There was only time for three questions at the panel, so only Deja snuck in under the wire - she's the only one who doesn't have to do a short written response to the panel discussion.Instead of posting video (which would be boring to watch), I've posted an audio file. So you can listen to it while you're having dinner or sweeping or whatever. I'll give you about a week to listen to this and turn in your printed responses - they're due on Tues, Oct. 30.
Here are the questions I want you to answer. Take at least a paragraph to answer each:
1. We've discussed the idea behind the exhibition in class. Jonathon explained more about the project _ what was something new you learned about the project, or some new (for you) thought/idea about the project, that came out of the panel discussion?
2. What did you think of what the scientist on the panel, Geoff Schladow, had to say? How does his data-driven relationship to the lake connect to some of the artistic ideas in the exhibition, and how is that relationship different from the kind of artistic ideas behind the exhibition?
3. Deja asked a question about how youth could be engaged in the issues of looking toward the future, particularly in relationship to how embedded they are in technology. Please summarize Jonathon's answer to her question - and explain if you found the answer to be a convincing one or not.
Link to the audio file:
Friday, October 19, 2018
Sunday, October 14, 2018
Assignment for Tuesday (10/16)
"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 five different poses, and just piece the five 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.
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 five different poses, and just piece the five 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.
Thursday, October 4, 2018
For Thursday (Oct 4)
This is your last in-class opportunity to work on your 1000-year vision of Ryland's photographs. On Tuesday, we'll print them out.
I did want to share one tutorial for a tool that might be useful for eliminating the background of images you want to composite – though it only works effectively for images that have pretty uniform backgrounds. It's the Background Eraser tool – check it out:
I did want to share one tutorial for a tool that might be useful for eliminating the background of images you want to composite – though it only works effectively for images that have pretty uniform backgrounds. It's the Background Eraser tool – check it out:
Tuesday, October 2, 2018
Thursday, September 27, 2018
Tuesday, September 25, 2018
Assignment for Thursday (9/27)
Quick assignment to lay some conceptual groundwork for your "Tahoe Timescape" photo –
1. Identify some historical event that happened approximately 1,000 years ago. Write it down on a piece of paper. Be prepared to share the event in class.
2. On the same piece of paper, write down some historic even that has occurred in the past 50 years, that you think people will still think was a significant historical event 1,000 years from now.
1. Identify some historical event that happened approximately 1,000 years ago. Write it down on a piece of paper. Be prepared to share the event in class.
2. On the same piece of paper, write down some historic even that has occurred in the past 50 years, that you think people will still think was a significant historical event 1,000 years from now.
Thursday, September 6, 2018
Assignment for Tuesday (9/11)
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 Tuesday. 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:
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 Tuesday. 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:
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.
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