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*Marita Sturken and Lisa Cartwright, 'Introduction' Practices of Looking: an Introduction to Visual Culture (Oxford University Press: Oxford, 2001)

Week 2:

Sept 1 Mon class OFF Labor Day

Sept 2 Tues class meets: review- advanced compositing/montage

Sept 4/5

Look at best works and outstanding short studies of previous students

Discuss:Hurlbert, Alan, The Design Concept & *Marita Sturken and Lisa Cartwright, 'Introduction' Practices of Looking: an Introduction to Visual Culture

Students show- 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 3:

Sept 8/9

Discuss:

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

Art in Technological Times: http://www.stretcher.org/archives/reviews/010101/010101.html

Studio work:

study various types of photojournalistic approaches in making a visual statement,

Review-

Lesson: Photojournalism

http://www.arts.rpi.edu/~ruiz/Lessons/Photojournalism/Photojournalism.htm

the work of Mary Ellen Mark and others

techniques: cropping, experimental composition, and other techniques of inclusion and exclusion to illustrate at least 24 ways of looking at the same "real" visual information.

Assignment: Short Study 2 -

Looking/Seeing: Veracity in Telling a Story: Inclusion/Exclusion in Photo-journalism (Due next class, Sept 11/12 )

Sept 11/12

Students show- Short Study 2 Looking/Seeing: Veracity in Telling a Story: Inclusion/Exclusion in Photojournalism

Read - Baudrillard, Jean. Simulacra and Simulation. Ann Arbor, The University of Michigan Press, 1994, The Precession of Simulacra.

Week 4:

Sept 15/16

Discuss- Baudrillard, Jean. Simulacra and Simulation

Photoretouching

http://towergardens.homestead.com/photoretouching.html

http://www.pixelfoundry.com/archives/000551.php

http://www.lilacdigital.com/

http://www.iconotrope.com/

Technique-

rubber stamp, dust and scratches filter, healing brush, colorizing, scanning, composting, techniques of lighting and shadow, composition and posing conventions
Work in studio

Sept 18/19

Students show- Short Study 3 - The Restoration of Memory: Your Personal Visual History

Read:

Postman, Neil. Technopoly:The Surrender of Culture to Technology.

Week 5:

Sept 22/23

Discuss-

Postman, Neil. Technopoly:The Surrender of Culture to Technology.

Printing, file prep, show various kinds of output from the same image

identity, the construction of self, signage, count logos

Look at Klein, Naomi

http://www.nologo.org

study and observe vector based logos http://logo.nino.ru/catalog/I/

Technique- Review- Illustrator, text + image = meaning, experiment

Sept 25/26

See film, "The Merchants of Cool" by Douglas Rushkoff

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/cool/

Discuss

Week 6:

Sept 29/30

Discussions and Studio work

Oct 2/3

Students Short Study 4 Personal ID (Logos/Pathos /Ethos)

Read-

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

Week 7:

Oct 6/7

Lesson: Movement

http://www.arts.rpi.edu/~ruiz/lessons/lesson4motion/Motion.htm

persistence of vision

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

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

Technique review: Flash

Oct 9/10

Discuss

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

Assignment - work on

Movement in Still Space concepts

Week 8:

Monday class off for Columbus Day

Monday's class meets on Tues Oct 14

Tuesday's class does not meet

Review:
3D in print, virtual environments, and animation

show:

* Bjork cd

* Catabriga cd - the movement through space

* Ken Perlin site- the programming of 3d & other graphic wonders http://mrl.nyu.edu/~perlin/

Studio work - motion, emotion, movement

Assignment: Short Study 5 Movement in Still Space

Oct 16/17

formulate scenario planning groups for upcoming project based short study work

Students Show Short Study 5 Movement in Still Space

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

Week 9:

Oct 20/21

Discuss-

Digital Photographic Narratives

http://www.arts.rpi.edu/~ruiz/Lessons/digiPhotoNarr/digital photographic narratives.htm

Bosch http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/bosch/

Allegorical construction, fiction, fantasy

http://www.iconotrope.com/

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

Title: cache memory
Size: 918Kb
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.

Show

Oct 23/24

Brainstorming with scenario planning groups in studio

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

Week 10:

Oct 27/28

Review: Advanced Printing Techniques and file prep

Studio work: work collaboratively

Digital Imaging of the future see:

* e-ink- http://www.eink.com/technology/

* magink- http://www.magink.com/tech.html
full-color digital ink is based on patented organic materials. Using proprietary technologies, magink manipulates the size and angle of the molecules in the ink to generate all colors of the visible color spectrum, including all gray scales.magink holds various patents on this technology. The first application for this technology is the billboard industry. magink is also developing future digital ink display applications for consumer electronic products, as well as point of purchase and promotional displays.

Assignment: Short Study 6 Digital Photographic Narratives

Oct 30/31

Students show Short Study 6 Digital Photographic Narrative using Scenario Planning

Week 11

Nov 3/4

Discuss –

* Web space/Physical space

* ideographs

* artist statements

Discuss- final project ideas, what is an artist statement?, art delivery systems, public art, printed digital billboards & murals

Review – Image prep for the net, basic html & Dreamweaver

Nov 6/7

Studio Work & Visiting Artist

Assignment- Work on 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

Nov 10/11

Discuss- Senie, Harriet F., Critical Issues in Public Art

see film on Krzystof Wodiczko, the public art space manipulator and installation artist http://www.offlinenetworks.com/artistinfo/artistpages/kwodiczko.html

studio work & individual meetings

Nov 13/14

Artist Statements & Digital Ideographs Due

Week 13

Nov 17/18\ Project Pre-Reviews

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

Nov 20/21\ Project Pre-Reviews & Visiting Artist

Week 14

Nov 24/25 FINAL PROJECT REVIEWS START

Nov 27/28 OFF Thanksgiving Recess

Week 15

Dec 1/2

ALL FULLY REALIZED FINAL PROJECTS DUE (IN SITE) Photograph final projects (in site)

Dec 4/5 Last Class

All course work due

Complete CD of all course work and journal

CD (web ready, stand alone) should include you ideation, artist statement and references, and site photographs

in the following format:
* 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 for final evaluation

Assignment:

* bring in one sample of your best work to the next class (not a critique)

* (Also secure needed family photographs for upcoming assignments in

The Restoration of Memory: Your Personal Visual History

Aug 28/29

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

Discuss concepts, history/theory, and techniques concerning surveillance (micro/macro), Iconos satellite, terrraserver, The Visible Human, micro worlds, who is looking and why, the Panopticon, etc. see Surveillance.html

Studio work- scale, compositing, color, intermediate photo manipulation techniques http://www.arts.rpi.edu/%7Eruiz/IMAGING/color.html See film: The Powers of 10 Assignment: Short Study 1

Week 2:

Sept 1 Mon class OFF Labor Day

Sept 2 Tues class meets: review- advanced compositing/montage

Sept 4/5

Look at best works and outstanding short studies of previous students

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

See film: The Powers of 10

Assignment: Short Study 1