2009W A102 - Conceptual Art of Photoshop


2009W Instructor	A102 The Conceptual Art of Photoshop George Legrady e-studio, Art Department, 2nd floor Tu-Thu: 2pm-4pm
Course Description	"The Conceptual Art of Photoshop” is a studio course introducing artistic concepts and computational processes specific to the medium of digital image processing as expressed through graphics programs like Photoshop and GIMP. Art project assignments will be oriented to the fundamentals of the digital image centered on the relationship between pixels; conceptual methodologies to artmaking; and the visual, perceptual, social and cultural properties of the digital image. The course refers to Conceptual Art in particular to the primacy of concepts and ideas as the driving force behind the creative process, but also as an approach to examining the nature of what is understood as art and the image. The course will therefore explore systems, processes, definitions and relational processes by which digital images can be considered. Mailling list: arts102 at mat.ucsb.edu \| archive


W1........1.06	Course Overview Pixel Basics, Image Processing, Conceptual Art	Student Project
Lab reading Art References	Resolution, info, levels, dpi, histogram, etc. Sentences on Conceptual Art, Sol Lewitt Lewitt \|Riley \| Geometry in Motion \| Latin American [1]

W2........1.13	Prototyping & Design Through Layers (Burbano)
Lab reading Art References	Layers Generative Art, Philip Galanter Beyond Geometry \| Logial Conclusions \| Baldessari [1]	Do a narrative in 10 layers

W3........1.20	Color Scales & Assignment
Lab reading Art References	Scale, Levels, contrast, color correction, etc. Generative Art, Philip Galanter Warhol [1][2][3][4] \| Locher [1][2] \| Richter [1]	Color Shift

W4........1.27	Color / Layers Project
Art References	MAST Conference: Scott Fisher \| Conference Exhibition

W5........2.03	Pixel: The Basic Unit
reading Art References	Image & Belief in Synthesis, Legrady Campbell [1] \| Hertz [1][2] \| Simon \| ECloud \| DeCOi HypoSurface	Pixel Art

W6........2.10	Noise & Signal Noise \| randomness \| Brownian motion \| Information Theory [image]
Lab reading Art References	Perlin [1] \| Ahlers Physics \| EXIF \| Sunsets \| Eckstein \| Julesz [dot] Russolo [1][2] Steina \| Schmidt \|MacCollum \| Antoni \| Wegman	Noise

W7........2.17	2D Convolutions
Lab reading Art References	Edge Detection \| Processing Walisky \| Lebbeus W \|

W8........2.24	Non-Destructive Editing
Lab reading Art References	Masks, Layers, Extract Semiotic Anti-Subject, Kuspit Baldessari \| Ernst \| Hoch \| Heartfield \| koolhaas \|	Multi-Layer Composite

W9........3.03	Sequence & Transformation
Lab Art References	Frequencies & Waves Kahn \| Cragg \| Ikeda \| Levin SlitScan \| Eliasson \| Art+Com	Assembled Panorama

W10.......3.10	Dead Week

W11.......3.17	Final Projects	Final Project

Artistic References Technical References	Discipline Overview \| Art/Technology/Culture Digital Foundations (Wiki), Burrough & Mandiberg Adobe Photoshop for Photographers CS3, Evening