2012F



Instructor


Arts 130 Digital Optical Culture(4 units)



George Legrady


Lecture/: Tues-Thurs 09:00-10:50 434-121


Course Description





Course Work


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Digital Visual Culture is an upper division course that examines the impact of technologies on the image and potential applications for contemporary art. The course will begin with an overview of the optical image from its early history to current directions and conclude with an overview of future developments of the image at the various wavelengths of 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)


TOPIC 1
Photography & History

[wk 1].......Lecture 09.27
 

Course Overview

History, Technology
Artists


Reports


  Oberving Technologies Timeline | Camera Obscura [wkpd] | Holbein [txt] |
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: Function & Technological Advancement
Powers of Ten | wikipedia] | Raskar TED Talk

[wk 2].......Lecture 10.0


10.04

Reports

Analysis of Photography as Subject Matter in Classic Films
Blow-Up (1966) , Antonioni

Blade Runner (1981), Scott

Write a report on one of these films and another of your choise in which photography plays an instrumental role in how it functions at the cultural, perceptual, psychological level. Be insightful and provide details to show you have studied the films

[wk 3].......Lecture 10.09
Pioneers
Artists (Futurists & 1930s)
Digital Artworks

Reports

10.11
Anamorphosis
Anaglyph
ChronoPhotography: Photographic Image in Time & Motion
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
GSearch | InteractiveVR (marci/zoltan) |
NYPL | Pomeroy | NASA

[wk 4].......Lecture 10.16

Reading

 

Syntax of the Photographic Image | Peirce Semiotics Basics : Symbol, Index, Icon

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| Nokia Transformer text | Polaroid text |

Structure of the Image: Rodchenko | Moholy-Nagy | Cartier-Bresson | Friedlander | Winogrand | Baldessari || Polke [1] | Simpson |
.

10.18
  Review

TOPIC 2
Digital Computer Vision

[wk 5].......Lecture 10.23






10.25


Reports
Digital Camera

1st Digital Camera | patent | wkpdia

Elements of the Digital Image: dpi, resolution, bits/byte, RGB, image processing, compression, noise, etc.

Pixels | EClouds | Kahn | HypoSurface | Moeller [bitwall][library] | Fujihata [1]

Elings Open House or Aesthetic Primitives, Gabriele Peters

[wk 6]..........Exam 10.30
MidTerm Exam | Content Review

TOPIC 3
Computational Photography & the ElectroMagnetic Spectrum

[wk 6].......Lecture 11.01

Image Processing

11.03

Hardware
Optics & SensorsComputation

Computer Vision

Robotic Vision | Greenaway / Factum Arte | Photosynth [Arcas TED] |

Computational Photography
[collection]

Computational Photography | FrankenCamera | LightField Imaging [1] Lytro [CNET]
Columbia | Focal Sweep | Catadioptric
Dual Photography | Femto [Raskar] | ThruWalls

[wk 7].......Lecture 11.06



11.08
Alter Vision Technology |
Electromagnetic Spectrum [more] [NASA] | Alien Vision [Megavolt] [pix] | Radiohead [Koblin] | neurovision | Satellite Imaging | Sonar [Rowland] |

UCSB Art Museum Visit to plan Final Project

[wk 8].......Lecture 11.13

Student Work
11.15

Final Projet Description

Find Vision Labs on Campus
Final Project Description: Translation from non-Art to Art

[wk 9].......Lecture 11.20

Student Work
11.22

Individual Meetings

Translate from Science to Art
Holiday (Thanksgiving)

[wk 10].................11.27

11.29

Student Report of Your Research

Individual Meetings / Lab work

[wk 11]......Final 12.04

Final 12.06

Group A

Group B


Grading Completion of reports, participation & attendance 50%
MidTerm 20%
Final Project 30%: 10% idea/discussion/concept, 10% research, 10% PPT