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 Box.

Students at the 6000 level have additional reading selections from their own research readings, reviewed previously in discussions with the instructor, or from more in-depth readings of the full texts, or from selections from the following: 6000 Level Suggested Reading List Please see the instructor to  compile a short reading list at the beginning of the semester.

Projects:

Techniques

Readings

Lectures

Emotion Sketches (7)
due Jan 22

3 points

Freeing up
expressive gestures

 

Introduction

Emotion Sketching

Gesture Drawings (7)
due Jan 31
3 points

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Visual Art inspired from a Written Text

due Feb 7
pick either:
an inspirational individual who made a real difference in the world,
or a work from literature, or a pre-discussed personal research reading

Illustration Study Prototype:

Live Model in Studio:
Jan 24


Self Portraits Jan 22

what is the figure, landscape or object doing? Which forms are taking over? What are they saying?

 

 



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 22



 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Art inspired from reading:
due Feb 7

select one of the following or a pre-discussed research reading for inspiration for this assignment:

Galileo Galilei
The Starry Messenger

Martin Luther King
I Have A Dream

Saunders, Escape from Spiderhead

Gesture Drawing

Photography Basics


 

Portrait Photography Lecture

Large Format Archival Printing on the Epson 9800

 

 

 

Spatial Anomalies
Invisible Images (Your Pictures Are Looking at You)


The Tondo

Parallax

Stereographic Projection

Anamorphosis

3D projection

 
God’s Eye View

 

Small Scale high quality Prints (7)
due Feb 21

3 points

 



due Feb 15
Solso
Visual Perspective

 

 

 

 

March 5 & 7 Off for Spring Break

 

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

 

March 14 (pending availability)
3D Printing review with Mike Rosado email: rosadm@rpi.edu Phone: 518-276-6652
2201 Russell Sage Laboratory
Woodshop review with Abe Ferraro email: ferraa7@rpi.edu Phone: 518-276-2898
1107 Russell Sage Laboratory
(please take and pass the online test beforehand and have taken the Safety Training Sessions)

 

 

 

 

Large Format Archival Prints (3)
or emerging genre works
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 equivalent 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 28
Barthes 15,16
Barthes 46-48

due March 5
Oliver Sacks SPEED
and
Hito Steyerl In Defense of the Poor Image



 







 


The Unseen World

Barthes Lecture



Photographing Transient Phenomena

Making still motion

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


Montage_Collage_
InspiringArtists.htm


Landscape Photography Lecture

 

 

 

 

March 26
Live Model in studio

due March 14
Solso
Context, Cog., &  Art 
and

 

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 21

 

 

Lecture on AR and revitalizing parks and public spaces

 

 

April 9 install exhibition

Opening Thurs April 11, 6-7pm

 

 

 

 

 

 

Due April 18
(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 April 25
(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 April 29

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

See portfolio samples:
Andrea Labgold    
Kayla Baltunis
Ethan Kaplan