2009F A130 - George Legrady

2009F Instructor		Arts 130 Digital Visual Culture George Legrady Andres Burbano Tues, Thur 10:30am-11:30am - Arts 1340, Department of Art

Course Objectives Course Topics Course Work		Digital Visual Culture is an upper division course that examines the impact of digital technologies on the study of the image and potential applications for contemporary art. The course will introduce projects, methods, and resources representative of the impact of digital processes on artmaking and its reception in the visual, spatial, temporal, conceptual and cultural domains. The course will discuss the following: The semiotic image; the computational image; time-narrative; space-structure & form; digital visual design; machine culture, robotics; space-time & interactivity; numbers, systems, procedures, data space and algorithms; bio-genetics, self-organizing systems; arts-science hybrid practices. Courseload consists of lecture attendance, weekly topic reviews, a few small projects, attendance at selected visiting lectures, midterm test, and final exam. arts 130 maillist (arts130 @ mat.ucsb.edu) \| Arts 130 Archive (http://lists.create.ucsb.edu/pipermail/arts130/)

[1]...... 09.24 Th Readings		Course Introduction An overview of Arts130 What is an Image? \| What is a technological Image? \| Campbell

[2].......09.29 Tu Reading		Can the photograph be analyzed as a form of language? Roland Barthes' "Rhetoric of the image" [Download article] [Panzani Ad & description] [Notes]
10.01 Th Project I		Techniques for the Processing of Images (dpi, resolution, compression) Select 2 diverse non-art images that feature recognizable subject matter, one that is of interest to you, another from the general culture-at-large, for instance, from the news, medical, scientific, political, etc. Create a page for both, placing the image on top, and then describing each according to Barthes' 3 levels of interpretation.

[3]...... 10.06 Tu Reading		The Semiotic Image Semiotics Basics \| bits/byte \| Fleetingness of Bits Art & the Semiotics of Images (Dillon, U_Wash)
10.08 Th		Project I Presentation

[4]....... 10.13 Tu		The Digital Image
Report		Barthes's Lexicon
10.15 Th		Ridley Scott [apple][] \| Escalator \| Train

[5]...... 10.20 Tu Project II		Methods of Classification \| Metadata \| XML \| SPL \| PFOM \| 5 Objets CLASSIFICATION SKETCH: The assignment deals with analysis and classification of images. 1. Select 5 to 15 digital images from anywhere (preferably found images) 2. Each image must have 4 classiication attributes in common with all the other images 3. Organize the images in a sequence according to another set of classification 4. Create a project page with title on top and your name 5. Assemble images in a web page, or a flickr account, or anywhere that has a URL address 6. Consider the group as a system: Describe the elements, and their relation to each other using any methods of organization (time, location, colors, volume, brightness, incremental, associative, a to b is b to c, etc.

10.22 Th		Schmid \| Baldessari \| Richter \| Simpson \|

[6]...... 10.27 Tu		VISUAL MAPPING Visual Complexity \| Wattenberg \| Denes \| Lesak \| Daniel Spoerri: An Anecdoted Topography of Chance [6] [203]
10.29 Th		Project II Presentation

[7]...... 11.03 Tu		CHRONOPHOTOGRAPHY: Photographic Image in Motion Muybridge \| Marey [1] [2]\| Art+COM [1] \| Rokeby [1] \| Motion-tracking \| PhotoSynth [1] [Darling]
11.05 Th		MIDTERM The mid-term is a review of topics covered in the course and this webpage

[8]...... 11.10 Tu Reading		NARRATIVE in SPACE-TIME IMAGE Digital Images in time, sequence, motion-tracking, and computationally enhanced: Anamorphosis [marci/zoltan [1]] \| Waliczky \| Moeller \| Courschene Discuss the relationship of the still to the moving image and the image situated in space and how the internet may expand the context of an image as the PhotoSynth software proposes to do. Describe a number of artists covered in the last few weeks to argue your case.
11.12 Th		ELECTRO-DIGITAL MOVING MACHINES Magnetic force, robotics, sensors Weiser\| Bohlen \| Rinaldo \| DECOI \| Robotic Chair [1] [2] [3]\| Stelarc

[9]...... 11.17 Tu Reading		AESTHETIC DIRECTIONS IN BIO, GENETIC, ECO-VISUALIZATION Emergent_Art: Sommerer-Mignonneau \| Karl Sims Bio_Nature: Self-Organizing Camazine \| Syntfarm \| Swarm (Ramos) \| Describe the design process in any of the projects presented during the past two weeks
11.19 Th FINAL PROJECT		NATURE: SOUND, VIBRATION Ned Kahn \| Fontana \| Propose and describe a sign or site-specific marker for deep time communication into the future to communicate danger at a radioactive site. Your proposal can be visual, or expressive in any form keeping in mind that language changes and that technology is generally short lived. (Assignment description here)

[10].... 11.24 Tu Reading		SIGNS OVER LONG TIME 10000yrs\| Geological Iime \| Pioneer plaque \| Voyager \| DNA Mapping \| Information Theory \| Signal processing \| Image processing \| electromagnetic waves \| Sebeok \| Comments \| Benford

11.26 Th		THANKSGIVING

[11]...... 12.1 Tu		Dead Week: Final Production \| Individual Team Meetings
12.3 Th		Dead Week: Final Production \| Individual Team Meetings

[12].... 12.08 Tu		FINAL PROJECT PRESENTATIONS