Schedule
Week 1:
Jan. 19
Discuss-
* the creative
process, the importance of journal keeping, studio practice
Composition
Form
Perspective
Light
Color
Proportion
http://www.arts.rpi.edu/~ruiz/Lessons/lesson5proportion/Proportion.htm
Motion
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The Golden Section:
interrelationship and
harmonic divisibility http://www.arts.rpi.edu/%7Eruiz/IMAGING/goldensec.html
*
perception/vision/allegory/context
Review-
compositing/montage
Bit Depth
http://www.arts.rpi.edu/~ruiz/Lessons/lesson1bitdepth/bitmap.html
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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
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Jan.
23
Look
at previous work (not a critique, just a point of reference to
knowing you and your strengths)
Discuss:
see Surveillance.html
concepts,
history/theory, and techniques concerning surveillance (micro/macro),
Iconos
satellite,
terrra
server,
The
Visible Human,
micro
worlds,
who
is looking and why,
the
Panopticon, etc.
Studio work:
scale,
compositing, color, intermediate photo manipulation techniques
http://www.arts.rpi.edu/%7Eruiz/IMAGING/color.html
Assignment: Work on
short study 1
Looking and Seeing: Micro/Macro Surveillance
Read:
* Hurlbert, Alan. The Design
Concept, pgs. 10-15
* Sturken, Marita
& Cartwright,Lisa. Practices of Looking: an Intro to Visual Culture,
pgs. 10-44
create a
short reaction paper
Week 2:
Jan 23
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
See http://www.arts.rpi.edu/~ruiz/PracticesofLooking/PracticesofLooking.htm
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Jan 26
Students
show- Short Study 1-
Week 3
Jan 30
Art
in Technological Times: http://www.stretcher.org/archives/reviews/010101/010101.html
Review:
http://www.arts.rpi.edu/~ruiz/Lessons/Photojournalism/Photojournalism.htm
Photographic Techniques:
Using camera, tripod, lighting kit, the Epson
10,000 archival printer
Framing http://facweb.cs.depaul.edu/sgrais/SGframing.htm
Shadow http://facweb.cs.depaul.edu/sgrais/SGshadows.htm
Portrait http://facweb.cs.depaul.edu/sgrais/SGportrait.htm
Joiners http://facweb.cs.depaul.edu/sgrais/SGjoiners.htm
Assignment:
Work on Short Study 2
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Feb 2
Studio work: Framing
the picture
study various types of
photojournalistic approaches in making a visual statement
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:
work on Short Study 2
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Read:
Week 4:
Feb 6
Assignment: perfect
your work if requested to do so in your studio critique
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Feb 9
Photo retouching
http://glennferon.com/portfolio1/index.html
http://towergardens.homestead.com/photoretouching.html
http://www.zarron.co.uk/port_big/retouching_master.jpg
http://www.ronking.com/Enhancements.html
http://www.smpstudio.com/digret.htm
a good site to check for many Photoshop
techniques:
http://www.photoshoproadmap.com/links/go/1777
History of Photomontage
* John Heartfield, the anti-Nazi German satirist
who pioneered the photomontage http://www.towson.edu/heartfield/art/5.html
* Hannah Hoch, female artist working with photo
montage, Dadaist http://womenshistory.about.com/library/bio/blbio_hannah_hoch.htm
http://hannahhoch.com/hhindex2.html
Assignment:
Prep for Short Study 3, The Restoration
of Memory: Your Personal Visual History
Read:
* Baudrillard, Jean. Simulacra and
Simulation.
create a
short reaction paper
Week 5:
Feb 13
Work in studio
Technique:
image scanning
a few basic tips http://www.scantips.com/
image resolution: http://www.scantips.com/basic1c2.html
traditional photomontage & digital
photomontage techniques, cutting, pasting, feathering edges, layers,
rubber stamp, dust and scratches filter, healing brush, colorizing, composting,
techniques of lighting and shadow, composition and posing conventions of
different eras.
Printing, file prep, show various kinds of output from the same image
Assignment:
Prep for Short Study 3, The Restoration
of Memory: Your Personal Visual History
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Feb 16
Assignment:
Read:
Postman, Neil. Technopoly: The
Surrender of Culture to Technology.
create a
short reaction paper
Week 6 :
Feb 20 OFF
Feb 21 Tuesday CLASS
MEETS (FOLLOWS MONDAY SCHEDULE)
* collaborative
scenario planning group teams of 3 each formulate and brainstorm about the
future, personal identity, media manipulation, nanotechnology, robotics,
neurological computing, biotec, and other ideas of what things may be like in
10 + years or more.
* Review elements of
good collaboration: group discussion, mutual respect, listening,
responsibility, concrete schedule and time management, creative responsibility
Studio work:
Panoramas
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of panoramas: http://www.getty.edu/art/gettyguide/displayObjectList?cat=2032994 |
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http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/panoramic_photography/panoramic_home.html
http://www.file.org.br/index.php?content_id=171&sel=9.0&lang=en
Technique review:
perfecting images for panorama: blending, stitching, advanced photo compositing
and overlap, and dynamic composition
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Brainstorming with
scenario planning groups in studio
Studio work:
Experimenting with Panorama Tools:
Photoshop Photomerge: http://www.layersmagazine.com/design/photomerge.php
Quicktime VR: http://www.dr-lex.34sp.com/qtvr/makepano.html
Polar Panorama http://www.3drender.com/light/PolarPan/
Other: http://www.path.unimelb.edu.au/~dersch/
Mount Everest 360:http://www.panoramas.dk/fullscreen2/full22.html
Assignment:
Read:
create a short reaction paper
Week 7:
Feb 27
Discuss:
website: Digital
Photographic Panorama Narrative of the Future
Bosch http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/bosch/
Allegorical
construction, fiction, fantasy
Guto Nóbrega Institutional affiliation: UFRJ - Universidade
Federal do
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.
Work in Studio in collaborative groups
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Students
show Short Study 4 -Digital
Photographic Panorama Narrative of the Future
Assignment:
Read:
Flash sites : http://www.macromedia.com/cfusion/showcase/index.cfm
Feng Zhu Design http://www.fengzhudesign.com/tutorials.html
Week 8:
March 6
Discuss:
website Imaginary Space: Level
Design
Technique:
over view: Flash
Studio work
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March 9
Assignment:
Work on Short Study 6, Impressions of
(March 23)
Read:
Crary, Jonathan. Techniques of the Observer: On Vision
and Modernity in the Nineteenth Century.
Information about
Film Analysis Guide http://classes.yale.edu/film-analysis/
Mise-en-scene:
http://classes.yale.edu/film-analysis/htmfiles/mise-en-scene.htm
Persistence of Vision: http://www.privatelessons.net/2d/sample/m01_03.html
Look at flash animation sites
Week 9:
March
13 & March 16 OFF SPRING BREAK
Assignment:
Work on Short Study 6, Impressions of
(March 23)
Be sure to do you readings over break and work on perfecting your
Flash skills (Please remember we are working with students from
March 20
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
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March 23
Senie, Harriet F.
& Webster, Sally, eds. Critical Issues in Public Art: Content, Context, and
Controversy
*****create
a short reaction paper by March 30
Week 11:
March 27
Discuss:
Senie, Harriet F.
& Webster, Sally, eds. Critical Issues in Public Art: Content, Context,
and Controversy.
* Web space/Physical
space
final project ideas,
what is an artist statement?, art delivery systems, public art, printed digital
billboards & murals
Technique:
Image prep for the
net, basic html & Dreamweaver
March 30
the public art space manipulator and
installation artist
Assignment: Work
on your personal research for your project, your Artist Statement & Digital
Ideograph
Read:
Start reading and researching
for your final project bibliography
Week 12
April 3
Students present their Artist Statements &
Digital Ideographs
See film Baraka
Studio work
Assignment:
Work on your personal
research for your project
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April 6
Students present their Artist Statements &
Digital Ideographs
Studio work
Assignment:
Work on your personal
research for your project
Week 13
April 10
Project Pre-Reviews
also see http://www.oldenburgvanbruggen.com/
Assignment:
Work on your personal
research for your project
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April 13
Project
Pre-Reviews DUE
Assignment:
Work on your personal
research for your project
Week 14
April 17 FINAL PROJECT REVIEWS
Week
15
April 24 ALL FULLY REALIZED FINAL PROJECTS DUE (IN
SITE) Photograph final projects (in sit
April 27 ALL
FULLY REALIZED FINAL PROJECTS DUE (IN SITE) Last Class
Week 16
May 1 (last day of class)
*
Complete CD containing:
all
perfected short studies and your final project
Set up of your files
is:
* one
folder entitled:
*and another folder
entitled:
* All
journals are due this day.
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Discussion of the
Future
* e-ink- http://www.eink.com/technology/
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.