VISUAL LANGUAGE (2D), 510-112-DW FINE ARTS 1 (Thursdays)

Andres Manniste
Autumn 2010

SYLLABUS (Revised 08/10/10)

Week 1: (August 26)
Introduction to course. Reading art (powerpoint) Working with programs, entering and exiting files, portable memory, network.
Reading (about photography): William J. Mitchell (1994) “Intention and Artifice” in The Reconfigured Eye: Visual Truth in the Post-Photographic Era, Cambridge: MIT Press, pp.23-57.
Browsing: Digital Art Source http://www.digitalartsource.com/index2.shtml
To look up: What is a Google?

Week 2: (September 2)
Lecture: Intention and Artifice (powerpoint)
Link: Jeremy Shuback: Photoshop Crash Course
Reading: Tribe, Mark and Jana, Reena (2007) New Media Art, "Art in the age of digital distribution", pp.6-9.
Browsing: Petra Cortright (works from 2004-2010) and John F. Simon, Jr. (1997) Every Icon

Labour Day: September 6

Week 3: (September 16)
Introduction to Adobe Photoshop, drawing and painting tools
Project 1 (individual project, line direction, 15%)
Reading: Tribe, Mark and Jana, Reena (2007) New Media Art, "Art in the age of digital distribution", pp.10-13.
Browsing: Shelley Jackson (1997) My Body and Tokyo Rose Advertising

Week 4: (September 23)
Working on project 1 in computer lab, image editing, introduction to printers
Reading (about defining mechanically produced art): Walter Benjamin (1936) The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction, (Sections I, II, IV, V and XII); Tribe, Mark and Jana, Reena (2007) New Media Art, "Olia Lialina", p. 60-61.
Browsing: Olia Lialina (1996) My Boyfriend Came Back From the War

Week 5: (September 30)
Downloading Internet images, file compression, image formats
Links: Apple i.movie tutorials: Apple i-movie tutorial (i-movie HD) i-movie O9
Reading (a historical perspective): Vannevar Bush (1945) As We May Think (Sections, I, VI, VII and VIII)

Week 6: (October 7)
Lecture: Benjamin and Vannevar Bush (Benjamin slides) (Bush slides)
Browsing: http://www.bewitched.com/bewitched and http://crazyimages.com/

Thanksgiving break October 9-11

Week 7: (October 14, mid term assessment)
Project 1 due
TEST (10%) On readings, lectures and browsings to date.
Project 2 (15%)
Homework: Write a proposal (5%)
Reading: Natalie Bookchin, Alexei Shulgin (1999) Introduction to net.art (1994-1999)
Homework: Simple animation (5%).

 Week 8: (October 21)
Simple animation due (5%).
Lecture: the context for media art.
Introduction to simple animation. Quicktime and iMovie.
Reading: Tribe, Mark and Jana, Reena (2007) New Media Art,"Natalie Bookchin", p. 31-31.
Browsing: Natalie Bookchin (1999) Intruder (video simulation, Google it!)
Jodi (2006) MAX PAYNE CHEATS ONLY ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------.webloc

Week 9: (October 28)
Presentation of proposals. Formation of groups. How to work in groups
How to write a proposal (bis)
Reading: Tribe, Mark and Jana, Reena (2007) New Media Art, "Vuk Cosic", p. 38-39 and "Mark Napier", p. 70-71.
Browsing: Mark Napier (1998) The Digital Landfill and Vuk Cosic (1999) Deep ascii http://www1.zkm.de/~wvdc/ascii/java/

Week 10: (November 4) (in Lab)
Introduction to Internet, Web workshops
Homework: Simple webpage (5%).
Reading: Tribe, Mark and Jana, Reena (2007) New Media Art, "Mouchette", p. 66-67.
Browsing: Stellarc (1996) Ping Body (Google it!) and Mouchette (Avatar, 1996-present) http://www.mouchette.org/

Week 11: (November 11)
Work session
Reading: Tribe, Mark and Jana, Reena (2007) New Media Art,"Young-Hae Chang Heavy Industries", p. 94-95 and "Alexei Shulgin", p. 84-85.
Browsing: Young-Hae Chang Heavy industries (2005) Super Smile. http://www.yhchang.com/SUPER_SMILE.html and Alexei Shulgin (1998) 386DX Cyberpunk rock band  

Week 12: (November 18)
Work session
Browsing: 0100101110101101.org (Google them!)
Reading: Tilman Baumgärtel (1999) Interview with 0100101110101101.ORG and Tribe, Mark and Jana, Reena (2007)
New Media Art,"0100101110101101.org", p. 26-27.

Week 13: (November 25)
Simple webpage due.
Reading: Tilman Baumgärtel (1997) Interview with Jodi and Tribe, Mark and Jana, Reena (2007) New Media Art,"Jodi", p. 50-51.
Browsing: Jodi www.jodi.org

Week 14: (December 2)
TEST (10%) On readings, lectures and Browsings to date.
Work session

Week 15: (December 9)
Project 2 due, class critique

Supplementary week: (December 15, 2010 at 15:00) Last submission of project 3

PLEASE REPORT BROKEN LINKS IMMEDIATELY

Course outline (pdf)

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