Schedule/Lectures
Week 1
Jan. 12
-15
Discuss-
Overview of the course
* What is
Artistic Research:
the
creative process, the iterative nature of studio and arts practice, the
importance of journal keeping, studio practice (working on class work only in studio)
What is
Digital Imaging?
from SIGGRAPH Art Show to http://www.bernd-lintermann.de/EGCAS96.html
to
Tokyo Plastic to Brown to Text Arc to GameArt, media interventions, artistic visualizations to show
important environmental data and beyond.
The
ubiquity of digital imaging in contemporary artmaking.
Amazing NEW visual research:
The Mysterious Cough, Caught on Film By
DENISE GRADY
Schlieren photography captures the invisible, like heat and coughs, on film.
Findings: Tapping Into What a Deer
Sees, and Doesn't By JOHN TIERNEY
A new computer-generated camouflage is being promoted as the first camouflage
scientifically designed to make hunters invisible to deer.
Look at your previous work
Composition
lesson6composition\composition.htm
Form
lesson7form\FORM.HTM
Perspective
lesson2perspective\perspective.html
Light
Color
lesson8color\Color.html
Proportion
lesson5proportion\Proportion.htm
Motion
lesson4motion\Motion.htm
The
Golden Section:
Interrelationship
and harmonic divisibility
http://www.arts.rpi.edu/%7Eruiz/IMAGING/goldensec.html
*
perception/vision/allegory/context
Bit Depth
http://www.arts.rpi.edu/~ruiz/Lessons/lesson1bitdepth/bitmap.html
File Formats
Basic Graphics File Formats
Graphics
File Formats Categories
Color
Lecture: Observer or Observed?: Micro/Macro Surveillance
Show:
“Power of
Ten”- Charles
and Ray Eames
The Senses (as commonly known)
Artists: IAA, Daniela
Kostova, Olivia Robinson, Stanza, Beatriz da Costa, others
Studio
& Techniques: low res/high res, scan basics, scan tips, image resolution, composition, scale, compositing, advanced cutting and pasting,
feathering, quick mask, scale, color depth, layers, channels, color
theory, creating
realistic cast shadows, Layers Magazine
Upcoming
Short Study 1 –
Observer
or Observed: Micro/Macro Surveillance
(Due
week 2, Jan. 22)
Using
images from either global surveillance satellites, or nano structures, or
internal visualizations of the physical body, or images you take of
surveillance apparatus in your environment, create a visual statement about a
specific geographic or physical area that has personal significance to you and
comments on the concept of surveillance.
Use
scale- take two different photographs (for instance one of a satellite image
and one of you or your house or residence). Scale them unusually so that new
meanings emerge which challenge our perception of the accepted world. Color -
selectively recolor specific aspects of this image for emphasis.
Readings: (Due Jan 22)
*
Jeremy Bentham The Panopticon
*
Hurlbert, Alan. The Design Concept, pgs. 10-15
create a short reaction paper
Week 2
Jan 22
Discuss Readings
Critiques
of Observer or Observed: Micro/Macro Surveillance
Upcoming
Short Study 2 –
Short Study 2 –
Looking/Seeing:
Veracity in Telling a Story: Inclusion/Exclusion in Photo-journalism
(Due
week 3, Jan 29)
(awareness
of one’s “natural” environment)
After
studying various types of photojournalistic approaches in making a visual
statement, create a short photographic essay about a real person, event, or
occurrence. Without using any special visual effects (except color correction,
red eye reduction or defocusing), use cropping, experimental composition,
and other techniques of inclusion and exclusion to illustrate at least 24 ways
of looking at the same "real" visual information. Show all 24
images and pick 5 of the best images to illustrate your story. Print these 5
images. (Text can be used as captions if desired.)
Lecture: Looking/Seeing: Veracity in Telling a Story:
Inclusion/Exclusion in Photo-journalism
Show:
Looking at “the Other” in non-colonizing ways: “Un Chien Delicieux” - Ken Feingold
The Camera:
Canon
Digital SLR Camera EOS DR300D Manual
overview of the digital camera
http://www.usa.canon.com/consumer/controller?act=ProductCatIndexAct&fcategoryid=111
http://photo.net/equipment/canon/d30
Gear:
Photographic Techniques:
http://www.cambridgeincolour.com/tutorials.htm
Preliminary
Depth of Field Control
Depth of Field video
The gaze, framing the picture, camera angles:
Framing http://facweb.cs.depaul.edu/sgrais/SGframing.htm
Shadow http://facweb.cs.depaul.edu/sgrais/SGshadows.htm
Portrait http://facweb.cs.depaul.edu/sgrais/SGportrait.htm
Visiting
New York Times Photographer: Phil
Mansfield
Readings: (Due Jan 29)
*
Sturken, Marita & Cartwright, Lisa. Practices of Looking: an
Introduction to Visual Culture, pgs. 10-44
*
“Troubles in Truthsville”. A Conversation among Ken Feingold,
Coco Fusco, and Steve Gallagher”
create a short reaction paper
Week 3
Jan 29
Discuss
Readings
Critiques of
Photo-journalism projects
Upcoming Short Study 3 –
High Dynamic Range Photography: Recording More Visual Information/Making the
Ordinary Extraordinary
(Due week 5, Feb. 12)
After lecture in class on HDR and visiting guest
photographer’s talk, explore ways of making HDR (High Dynamic Range)
Photography. Create at least five dynamic hdr images which utilize the
technique and software for creative impact. Print these images.
Something
amazing about light Maxfield
Parrish
Review of
HDR (High Dynamic Range) Photography
http://stuckincustoms.com/2006/06/06/548/
http://www.cambridgeincolour.com/tutorials/high-dynamic-range.htm
Visiting
photographer: Natt Phenjati
Natt’s
tutorial page
* Working in RAW format Adobe Camera Raw
* Use the tripod
* Use manual mode for bracketing:
normal,+2, -2
* Dynamic Photo HDR full current
version Version 2.01 (or greater) windows
only http://www.mediachance.com/hdri/index.html
download Limited Trial version
*HDR and then Tone Map
For High end Printing:
* use high end monitors to view your
image, do not rely on your laptop monitor for high end printing
* Color space
* Color management
* Color profiles
attach with your file
PRINTING TO OUR
EPSON 98,000 High end printer:
general
overview of printing to the Epson 98,000 printer
Print this Sheet (must be
filled out for printing to the Epson 98,000 archival printer
Week 4
Feb 5
Work on
HDR studies in studio
Upcoming Short Study 3 –
High Dynamic Range Photography: Recording More Visual Information/Making the
Ordinary Extraordinary
(Due week 5, Feb. 12)
After lecture in class on HDR and visiting guest
photographer’s talk, explore ways of making HDR (High Dynamic Range)
Photography. Create at least five dynamic hdr images which utilize the
technique and software for creative impact. Print these images.
Week 5
Feb12
Critique
of HDR works
Upcoming study: Short Study 4 –
Memory and Veracity: Your Personal Visual History
(Due week 6, Feb. 19) (the space of memory)
Part one: expert photo-retouching of an old family photograph.
Part two: photomontage a new family portrait which defies time and
"truth".
Readings:(Due Feb 19)
* Rovira,
Jim. Baudrillard and Hollywood:subverting the mechanism of control and The
Matrix pgs. 1-3.
* Baudrillard,
Jean.Simulacra and Simulation. Ann Arbor, The University of Michigan Press,
1994, (excerpts)
create a short reaction paper
Lecture: The Restoration of Memory: Your Personal Visual History
Real or
Facebook?? The
simulacrum of digital exchanges
Show:
Adam Berliner’s film “Nobodys Business” (1996) http://www.alanberliner.com/flashdev3/viewing.html
Nancy
Burson
http://www.nyu.edu/greyart/exhibits/burson/
Studio
& Techniques: advanced scanning,
filtering, blending, compositing, printing, traditional photomontage &
digital photomontage techniques, cutting, pasting, feathering edges, layers, rubber stamp, dust and scratches filter, healing brush, colorizing,
composting, techniques of lighting and shadow, composition and
posing/photographic conventions of different eras.
Printing, file prep, show various kinds of output from the same image
Photo retouching
http://glennferon.com/portfolio1/index.html
http://towergardens.homestead.com/photoretouching.html
http://www.ronking.com/Enhancements.html
http://www.smpstudio.com/digret.htm
Advanced Selection techniques:
http://www.phototakers.com/articles/articles/35.html
Photoshop techniques:
http://www.photoshoproadmap.com/links/go/1777
Duotone:
Aged image technique:
http://www.layersmagazine.com/postcard-from-japan-part-1.html
Critiques of Memory and
Veracity : Your Personal Visual History
Upcoming Short Study 5 -
Fix it: What is Important to you: Digital
Photographic Panorama
(Due week 8, March 5)
Working collaboratively in groups of 3, tell a
story or narrative through the use of various photographic and/or graphic
elements, object scans, textures, etc. which work together to give visual form
to your ideas. Text can be used, either incorporated as part of the image or as
captions. Print your team's work on large format printer minimum at the VCC
size 24 x 40 inches or create a virtual panorama: either create a VR panorama,
a polar panorama, a cyclorama, or encompassing diorama
Readings: (Due Feb 26)
Crary, Jonathan. Techniques of the Observer
**create a short reaction paper
Consider
What do you wish to communicate?
Ideations of the Future and
Contemporary Issues:
Vertical Gardens
http://www.verticalgardenpatrickblanc.com/
http://landscapeandurbanism.blogspot.com/2008/09/reading-list-vertical-garden.html
End of Oil
http://www.molleindustria.org/en/home
America for Sale
Consuming the Environment
Contemporary Slavery
Consider:
* how images can be used to
effectively tell stories of all kinds?
* consider options for exhibiting
narratives - long thin scroll? Hung vertically? Or horizontally? Rectangle?
Circle?
* think about composition/image/form
and color working together (remember the temple of art)
* Thoughtfully select and edit the
group’s images
* Ethics in creativity -creative
integrity -the life and times of Leni Riefenstahl. If you can imagine it, it
could happen.
Elements
of Good Collaboration:
Elements
of good collaboration: group discussion, mutual respect, listening,
responsibility, concrete schedule and time management, creative responsibility.
See: My Tips for Successful Collaboration
Show
Robert
& Shana ParkeHarrison
http://www.edelmangallery.com/parke.htm
http://www.eastman.org/fm/mismis/htmlsrc27/parkeharrison_sld00001.html
Show:
Anthony
Goicolea
http://www.anthonygoicolea.com/pages/multipleframe.html
http://www.anthonygoicolea.com/NewAnthonySite/pages/indexnew.html
David Hockney Hockney:
Pearblossom Highway and video (3:12)
Joiners
Table Top Photography &
Imaginary Worlds:
James Casebere
http://artscenecal.com/ArticlesFile/Archive/Articles2000/Articles0600/JCasebereA.html
http://www.marcselwynfineart.com/artists/casebere/casebere.html
http://mocoloco.com/art/archives/002089.php
http://www.bombsite.com/casebere/casebere2.html
Narratives in Painting and
Photographic Imaging:
Hieronymous Bosch Flemish
painter 1450-1516
http://www.abcgallery.com/B/bosch/bosch.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Garden_of_Earthly_Delights
http://www.idr.unipi.it/iura-communia/bosch.jpg
http://catalogue.ircam.fr/images/bosch-tenta2.jpg
Innovative panoramic and
semi-immersive ideas:
Jeffrey Shaw: the
Legible City:
http://www.jeffrey-shaw.net/html_main/frameset-works.php3
Caves
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cave_Automatic_Virtual_Environment
Photomontage: the
technique of combining in a single composition pictorial elements from various
sources, as parts of different photographs or fragments of printing, either to
give the illusion that the elements belonged together originally or to allow
each element to retain its separate identity as a means of adding interest or
meaning to the composition.
Collage: a technique
of composing a work of art by pasting on a single surface various materials not
normally associated with one another, as newspaper clippings, parts of
photographs, theater tickets, and fragments of an envelope.
Assemblage:
a sculptural technique of organizing
or composing into a unified whole a group of unrelated and often fragmentary or
discarded objects.
Joseph Cornel
http://pem.org/cornell/
http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/cornell/
Show:
A Short History of Photomontage/Collage
Photomontage
tutorials:
http://www.projectseven.com/tutorials/images/p_montage/index.htm
Panorama
|
Function:
noun 2. A comprehensive
presentation; a survey: a panorama of American literature. 3. A
picture or series of pictures representing a continuous scene, often
exhibited a part at a time by being unrolled and passed before the spectator.
4. A
mental vision of a series of events. Some
examples of panoramas: http://www.getty.edu/art/gettyguide/displayObjectList?cat=2032994 http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/panoramic_photography/panoramic_home.html |
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http://www.file.org.br/index.php?content_id=171&sel=9.0&lang=en
http://pic.templetons.com/brad/pano/
Technique
review: perfecting images for panorama: blending,
stitching, advanced photo compositing and overlap, and dynamic composition,
montage/collage digitally and traditionally, panorama, text, high end printing
Experimenting with Panorama Tools:
Polar Panorama: can make a 360° view appear to be a separate planet, or could be
created with the sky as the center of the image.
Panorama Tools: http://webuser.fh-furtwangen.de/%7Edersch/
VR panoramas
Quicktime
VR: http://www.dr-lex.34sp.com/qtvr/makepano.html
Scott
Highton, www.highton.com one of the
pioneers of virtual reality photography, presents an overview of methods and
techniques for photographing VR panoramas.
PhotoTechEDU Day 29: Photographing VR Panoramas http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1_6vO1vBkpc
www.vrphotography.com
Stitching:
PTGui Pro
(v.7.5 or greater) http://www.ptgui.com/order.html
english version license US
Photosynth: software that morphs a series
photographs into a digital, 3-D panorama.
Other: Stereo
imaging
High End Giclee & Archival Printing:
Printing
to Arts Rensselaer high end Epson 98oo pro printer
Show samples
Week 7 Feb
26
Discuss readings Jonathan Crary
Digital painting:
Visiting
Artist
Comic strip approach: Traditional Drawing, working on digitally
cleaning up your drawings Tutorial
Traditional Drawing then digital painting Tutorial
Environment painting http://airage.deviantart.com/art/Inside-Environment-Painting-2-29149738
Speed Painting http://concept-on-mac.deviantart.com/art/Speedpaint-step-by-step-34278775
Clouds http://tutorials.epilogue.net/tutorials/perfect-clouds-in-5-easy-steps
Wet Canvas Digital Painting Overview
Digital Paint
Portrait Techniques
Combining photo and digital painting
http://fantasyartdesign.com/free-wallpapers/digital-art.php?best=1&i_i=241&u_i=68&srt=3&count=1
Work
on Fix
it: What is Important to you: Digital Photographic Panorama
(Due week 8, March 5)
Critique: Fix it: What is
Important to you: Digital Photographic Panoramas
Upcoming Short Study 6 –
Imaginary Space: Level / Set Design
(Due week 10, March 19)
Create 4 original, interrelated sequential level designs, maps, or set
designs which tell a story by creating a background or landscape upon which
some kind of action could take place.
Pay careful attention to color, lighting, texture, symbolism, allegory.
You can use any digital process or application as well as scanned objects (such
as crumpled paper, sticks, leaves, etc.), or digital paintings or textures to
create an imaginary landscape. Project or print the resulting works.
Readings:
(Due March 19)
Postman,
Neil. Technopoly: The Surrender of Culture to Technology.
create a short reaction paper
Discuss
Readings
Lecture: Imaginary Space: Level Design
Level
Design:
* Adams
and Rollings The Level Design Process
Mise-en-scene:
http://classes.yale.edu/film-analysis/htmfiles/mise-en-scene.htm
Studio & Techniques: Flash, digital & traditional painting
Flash
sites : http://www.macromedia.com/cfusion/showcase/index.cfm
Feng Zhu Design http://www.fengzhudesign.com/tutorials.html
Critiques of Imaginary Space: Level / Set Design
Upcoming Short Study 7-
Flash Stories
(Due week 12, April 2)
Create
an original personal story based on your life’s experiences, events, or
pathways. You may wish to create an interactive digital map of your personal
history. Create a flash animation of 1 to 2 minutes in length, suitable for
posting to the web. Work with movement, timing, juxtaposition, sound,
composition, color, etc. to tell your "story". Consider what it is
you wish to say, storyboard it, develop a style, and go forth.
Show:
Guto Nóbrega Institutional affiliation: UFRJ - Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro
Title:
cache memory
http://www.gutonobrega.hpg.ig.com.br/memory.swf
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.
Circle of
Storytellers: http://www.pbs.org/circleofstories/
Lesson:
Movement and Motion
lesson4motion\Motion.htm
persistence
of vision
http://www.privatelessons.net/2d/sample/m01_03.html
http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animation
See some of the other Chinese students’ previous works at: http://zquart.tomrchambers.com/exhibdir.html
See their
school at: http://www.zqu.edu.cn/dept/msx
Some
Information about China
http://www.chinatoday.com/
Film Analysis Guide http://classes.yale.edu/film-analysis/
Flash:
Amazing
Flash Websites:
http://www.entheosweb.com/Flash/
http://www.2advanced.com/
- site for a design firm. Very rich content- kind of intense, definitely at the
far end of the Scale.
Nathan
Malone http://www.albinoblacksheep.com/flash/zekeyspaceylizard/
http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/
- Flash community portal. The majority of the submissions to the site exhibit a
sort of Everyman's Flash.
http://www.joecartoon.com/
- ancient (though still active) Flash cartoon site. The artist is a member of
the first wave of Flash animators; his work is low-keyframe, with rudimentary
interactivity.
http://www.bornmagazine.org/mother.html
- an online magazine of Flash poems- literary poems augmented by Flash content.
Visionary stuff.
http://www.ferryhalim.com/orisinal/
- warm, mellow games based on simple interactive principles.
http://www.tokyoplastic.com/
- I hardly know what it is, but it's cool. Students are encouraged to check out
the animation "drum machine". (The 3D animation in tokyoplastic is
generated through an application known as Swift3D; though cool, 3D is really
the least practical animation format in Flash.)
http://showcase.sfdt.com/files/14842-XiaoXiao03.swf
- stick figures fighting (hosted on Stick Figure Death Theatre).
http://www.ninjai.com/
- an extremely, extremely violent but well done animation project made entirely
by stuntpeople who double as animators. (I'm not kidding, it gets really
sickeningly violent.)
http://www.samorost.net/samorost1/
http://www.samorost.net/samorost2/
Samorost-
two interactive puzzle stories that use photographic elements to create an
immersive environment.
http://www.homestarrunner.com/
- Self-explanatory; a self-sustaining Flash phenomenon, whose success relies
mostly on its cult status.
And
finally, here's a website that describes in detail the visual aesthetic of
Flash media: http://alistapart.com/articles/flashaesthetic
Studio & Technique Intensive: Flash animation including: cinema techniques, mise-en-scene, movement, timing, juxtaposition, sound, composition, color
Mastering
Flash:
* Do the
basic tutorial in the application, then:
* Layer
& Animation explained in Flash
* Designing
and Animating Characters in Flash 8
*
Lots of Flash Tutorials http://www.developal.com/tutorials/tutorials252.html
*
Some Flash games http://www.albinoblacksheep.com/games/
*
Animating Your Adobe Photoshop Files in Flash 8
Week 11 March 26
Artist/Programmer
Jeremy Sachs
Work
on personal stories in studio
Week 12 April 2
Critique of Flash Stories
Upcoming:
Final Project:
Due: week 13, April 9: Ideation
Due: week 14, April 16: Works photographed in in-site
Due week 15, April 23: Final Website of all perfected
studies and complete final project website with statement, ideation and
realization comparisons
Activating public spaces with digital images, installations, and art delivery
systems
Readings:
Senie,
Harriet F. & Webster, Sally, eds. Critical Issues in Public Art: Content,
Context, and Controversy
*****create a short reaction paper due April 9
and
Senie,
Harriet F. & Webster, Sally, eds. Critical Issues in Public Art: Phillips
Temporality and Public Art
*****create a short
reaction paper due April 9
Discuss
Readings
Lecture: Activating
public spaces with digital images, installations, and art delivery systems
New Media
Architectures
More and more of the surfaces in our daily lives
have become potential media screens -- from cellphones to billboards, in bars,
homes and cars -- resulting increasingly in a public environment of ambient
media. While commercialism pervades this media landscape, this panel considers
established and current uses of video as a spatial medium: installation, club
scene VJ-ing, interactive video driven by the physicality of viewers. Engaging
the moving image in the context of social and psychic spaces, the focus is on a
continuum of art practice through evolving media and conceptual paradigms.
The
Streaming Museum exhibitions series (www.streamingmuseum.org).
* final
project ideas
* Web
space/Physical space
* art delivery systems,
* public art
* printed digital billboards & murals
Technique:
Image
prep for the net, basic html & Dreamweaver
Show
Video Library Player: Maya Lins Wave
Field
The artist discusses her new projects, including her new installation at the
Storm King Art Center.
Sculpture
from trash bags and ingenious site location: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PH6xCT2aTSo
Mariko
Mori
http://www.carnegiemuseums.org/cmag/bk_issue/1998/julaug/feat5.htm
http://www.galerieperrotin.com/artiste_.php?id_=26&&nom_=Mariko%20Mori&&dossier=Mariko_Mori#
http://www.jca-online.com/mori.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mariko_Mori
http://www.thefirstpost.co.uk/index.php?menuID=4&subID=889
Martin
Puryear
Krzystof
Wodiczko, film
the
public art space manipulator and installation artist http://www.offlinenetworks.com/artistinfo/artistpages/kwodiczko.html
see film on Claus Oldenberg and Coosje van Bruggen
also see http://www.oldenburgvanbruggen.com/
Week 13 April 9
Final Project pre-REVIEWS
Artist Statement & Digital Ideograph –
The
artist statement and digital ideograph begin the development of your individual
ideas and starts the trajectory towards the final project. It utilizes the
techniques, theory and history learned in class and in individual research.
Week 14 April 16
On-site Critiques Works photographed
in in-site
The actual project manifested as an original (billboard,
large poster series, drive by car art, aerial art, photo projection, data
projection, etc.) art system device that carries your message to those who may
not have the opportunity to see your work inside a normal gallery environment. Your work must be realized physically and you must
photograph the work in the site
Week 15 April 23
LAST CLASS
Final Website due of all perfected studies, and complete final
project website with statement, ideation and realization comparisons for final
grading.
ALL WORK DUE (NO EXCEPTIONS)
One
folder entitled, Your Name_FINAL
- Final Project:
- Artist
statement
- Short
Studies:
Additionally, all journals are due this day.