Projects
Intermediate Digital Imaging

Spring 08

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

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)

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”

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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, Natt Phenjati’s talk, explore the 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.

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)
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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
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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

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.

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