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.
Drop Box Information

Graduate students will have additional reading selections from their own readings reviewed previously in discussions with the instructor,  or from selections from the following :
- Ecological Metapolitics: Badiou and the Anthropocene
by Am Johal
- 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
- Processed Lives: Gender and Technology in Everyday Life, edited by Jennifer Terry & Melodie Calvert
- The Hidden Life of Trees by  Peter Wohlleben
- Techniques of the Observer by Jonathan Crary

Projects:

Techniques

Readings

Lectures

Emotion Sketches (7)
due Jan 18

3 points

Freeing up
expressive gestures

 

Introduction

Emotion Sketching

Gesture Drawings (7)
due Jan 30
3 points

 

 

 

Visual Art inspired from a Written Text

due Feb 6
pick either:
an inspirational individual who made a real difference in the world,
or a work from literature

Illustration Study Prototype:

Live Model in Studio:
Jan 25, 6 to 8pm
and

Jan 30, 6 to 8PM

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   reading
due Jan 23



 

 

Art inspired from reading:
due Feb 6

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

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Small Scale high quality Prints (7)
due Feb 27

3 points

 



due Feb 22
Solso
Visual Perspective

 

 

 

Photography Basics

Portrait Photography Lecture

Large Format Printing on the Epson 9800

March 13 & 15 Off for Spring Break

 

Please photograph public parks and spaces you feel could be revitalized while on break

 

Large Format Archival Prints (3)
due March 22
(minimum size 42” x 36”, max size 84” x 42”)
one on canvass
(20 points) montage, collage, drawings, photographic works, combination or equivalent emerging genre works

Evolving studies

March 1
live model

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 March 1
Barthes 15,16
Barthes 46-48

due March 6
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

 

 

 

 

 

due March 15
Solso
Context, Cog., &  Art 
and

 

Augmented Reality:
due April 5
(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

April 10 install exhibition

Opening Thurs April 12, 6-7pm

 

 

 

 

 

 

Due April 19
(3 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 1
(43 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 1

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

sample portfolios:

Andrea Labgold
https://andrealabgold.myportfolio.com/about-this-portfolio

Kayla Baltunis