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. Please upload all reactions to your folder on our class exchange drop box.

Graduate students will have additional reading selections from:
- Culture as Weapon: The Art of Influence in Everyday Life by Nato Thompson 2017
- In Cuba by Ernesto Cardenal 1972
- The Poetics of Space by Gaston Bachelard
- Resisting the Virtual Life by James Brook & Ian Boal

Projects:	Techniques	Readings	Lectures
Emotion Sketches (7) due Jan 24 3 points	Freeing up expressive gestures		Introduction Emotion Sketching
Gesture Drawings (7) due Feb 2 3 points Visual Art inspired from a Written Text due Feb 14 pick either: an inspirational individual who made a real difference in the world, or a work from literature	Illustration Study Prototype: what is the figure, landscape or object doing? create one a digital drawing or painting or photograph or emerging genre work or combination that illustrates a concept, environment, event or character from either a speech, a treatise, or a work of fiction. Use your imagination and let go. This work could be either realistic or abstract.	Gesture Drawing due Jan 31 Art inspired from reading: due Feb 7 select one of the following to read for inspiration for this assignment: Galileo Galilei The Starry Messenger Martin Luther King I Have A Dream Saunders, Escape from Spiderhead	Gesture Drawing Model in Studio: Feb 2, 5:45 to 7:45pm
Small Scale high quality Prints (7) due Feb 28 3 points		due Feb 23	Photography Basics Portrait Photography Lecture Large Format Printing on the Epson 9800
Large Format Archival Prints (3) due March 21 (minimum size 42” x 36”, max size 84” x 42”) one on canvass (20 points) montage, collage, drawings, photographic works, combination or emerging genre works	Evolving studies Could include: * Table Top Photography * Toy Technique * 3D Roundtable Photography * ECU Photography * Portrait Photography * Landscape Photography * High speed photography of transient phenomena or other in- process research including: * Photographic Sculpture * Montage & Collage * Printing and Painting on Digital Canvass	due Feb 23 due March 1 Barthes 15,16 Barthes 46-48 due March 8 Oliver Sacks SPEED and Hito Steyerl In Defense of the Poor Image	The Unseen World Barthes Lecture Evelyn Behance liquify series https://www.behance.net/evelynbencicova Rutger Prins http://create.adobe.com/2016/1/29/when_computers_fly.html Michelle Rogers Pritzl http://www.michellerogerspritzl.com/soma#1 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
SPRING BREAK March 15	Please photograph public parks and spaces you feel could be revitalized while on break	due March 15 Solso Context, Cog., & Art and Solso Visual Perspective
Augmented Reality: due April 4 (Re-imaging Public Space/Revitalizing Parks/ Making Parks / Geoparks and Geocaching) (10 points)		Lev Manovich: The Poetics of Augmented Space due March 22	Lecture on AR and revitalizing parks and public spaces Making still motion
Due April 18 (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	Assemblage Artists on the Net MoHoly-Nagy Contributions of Arts to Social Reconstruction and Make a Light Modulator https://artblart.com/tag/nickel-sculpture-with-spiral/	Assemblage Lecture
Stencil Art	Portraits, graffiti, digital to analog	WideWalls Basic hand stenciling Stencil Revolution Laser Cutting Techniques	Stencil art Lecture
Projection	imaginary places and spaces from light	Chrissie Iles: Into the Light: Between the Still and Moving Image	Projection Lecture
FINAL PROJECT with artist statement and at least 5 references due May 2 (40 points)	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 9 before 12 noon	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 Kayla Baltunis http://arcanekids.com/