Tuesday, December 13, 2016
Tuesday, December 6, 2016
List of files, GIF artist list, final time
LIST OF FILES
For Thursday, bring all your files from the semester for me to collect. Collect them all in one folder with your name on it.
For Thursday, bring all your files from the semester for me to collect. Collect them all in one folder with your name on it.
Please follow this naming convention:
You should give them filenames like this:
"(2-digit project number)-(your last name)-(project title).fileextension"
So if your name is Jane Smith, and the project was the self portrait, you would name the file:
01-smith-selfportrait.jpg
If you have more than one image for the project, append letters (A,B, C):
01-smith-selfportrait-A.jpg
01-smith-selfportrait-B.jpg
All the files should be flattened files.
And here are the project titles I'd like you to use.
1. Digital self-portrait, from three scans:
01-lastname-selfportrait
2. Text/image combo project (at least two versions)
02-lastname-textimage-A
02-lastname-textimage-B
3. The response to the collage artist
03-lastname-collageresponse
4. The "composite" project (something small made large, or something large made small)
04-lastname-composite
5. The "fake news" project
05-lastname-fakenews
6. The "multiple me" project
06-lastname-multiple
7. The Fair Use Project
07-lastname-fairuse
8. The Illustrator Landscape or Portrait Project
08-lastname-illustrator
9. The Brushes Project
09-lastname-brushes
10. Lulu Book Project (six interior pages)
10-lastname-lulu-A
10-lastname-lulu-B
10-lastname-lulu-C
10-lastname-lulu-D
10-lastname-lulu-E
10-lastname-lulu-F
11. Animated GIF
11-lastname-GIF
GIF ARTIST LIST
https://creativemarket.com/blog/the-30-best-animated-gif-artists-on-the-web
FINAL IS AT:
Wednesday Dec 14, 9am-11am.
Thursday, December 1, 2016
Final Time, and book page specs
Our final will be:
Wednesday, Dec. 14, 9am-11am
In our usual classroom
The specs for the final pages for the book are:
Each page should be: 8.75in x 8.75in
Each page has to be a flattened pdf
Name them like so:
LASTNAME-01.pdf
LASTNAME-02.pdf
LASTNAME-03.pdf
LASTNAME-04.pdf
LASTNAME-05.pdf
LASTNAME-06.pdf
Wednesday, Dec. 14, 9am-11am
In our usual classroom
The specs for the final pages for the book are:
Each page should be: 8.75in x 8.75in
Each page has to be a flattened pdf
Name them like so:
LASTNAME-01.pdf
LASTNAME-02.pdf
LASTNAME-03.pdf
LASTNAME-04.pdf
LASTNAME-05.pdf
LASTNAME-06.pdf
Thursday, November 17, 2016
The Book Project
Next Thursday will be a work period for your six-page sequence, so come prepared with whatever raw materials you need (images, ideas) to use the work period profitably. A portion of your grade will be your initial proposal for the sequence, which is due at the beginning of Thursday's class – you need to have at least a basic sketch (drawn out on paper, or cobbled together in Photoshop) of your general idea for the sequence, or a one-paragraph write-up of your idea (printed out).
Here are the specs for the images in your "sequence" project -- the one we're printing up as a book through lulu.com. You should have the images you need at the start of the class, so you can just jump into it when class starts.
Dimensions for Lulu book project
You will have 6 pages to fill in an art book we're publishing through Lulu.com. One page is like an intro page for yourself and your work, which should include your name. It can be a sort of "artist's statement," or it can otherwise set the stage for the images to follow. The following five pages should be a series of images that somehow work together as a sequence.
The dimensions at which you should create the work are:
Final page size will be 8.5" x 8.5" at 300 dpi.
The pages need a 1/8" bleed all the way around, so you'll create your photoshop files at 8.75" x 8.75" (at 300 dpi, this comes out to 2625 pixels by 2625 pixels).
Keep in mind, as you're designing the sequence, that you will have three "two page spreads," where the image on the lefthand page will be facing the image on the righthand page. Think about how the images on those facing pages will affect each other, in terms of content, color, composition, and so on.
If you're still chewing through what a "sequence" is, remember that a potential starting place could be:
1. Time changes through a fixed location. What is a single place, that goes through changes as time passes, and how are those changes made visible? Think of R. Crumb's "History of America."
2. Spatial changes with a fixed subject. Is there a character, or object, that travels through different spaces?
3. Transformations of a character or object. Think of Klinger's "glove" etching. Is there a common image that goes through a variety of changes of scale, of stature, of meaning? Is there an object that can pull the images together along the thread of a visual theme?
4. Different aspects of a single thing. Think Hokusai's Mount Fuji series. Is there a thing, a person or a place that can be looked at through a variety of lenses -- the lens of history, of myth, of geology, etc?
5. Formal variation and rhythm. Remember that abstracts images can function in sequence, riffing on common formal elements throughout the multiple images.
6. Storytelling. Any sequence tells a story of some sort. Is there some sort of narrative that could occur through the five images? Think of Hogarth's "Harlot's Progess," or the comics examples I showed.
And you should "own" your artwork in this project -- you can shoot your own images, or draw your own images. You can use stock images (free or purchased).
Here are the specs for the images in your "sequence" project -- the one we're printing up as a book through lulu.com. You should have the images you need at the start of the class, so you can just jump into it when class starts.
Dimensions for Lulu book project
You will have 6 pages to fill in an art book we're publishing through Lulu.com. One page is like an intro page for yourself and your work, which should include your name. It can be a sort of "artist's statement," or it can otherwise set the stage for the images to follow. The following five pages should be a series of images that somehow work together as a sequence.
The dimensions at which you should create the work are:
Final page size will be 8.5" x 8.5" at 300 dpi.
The pages need a 1/8" bleed all the way around, so you'll create your photoshop files at 8.75" x 8.75" (at 300 dpi, this comes out to 2625 pixels by 2625 pixels).
Keep in mind, as you're designing the sequence, that you will have three "two page spreads," where the image on the lefthand page will be facing the image on the righthand page. Think about how the images on those facing pages will affect each other, in terms of content, color, composition, and so on.
If you're still chewing through what a "sequence" is, remember that a potential starting place could be:
1. Time changes through a fixed location. What is a single place, that goes through changes as time passes, and how are those changes made visible? Think of R. Crumb's "History of America."
2. Spatial changes with a fixed subject. Is there a character, or object, that travels through different spaces?
3. Transformations of a character or object. Think of Klinger's "glove" etching. Is there a common image that goes through a variety of changes of scale, of stature, of meaning? Is there an object that can pull the images together along the thread of a visual theme?
4. Different aspects of a single thing. Think Hokusai's Mount Fuji series. Is there a thing, a person or a place that can be looked at through a variety of lenses -- the lens of history, of myth, of geology, etc?
5. Formal variation and rhythm. Remember that abstracts images can function in sequence, riffing on common formal elements throughout the multiple images.
6. Storytelling. Any sequence tells a story of some sort. Is there some sort of narrative that could occur through the five images? Think of Hogarth's "Harlot's Progess," or the comics examples I showed.
And you should "own" your artwork in this project -- you can shoot your own images, or draw your own images. You can use stock images (free or purchased).
Tuesday, November 15, 2016
Wednesday, November 9, 2016
REMINDER: This Thurs (11/10), Meet at the Library!
Hi all. Don't forget, this Thursday class will meet at 10am on the third floor of Prim Library. See you there!
Thursday, October 27, 2016
Fair Use Project: Tuesday, 11/01
For Tuesday's class, come prepared with a sketch for your idea for the "fair use" project. You need to use something that's copyrighted – an image, a photo, a logo, a tagline, a story, a song lyric, whatever it may be – and you need to change it enough that you think you'd have a "fair use" case for your use of the copyrighted material.
Obviously we're creating this project for class, but I want you to imagine your fair use project being used in some other venue. The intended venue of the work could have a strong bearing on whether your work is "protected" or not -- so please imagine the artwork is intended to be shown on a T-Shirt, in a gallery, on a billboard, or what have you. For Thursday, you'll have to have a written defense of your work on fair use grounds - we'll put you "on trial" and see if you get thrown in copyright jail or not.
If you want to refresh yourself on some copyright info, there are free digital versions of a Duke Copyright Fair Use comic here:
http://www.law.duke.edu/cspd/comics/digital.php
Again, fair use can be invoked for the following reasons:
To report on news
To make a parody
To copy for class
To criticize
To quote for scholarly purposes
For research
For the purposes of this project, you'll be leaning on either the "parody" or "criticism" angle.
There are also the "four guidelines" for fair use:
1. The Transformative Factor: The Purpose and Character of Your Use
2. The Nature of the Copyrighted Work
3. The Amount and Substantiality of the Portion Taken
4. The Effect of the Use Upon the Potential Market
More detailed info here:
http://fairuse.stanford.edu/Copyright_and_Fair_Use_Overview/chapter9/9-b.html
Ultimately, you will be referring to those four guidelines to defend your "fair use"position.
Obviously we're creating this project for class, but I want you to imagine your fair use project being used in some other venue. The intended venue of the work could have a strong bearing on whether your work is "protected" or not -- so please imagine the artwork is intended to be shown on a T-Shirt, in a gallery, on a billboard, or what have you. For Thursday, you'll have to have a written defense of your work on fair use grounds - we'll put you "on trial" and see if you get thrown in copyright jail or not.
If you want to refresh yourself on some copyright info, there are free digital versions of a Duke Copyright Fair Use comic here:
http://www.law.duke.edu/cspd/comics/digital.php
Again, fair use can be invoked for the following reasons:
To report on news
To make a parody
To copy for class
To criticize
To quote for scholarly purposes
For research
For the purposes of this project, you'll be leaning on either the "parody" or "criticism" angle.
There are also the "four guidelines" for fair use:
1. The Transformative Factor: The Purpose and Character of Your Use
2. The Nature of the Copyrighted Work
3. The Amount and Substantiality of the Portion Taken
4. The Effect of the Use Upon the Potential Market
More detailed info here:
http://fairuse.stanford.edu/Copyright_and_Fair_Use_Overview/chapter9/9-b.html
Ultimately, you will be referring to those four guidelines to defend your "fair use"position.
Tuesday, October 11, 2016
Thursday Assignment, and midterm files due
Tutorial
On Thursday (10/13), you should be prepared to give the class a photoshop tutorial, on any topic or effect you'd like to research. Google something you'd like to learn, or click around in the links on the "my blog list" column on the righthand side of this page (there are lots of good tutorials on those blogs). Remember, step yourself through it BEFORE you come to class, to make sure you understand all the steps, and have all the materials you need. You should be able to make your demonstration in about ten minutes.
Don't pick something too complicated to do in ten minutes, but don't get too simple, either. If you just correct some redeye or something, or review something we've already covered in class, you're not going to get a good grade (though it might be something that builds on things we've learned in class, there should be at least some new element getting you to the end product). Try to hit that sweet spot of "moderately difficult" tutorial.
Post a link or a one-sentence description of the tutorial you'd like to do in the "comments" to this blog post, checking to make sure no one else has picked the same tutorial before you.
ALSO: I will be collecting all your project files for your midterm grade on Thursday. So please bring to class your flattened files for –
Digital self portrait (scanned items)
Text/Image project
Collage Artist Response
Composite (big thing made small, or small thing made big)
Fake News
Multiple Me
Please follow this naming convention:
You should give them filenames like this:
"(2-digit project number)-(your last name)-(project title).fileextension"
So if your name is Jane Smith, and the project was the self portrait, you would name the file:
01-smith-selfportrait.jpg
If you have more than one image for the project, append letters (A,B, C):
01-smith-selfportrait-A.jpg
01-smith-selfportrait-B.jpg
All the files should be flattened files.
And here are the project titles I'd like you to use.
1. Digital self-portrait, from three scans:
01-lastname-selfportrait
2. Text/image combo project (at least two versions)
02-lastname-textimage-A
02-lastname-textimage-B
3. The response to the collage artist
03-lastname-collageresponse
4. The "composite" project (something small made large, or something large made small)
04-lastname-composite
5. The "fake news" project
05-lastname-fakenews
6. The "multiple me" project
06-lastname-multipleme
On Thursday (10/13), you should be prepared to give the class a photoshop tutorial, on any topic or effect you'd like to research. Google something you'd like to learn, or click around in the links on the "my blog list" column on the righthand side of this page (there are lots of good tutorials on those blogs). Remember, step yourself through it BEFORE you come to class, to make sure you understand all the steps, and have all the materials you need. You should be able to make your demonstration in about ten minutes.
Don't pick something too complicated to do in ten minutes, but don't get too simple, either. If you just correct some redeye or something, or review something we've already covered in class, you're not going to get a good grade (though it might be something that builds on things we've learned in class, there should be at least some new element getting you to the end product). Try to hit that sweet spot of "moderately difficult" tutorial.
Post a link or a one-sentence description of the tutorial you'd like to do in the "comments" to this blog post, checking to make sure no one else has picked the same tutorial before you.
ALSO: I will be collecting all your project files for your midterm grade on Thursday. So please bring to class your flattened files for –
Digital self portrait (scanned items)
Text/Image project
Collage Artist Response
Composite (big thing made small, or small thing made big)
Fake News
Multiple Me
Please follow this naming convention:
You should give them filenames like this:
"(2-digit project number)-(your last name)-(project title).fileextension"
So if your name is Jane Smith, and the project was the self portrait, you would name the file:
01-smith-selfportrait.jpg
If you have more than one image for the project, append letters (A,B, C):
01-smith-selfportrait-A.jpg
01-smith-selfportrait-B.jpg
All the files should be flattened files.
And here are the project titles I'd like you to use.
1. Digital self-portrait, from three scans:
01-lastname-selfportrait
2. Text/image combo project (at least two versions)
02-lastname-textimage-A
02-lastname-textimage-B
3. The response to the collage artist
03-lastname-collageresponse
4. The "composite" project (something small made large, or something large made small)
04-lastname-composite
5. The "fake news" project
05-lastname-fakenews
6. The "multiple me" project
06-lastname-multipleme
Thursday, October 6, 2016
Assignment for Tuesday (10/11)
"Multiple You"
The next assignment is to create a picture that will have five (or more) images of yourself in one single environment. Put another way, it'll be a picture of some space -- a room, landscape, whatever -- in which there are at least five images of you, realistically inhabiting the space. There should also be some overlapping among at least three of the "yous."
Part of this assignment is technical - thinking of how you are going to best execute your idea, making sure the lighting works in the way you want it to, making sure you've staged the scene in a way that works, utilizing a tripod perhaps in stabilizng your multiple shots. The other part of the assignment is creative -- thinking through what the realtionship between your five (or more) selves might be, and what their relationship to the environment might be. It will be relatively easy to just position yourself in a room in four different poses, and just piece the four photos together. But there should be some sort of drama that is expressed in the picture.
You can dress in different costume for your five or more selves, so that the multiple yous are multiple characters. Or you could take the multiple yous as different expressions of the same central personality. Is one version of you the ego, and the other the id? Is one a voice undermining you, and is another a contrary voice of optimism and hope? What are the different faces of your personality, and what sorts of relationships or conflicts do they have with one another? How could those relationships/conflicts be expressed through action, through expression, through gesture?
This doesn't have to be heavy at all -- you can have a comical take on the problem -- but the bottom line is that there should be some psychological relationship betwen the multiple "characters." It doesn't have to be obvious or over-the-top -- there's room for ambiguity and mystery -- but it does have to be there, somewhere.
You'll need to have your photos taken before next class -- which wil be a work period for combining the photos. It might be a good strategy to pair with someone else in class; it'll be a good way of covering people who don't have access to a digital camera, and it will be far easier to compose and shoot yourself properly with someone other than you taking the pictures. We will eventually be making prints of these images, so make sure you take the photos at print resolution.
The next assignment is to create a picture that will have five (or more) images of yourself in one single environment. Put another way, it'll be a picture of some space -- a room, landscape, whatever -- in which there are at least five images of you, realistically inhabiting the space. There should also be some overlapping among at least three of the "yous."
Part of this assignment is technical - thinking of how you are going to best execute your idea, making sure the lighting works in the way you want it to, making sure you've staged the scene in a way that works, utilizing a tripod perhaps in stabilizng your multiple shots. The other part of the assignment is creative -- thinking through what the realtionship between your five (or more) selves might be, and what their relationship to the environment might be. It will be relatively easy to just position yourself in a room in four different poses, and just piece the four photos together. But there should be some sort of drama that is expressed in the picture.
You can dress in different costume for your five or more selves, so that the multiple yous are multiple characters. Or you could take the multiple yous as different expressions of the same central personality. Is one version of you the ego, and the other the id? Is one a voice undermining you, and is another a contrary voice of optimism and hope? What are the different faces of your personality, and what sorts of relationships or conflicts do they have with one another? How could those relationships/conflicts be expressed through action, through expression, through gesture?
This doesn't have to be heavy at all -- you can have a comical take on the problem -- but the bottom line is that there should be some psychological relationship betwen the multiple "characters." It doesn't have to be obvious or over-the-top -- there's room for ambiguity and mystery -- but it does have to be there, somewhere.
You'll need to have your photos taken before next class -- which wil be a work period for combining the photos. It might be a good strategy to pair with someone else in class; it'll be a good way of covering people who don't have access to a digital camera, and it will be far easier to compose and shoot yourself properly with someone other than you taking the pictures. We will eventually be making prints of these images, so make sure you take the photos at print resolution.
Tuesday, September 27, 2016
For Thursday: raw material for "fake news" assignment
The current assignment is to fake a news story. This should involve at least four images (though it can be more) you've composited, and some supporting text -- the text could be as simple as a caption or headline, or you could write a mini news article to accompany the image, if appropriate. The "fake news" could be either something plausible, or something completely absurd. Either way, strive to make the image itself as convincing as possible, and try to create the accompanying caption or story in a way that it sounds like a real news story. Thursday will be an in-class work day for this project.
Come to class Thursday with your raw materials for the project selected (or shot, if you're using any photos you plan to shoot yourself). Recommended, but not required – havethe text (for caption or story) written and printed out, and a basic sketch of your idea for the project.
Come to class Thursday with your raw materials for the project selected (or shot, if you're using any photos you plan to shoot yourself). Recommended, but not required – havethe text (for caption or story) written and printed out, and a basic sketch of your idea for the project.
Thursday, September 22, 2016
Compositing - in class assignment
In this assignment, I want you to insert a small image into a large landscape, or a large image into a small space: think of putting a giant banana in the middle of Times Square, or putting the eiffel tower into an aquarium. This is a basic compositing exercise -- I want you to make it as convincing as possible. Six things to look for when compositing, to make consistent across your composited images:
1. Color Balance
2. Brightness and Contrast
3. Key Light Direction (and Shadows)
4. Perspective
5. Blur
6. Grain
Here's a good tutorial on changing the lighting source for an image by creating two layers for a single image, adjusting them to highlight and shadow values, and then blending the two layers:
Lighting a Giant Elephant By bpkelsey
1. Color Balance
2. Brightness and Contrast
3. Key Light Direction (and Shadows)
4. Perspective
5. Blur
6. Grain
Here's a good tutorial on changing the lighting source for an image by creating two layers for a single image, adjusting them to highlight and shadow values, and then blending the two layers:
Lighting a Giant Elephant By bpkelsey
Tuesday, September 6, 2016
Assignment for Tuesday, 9/12
Write a three-page (doublespaced) paper on a collage artist, choosing from the list below. When you've selected your artist, post the artist's name in the "comments" below, along with which section of the class you're in -- morning or afternoon (and make sure no one in your section has already claimed that artist by checking out the comments before you). This is first come, first serve, so the quicker you pick and artist and comment, the wider choice you'll have.
Your paper should include some biographical background, to put the artist's work in context, and you should also choose two specific collage works by the artist, and give an aesthetic analysis of those works. You can talk about content -- what is the "meaning" of the piece, and how does the artist articulate that meaning? What sort of sources did the artist draw the collage material from, and how does that inform the meaning of the work? Also analyze its formal properties: how has the artist used color? Composition? Variation - of size, of light areas/dark areas, etc? Negative space and positive space? Rhythm? Texture? Is there a foreground and a background -- and if so, how do they relate to each other?
The central message of your paper should be a summary of the particular methods the artist uses and the effects the artist achieves through collage. You can break down the three-page structure like this:
Page 1: Central message and bio
Page 2: Analysis of one collage
Page 3: Analysis of second collage
You will be presenting your paper next Thursday. Bring a printed-out version of the paper and visual materials (the two images you've chosen, and anything else that will help in explaining your chosen artist and his/her work -- for the presentation, you can make a powerpoint and/or bring digital images to project). You will also be making a digital collage that is in some way a response to the artist's work; we will be working on that assignment for a couple classes. This is not to be a copy of any of the artist's work -- but take some principles that the artist embodies, and apply them to a work of your own making. For instance, Max Ernst used illustrations from 19th-century popular illustrated novels and science books and combined them to make a kind of disjointed story. What would a collage-story look like if it were assembled from science books of today?
So - due this coming Tuesday - the paper (which you will present), and an idea for your "artist response" collage, which you will begin working on in class the following Thursday.
Use the MLA guide for citing sources for your bibliography, for the paper:
http://www.umuc.edu/library/libhow/mla_examples.cfm
Citation help:
Citation machine
Easybib
Here is the common writing rubric, which I'll be using to grade your paper:
http://www.sierranevada.edu/wp-content/uploads/SNC-Common-Rubric-Written-Assignments-4-columns1.pdf
And here's the list of collage artists. Not all of them were primarily collage artists, but all used collage (I've asterisked some that are already taken – check the comments to see if your initial choice has been claimed by someone else):
Eileen Agar
*Jean Arp
Romare Bearden
Umberto Boccioni
Mark Bradford
Georges Braque
Joseph Cornell
James Dawe
Arthur G. Dove
Marcel Duchamp
Dan Eldon
Max Ernst
Raoul Hausmann
John Heartfield
Hannah Hoch
David Hockney
Lee Krasner
Kazimir Malevich
*Neck Face
Man Ray
Henri Matisse
*Pablo Picasso
Ad Reinhardt
Allison Renshaw
Mimmo Rotella
Kurt Schwitters
Nancy Spero
Annegret Soltau
John Stezaker
Bernie Stephanus
Jonathan Talbot
Cecil Touchon
Jesse Treece
*Marnie Weber
Please, when you've selected you collage artist, add a "comment" to this blog with the name of the collage artist you're doing your presentation on. Do not pick an artist who someone else has "claimed," so that we don't have a number of repeats in the presentation. Also - several of the artists on the list worked in a variety of media - make sure the examples you pick are actual collages, and not paintings.
Your paper should include some biographical background, to put the artist's work in context, and you should also choose two specific collage works by the artist, and give an aesthetic analysis of those works. You can talk about content -- what is the "meaning" of the piece, and how does the artist articulate that meaning? What sort of sources did the artist draw the collage material from, and how does that inform the meaning of the work? Also analyze its formal properties: how has the artist used color? Composition? Variation - of size, of light areas/dark areas, etc? Negative space and positive space? Rhythm? Texture? Is there a foreground and a background -- and if so, how do they relate to each other?
The central message of your paper should be a summary of the particular methods the artist uses and the effects the artist achieves through collage. You can break down the three-page structure like this:
Page 1: Central message and bio
Page 2: Analysis of one collage
Page 3: Analysis of second collage
You will be presenting your paper next Thursday. Bring a printed-out version of the paper and visual materials (the two images you've chosen, and anything else that will help in explaining your chosen artist and his/her work -- for the presentation, you can make a powerpoint and/or bring digital images to project). You will also be making a digital collage that is in some way a response to the artist's work; we will be working on that assignment for a couple classes. This is not to be a copy of any of the artist's work -- but take some principles that the artist embodies, and apply them to a work of your own making. For instance, Max Ernst used illustrations from 19th-century popular illustrated novels and science books and combined them to make a kind of disjointed story. What would a collage-story look like if it were assembled from science books of today?
So - due this coming Tuesday - the paper (which you will present), and an idea for your "artist response" collage, which you will begin working on in class the following Thursday.
Use the MLA guide for citing sources for your bibliography, for the paper:
http://www.umuc.edu/library/libhow/mla_examples.cfm
Citation help:
Citation machine
Easybib
Here is the common writing rubric, which I'll be using to grade your paper:
http://www.sierranevada.edu/wp-content/uploads/SNC-Common-Rubric-Written-Assignments-4-columns1.pdf
And here's the list of collage artists. Not all of them were primarily collage artists, but all used collage (I've asterisked some that are already taken – check the comments to see if your initial choice has been claimed by someone else):
Eileen Agar
*Jean Arp
Romare Bearden
Umberto Boccioni
Mark Bradford
Georges Braque
Joseph Cornell
James Dawe
Arthur G. Dove
Marcel Duchamp
Dan Eldon
Max Ernst
Raoul Hausmann
John Heartfield
Hannah Hoch
David Hockney
Lee Krasner
Kazimir Malevich
*Neck Face
Man Ray
Henri Matisse
*Pablo Picasso
Ad Reinhardt
Allison Renshaw
Mimmo Rotella
Kurt Schwitters
Nancy Spero
Annegret Soltau
John Stezaker
Bernie Stephanus
Jonathan Talbot
Cecil Touchon
Jesse Treece
*Marnie Weber
Please, when you've selected you collage artist, add a "comment" to this blog with the name of the collage artist you're doing your presentation on. Do not pick an artist who someone else has "claimed," so that we don't have a number of repeats in the presentation. Also - several of the artists on the list worked in a variety of media - make sure the examples you pick are actual collages, and not paintings.
Tuesday, August 30, 2016
Assignment for Thursday, 9/1
Image and text project. You will be making two different pictures, working from the same initial image. Produce an image that can relate to text in an interesting way. Create that image either by shooting it yourself (it can be a staged image, or an image "caught on the fly"), or it can be an image that is collaged from at least three sources (if you want to make a drawing as one of your sources, that's perfectly acceptable -- otherwise you can cull images from Google images and so on).
Using that image as a base, make two seperate treatments of the image, with legible text in each.
In treatment #1, use text that has a sense of "interior monologue." It doesn't literally have to be an interior monologue, but it should have that interior quality -- as if we're listening in on the thoughts of someone -- perhaps the thoughts of someone in the picture, perhaps the thoughts of someone looking at the scene (as if we're looking at the scene through someone's eyes, and hearing their thoughts).
In treatment #2, take the same image and place text in it that has a quality of "exterior commentary" -- the type of commentary one might find in a news caption or textbook, explaining what's happening, or somehow passing judgement on the scene. It should be as if the words are coming from a source that's not participating in the scene -- but commenting upon it from some sort of remove.
Each treatment of type should be distinct, utilizing different fonts and different layout strategies. Think about how the text relates to the image both conceptually (in the manner of an idea) and formally (how it sits on the page, how the shapes of the letters relate to the imagery, etc). Try to be as radically different in your font treatments as possible. For instance, if you have one treatment where the text is all one font, horizontal, small, and in one color, the other treatment might mix different fonts, run the text vertically, large, and in various colors.
You will have class time to work on this project on Thursday. But come prepared with an idea, and with your text and images already selected.
Thursday, August 25, 2016
Homework for Tuesday, 8/30
There's a short reading and response due for Tuesday's class -- "To Thine Own Selves Be True, A Review of Sherry Turkle’s Life on the Screen." Write two short paragraphs in response -- print out your response and bring it to class. We will be discussing the article. Though the article is of a book that's "old" in terms of the development of the internet, I think it brings up some insights and issues that are still relevant (and the author of the book under review, Sherry Turkle, is still writing about contemporary digital culture). The article is partly about the way people negotiate or change their identity in terms of online or "digital" culture, and since we're creating a digital self-portrait, I thought it would be interesting food for thought. There are a series of questions at the end of the article you could address yourself to; I'm most interested in your position on the "ominous" scenario and the "positive" scenario -- which do you think has come closer to the truth?
http://www.emcp.com/intro_pc/reading16.htm
Here is a scanner animation we'll look at on Tuesday's class:
Otters Making Music - Elements of Time from David C. Montgomery on Vimeo.
http://www.emcp.com/intro_pc/reading16.htm
Here is a scanner animation we'll look at on Tuesday's class:
Otters Making Music - Elements of Time from David C. Montgomery on Vimeo.
Friday, August 19, 2016
Welcome – fall 2016 Class
Hi there -- and welcome to the blog for the Digital Darkroom Class.
For next class :
Assemble personal materials for scanning to create a digital self-portrait -- be sure NOT to include photos or other images of your physical self. Give some thought to objects and textures that somehow say something about you, your identity, your sense of self. Make sure to bring at least three seperate things (all of them have to be able to be placed on a scanning bed, of course).
Please remember to acquire a jump drive, if you don't already have one -- it would be good to have it for Thursday.
And here are some links to some of the artists whose work I showed in class:
Jill Greenberg
Flickr "Brushes" gallery
Chris Jordan
Alberto Seveso
Andrea Innocent
Emily Eibel (Tomby Illustration)
eBoy Pixel Art
12:31 and the Visible Human project
And the online art communities I talked about:
http://www.deviantart.com
http://www.conceptart.org
Visible Human Project source:
Finding Paths through the world's photos:
The Most Photographed Barn in America
Link to syllabus:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/nt40q2sfqa25sn1/16FallDART230-1Lanier.doc?dl=0
For next class :
Assemble personal materials for scanning to create a digital self-portrait -- be sure NOT to include photos or other images of your physical self. Give some thought to objects and textures that somehow say something about you, your identity, your sense of self. Make sure to bring at least three seperate things (all of them have to be able to be placed on a scanning bed, of course).
Please remember to acquire a jump drive, if you don't already have one -- it would be good to have it for Thursday.
And here are some links to some of the artists whose work I showed in class:
Jill Greenberg
Flickr "Brushes" gallery
Chris Jordan
Alberto Seveso
Andrea Innocent
Emily Eibel (Tomby Illustration)
eBoy Pixel Art
12:31 and the Visible Human project
And the online art communities I talked about:
http://www.deviantart.com
http://www.conceptart.org
Visible Human Project source:
Finding Paths through the world's photos:
The Most Photographed Barn in America
Link to syllabus:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/nt40q2sfqa25sn1/16FallDART230-1Lanier.doc?dl=0
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