COURSE NUMBER AND TITLE 511-321-DW
Section 01 (Monday)
Computer Art
INSTRUCTOR Andres Manniste
INSTITUTION Dawson College
PROGRAM Creative Arts
SEMESTER Autumn 2011
OBJECTIVE AND COMPETENCY 01D9 To use techniques of creation or interpretation in the creative arts or literature
OFFICE & TELEPHONE Office: 2G6-3 Telephone: 931-8731, ext. 3203
andresmanniste@gmail.com
SYLLABUS
Week 1: August 29
Lecture: Introduction to course.
Lab: Introduction to Macintosh. Operating system and imaging software. Working
with programs, entering and exiting files, portable memory, saving work. Basic tools and layers.
Homework: Gathering resources for “Project
1”.
Reading: William J. Mitchell (1994) “Intention and Artifice” in The Reconfigured Eye: Visual Truth in the Post-Photographic Era, Cambridge:
MIT Press, pp.23-57.
Photoshop©
Crash Course
Week 2: September 8
Lab: Project #1, My Great Movie, 15%
(painting and drawing with the computer and working with photographic images, type tool)
Reading: Jonathan Jones and Gerard Seenan (2004) "The
camera today? You can't
trust
it.
Hockney
sparks
a
debate",
Guardian
Unlimited, March 4, 2004.
Week 3: September 12
Lecture: Intention
and Artifice; Working with digital images.
Lab: Work session,
network printers and printing, size.
Week 4: September 19
Project #1 due end of class 15%
Reading: Mark Amerika (1997) “Surf-Sample-Manipulate:
Playgiarism on the Net”, Telopolis, Munich: Heise Zeitschriften Verlag
GmbH & Co.
Lab: Work session. Introduction to scanning.
Week 5: Lecture: Mark Amerika and copyrights.
Presentation of Project #1
Introduction to Project #2 25%
Assignment: Write a proposal for Project #2, 5%, Gathering resources for “Project
2”.
Readings: How to write a Project (link .pdf file)
Lab: Work session. Image editing, overlays
Week 6: October 3
Project
2 proposal due. Presentation
of proposals.
Lab: Work session. Magic wand, Orientation controls,
Week 7: October 12
Lab: Work session. Introduction to cloning, friskets
Walker, John A. (2006) “Copy
This! A Historical Perspective On the Use of the Photocopier in Art”.
Plagiary: Cross-Disciplinary Studies in Plagiarism, Fabrication, and Falsification,
1 (3): 1-3
Week 8: October 17
Project #2 due end of class 25%
Intro to Project #3 “animation” 40%
Assignment: Write a proposal for Project #3, 5%, Gathering resources for “Project
3”.
Lab: Work session, simple animations.
Week 9: October 24
Project
3 proposal due. Presentation
of proposals.
Lab: Introduction to software. Work session.
Week
10: October 31
Lab: Work session.
Week 11: November 7
Lab: Work session
Week 12: November 14
Lab: Work session, software tutorial – adding sound
Reading: Jay David Bolter (1997) “Digital
Media and Cinematic Point of View”, Telopolis, Munich: Heise Zeitschriften
Verlag GmbH & Co. and
Week 13: November 21
Lab: Work session
Week 14: November 28
First Presentations and discussion
Lab: Work session
Week 15: Project #3 due end of class 40%