Schedule

Week 1:

Aug 26/27

Discuss-

* the creative process, the importance of journal keeping, studio practice

* perception/vision/allegory/context/illusion

* The observer, the observed, the process of observation

Optical Illusions.htm

http://www.science.mcmaster.ca/Psychology/psych2e03/lecture6/psych.2e03.lecture6.html

Review- compositing/montage

The Temple of Art http://www.arts.rpi.edu/%7Eruiz/IMAGING/temple.html

Composition

Form

Perspective

Light

Color

Motion

Proportion

The Golden Mean http://www.arts.rpi.edu/%7Eruiz/IMAGING/goldensec.html

Assignment: bring in a sample of your best work to class on Thurs

(Also secure needed family photographs for upcoming assignments in

The Restoration of Memory: Your Personal Visual History


Aug 29/30

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

Discuss issues about the Iconos satellite

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

Assignment: 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 2:

Sept 2 MonOFF Labor Day

Sept 3 Tues class meets: review- compositing/montage

Sept 5/6

Students show- Short Study 1- Looking and Seeing: Micro/Macro Surveillance

Discuss: Rush, Michael. New Media in Late 20th Centruy Art and

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

Read: Klein, Naomi. "alt.everything" from NoLogo

Week 3:

Sept 9/10

Discuss- identity, the construction of self, signage Klein, Naomi. "alt.everything" from NoLogo

http://www.nologo.org

See exerpts from The Merchants of Cool by Douglas Rushoff - (unavialable & backordered, tba)

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

Studio work:Review- Illustrator, text + image = meaning, experiment

Assignment: Short Study 2- Identity:- id Tag

Sept 12/13

Students show- Short Study 2 - Identity:– id Tag

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

Week 4:

Sept 16/17

Discuss- Crary, Jonathan. Techniques of the Observer

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

Lesson: Movement

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

Studio work - motion, emotion, movement

Assignment: Short Study 3  Movement in Still Space

Sept 19/20

Students show- Short Study 3 - Movement in Still Space

Read-

Paul Virilio, The Information Bomb AND

Riding, Alan, "A Mystery Man Who Created Monsters". The New York Times, Sept 23, 2001pg. 29-30.

Week 5:

Sept 23/24

Discuss- Paul Virilio, The Information Bomb & Alan Riding

Lesson: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/

Studio work: (Scenario Planning, formulate collaborative teams)

Assignment: Short Study 4 Digital Photographic Narratives

Sept 26/27

Students in Studio work on- Short Study 4 - Digital Photographic Narratives

Lessons:

lesson1bitdepth http://www.arts.rpi.edu/~ruiz/Lessons/lesson1bitdepth/bitmap.html

lesson2perspective http://www.arts.rpi.edu/~ruiz/Lessons/lesson2perspective/perspective.html

Lesson3light http://www.arts.rpi.edu/~ruiz/Lessons/Lesson3light/Light.html

lesson5proportion http://www.arts.rpi.edu/~ruiz/Lessons/lesson5proportion/Proportion.htm

lesson6composition http://www.arts.rpi.edu/~ruiz/Lessons/lesson6composition/composition.htm

lesson7form http://www.arts.rpi.edu/~ruiz/Lessons/lesson7form/Form.htm

lesson8color http://www.arts.rpi.edu/~ruiz/Lessons/lesson8color/Color.html

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

how to make 3D digital images: http://www.arts.rpi.edu/~ruiz/Lessons/How to make 3D.htm

Read- Walter Benjamin The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction

http://pixels.filmtv.ucla.edu/gallery/web/julian_scaff/benjamin/benjamin.html

Week 6:

Sept 30/Oct1

Discus Walter Benjamin, The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction

Students show- Short Study 4 - Digital Photographic Narratives

Oct 3/4 Guest Artist

Review- the work of Mary Ellen Mark, others

Lesson: Photojournalism

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

Assignment: Short Study 5 Inclusion/Exclusion in Photo-journalism

Read- Lunenfeld, Peter. Snap to Grid: A User's Guide to Digital Arts, Media, and Cultures, Boston, The MIT Press, 2000.

Chapter 5: Digital Photography: The Dubitive Image, pg 55-69.

Week 7:

Oct 7/8 Guest Artist

Oct 10/ 11

Students show Short Study 5 Inclusion/Exclusion in Photo-journalism

Assignment - Mid-term Project - 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.

Week 8:

Oct 14/15 (Mon:NO CLASS/ Mon class meets on Tues Oct 15 (Tues Class does not meet))

Students work on Mid-term Projects in Studio

Oct 17/18

Reviews of Mid-term Project

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

Week 9:

Oct 21/22

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

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

Title: cache memory
Size: 918Kb
Technique: photograph and programming in action scripts

http://www.gutonobrega.hpg.ig.com.br/memory.swf

Guto was born in Brazil in 1965. He is drawing teacher of School of Fine Arts in the Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro where

he was graduated in Art in 1991 with emphasis in engraving. He is taking masters degree in Communication and Technology of the

Image at the ECO/UFRJ. 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.

Studio work: Advanced Imaging Festival - demo best techniques

Assignment -Short Study – 6 The Restoration of Memory: Your Personal Visual History

Oct 24/25

Review: Advanced Printing Techniques and file prep.

Read-

Wollscheid, Achim,"A few attempts at thinking about the computer as a means"

Week 10:

Oct 28/29

Discuss- Wollscheid, Achim,"A few attempts at thinking about the computer as a means",

the work of John Simon http://www.numeral.com & others

Studio work: Printing and Print prep for public exhibition

Oct 31/Nov1

Students show Short Study – 6 The Restoration of Memory: Your Personal Visual History

Week 11          

Nov 4/5

Discuss – Web space/Physical space

Review – Image prep for the net, html & Dream weaver

Nov 7/8 

Final Project Studio Work

Discuss- final project ideas, artist statements, ideographs, art delivery systems, public art, printed digital billboards & murals

Assignment- 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 11/12

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

Artist Statements & Digital Ideographs Due

Nov 14/15

Artist Statements & Digital Ideographs Due

Week 13           Nov 18/19 - Nov 21/22 Final Project Pre-Reviews

Week 14          

Nov 25 Mon meets /NO TUES CLASS-

FULLY REALIZED FINAL PROJECTS DUE (IN SITE)

Photograph final projects (in site)

Nov 28/29  OFF for Thanksgiving

Week 15          

Dec 2/3 - ALL FULLY REALIZED FINAL PROJECTS DUE (IN SITE)

Photograph all final projects (in site), All work due in proper format for the creation of class website.

Dec 5/6

End of Semester Review - Journals Due