2012w
Instructor
Arts 130 Digital Optical Culture(4 units)
George Legrady
Lecture/: Tues-Thurs 09:00-10:50 434-121
Course Work
Online Community
Digital Optical Culture is an upper division course that examines the impact of digital technologies on the image and potential applications for contemporary art. The course will give an overview of the optical image from its early history to current directions beyond 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 | Powers of Ten [wikipedia]
Artists
Reports
01.12
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: Perceptual, Cultural, Technological, Aesthetic
Sisyphus | Legrady
Pioneers
Artists (Futurists & 1930s)
Digital Artworks
Reports
01.19
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
Holbein [txt] | GSearch | InteractiveVR (marci/zoltan) |
NYPL | Pomeroy | NASA
Reports
Student Projects
01.26
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| Beautiful Teeth text | Tipalet Cigar text | Nokia Transformer text | Polaroid text |
Structure of the Image: Rodchenko | Moholy-Nagy | Cartier-Bresson | Friedlander | Winogrand | Baldessari || Polke [1] | Simpson | Aesthetic Primitives, Gabriele Peters
Reading
Project
Methods of Classification | Metadata | SPL | PFOM | GenevaWorkshop
Metadata Mon Amour [Manovich]
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.
Assemble the images in the forum site
5. 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.
6. Be Creative - The project is a combination of logical system organization and playful creativity
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Schmid| Richter | Cell Tango [Flickr Source] | Umbrico | Sunsets [EXIF]
Reports
02.09
"What is an Image", Cohen
Elements of the Digital Image: dpi, resolution, bits/byte, RGB, image processing, compression, noise, img size, etc. |
Pixels | EClouds | Kahn | HypoSurface | Moeller [bitwall][library] |
Image Processing
Artists
Reports
image analysis | segmentation | feature extraction | pattern recognition | edge detection
Rokeby [1], Sommer/Mignonneau | Greenaway / Factum Arte
Image, Languange & Belief, [2] Legrady
Alien Zone | Esper Machine | FrankenCamera [more] | LightField Imaging [1] | Femto | ThruWalls | Algorithmic Imaging
Consider going beyonds the electromagnetic spectrum as technologies are developed today in industry, the medical world, astronomy, surveillance, art restoration, marine biology, and other sciences that use ways of seeing beyond the human eye. The goal of the project is to come up with an idea for an art project for a museum installation where the public can experience, interact, see, feel, sense something that takes us beyond our vision.
Reports
03.01
Technology
Artists
Robotic Sonic Sensing
Art+COM [PotsdamerPlatz] | PhotoSynth [1][2] |
Go to Steve Wilson's collection of new media arts projects. List 3 projects of interest to the forum. If you come across URLS that dont work. List them also.
Technology as a Prosthetic Devices
X-ray| Medical cameras | Imaging Radar | 3D Forensic Mapping |
Sester | Fujihata [greebeam][2] | Shaw | Stelarc | Oliasson [Tate] [MOMA] [2]
Weiser [yt] | Bohlen | Rinaldo [links] | Fontana | Robotic Chair [1] [2] | Stelarc | S
Reports
03.08
Electromagnetic Spectrum [more] [NASA] | DNA Mapping | Alien Vision [Megavolt] [pix] [pdf] | Radiohead | neurovision | Satellite Imaging | Sonar [Rowland] |
Research shifts to industrial, scientific technologies. Present 3 to 5 technologies of potential interest
Student Work-in-Progress Presentation
03.15
LabWork & Individual Meetings SSMS 1304
Classification Project 20%
Final Project 30%: 10% idea/discussion/concept, 10% research, 10% PPT