201S - Arts 185GL - Optical-Computational Culture


2015Spr Instructor		Arts 185GL: Optical-Computational Culture George Legrady Arts Building E-Studio rm 220, Tues-Thurs 10am-11:30am

Course Description		Art 185GL Optical-Digital Culture: An open studio course where each student creates an experimental project based on connecting an optical sensing device (lens/sensor/camera) to a computer and output the data in some recognizable form (screen, speakers, mechanical devices, etc.) in essence, the camera obscura of the present. The production may be team-based addressing the question “What are innovative ways to connect a camera to a computer and have the results electronically presented”.

[3.31]...... Camera/Screen Installation Camera Obscura [4.02]......		Course Introduction Musings on a Glass Box [youtube] [Diller/Scofidio] Rebecca Cummins \| Abelardo Morell \| wikipedia Design Process

[4.07]...... Motion Tracking Camera Sensor [4.09]......		Kinect \| Asus demonstration Krueger \| Rokeby \| Rinaldo \| Utterback \| Art + Com \| Synchronous Tracking Moeller \| Jeremichenko Kinect \| MC3D \| Asus \| Processing \| Creative Applications

[4.14]...... Reading [4.16]..... Artists		Student Background PPT \| What is a camera? New cameras don't just capture photons; they compute pictures Photoshop Image Processing Basics Jason Salavon \| Khan \| Campbell

[4.21]...... [4.23]...... Slit Scan artists		Rodger Photoshop Slit Scan Golan Levin \| Monica Quinlan \|

[4.28]...... Reference [4.30]......		BigShot Assembly BigShot Camera \| camera as computer \| Shree Nayar \| VideoCameraWithoutBattery Imaging Lens \| Electronics \| Image Sensor \| Image Processing

[5.05]...... New Directions in Cameras [5.07]......		Expression/Exploration: Time, Depth & Space Expansion Fosera Camera \| Lytro camera [cnet video] \| LightField Photography Lab

[5.12]...... Examples [5.14]......		Anamorph [wiki] [Holbein's Ambassadors] [anamorph] [Schön] [aura \| szmz] [other] Lab

[5.19]...... [5.21]......		Project Work-in_Progress Lab

[5.26]...... [5.28]......		Discussion Lab

[6.02]......		Dead Week Individual meetings TBD

[6.04]......		Dear Week production
[6.09]......		Final Presentations David Aleman Nedda Amini Joseph Rivera

References		Arts 130 Optical Digital Culture Computational Photography Lauren Bon \| KCET Docoumentary \| Marco Breuer

Technical		Kinect [wired] \| Asus \| GoPro

Grading		Online research and Literature Review 30% Class participation 30% Completion of project and online report 40% The course is designed to be self-directed (DIY). Each student will prepare a project concept which they will realize in the course. Completion of the course includes 1) project conceptualization, 2) project realization, 3) project articulation - with All students will be expected to perform at the level of their expertise.