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 28

3 points

Freeing up
expressive gestures

 

Introduction

Emotion Sketching

Gesture Drawings (7)
due Feb 4
3 points

 

Illustration Study Prototype:

Portraits

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

 

Reading: due Feb 4 Gesture Drawing

 

Gesture Drawing

Photography Basics

Portrait Photography Lecture


Visual Art inspired from a Written Text

due Feb 11
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

3 points

 

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.

 

Reading: due Feb 9
Please pick one below / or use a pre-approved reading from your own on-going research:

·        Galileo Galilei The Starry Messenger

·        Martin Luther King I Have A Dream

·        George Saunders Escape from Spiderhead

·        Richard Powers The Overstory (pick a short chapter, full text in Folsom library if desired)

·        Amanda Gorman The Hill We Climb


Spatial Anomalies

Invisible Images (Your Pictures Are Looking at You)

The Tondo

Parallax

Stereographic Projection

Anamorphosis

3D projection

God’s Eye View

Focus Stacking

Small Scale high quality Prints (7)
due Feb 25

3 points

 


Reading: due Feb 16
Roland Barthes Barthes 15,16  Barthes 46-48
 Solso Visual Perspective

Reading: due Feb 18  Oliver Sacks SPEED and Hito Steyerl In Defense of the Poor Image

 

 

Barthes Lecture

Toys of Today are the Realties of Tomorrow Lecture
Table Top TiltShiftToy,
3d Roundtable,
ECU Lecture


Elastic time:
Photographing Transient Phenomena
Slit Scan Photography

 

 

 

 

 

 

March 2 (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)

 

 

 

 

 

 Archival Printing on the Epson 9800

3D printing

Laser printing

Woodworking

Large Format Archival Prints (3)
or emerging genre works
due March 18
(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

Can 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

 Reading: due March 16
Solso
Context, Cog., &  Art




 







 


The Unseen World

Split Over / Under Water Photography

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

Montage_Collage_

InspiringArtists.htm


Landscape Photography Lecture

 

 

 

 





 

Augmented Reality:
due April 1
(Re-imaging Public Space/Revitalizing Parks/ Making Parks / Geoparks and Geocaching)
(10 points)

Reading: due March 25
Lev Manovich: The Poetics of Augmented Space

 

 

Lecture on AR and revitalizing parks and public spaces

 

 

 

 

 

April 6 & 8

Class creates a virtual online exhibition

 

Due April 15
(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 29
(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 4

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

ADI Spring 19 Portfolios