Projects

Short Study 1 -

Looking and Seeing: Micro/Macro Surveillance: (Due week 2, Sept 5/6)

Using images from satellites or other visualizations of global surveillance make a visual statement about a specific geographic 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 -

Identity: id Tag: - (Due week 3, Sept 12/13)

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 3 -

Movement in Still Space: (Due week 4, Sept 19/20)

sequential still imaging of movements – photograph or videotape a human or animal 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 4 -

Digital Photographic Narrative (Due week 6, Sept 30/Oct1)

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.

Short Study 5 -

Inclusion/Exclusion in Photo-journalism (Due week 7, Oct 10/11)

after studying various types of photojournalistic approaches to making a visual statement, create a photographic essay about a real person, event, occurrance. Use cropping and other techniques of inclusion and exclusion to illustrate at least two ways of looking at the same "real" visual information.

Midterm Project: (Due week 8, Oct Oct 17/18)

The Midterm Project is a small art project that begins to develop your individual ideas utilizing the techniques learned in class and in individual research and starts the trajectory towards the final project.

Short Study 6 -

The Restoration of Memory: Your Personal Visual History (Due week 10, Oct 31/Nov1)

Expert photo-retouching & montage of a new family portrait

Final Project:

Activating public spaces with digital images

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

Artist Statement & Digital Ideograph - (Due week 12, Nov 11/12) 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-review – (Due week 13, Nov 18/19)

Fully Realized Final Project – (Due week 14 Nov 21/22 & week 15 Dec 2/3) 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.