Projects

Studio & Techniques: low res/high res, scan basics, scan tips, image resolution, composition, scale, compositing, advanced cutting and pasting, feathering, quick mask, scale, color depth, layers, channels, color theory, creating realistic cast shadows, Layers Magazine

Upcoming Short Study 1 –

Short Study 1 –

Observer or Observed: Micro/Marco Surveillance

(Due week 2, Jan. 24)

Using an image from either global surveillance satellites or internal visualizations of the physical body, create a visual statement about a specific geographic or physical area that has personal significance to you.

Use scale- take two different photographs (for instance one of a satellite image and one of you or your house or residence). Scale them unusually so that new meanings emerge which challenge our perception of the accepted world. Color - selectively recolor specific aspects of this image for emphasis.

Readings: (Due Jan 24)

* Jeremy Bentham The Panopticon

* Hurlbert, Alan. The Design Concept, pgs. 10-15

create a short reaction paper

Week 2

Jan 24

Discuss Readings

Critiques of Observer or Observed: Micro/Macro Surveillance

Lecture: Looking/Seeing: Veracity in Telling a Story: Inclusion/Exclusion in Photo-journalism

Show:

Looking at “the Other” in non-colonizing ways: “Un Chien Delicieux” - Ken Feingold

Tom Chambers

Framing http://facweb.cs.depaul.edu/sgrais/SGframing.htm

Shadow http://facweb.cs.depaul.edu/sgrais/SGshadows.htm

Portrait http://facweb.cs.depaul.edu/sgrais/SGportrait.htm

Studio & Techniques:

overview of the digital camera

http://www.usa.canon.com/consumer/controller?act=ProductCatIndexAct&fcategoryid=111

Canon EOS D30 Pocket Guide
http://photo.net/equipment/canon/d30

Adorama
http://www.cambridgeincolour.com/tutorials.htm

Photographic Techniques:

digital photographic techniques, the gaze, framing the picture, camera angles,
Preliminary Depth of Field Control

Upcoming Short Study 2 –

Short Study 2 –

Looking/Seeing: Veracity in Telling a Story: Inclusion/Exclusion in Photo-journalism

(Due week 3, Jan 31)

(awareness of one’s “natural” environment)

FRAME

After studying various types of photojournalistic approaches in making a visual statement, create a short photographic essay about a real person, event, or occurrence. Without using any special visual effects (except color correction, red eye reduction or defocusing), use cropping, experimental composition, and other techniques of inclusion and exclusion to illustrate at least 24 ways of looking at the same "real" visual information. Show all 24 images and pick 5 of the best images to illustrate your story. Print these 5 images. (Text can be used as captions if desired.)

Readings: (Due Jan 31)

* Sturken, Marita & Cartwright, Lisa. Practices of Looking: an Introduction to Visual Culture, pgs. 10-44

* “Troubles in Truthsville”. A Conversation among Ken Feingold, Coco Fusco, and Steve Gallagher”

create a short reaction paper

Week 3

Jan 31

Discuss Readings

Critiques of Photo-journalism projects

Upcoming Short Study 3 –
High Dynamic Range Photography: Recording More Visual Information/Making the Ordinary Extraordinary
(Due week 5, Feb. 14)
After lecture in class on HDR and visiting guest photographer’s talk, explore ways of making HDR (High Dynamic Range) Photography. Create at least five dynamic hdr images which utilize the technique and software for creative impact. Print these images.

Review of HDR (High Dynamic Range) Photography

HDR Photography: what is it?

http://stuckincustoms.com/2006/06/06/548/

Visiting photographer: Natt Phenjati
Natt’s tutorial page

* Working in RAW format Adobe Camera Raw

* Use the tripod

* Use manual mode for bracketing: normal,+2, -2

* Dynamic Photo HDR full current version Version 2.01 (or greater) windows only http://www.mediachance.com/hdri/index.html download Limited Trial version

*HDR and then Tone Map

For High end Printing:

* use high end monitors to view your image, do not rely on your laptop monitor for high end printing

* Color space
* Color management

* Color profiles attach with your file

* Calibration

printing to the Epson 10,000 archival printer,
gamma correction

Week 4

Feb 7

Photography Tips

Work on HDR studies in studio

Week 5

Feb14

Critique of HDR works

Upcoming study:

Short Study 4 –
The Restoration of Memory: Your Personal Visual History
(Due week 6, Feb. 21) (the space of memory)
Part one: expert photo-retouching of an old family photograph.
Part two: photomontage a new family portrait which defies time and "truth".

Readings:(Due Feb 21)
* Rovira, Jim. Baudrillard and Hollywood:subverting the mechanism of control and The Matrix pgs. 1-3.
* Baudrillard, Jean.Simulacra and Simulation. Ann Arbor, The University of Michigan Press, 1994, (excerpts)
create a short reaction paper

Lecture: The Restoration of Memory: Your Personal Visual History

Show:

Adam Berliner’s film “Nobodys Business” (1996) http://www.alanberliner.com/flashdev3/viewing.html

Nancy Burson

http://www.nancyburson.com/

http://www.nyu.edu/greyart/exhibits/burson/

Studio & Techniques: advanced scanning, filtering, blending, compositing, printing, traditional photomontage & digital photomontage techniques, cutting, pasting, feathering edges, layers, rubber stamp, dust and scratches filter, healing brush, colorizing, composting, techniques of lighting and shadow, composition and posing conventions of different eras.
Printing, file prep, show various kinds of output from the same image

Photo retouching

http://glennferon.com/portfolio1/index.html

http://towergardens.homestead.com/photoretouching.html
http://www.ronking.com/Enhancements.html

http://www.smpstudio.com/digret.htm

Advanced Selection techniques:

http://www.phototakers.com/articles/articles/35.html

Photoshop techniques:

http://www.photoshoproadmap.com/links/go/1777

Duotone:

Duotone, Tritone, Quadtone

Aged image technique:

http://www.layersmagazine.com/postcard-from-japan-part-1.html

Week 6 Feb 21

Critiques of The Restoration of Memory: Your Personal Visual History

Upcoming Short Study 5 -
Fix it: What is Important to you: Digital Photographic Panorama
(Due week 8, March 6)

Working collaboratively in groups of 3, tell a story or narrative through the use of various photographic and/or graphic elements, object scans, textures, etc. which work together to give visual form to your ideas. Text can be used, either incorporated as part of the image or as captions. Print your team's work on large format printer minimum at the VCC size 24 x 40 inches or create a virtual panorama: either create a VR panorama, a polar panorama, a cyclorama, or encompassing diorama

Readings: (Due Feb 28)
Crary, Jonathan. Techniques of the Observer
**create a short reaction paper

Lecture:

Panorama

Bottom of FormFunction: noun
Etymology: pan- + Greek horama sight, from horan to see -- more 1. An unbroken view of an entire surrounding area.

2. A comprehensive presentation; a survey: a panorama of American literature.

3. A picture or series of pictures representing a continuous scene, often exhibited a part at a time by being unrolled and passed before the spectator.

4. A mental vision of a series of events.

Some examples of panoramas:
Mount Everest 360:http://www.panoramas.dk/fullscreen2/full22.html

http://www.getty.edu/art/gettyguide/displayObjectList?cat=2032994

http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/panoramic_photography/panoramic_home.html

http://www.file.org.br/index.php?content_id=171&sel=9.0&lang=en

Consider

* how images can be used to effectively tell stories of all kinds?

* consider options for exhibiting narratives - long thin scroll? Hung vertically? Or horizontally? Rectangle? Circle?

* think about composition/image/form and color working together (remember the temple of art)

* Thoughtfully select and edit the group’s images

* Ethics in creativity -creative integrity -the life and times of Leni Riefenstahl. If you can imagine it, it could happen.

Elements of Good Collaboration:

Elements of good collaboration: group discussion, mutual respect, listening, responsibility, concrete schedule and time management, creative responsibility.

See: My Tips for Successful Collaboration

Show

Robert & Shana ParkeHarrison

http://www.edelmangallery.com/parke.htm

http://www.eastman.org/fm/mismis/htmlsrc27/parkeharrison_sld00001.html

http://www.parkeharrison.com/

Show:

Margi Geerlinks

Annette Weintraub

Anthony Goicolea

http://www.anthonygoicolea.com/pages/multipleframe.html

http://www.anthonygoicolea.com/NewAnthonySite/pages/indexnew.html

Martina Lopez

David Hockney Hockney: Pearblossom Highway video (3:12)

Joiners

Table Top Photography & Imaginary Worlds:

James Casebere

James Casebere

http://artscenecal.com/ArticlesFile/Archive/Articles2000/Articles0600/JCasebereA.html

http://www.marcselwynfineart.com/artists/casebere/casebere.html

http://mocoloco.com/art/archives/002089.php

http://www.bombsite.com/casebere/casebere2.html

Narratives in Painting and Photographic Imaging:

Hieronymous Bosch Flemish painter 1450-1516
http://www.abcgallery.com/B/bosch/bosch.html
http://www.idr.unipi.it/iura-communia/bosch.jpg
http://catalogue.ircam.fr/images/bosch-tenta2.jpg

Innovative panoramic and semi-immersive ideas:

Jeffrey Shaw: the Legible City:

http://www.jeffrey-shaw.net/html_main/frameset-works.php3

Caves
http://www.cs.brown.edu/~dfk/cavepainting/index.html

Photomontage: the technique of combining in a single composition pictorial elements from various sources, as parts of different photographs or fragments of printing, either to give the illusion that the elements belonged together originally or to allow each element to retain its separate identity as a means of adding interest or meaning to the composition.

Collage: a technique of composing a work of art by pasting on a single surface various materials not normally associated with one another, as newspaper clippings, parts of photographs, theater tickets, and fragments of an envelope.

Assemblage:

a sculptural technique of organizing or composing into a unified whole a group of unrelated and often fragmentary or discarded objects.

Show:

A Short History of Photomontage/Collage

John Heartfield

Hannah Hoch

Wiki Hoch

Photomontage tutorials:

http://www.projectseven.com/tutorials/images/p_montage/index.htm

Technique review: perfecting images for panorama: blending, stitching, advanced photo compositing and overlap, and dynamic composition, montage/collage digitally and traditionally, panorama, text, high end printing

Experimenting with Panorama Tools:

Photoshop Photomerge:

Quicktime VR: http://www.dr-lex.34sp.com/qtvr/makepano.html

Polar Panorama http://www.3drender.com/light/PolarPan/

Panorama Tools: http://webuser.fh-furtwangen.de/%7Edersch/
Panoramas:

Assemblage:
Joseph Cornel
http://pem.org/cornell/
http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/cornell/

Polar Panorama

VR panoramas
Scott Highton, www.highton.com one of the pioneers of virtual reality photography, presents an overview of methods and techniques for photographing VR panoramas.

PhotoTechEDU Day 29: Photographing VR Panoramas
youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1_6vO1vBkpc

www.vrphotography.com

Object panoramas: http://www.virtualkey.ca/

Stitching:
PTGui Pro (v.7.5 or greater) http://www.ptgui.com/order.html english version license US

Other: Stereo imaging

Week 7 Feb 28

Digital painting:

Visiting Artist

Comic strip approach: Traditional Drawing, working on digitally cleaning up your drawings Tutorial

Traditional Drawing then digital painting Tutorial

Environment painting http://airage.deviantart.com/art/Inside-Environment-Painting-2-29149738

Speed Painting http://concept-on-mac.deviantart.com/art/Speedpaint-step-by-step-34278775

Clouds http://tutorials.epilogue.net/tutorials/perfect-clouds-in-5-easy-steps

Wet Canvas Digital Painting Overview

Digital Paint Portrait Techniques

Concept Art A Concept Artist

Combining photo and digital painting
http://fantasyartdesign.com/free-wallpapers/digital-art.php?best=1&i_i=241&u_i=68&srt=3&count=1

Work on Fix it: What is Important to you: Digital Photographic Panorama
(Due week 8, March 6)

Week 8 March 6

Critique Short Study 5 -
Fix it: What is Important to you: Digital Photographic Panoramas

Upcoming Short Study 6 –
Imaginary Space: Level / Set Design
(Due week 10, March 20)
Create 4 original, interrelated sequential level designs, maps, or set designs which tell a story by creating a background or landscape upon which some kind of action could take place. Pay careful attention to color, lighting, texture, symbolism, allegory. You can use any digital process or application as well as scanned objects (such as crumpled paper, sticks, leaves, etc.), or digital paintings or textures to create an imaginary landscape. Project or print the resulting works.

Readings:
(Due March 20)
Postman, Neil. Technopoly: The Surrender of Culture to Technology.
create a short reaction paper

Discuss Readings

Lecture: Imaginary Space: Level Design

Level Design:
* Adams and Rollings The Level Design Process

Mise-en-scene:

http://classes.yale.edu/film-analysis/htmfiles/mise-en-scene.htm

* mise en scene in videogames

Studio & Techniques: Flash, digital & traditional painting/drawing, advanced scanning

Flash sites : http://www.macromedia.com/cfusion/showcase/index.cfm

Feng Zhu Design http://www.fengzhudesign.com/tutorials.html

Week 9 Spring Break off

Week 10 March 20

Critiques of Imaginary Space: Level / Set Design

upcoming Short Study 7-
Flash Stories
(Due week 12, April 3)

Create an original personal story based on your life’s experiences, events, or pathways. You may wish to create an interactive digital map of your personal history. Create a flash animation of 1 to 2 minutes in length, suitable for posting to the web. Work with movement, timing, juxtaposition, sound, composition, color, etc. to tell your "story". Consider what it is you wish to say, storyboard it, develop a style, and go forth.

Amazing Flash Websites:

http://www.entheosweb.com/Flash/

http://www.2advanced.com/ - site for a design firm. Very rich content- kind of intense, definitely at the far end of the Scale.

Nathan Malone http://www.albinoblacksheep.com/flash/zekeyspaceylizard/

http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/ - Flash community portal. The majority of the submissions to the site exhibit a sort of Everyman's Flash.

http://www.joecartoon.com/ - ancient (though still active) Flash cartoon site. The artist is a member of the first wave of Flash animators; his work is low-keyframe, with rudimentary interactivity.

http://www.bornmagazine.org/mother.html - an online magazine of Flash poems- literary poems augmented by Flash content. Visionary stuff.

http://www.ferryhalim.com/orisinal/ - warm, mellow games based on simple interactive principles.

http://www.tokyoplastic.com/ - I hardly know what it is, but it's cool. Students are encouraged to check out the animation "drum machine". (The 3D animation in tokyoplastic is generated through an application known as Swift3D; though cool, 3D is really the least practical animation format in Flash.)

http://showcase.sfdt.com/files/14842-XiaoXiao03.swf - stick figures fighting (hosted on Stick Figure Death Theatre).

http://www.ninjai.com/ - an extremely, extremely violent but well done animation project made entirely by stuntpeople who double as animators. (I'm not kidding, it gets really sickeningly violent.)

http://www.samorost.net/samorost1/

http://www.samorost.net/samorost2/

Samorost- two interactive puzzle stories that use photographic elements to create an immersive environment.

http://www.homestarrunner.com/ - Self-explanatory; a self-sustaining Flash phenomenon, whose success relies mostly on its cult status.

And finally, here's a website that describes in detail the visual aesthetic of Flash media: http://alistapart.com/articles/flashaesthetic

Show:

Guto Nóbrega Institutional affiliation: UFRJ - Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro

Title: cache memory
http://www.gutonobrega.hpg.ig.com.br/memory.swf

His main interests are interactivity and interface as a way to think about new realities constructed with the help of digital technologies and how digital body can converge as a hybrid with our physical body and space. http://www.pobox.com/~gutonobrega
http://www.gutonobrega.hpg.ig.com.br/meiodigital.swf

This is a work about time and memory. The memory recovered by the photos and the memory of the computer that allows interaction with the digital image on the web site. Cache memory shows that the past, the present and the future cam be by one click of your fingers, collapsed by the interface of new media.

Circle of Storytellers: http://www.pbs.org/circleofstories/

Lesson: Movement and Motion
lesson4motion\Motion.htm

persistence of vision

http://www.privatelessons.net/2d/sample/m01_03.html

http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animation

Still Movement

See some of the other Chinese students’ previous works at: http://zquart.tomrchambers.com/exhibdir.html

See their school at: http://www.zqu.edu.cn/dept/msx

Some Information about China http://www.chinatoday.com/
Film Analysis Guide http://classes.yale.edu/film-analysis/

March:

Studio & Technique Intensive: Flash animation including: cinema techniques, mise-en-scene, movement, timing, juxtaposition, sound, composition, color

Mastering Flash:

* Do the basic tutorial in the application, then:

* The Tool Kit in Flash

* Layer & Animation explained in Flash

* Designing and Animating Characters in Flash 8

* Easing in and out

* Rotoscoping in Flash

* Lots of Flash Tutorials http://www.developal.com/tutorials/tutorials252.html

* Some Flash games http://www.albinoblacksheep.com/games/
* Animating Your Adobe Photoshop Files in Flash 8

Week 11 March 27

Visiting Artist/Programmer Jeremy Sachs

Work on personal stories in studio

Week 12 April 3

Critique of Flash Stories

Upcoming:

Final Project:

(Due: week 13, April 10: Ideation)
(Due: week 14, April 17: Works photographed in in-site)
(Due week 15, April 24: Final Website of all perfected studies and complete final project website with statement, ideation and realization comparisons)

Activating public spaces with digital images, installations, and art delivery systems

Readings:
Senie, Harriet F. & Webster, Sally, eds. Critical Issues in Public Art: Content, Context, and Controversy
*****create a short reaction paper due April 10
and
Senie, Harriet F. & Webster, Sally, eds. Critical Issues in Public Art: Phillips Temporality and Public Art

*****create a short reaction paper due April 10

Discuss Readings

Lecture: Activating public spaces with digital images, installations, and art delivery systems

* final project ideas

* Web space/Physical space

* ideographs

* what is an artist statement?

* art delivery systems,

* public art

* printed digital billboards & murals

Technique:

Image prep for the net, basic html & Dreamweaver

Show

Mariko Mori

http://www.carnegiemuseums.org/cmag/bk_issue/1998/julaug/feat5.htm

http://www.galerieperrotin.com/artiste_.php?id_=26&&nom_=Mariko%20Mori&&dossier=Mariko_Mori#

http://www.jca-online.com/mori.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mariko_Mori

http://www.thefirstpost.co.uk/index.php?menuID=4&subID=889

Martin Puryear

Puryear: on the plaza (7:44)

Krzystof Wodiczko, film

the public art space manipulator and installation artist http://www.offlinenetworks.com/artistinfo/artistpages/kwodiczko.html

see film on Claus Oldenberg and Coosje van Bruggen
also see http://www.oldenburgvanbruggen.com/

Week 13 April 10

Final Project pre-REVIEWS:

Artist Statement & Digital Ideograph –

The artist statement and digital ideograph begin the development of your individual ideas and starts the trajectory towards the final project. It utilizes the techniques, theory and history learned in class and in individual research. It is, in essence, a digital ideograph of your art delivery system in action, virtually. Create a web page that illuminates your idea and its location in terms of what you want to reconstruct in it. Photograph the exact location and then digitally create your ideas within it. You are required to articulate your final project in an artist statement of from one to two paragraphs whereby your concept, methodology and at least 5 bibliographic references/influences are stated.

Week 14 April 17

ALL FULLY REALIZED FINAL PROJECTS DUE IN SITE

On-site Critiques Works photographed in in-site

The actual project manifested as an original (billboard, large poster series, drive by car art, aerial art, photo projection, data projection, etc.) art system device that carries your message to those who may not have the opportunity to see your work inside a normal gallery environment. Your work must be realized physically and you must photograph the work in the site for inclusion in your final project CD web site file.

Week 15 April 24 LAST CLASS

Final Website due of all perfected studies, and complete final project website with statement, ideation and realization comparisons for final grading.

ALL WORK DUE (NO EXCEPTIONS)

* Your complete CD containing:

- all perfected short study projects

- stand alone (all elements contained within) website of all work containing:

One folder entitled, Your Name_FINAL

with: a well designed web site with a main page entitled, index.html , which links to your:

- Final Project:

- Artist statement

- at least 5 references

- ideation images

- realization images

- Short Studies:

with all corrected, complete and improved short studies for final grading in high quality web ready format

Additionally, all journals are due this day.