2011W


Instructor



A102 Digital Media ToolBox

George Legrady

e-studio, Arts/Old Gym bldg479, rm 1211
Tu-Thu: 2pm-3:50pm


Course Description
  The Conceptual Art of Photoshop

A project based art studio course focused on 2D image processing as an experimental tool and a creative medium. Photography is an invention that mixes both arts and science. The course will examine Photoshop from both artistic and scientific perspectives with an introduction to its basis in signal processing, compression, scaling, convolutions, etc. all of which can be applied as creative techniques.

The course also involves a historical perspective reaching back to various movements that explored the medium as a tool for innovation.

Course Forum
       

W1........1.04


References


Reading

Course Overview
Historical Overview | Image Processing | Conceptual Art

Niepce | Coburn |Moholy-Nagy | Rodchenko | Jager
Scientific [Frieze] | Contemporary gallery |

Recognition of Faces, Leon D. Harmon, Scientific American, 1973 [2]
Assignments


Lab 1.06

Sampling, Pixel basics, dpi, levels, histogram, compression
Moeller [1][library] | Faur [2] | Campbell [2] | Kelly | Bavington | Richter | Simon
Noise & Form

W2........1.11


References

Reading
Noise & Signal
Noise | randomness | Brownian motion | Information Theory [image

Noise Definition & Discussion

Recognition of Faces, Leon D. Harmon, Scientific American, 1973 [2]

Lab 1.13

  Noise, Randomness, etc.



W3........1.18
Discussion of the Article & Noise & Form Project presentation

Lecture 1.20



Reading
  Concepts & Representation Through Layers
Burson | Salavon | Christopher Baker (statistical average) | Marey
Layers | Masking | HDR

James Elkins: Six Stories from End of Representation
Ch2 "Photography": p.51-77 (googlebooks) |
Layers

W4........1.25
Artists


Theory
Science


Reading

Concepts & Representation Through Layers
Richter (Oct 1977) [1] | Rauschenberg | Dokoupil | Warhol | Lichtenstein | Ruscha | Rothko | Johns | Martin | Lewitt | Darboven | Breuer | Twombly | Sugimoto
Bataille | Krauss, Alain-Bois | Lyotard
Cartesian | Euclidean | Convolution

Elkins: pdf Download: p78-81 (23mb)
 

Presentation 1.27   Layers Presentation

 

W5.........2.01

References



Reading

  Assemblage Irregular Form

Baldessari | Ernst | Hoch | Heartfield | Hockney | Matta-Clark |
Archigram | Lebbeus Woods | Roan | Fischer | Sara Charlesworth | Barbara Kruger [1] | Sherrie Levine

Beyond Digital Novelty: Paul Berger 1972-2003

Assemblage


Lab 2.03

  Labwork

 


W6.........2.08 Assemblage Presentation
 

Lab 2.10
  Research Project in Image, Technology, Culture

Research Project

W7.........2.15

Research Project in Image, Technology, Culture
 

Lab 2.17
 

Research work / individual meetings

 

W8........2.22
Research Presentations

 

Lab 2.24
  FINAL PROJECT: Image Transformation in Time (After Effects)
Brakhage [cv] | Conner | Young-Hae Chang | Lye [particles] | McLaren | Umbrico |

Final Project


W9........3.01 Final Project Work-Progress Concept

 

Lab 3.03   Project Work

 


W10.......3.08
3:10
Dead Week Lab Work / indivdual meetings
Dead Week Lab Work / indivdual meetings
 

W11.......3.15 Final Project Presentation

 

Artistic References
Technical References


Previous Syllabi

 

Discipline Overview | Beyond Art (Weibel)
Digital Foundations | Photography & Science [Reaktion]
Adobe Photoshop for Photographers CS4, Evening

10winter | 09winter



Grading   First 3 projects: 45%
Research: 15%
Final Project: 20%
Attendance and participation: 20%