Projects
Short Study 1 -
Observer
or Observed?: Micro/Macro Surveillance (Due week 2, Sept. 4/5)
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 satelite 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 - selectivey recolor specific aspects of this image
for emphasis.
Short Study 2 -
Looking/Seeing:
Veracity in Telling a Story: Inclusion/Exclusion in Photo-journalism (Due week 3, Sept
11/12 )
After studying
various types of photojournalistic approaches in making a visual statement,
create a short photographic essay about a real person, event, or occurrance.
Without using any special visual effects except color correction, red eye reduction
or defocusing, use cropping, compositing, 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. Text can be used as captions
if desired.
Short Study 3 -
The Restoration of Memory: Your Personal
Visual History (Due week 4, Sept 18/19)
Part one: expert photo-retouching
of an old family photograph.
Part two: photomontage a new family
portrait which defies time.
Short Study 4 -
Personal ID (Logos/Pathos/Ethos) - (Due week 6, Oct 2/3)
After a survey
of how identity is manipulated, created, stolen and re-presented in contemporary
culture, make an original vector based id tag for your computer or journal that
sets it apart from others and identifies it uniquely as yours. You may use text
as well.
Short Study 5 -
Movement
in Still Space (Due week 8, Oct.16/17)
sequential still imaging of movements – photograph or
videotape a human, animal or object in movement with a camera. (If it is on
video - digitize it and cut out the most important sequences in the movement.)
Place all critical images on the same background in Photoshop and print a large
strip 11” x 36” of all the composite images.You could also make a flip book
of the still images. Or do the opposite – take a series of still images and
animate them. (Then pick a location to exhibit the animation which has bearing
on the context of the meaning you wish to convey.)
Short Study 6 -
Digital
Photographic Narrative (Due week 10, Oct.30/31)
Working
collaboratively, tell a story or narrative through the use of various photographic
and/or graphic elements which work together to give visual form to your ideas.
Text can be used either incorpoarted as part of the image or as captions.
Final
Project:
Activating public spaces with digital
images
Art Delivery System
Artist Statement & Digital Ideograph - Due week 12, (Due Nov.13/14)
art project that begins to develop
your individual ideas utilizing the techniques, theory and history learned in
class and in individual research and starts the trajectory towards the final
project.a digital ideograph of your
art delivery system in action virtually. Make a web page that illuminates your idea and its location
in terms of what you want to reconstruct in 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.
Project pre-reviews
- Due week 13, Nov. 17/18 and Nov 20/21
Fully Realized Final Project (in site) - Due week
15 Nov 24/25
& week 15, Dec 1/2
the actual idea 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. It must be realized physically and it must be photographed in
site.
FINAL due Dec 4/5 (last day of class)
Complete CD of all course work and
journal
web ready (stand
alone) website of your
ideation -
including:
* one folder entitled:
Your Name Final
with:
- Artist statement
- 5 references
- ideation images
- realization images
*and another folder entitled:
Your Name Short Studies
with all corrected, complete
and improved short studies