Course Outline: (this will change)
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Week 1 - August 28: Intro to Digital Imaging
Intro to student's work
Intro to course
Intro to rebecca's work
Week 1 - Assignment
Using whatever platform your prefer, create a blog for this course.
Email me
the url + I will add it to the class site.
Blog post #1 - Post your most recent artist statement to your blog. Everyone is responsible for reading everyone’s statement.
Reading: Watch
Ways of Seeing Chapter 1
- John Berger, 1972 (30 min)
Reading Response #1 - In a few paragraphs on your blog respond to the the Berger text.
Week 2 - September 4: Digital Image as Txt
Ways of Seeing Discussion
On Texts, Authorship + Machines
Week 2 - Assignment
Reading: Read
Death of the Author
- Roland Barthes, 1977
Reading Response #2 - In a few paragraphs on your blog respond to the the Barthes text. Do you agree / disagree? What other artists, movements, and "texts" does it make you think of? (You can relate this to your own work if applicable.) Please post your response before Tuesday evening at 8pm.
Image as Text Assigment: After reading the essay, create a series of work made from pre-existing images. These can be someone else's work or your own (as long as they are at least two years old). The goal is to augment, change or entirely disrupt the original "intention" of the texts. Make at least three + be prepared to disucss them in class next week.
Week 3 - September 11: Image as Object
Discuss + Critique Image as Text Assignment
On Image as Objects
Intro to DDA Imaging Lab: Large Format Printing w/ the Epson 9600
Week 3 - Assignment
Reading:
Collecting in the Age of Digital Reproduction
- Casey Reas, 2019
Reading Response #3 - In a few paragraphs on your blog respond to the the Reas text. Please post your response before Tuesday evening at 8pm.
Image as Object Assignment: In class next week we'll continue exploring the large format Epson to make ink jet prints. Over the next few weeks, consider the difference between a digital image on a screen + the physical object you will be creating. Experiment with this idea. Whether it's the subject of the image, the material you print on, the 2 or 3 dimensionality, the scale and/or the process of making (or unmaking) the print - create a work or works that reflect it/their physicality. Come to class next week prepared to work on digital files + make them physical prints.
Week 4 - September 18
Epson 9800 Printing Studio
Week 4 - Assignment
Reading:
Meloncholy Objects
- Susan Sontag, 1977
Reading Response #4 - In a few paragraphs on your blog respond to the the Sontag text. Please post your response before Tuesday evening at 8pm.
Image as Object Assignment: Now that you are familiar with the printing workflow - take the prints you made into your studio + think of next steps. Continue camera, studio and/or screen work on this assigment (which will become your first project) + be prepard to print more of your images during next class. (Hopefully we will have two printers to work with soon.)
Week 5 - September 25
Epson 9800 Printing Studio
Discuss Print Projects Individually w/ R
Week 5 - Assignment
On your blog - write a project proposal for your image as object project. Your project must - in some way - contain printed image objects. On your blog, include images of examples of works in progress, materials, inspiration, and/or whatever you think is releavant to communicate your ideas.
Post your blogs before 6pm on Tuesday. You are required to read your all of your peer's project statements. Pleaes come to class next week with questions and thoughts for one another's work.
Week 6 - October 2
Discuss Print Projects
Project 1 Studio
Week 7 - October 9
Project 1 Studio
Week 7 - Assignment
Meet at the Engineering building at 5pm next class.
Bring three prints of the SAME IMAGE to class next week. Also bring charcoal, markers + any other drawing tools you prefer to class next week
Week 8 - October 16
Visit the
Digital Output Center
Project 1 Studio
Week 8 - Assignment
Keeping working on your project! Write a blog post with updates about your process.
Week 9 - October 23
Project 1 Studio
Week 9 - Assignment
Finish your project! Be prepared to pin / tape or otherwise install your project in your studio for critique next class.
Week 10 - October 30
Project 1 Critique in your studio
Week 10 - Assignment
Write a blog post with images + text that responds to the work you've made so far this semester + directions you want to take for your final project. Come to class next week with materials + tools ready to get started on your final project.
Week 11 - November 6
Project 2 Studio
Week 11 - Assignment
Decide what you want to do for your final projectr new ideas. If this is an extension of your first project, be sure to include what was said during your critique and how that has changed your process or thinking - if at all. Write an extensive blog post with images + y Come to class next week with materials to discuss with the class + work on.
Week 12 - November 13
Project 2 Studio
1 + 1 final project conversations
Week 12 - Assignment
Continue work on yr final project.
Week 13 - November 20
Project 2 Studio
Week 13 - Assignment
Update your artist statment based on your progress this semeter. Post a link on your blog before Tuesday the 3rd at 6pm. Make sure to read everyone else's statement.
Week 14 - December 4
Project 2 Studio
Week 14 - Assignment
Finish your final project! Be prepared to pin / tape or otherwise install your project in your studio for critique next class.
Week 15 - December 11
Final critique
Week 15 - Assignment
Send me images or video of your work (via a service like
WeTransfer
by Wenesday December 18th at 12pm
Time-based: 1920x1080, H264 compression (less than 20 Mbps rate), 12 - 30 FPS.
Images/Sculpture/Installtion: Still images, 5000px in the largest dimension at 72dpi, uncompressed TIFF.