Projects

Short Study 1 -

Observer or Observed?: Micro/Macro Surveillance (Due week 2, Jan. 22/23)

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.

Short Study 2 -

Looking/Seeing: Veracity in Telling a Story: Inclusion/Exclusion in Photo-journalism (Due week 3, Jan. 29/30)

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. Text can be used as captions if desired.

Short Study 3 -

The Restoration of Memory: Your Personal Visual History (Due week 5, Feb. 12/13)

Part one: expert photo-retouching of an old family photograph.

Part two: photomontage a new family portrait which defies time and "truth".

Short Study 4 -

Personal ID (Logos/Pathos/Ethos) - (Due week 6, Feb. 19/20)

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 4/March 5)

sequential still imaging of movements – photograph or videotape a human, animal or object in movement with a camera. (If the movement is recorded 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 18/19)

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 incorporated as part of the image or as captions.

Final Project:

Activating public spaces with digital images Art Delivery Systems

Artist Statement & Digital Ideograph - Due week 12, (Due April 1/2)

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.

Project pre-reviews - Due week 13, April 5/6 April 8/9

Project pre-reviews - Due week 14, April 12/13 April 15/16

ALL FULLY REALIZED FINAL PROJECTS DUE (IN SITE) - Due week 15, April 19/20 and April 22/23

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 website file.

FINAL WORK due week 16 April 26/27 (last day of class)

* Your complete CD containing:

- all course work,

- final project ideation/realization and

- artist statement

Additionally all journals are due this day.

Instructions for CD preparation:

* 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