Projects
Intermediate Digital Imaging
Spring 09
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
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.)
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
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, Natt Phenjati’s talk, explore the 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.
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
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
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
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.
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 shortstudies
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