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*Marita Sturken and Lisa Cartwright, 'Introduction' Practices of Looking: an Introduction to Visual Culture (Oxford University Press: Oxford, 2001)

Week 2:

Jan 19 Mon class OFF Martin Luther King Jr. Day

Jan 20 Tues class meets: review- advanced compositing/montage

Jan 22/23

Look at best works and outstanding short studies of previous students

Discuss:Hurlbert, Alan, The Design Concept & *Marita Sturken and Lisa Cartwright, 'Introduction' Practices of Looking: an Introduction to Visual Culture

See http://www.arts.rpi.edu/~ruiz/PracticesofLooking/PracticesofLooking.htm

Students show- Short Study 1- Looking and Seeing: Micro/Macro Surveillance

Assignment:

Read -

* Rush, Michael. New Media in Late 20th Century Art London, Thames & Hudson, 1999.Chapter 4:Digital Art, pg. 168-21.

Week 3:

Jan 26/27

Discuss:

* Rush, Michael. New Media in Late 20th Century Art London, Thames & Hudson, 1999.Chapter 4:Digital Art, pg. 168-21.

See http://www.arts.rpi.edu/~ruiz/NewMediainLate20thCenArt/rush.html

Art in Technological Times: http://www.stretcher.org/archives/reviews/010101/010101.html

Studio work:

study various types of photojournalistic approaches in making a visual statement,

Review-

Lesson: Photojournalism

http://www.arts.rpi.edu/~ruiz/Lessons/Photojournalism/Photojournalism.htm

the work of Mary Ellen Mark and others

techniques: cropping, experimental composition, and other techniques of inclusion and exclusion to illustrate at least 24 ways of looking at the same "real" visual information.

Assignment: Short Study 2 -

Looking/Seeing: Veracity in Telling a Story: Inclusion/Exclusion in Photo-journalism (Due next class, Jan 29/30)

Jan 29/30

Students show- Short Study 2 Looking/Seeing: Veracity in Telling a Story: Inclusion/Exclusion in Photojournalism

Assignment:

Read - Baudrillard, Jean. Simulacra and Simulation. Ann Arbor, The University of Michigan Press, 1994, The Precession of Simulacra.

Week 4:

Feb 2/3

Discuss- Baudrillard, Jean. Simulacra and Simulation

Printing, file prep, show various kinds of output from the same image

Photoretouching

http://towergardens.homestead.com/photoretouching.html
http://www.pixelfoundry.com/archives/000551.php

http://www.lilacdigital.com/

http://www.iconotrope.com/

Technique-

rubber stamp, dust and scratches filter, healing brush, colorizing, scanning, composting, techniques of lighting and shadow, composition and posing conventions
Work in studio

Feb 5/6

Students show- Short Study 3 - The Restoration of Memory: Your Personal Visual History

Assignment:

Read:

Postman, Neil. Technopoly:The Surrender of Culture to Technology.

Week 5:

Feb 9/10

See film, "The Merchants of Cool" by Douglas Rushkoff

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/cool/

& Discuss

identity, the construction of self, signage, count logos

Look at Klein, Naomi

http://www.nologo.org

Review- signs, symbols, metaphors, icons, logos, pathos, ethos

Feb 12/13

study and observe vector based logos http://logo.nino.ru/catalog/I/

Technique- Review- Illustrator, text + image = meaning, experiment

Assignment:

Read:

Postman, Neil. Technopoly:The Surrender of Culture to Technology.

Prep for Short Study 4 Personal ID

Week 6:

Feb 16 OFF

Feb 17 (FOLLOW MONDAY SCHEDULE) SECTION 01 MEETS

Discuss-

Postman, Neil. Technopoly:The Surrender of Culture to Technology.

Discussions and Studio work

Feb 19/20

Students Short Study 4 Personal ID (Logos/Pathos /Ethos)

Assignment

Read-

Crary, Jonathan. Techniques of the Observer: On Vision and Modernity in the Nineteenth Century. Mass,: MIT Press, Cambridge, 1990.

Week 7:

Feb 23/24

Lesson: Movement

http://www.arts.rpi.edu/~ruiz/lessons/lesson4motion/Motion.htm

persistence of vision

http://www.privatelessons.net/2d/sample/m01_03.html

http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animation

Technique review: Flash

Feb 26/27

Discuss

Crary, Jonathan. Techniques of the Observer: On Vision and Modernity in the Nineteenth Century. Mass,: MIT Press, Cambridge, 1990

Assignment - work on

Movement in Still Space concepts

Week 8:

March 1/2
Review:
3D in print, virtual environments, and animation

show:

* Bjork cd

* Catabriga cd - the movement through space

* Ken Perlin site- the programming of 3d & other graphic wonders http://mrl.nyu.edu/~perlin/

Studio work - motion, emotion, movement

Assignment: Short Study 5 Movement in Still Space

March 4/5

formulate scenario planning groups for upcoming project based short study work

Students Show Short Study 5 Movement in Still Space

Read: Lunenfeld, Peter. Snap to Grid: A User's Guide to Digital Arts, Media, and Cultures

Week 9:

March 8/9 & March 11/12 OFF SPRING BREAK

Week 10:

March 15/16

Brainstorming with scenario planning groups in studio

Discuss Lunenfeld, Peter. Snap to Grid: A User's Guide to Digital Arts, Media, and Cultures

Discuss-

Digital Photographic Narratives

http://www.arts.rpi.edu/~ruiz/Lessons/digiPhotoNarr/digital photographic narratives.htm

Bosch http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/bosch/

Allegorical construction, fiction, fantasy

http://www.iconotrope.com/

Guto Nóbrega Institutional affiliation: UFRJ - Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro

Title: cache memory
Size: 918Kb
http://www.gutonobrega.hpg.ig.com.br/memory.swf

His main interests are interactivity and interface as a way to think about new realities constructed with the help of digital technologies and how digital body can converge as a hybrid with our physical body and space. http://www.pobox.com/~gutonobrega
http://www.gutonobrega.hpg.ig.com.br/meiodigital.swf

This is a work about time and memory. The memory recovered by the photos and the memory of the computer that allows interaction with the digital image on the web site. Cache memory shows that the past, the present and the future cam be by one click of your fingers, collapsed by the interface of new media.

Review: Advanced Printing Techniques and file prep

Studio work: work collaboratively

Assignment: Short Study 6 Digital Photographic Narratives

March 18/19

Students show Short Study 6 Digital Photographic Narrative using Scenario Planning

Week 11

March 22/23

Discuss – Senie, Harriet F. & Webster, Sally, eds. Critical Issues in Public Art: Content, Context, and Controversy.

* Web space/Physical space

* ideographs

* artist statements

Discuss- final project ideas, what is an artist statement?, art delivery systems, public art, printed digital billboards & murals

Review – Image prep for the net, basic html & Dreamweaver

March 23/26

Studio Work

Assignment- Work on your personal research for your project, your Artist Statement & Digital Ideograph

Read- Senie, Harriet F. & Webster, Sally, eds. Critical Issues in Public Art: Content, Context, and Controversy. New York: HarperCollins Publishers. 1992.

Week 12

March 29/30

see film Krzystof Wodiczko, the public art space manipulator and installation artist http://www.offlinenetworks.com/artistinfo/artistpages/kwodiczko.html
studio work & individual meetings

April 1/2

Artist Statements & Digital Ideographs Due

Week 13

April 5/6 Project Pre-Reviews

see film on Claus Oldenberg and Coosje van Bruggen
also see http://www.oldenburgvanbruggen.com/

April 8/9 Project Pre-Reviews

Week 14

April 12/13 FINAL PROJECT REVIEWS

April 15/16 FINAL PROJECT REVIEWS

Week 15

April 19/20 ALL FULLY REALIZED FINAL PROJECTS DUE (IN SITE) Photograph final projects (in site)

April 22/23 ALL FULLY REALIZED FINAL PROJECTS DUE (IN SITE) Last Class

Week 16

April 26/27 (last day of class)

FINAL WORK DUE

* Complete CD containing all course work and journal

* all course work, and

* 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 for final evaluation

* All Journals are due

The Future

Digital Imaging of the future see:

* e-ink- http://www.eink.com/technology/

* magink- http://www.magink.com/tech.html
full-color digital ink is based on patented organic materials. Using proprietary technologies, magink manipulates the size and angle of the molecules in the ink to generate all colors of the visible color spectrum, including all gray scales.magink holds various patents on this technology. The first application for this technology is the billboard industry. magink is also developing future digital ink display applications for consumer electronic products, as well as point of purchase and promotional displays.

Assignment:

* bring in one sample of your best work to the next class (not a critique)

* (Also secure needed family photographs for upcoming assignments in

The Restoration of Memory: Your Personal Visual History

Jan. 15/16

Look at previous work (not a critique, just a point of reference to knowing you and your strengths)

Discuss concepts, history/theory, and techniques concerning surveillance (micro/macro), Iconos satellite, terrraserver, The Visible Human, micro worlds, who is looking and why, the Panopticon, etc. see Surveillance.html

Studio work- scale, compositing, color, intermediate photo manipulation techniques http://www.arts.rpi.edu/%7Eruiz/IMAGING/color.html See film: The Powers of 10 Assignment: Short Study 1

Week 2:

Jan 19 Mon class OFF Martin Luther King Jr. Day

Jan 20 Tues class meets: review- advanced compositing/montage

Jan 22/23

Look at best works and outstanding short studies of previous students

Studio work- scale, compositing, color, intermediate photo manipulation techniques
http://www.arts.rpi.edu/%7Eruiz/IMAGING/color.html

See film: The Powers of 10

Assignment: Short Study 1