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 when we can be reached

 

 

Design and the Elastic Mind MOMA

http://www.moma.org/interactives/exhibitions/2008/elasticmind/

http://www.ted.com/talks/paola_antonelli_previews_design_and_the_elastic_mind.html

  

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

 

Artists are using digital technologies as a tool, or as a medium

 

To Hacker Art

 

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

 

to animation

 

to visualization http://www.mundi.net/maps/maps_020/walrus.html

W. Bradford Paely TextArc http://textarc.org/Alice.html

Josh On They Rule

 

To John Maeda, a world renowned digital graphic designer, artist and a computer scientist at MIT. He has pioneered the use of the computer to make art. Maeda wants to redesign technology so that it is fun and keeps us coming back for more. Maeda’s early work redefined the use of electronic media as a tool for expression by combining skilled computer programming with sensitivity to traditional artistic concerns. For more information about

 

to game simulation http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gVxX8aaHgdE&fmt=35&annotation_id=annotation_117219&feature=iv

 

http://www.ryzom.com/en/screenshots_1.html

 to games with insects: http://www.livescience.com/scienceoffiction/060707_pacman_insects.html

 

to ….. Pigeon blog http://www.beatrizdacosta.net/

 

to bioart and beyond….

 

 

The “History” of New Media Art is unfolding and then becomes ubiquitous
 ubiquitous
–adjective

existing or being everywhere, esp. at the same time;
omnipresent: ubiquitous fog; ubiquitous little ants.

 

The power of images:

 

James Nachtwey

http://www.jamesnachtwey.com/

 

911, http://radified.com/911/911_index.htm

Danish artist cartoon of the holiest Islamic man, Mohamed, who is not to be made into an image. Similar to Jewish tradition where God is not to be  represented by a direct image. 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.

To the horrors of torture Abu Ghraib prison http://www.sikhtimes.com/torture_in_iraq.jpg

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

 

the beautiful, the horrific, the sublime, the mundane, images are a reflection of life on this planet earth as well as being used 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 I :

Find and show two examples which exemplify your idea of what digital imaging is.

Plenary exercise II:

Team up and take camera phone images for reference for your pixel art project