Lecture Topic:
Introduction to the course
What the course is about
The syllabus, important information, due dates, criteria for projects
Who we are
Where we can be located and where we can be reached
Plenary exercise I :
Find and show two examples which exemplify your idea of what digital imaging is.
Show varied ideas of digital imaging
from pixel art http://pixel.nascimpact.com/pix_tank.php
to high resolution digital photography , http://www.tawbaware.com/maxlyons/gigapixel.htm
to interactive multimedia http://www.aec.at/en/prix/awards2006.asp
constructs soda play http://www.sodaplay.com/
to net art
to public art http://graffitiresearchlab.com/?page_id=6#video
to animation
to visua
to game simulation http://www.msu.edu/~bonddenn/screenshots/secondlife.jpg
to games with insects: http://www.livescience.com/scienceoffiction/060707_pacman_insects.html
to ….. Pigeon blog http://www.beatrizdacosta.net/
The power of images:
911, http://radified.com/911/911_index.htm
Danish artist cartoon of Mohamed, http://thedefeatists.typepad.com/apoplectic/images/mo.JPG
Abu Ghraib prison http://www.sikhtimes.com/torture_in_iraq.jpg
or tearing down Saddam Hussein’s statue http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_depth/photo_gallery/2933629.stm
the beautiful, the horrific, the sublime, the mundane, images as weapons
Living in a Visual Culture:
Photography, Painting, Sculpture, Fashion, Advertising, TV, Cinema, Ubiquitous Digital Culture
Within Digital Culture:
digital sketching, scanning traditional sketches, paintings, objects, etc., pixel art, raster imaging, digital photography, vector imaging, web, animation (2d, 3d, combo), gaming, digital interactive installation, robotics, etc.
Resources, Using References, a word of caution on Wikipedia http://uncyclopedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
Plenary exercise II:
Tangrams, thinking intuitively, non linear
