Gesture & Emotion
Lecture Topic:
Intuitionand creativity: breaking out of the
art/science box
Screenings:
Genius - Leonardo da Vinci 50 min.
Visiting artist:
Lev Manovich, “What is
New Media: Eight Propositions”
Create a short reaction paper
Project:
Create a series of 5 different emotion studies
using gestures with a mouse, a drawing tablet, and pencil or marker on paper
which is then scanned into your computer.
Studio skills:
* (Software needed for the semester: Photoshop,
Illustrator, Dreamweaver, Flash)
gestures & emotions
Drawing with traditional tools
Drawing with digital tools (ms paint, photoshop
* Photoshop: orientation to the interface and
tools, getting started, scaling images, bitmapped/ object oriented images, size
and resolution, overview of basic file formats: eps, jpeg, tiff, png, etc. ,
converting modes, calculating the file size/quality of a bit mapped image,
basic color concepts, RGB, CMYK, HSB colors and issues of tone, hue and
saturation, re-sampling, cropping
* Sketches and expressive mark making with mouse,
stylus, traditional pen, pencil etc.
* scanning
* file preparation for upload
Deliverables:
5, 640 x 480 pixel, 72 pixel per inch,
non-representative sketches using the pencil tool in Photoshop with mouse, or
with digital drawing stylus, or with scanned in traditional drawings.
Grading Criteria:
1. Assignment completed on-time.
2. Adherence to the size and file format
specifications
3. Appropriate use of Photoshop tools. (e.g. if
jaggies are intended as an aesthetic, that’s fine, but they shouldn’t be in the
image because you used the wrong image resolution for the size of the images)
4. Exploration and application of creative tools
in Photoshop.
5. Quality and clarity of class presentation
6. Expressiveness and imagination as illustrated
in your images.