2012F
Instructor
Arts 130 Digital Optical Culture(4 units)
George Legrady
Lecture/: Tues-Thurs 09:00-10:50 434-121
Course Work
Online Community
Digital Visual Culture is an upper division course that examines the impact of technologies on the image and potential applications for contemporary art. The course will begin with an overview of the optical image from its early history to current directions and conclude with an overview of future developments of the image at the various wavelengths of the visible electro-magnetic spectrum.
Courseload consists of lecture attendance, weekly topic reviews, a few small projects, attendance at selected visiting lectures, midterm test, and final exam.
arts 130 forum (http://www.mat.ucsb.edu/forum/viewforum.php?f=41)
Course Overview
Artists
Reports
Rebecca Cummins | Paul deMarinis | Robert Graham [1,2]| Abelardo Morell | James Nizam
Research and report on what you find about camera obscuras, past & present. Include reference links, and pix
The Photographic Image: Function & Technological Advancement
Powers of Ten | wikipedia] | Raskar TED Talk
[wk 2].......Lecture 10.0
10.04
Reports
Blow-Up (1966) , Antonioni
Blade Runner (1981), Scott
Write a report on one of these films and another of your choise in which photography plays an instrumental role in how it functions at the cultural, perceptual, psychological level. Be insightful and provide details to show you have studied the films
Pioneers
Artists (Futurists & 1930s)
Digital Artworks
Reports
10.11
Anamorphosis
Anaglyph
Marey [wikipedia] | Muybridge [ytube] | Lumiere | Mach
Bragaglia | Balla | Picabia | Carra | Duchamp | Abbott | Edgerton
Pomeroy | Art+COM [1] | Rokeby [1] | Waliczky | Sol Lewitt
"Marey, the Analytic, the Digital", Steve Mamber
Spatial & Stereoscopic Imagery
GSearch | InteractiveVR (marci/zoltan) |
NYPL | Pomeroy | NASA
Reading
Syntax of the Photographic Image | Peirce Semiotics
Basics : Symbol, Index, Icon
Roland Barthes' "Rhetoric of the image" Download article | Panzani Ad | description | Notes | Lexicon | Find and analyze an ad and a snapshot
Obama text video | Summer Heights text| Nokia Transformer text | Polaroid text |
Structure of the Image: Rodchenko | Moholy-Nagy | Cartier-Bresson | Friedlander | Winogrand | Baldessari || Polke [1] | Simpson |
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10.25
Reports
1st Digital Camera | patent | wkpdia
Elements of the Digital Image: dpi, resolution, bits/byte, RGB, image processing, compression, noise, etc.
Pixels | EClouds | Kahn | HypoSurface | Moeller [bitwall][library] | Fujihata [1]
Elings Open House or Aesthetic Primitives, Gabriele Peters
[wk 6].......Lecture 11.01
Image Processing
11.03
Hardware
Optics & SensorsComputation
Robotic Vision | Greenaway / Factum Arte | Photosynth [Arcas TED] |
Computational Photography [collection]
Computational Photography | FrankenCamera | LightField Imaging [1] Lytro [CNET]
Columbia | Focal Sweep | Catadioptric
Dual Photography | Femto [Raskar] | ThruWalls
11.08
Electromagnetic Spectrum [more] [NASA] | Alien Vision [Megavolt] [pix] | Radiohead [Koblin] | neurovision | Satellite Imaging | Sonar [Rowland] |
UCSB Art Museum Visit to plan Final Project
[wk 8].......Lecture 11.13
Student Work
11.15
Find Vision Labs on Campus
Final Project Description: Translation from non-Art to Art
Student Work
11.22
Translate from Science to Art
Holiday (Thanksgiving)
11.29
Individual Meetings / Lab work
Final 12.06
Group A
Group B
MidTerm 20%
Final Project 30%: 10% idea/discussion/concept, 10% research, 10% PPT