2009W


Instructor



A102 The Conceptual Art of Photoshop

George Legrady

e-studio, Art Department, 2nd floor
Tu-Thu: 2pm-4pm


Course Description
  "The Conceptual Art of Photoshop” is a studio course introducing artistic concepts and computational processes specific to the medium of digital image processing as expressed through graphics programs like Photoshop and GIMP. Art project assignments will be oriented to the fundamentals of the digital image centered on the relationship between pixels; conceptual methodologies to artmaking; and the visual, perceptual, social and cultural properties of the digital image.

The course refers to Conceptual Art in particular to the primacy of concepts and ideas as the driving force behind the creative process, but also as an approach to examining the nature of what is understood as art and the image. The course will therefore explore systems, processes, definitions and relational processes by which digital images can be considered.

Mailling list: arts102 at mat.ucsb.edu | archive
       

W1........1.06 Course Overview
Pixel Basics, Image Processing, Conceptual Art

Student Project

Lab
reading
Art References

Resolution, info, levels, dpi, histogram, etc.
Sentences on Conceptual Art, Sol Lewitt
Lewitt |Riley | Geometry in Motion | Latin American [1]



W2........1.13 Prototyping & Design Through Layers (Burbano)

Lab
reading
Art References

  Layers
Generative Art, Philip Galanter
Beyond Geometry | Logial Conclusions | Baldessari [1]

Do a narrative in 10 layers


W3........1.20 Color Scales & Assignment

Lab
reading
Art References

  Scale, Levels, contrast, color correction, etc.
Generative Art, Philip Galanter
Warhol [1][2][3][4] | Locher [1][2] | Richter [1]

Color Shift


W4........1.27 Color / Layers Project

Art References

  MAST Conference: Scott Fisher | Conference Exhibition



W5........2.03

  Pixel: The Basic Unit


reading
Art References

  Image & Belief in Synthesis, Legrady
Campbell [1] | Hertz [1][2] | Simon | ECloud | DeCOi HypoSurface

Pixel Art


W6........2.10
Noise & Signal
Noise | randomness | Brownian motion | Information Theory [image]

Lab
reading
Art References

  Perlin [1] | Ahlers Physics | EXIF | Sunsets | Eckstein | Julesz [dot]
Russolo [1][2]
Steina | Schmidt |MacCollum | Antoni | Wegman

Noise


W7........2.17 2D Convolutions

Lab
reading
Art References

  Edge Detection | Processing

Walisky | Lebbeus W |

 


W8........2.24 Non-Destructive Editing

Lab
reading
Art References

  Masks, Layers, Extract
Semiotic Anti-Subject, Kuspit
Baldessari | Ernst | Hoch | Heartfield | koolhaas |

Multi-Layer Composite


W9........3.03 Sequence & Transformation  

Lab
Art References

  Frequencies & Waves
Kahn | Cragg | Ikeda | Levin SlitScan | Eliasson | Art+Com

Assembled Panorama


W10.......3.10 Dead Week  

W11.......3.17 Final Projects

Final Project

Artistic References


Technical References

 

Discipline Overview | Art/Technology/Culture


Digital Foundations (Wiki), Burrough & Mandiberg
Adobe Photoshop for Photographers CS3, Evening