Schedule

Week 1:

Jan 14

Discuss-

* the creative process, the importance of journal keeping, studio practice

* perception/vision/allegory/context/illusion

* The observer, the observed, the process of observation

Optical Illusions.htm

http://www.science.mcmaster.ca/Psychology/psych2e03/lecture6/psych.2e03.lecture6.html

Review- compositing/montage

The Temple of Art http://www.arts.rpi.edu/%7Eruiz/IMAGING/temple.html

Composition

Form

Perspective

Light

Color

Motion

Proportion

The Golden Mean http://www.arts.rpi.edu/%7Eruiz/IMAGING/goldensec.html

Assignment: bring in a sample of your best work to class on Thurs

(Also secure needed family photographs for upcoming assignments in The Restoration of Memory: Your Personal Visual History


Jan 17

Look at previous work (not a critique, just a point of reference to knowing you and your strengths)

Discuss issues about the Iconos satellite

Studio work- scale, compositing, color, advanced photo manipulation techniques
http://www.arts.rpi.edu/%7Eruiz/IMAGING/color.html

Assignment: Short Study 1

Looking and Seeing: Micro/Macro Surveillance

Read:

Rush, Michael. New Media in Late 20th Century Art London, Thames & Hudson, 1999.Chapter 4:Digital Art, pg. 168-21.

Week 2:

Jan 21 OFF Martin Luther King, Jr. Day

Jan 24

Students show- Short Study 1- Looking and Seeing: Micro/Macro Surveillance

Discuss: Rush, Michael. New Media in Late 20th Centruy Art

Week 3:

Jan 28

Discuss- identity, the construction of self, signage

Review- Illustrator, text + image=meaning

Studio work

Assignment: Short Study 2- Identity:- id Tag

Jan 31

Students show- Short Study 2 - Identity:– id Tag

Read:

Crary, Jonathan. Techniques of the Observer: On Vision and Modernity in the Nineteenth Century. Mass,: MIT Press, Cambridge, 1990.

Week 4:

Feb 4

Discuss- Crary, Jonathan. Techniques of the Observer

Studio work - motion, emotion, movement

Assignment: Short Study 3  Movement in Still Space

Feb 7

Students show- Short Study 3 - Movement in Still Space

Read-

Paul Virilio, The Information Bomb AND

Riding, Alan, "A Mystery Man Who Created Monsters". The New York Times, Sept 23, 2001pg 29-30.

Week 5:

Feb 11

Discuss- Paul Virilio, The Information Bomb & Riding, Alan

Bosch

Allegorical construction, fiction, fantasy

Studio work

Assignment: Short Study 4 Digital Photographic Narratives

Feb 14

Students show- Short Study 4 - Digital Photographic Narratives

Read-

Week 6:

Feb 18 OFF, class meets on Tues

Feb 19

Students show Short Study 4 Digital Photographic Narrative

Feb 21

Discuss

Review- the work of Mary Ellen Mark, others

Assignment: Short Study 5 Inclusion/Exclusion in Photo-journalism

Read- Lunenfeld, Peter. Snap to Grid: A User's Guide to Digital Arts, Media, and Cultures, Boston, The MIT Press, 2000. Chapter 5: Digital Photography: The Dubitive Image, pg 55-69.

Week 7:

Feb 25 Guest Artist

Students show Short Study 5 Inclusion/Exclusion in Photo-journalism

Feb 28 Guest Artist

Assignment - Mid-term Project - a small art project that begins to develop your individual ideas utilizing the techniques learned in class and in individual research and starts the trajectory towards the final project.

Week 8:

March 4

Reviews of Mid-term Project

March 7

Discuss Lunenfeld, Peter. Snap to Grid: A User's Guide to Digital Arts, Media, and Cultures

Studio work

Read-

Edward R. Tufte. Visual Explanations "Chapter 7:Visual Confections: Juxtapositoins from the Ocean of the streams of Story, pg 121-151.AND

Wollscheid, Achim,"A few attempts at thinking about the computer as a means",

Assignment -Short Study – 6 The Restoration of Memory: Your Personal Visual History

Week 9:

March 11- March14 OFF for Spring Break

Week 10:

March 18

Discuss- Wollscheid, Achim,"A few attempts at thinking about the computer as a means", & Tufte

the work of John Simon http://www.numeral.com

& others

Studio work

March 21

Students show Short Study – 6 The Restoration of Memory: Your Personal Visual History

Week 11          

March 25

Discuss – Web space/Physical space

Review – Image prep for the net, html & Dream weaver

March 28 

Final Project Studio Work

Discuss- final project ideas, artist statements, ideographs, art delivery systems, public art, printed digital billboards & murals

Assignment- Artist Statements & Digital Ideographs

Read- Senie, Harriet F. & Webster, Sally, eds. Critical Issues in Public Art: Content, Context, and Controversy. New York: HarperCollins Publishers. 1992.

Week 12          

April 1

Discuss- Critical Issues in Public Art

Artist Statements & Digital Ideographs Due

April 4

Artist Statements & Digital Ideographs Due

Week 13           April 8 - April 11 Final Project Reviews

Week 14           April 15 - April 18 ALL FULLY REALIZED FINAL PROJECTS DUE

Week 15           April  22 - April 25 Photograph all final projects (in site) Create class website

Week 16           April  29 End of Semester Review - Journals Due