Final schedule

Our final is:

Tues Dec 12th, 11:30am-1:30pm.

Please come with your project files collected in a folder with your name on it, on an external or flash drive – I'll want to collect them. Here's the list of all the projects, and how I want you to name them:

LIST OF FILES

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 Brushes Project

08-lastname-brushes

09. Blurb Book Project (six interior pages)

09-lastname-blurb-A

09-lastname-blurb-B

09-lastname-blurb-C

09-lastname-blurb-D

09-lastname-blurb-E

09-lastname-blurb-F

I have hard copies of your papers (collage artist, fair use defense), but if you want to include your electronic version of these, feel free.

book project

The week after thanksgiving break will be devoted to working on your six-page sequence, so come prepared with whatever raw materials you need (images, ideas) to use the time profitably. A portion of your grade will be for an initial proposal for the sequence, which is due at the beginning of Tuesday'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 blurb.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 Blurb book project
You will have 6 pages to fill in an art book we're publishing through blurb.com.

The dimensions at which you should create the work are:

Final page size will be 6.875" x 6.875" at 300 dpi (that's 2063px by 2063px). The pages need a 1/8" bleed all the way around, so the outer eighth of an inch of your image will be trimmed off on all four sides.

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). Or manipulate/transform your source images so that you feel you'd be well over the acceptable line of fair use.

Link to Meiasha pics

They are here:

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/zsscnq35j384pfu/AABCUNjeOP-TKDvwPWmalGaEa?dl=0

Course evaluation survey link

It's here:

https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/lanier-80012-dart-230-201780

Fair use project

For Thursday's class, have your fair use image completed. 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 (bring a printed copy) - 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.

Reading and response for Thursday, 9/2

In preparation for a class discussion on Thursday, please read the following article, and answer the six questions below. Please type and print out your answers, bringing them to class.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/jul/18/instagram-artist-richard-prince-selfies

Please type and print out your answers.

1. What do you think of Prince's New Portraits series? Do you consider it "good" art or "bad" art – and why is it successful/unsuccessful?

2. Part of what protects fair use is the idea of "transformation" of the work being adapted or changed. In what ways does Prince's work transform the original photographs (the article lists some elements of transformation, but it's not a comprehensive list), and do you think those transformations are sufficient to make the work legitimately his own, unique work?

3. How much does the sales price of his New Portraits affect your evaluation of it?

4. How important is the fact that he didn't ask permission from the original subjects/photographers for your judgment on the work?

5. If one of the original Instagrammers brought suit against Prince for copyright infringement, do you think they'd win? Why/why not?

6. How much does it matter to you that Prince was an outsider to the Instagram "community"? Or that some of his comments on the posts were skeevy?

MAPR this Thursday (10/12), Tutorial Assignment due Tuesday

Tutorial Assignment & MAPR Reminder

A Reminder – this Thursday, we'll be meeting on the third floor of Prim Library at 10am to join in on the Midway Art Portfolio Review, where Junior Art Majors present a body of work and answer questions. We have a couple of classmates participating. It's an interesting event, and if you get there a little early you get dibs on coffee and donuts. Ask some good questions!

On the following Tuesday (10/17), 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 five to 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.