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.

Projects:	Techniques	Readings	Lectures
Emotion Sketches (7) due Feb 3 3 points	Freeing up expressive gestures		Introduction Emotion Sketching
Gesture Drawings (7) due Feb 10 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 3 Saunders, Escape from Spiderhead due Feb 10	Gesture Drawing Model in Studio: Feb 3: 6:15 to 7:30pm, Feb 10: 6:15 to 7:30pm, March 3: 6:15 to 7:30pm
11” x 17” Laser Prints (7) due Feb 24 on high quality laser printer cardstock 3 points	montage, collage, drawings, photographic works or combinations thereof Could include studies in * 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	Barthes 15,16 Barthes 46-48 due Feb 17 Oliver Sacks SPEED and Hito Steyerl In Defense of the Poor Image due Feb 17 Solso Context, Cog., & Art due due Feb 24	Barthes Lecture General Photo Lecture Portrait Photography Lecture 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
Large Format Archival Prints (3) due March 17 (minimum size 42” x 36”, max size 84” x 42”) one on canvass (20 points)	montage, collage, drawings or photographic works or combinations thereof Includes the above plus * Photographic Sculpture * Montage & Collage * Printing and Painting on Digital Canvass	Solso Visual Perspective due March 3	Large Format Printing on the Epson 9800
SPRING BREAK March 24
Augmented Reality: due April 7 (Re-imaging Public Space/Revitalizing Parks/ Making Parks / Geoparks and Geocaching) (10 points)		Lev Manovich: The Poetics of Augmented Space due March 24	Lecture on AR and revitalizing parks and public spaces
Due April 21 (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		Projection Lecture
FINAL PROJECT with artist statement and at least 5 references due May 5	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 19 10 to 2pm West Hall 214	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