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 HDR (High Dynamic Range) digital photography

to amazing interactive 3d photography 

to interactive installation Interactive installation
David Rokeby-Very Nervous system

 

 

to interactive multimedia vr and caves such as Workspace Unlimited

Cyber Bodies Stahl Stenslie- Skin Suit

 

constructs soda play http://www.sodaplay.com/

 

to net art

http://artport.whitney.org/

or

Rhizome http://rhizome.org/art/

 

To New media art

New Media Art by Mark Tribe
https://wiki.brown.edu/confluence/display/MarkTribe/New+Media+Art

 

To Hacker Art

 

to public art http://graffitiresearchlab.com/?page_id=6#video

 

to animation

 

to visualization http://www.imedi.org/docs/photos/Advanced%20Data%20Visualization/5th_dimensional_data.png

 

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 “History” of New Media Art is unfolding: http://www.artmuseum.net/w2vr/contents.html

 

 

 

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

The Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten created the furor over depictions of Mohammed by publishing a series of 12 drawings after a local author said he was unable to find any artist willing to depict Mohammed for his upcoming illustrated book. The publication of the images in Jyllands-Posten has been condemned around the Islamic world, and has led to the burning of embassies and a boycott of Denmark by Muslim nations.

 

From BBC News, the tearing down of Saddam Hussein's statue.

 

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

Tiananmen Square, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Tianasquare.jpg

 

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, bioart, etc.

 

Resources, Using References, a word of caution on Wikipedia http://uncyclopedia.org/wiki/Main_Page

 

 

Plenary exercise II:

Tangrams, thinking intuitively, non-linear