out the most important sequences
in the movement.) Place all critical images on the same background in Photoshop
and print a large strip 11” x 36” of all the composite images. You could also
make a flip book of the still images.
Or do the opposite – take a series of still images and
animate them. (Then pick a location to exhibit the animation which has bearing
on the context of the meaning you wish to convey.)
Short Study 6 -
Digital
Photographic Narrative (Due week 10, March 18/19)
Working
collaboratively, tell a story or narrative through the use of various photographic
and/or graphic elements which work together to give visual form to your ideas.
Text can be used, either incorporated as part of the image or as captions.
Final
Project:
Activating public spaces with digital
images Art Delivery Systems
Artist Statement & Digital Ideograph - Due week 12, (Due April 1/2)
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.
Project pre-reviews
- Due week 13, April 5/6 April 8/9
Project pre-reviews
- Due week 14, April 12/13 April 15/16
ALL FULLY REALIZED
FINAL PROJECTS DUE (IN SITE) - Due week
15, April 19/20 and April 22/23
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 website file.
FINAL
WORK due week 16 April 26/27 (last day of class)
* Your complete
CD containing:
- all course
work,
- final project
ideation/realization and
- artist statement
Additionally
all journals are due this day.
Instructions for CD preparation:
* web ready
(stand alone) website of your
ideation -
including:
* one folder entitled:
Your Name Final
with:
- Artist statement
- 5 references
- ideation images
- realization images
*and another folder entitled:
Your Name Short Studies
with all corrected, complete
and improved short studies