2011W A102 - Conceptual Art of Photoshop


2011W Instructor	A102 Digital Media ToolBox George Legrady e-studio, Arts/Old Gym bldg479, rm 1211 Tu-Thu: 2pm-3:50pm
Course Description	The Conceptual Art of Photoshop A project based art studio course focused on 2D image processing as an experimental tool and a creative medium. Photography is an invention that mixes both arts and science. The course will examine Photoshop from both artistic and scientific perspectives with an introduction to its basis in signal processing, compression, scaling, convolutions, etc. all of which can be applied as creative techniques. The course also involves a historical perspective reaching back to various movements that explored the medium as a tool for innovation. Course Forum


W1........1.04 References Reading	Course Overview Historical Overview \| Image Processing \| Conceptual Art Niepce \| Coburn \|Moholy-Nagy \| Rodchenko \| Jager Scientific [Frieze] \| Contemporary gallery \| Recognition of Faces, Leon D. Harmon, Scientific American, 1973 [2]	Assignments

Lab 1.06	Sampling, Pixel basics, dpi, levels, histogram, compression Moeller [1][library] \| Faur [2] \| Campbell [2] \| Kelly \| Bavington \| Richter \| Simon	Noise & Form

W2........1.11 References Reading	Noise & Signal Noise \| randomness \| Brownian motion \| Information Theory [image Noise Definition & Discussion Recognition of Faces, Leon D. Harmon, Scientific American, 1973 [2]

Lab 1.13	Noise, Randomness, etc.

W3........1.18	Discussion of the Article & Noise & Form Project presentation

Lecture 1.20 Reading	Concepts & Representation Through Layers Burson \| Salavon \| Christopher Baker (statistical average) \| Marey Layers \| Masking \| HDR James Elkins: Six Stories from End of Representation Ch2 "Photography": p.51-77 (googlebooks) \|	Layers

W4........1.25 Artists Theory Science Reading	Concepts & Representation Through Layers Richter (Oct 1977) [1] \| Rauschenberg \| Dokoupil \| Warhol \| Lichtenstein \| Ruscha \| Rothko \| Johns \| Martin \| Lewitt \| Darboven \| Breuer \| Twombly \| Sugimoto Bataille \| Krauss, Alain-Bois \| Lyotard Cartesian \| Euclidean \| Convolution Elkins: pdf Download: p78-81 (23mb)

Presentation 1.27	Layers Presentation

W5.........2.01 References Reading	Assemblage Irregular Form Baldessari \| Ernst \| Hoch \| Heartfield \| Hockney \| Matta-Clark \| Archigram \| Lebbeus Woods \| Roan \| Fischer \| Sara Charlesworth \| Barbara Kruger [1] \| Sherrie Levine Beyond Digital Novelty: Paul Berger 1972-2003	Assemblage

Lab 2.03	Labwork

W6.........2.08	Assemblage Presentation

Lab 2.10	Research Project in Image, Technology, Culture	Research Project

W7.........2.15	Research Project in Image, Technology, Culture

Lab 2.17	Research work / individual meetings

W8........2.22	Research Presentations

Lab 2.24	FINAL PROJECT: Image Transformation in Time (After Effects) Brakhage [cv] \| Conner \| Young-Hae Chang \| Lye [particles] \| McLaren \| Umbrico \|	Final Project

W9........3.01	Final Project Work-Progress Concept

Lab 3.03	Project Work

W10.......3.08 3:10	Dead Week Lab Work / indivdual meetings Dead Week Lab Work / indivdual meetings

W11.......3.15	Final Project Presentation

Artistic References Technical References Previous Syllabi	Discipline Overview \| Beyond Art (Weibel) Digital Foundations \| Photography & Science [Reaktion] Adobe Photoshop for Photographers CS4, Evening 10winter \| 09winter

Grading	First 3 projects: 45% Research: 15% Final Project: 20% Attendance and participation: 20%