Projects

Short Study 1 -

Observer or Observed?: Micro/Macro Surveillance (Due week 2, Jan 23/24)

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 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, Jan 30/31)

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, Feb 6/7)

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, Feb 20/21)

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, March 6/7)

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, March 20/21)

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

Public Art /Art & Activism: (Walk-by, Drive-by, etc.) Art Delivery System

Due week 12, April 3/4
Artist Statement & Digital Ideograph - 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.

Due week 13, April 7/8 and April 10/11
Project pre-review

Due week 14, April 14/15 and April 17/18
Fully Realized Final Project (in site) -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.

Due week 15, April 21/22 and April 24/25)
Complete CD of web ready (stand alone) website of your ideation -

including:

* Artist statement

* 5 references

* ideation images

* realization images

Due week 16, April 28

class website design and creation