ART 245 - Spring 2014

Monday, February 3, 2014

Please Say Something by David O'Reilly

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Project #2: Digital Triptych Montage

Winston Smith, hand made montage

Project #2: Digital Triptych Montage

STEAM PUNK TIME TRAVEL

Objective:
You will create a digital triptych responding to an over-arching theme we will choose as a class. Every piece will start with our chosen theme for their conceptual place of departure.

You will create your digital montage in Adobe Photoshop from specific source material. You will use the same 25 source materials as your subject matter. The strategy you use to pick your images is up to you. These 25 source images are to be comprised of some combination of the following: scanned objects (flatbed scanned), images appropriated from books and magazines (flatbed scanned), and images downloaded from the Internet. At least one of the images you use must be of a word that is visible to the viewer.

All images are to be found or otherwise appropriated (including the word – scan text from an original print source). Use Adobe Photoshop to creatively combine your image elements into cohesive image compositions that will exist as a diptych. Remember, each of your images MUST include all 25 of your source images in each composition! Consider the conceptual link between image, object and word that will be created by their combination.

Very important! Save your images with layers intact as we will be further using your image for the next project (animation). I will show you the specifics in class.

Examples:
Consider the possibilities of Adobe Photoshop to cut, paste, resize, etc.. Scan photographs from family albums, magazines, etc.. Bring in various found objects to scan - junk, a meaningful keepsake, etc.. Pick a word or words, either scanned from text, handwritten or otherwise created outside of the computer, scan it and include the work in the image. Think about how the creative unexpected associations of disparate images and texts functions to establish new and multiple readings of the works.

Techniques:
Much of this you will learn by doing – basics will be demoed in class - Adobe Photoshop, image scanning, image sizes, resolution, etc.

Image Size for each of the images:

Due Dates: 2/10

Part 1 - Completed Triptych posted to your blog! Save your files in the above noted size and resolution. !!!!Save a second set of each image, first flatten each image in the layers palette, then save at 50% at 72ppi for web resolution - then and only then upload the images to your blog. Be sure not to overwrite your originals!

Some useful Photoshop Tutorials:
http://vimeo.com/14437441
http://vimeo.com/15139239
http://vimeo.com/14551877

These are just a few of the many thousands of tutorials available free, online, take a look try some of these techniques! If you are curious about specific functions of any program, type in the name of the function in Google with "_________ tutorial" and you will find the information you need!

Art 245 photo montage

View more presentations from Joseph DeLappe

Please take the time and look through the powerpoint slides embedded above and the links below.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/01/14/hannah-hoch_n_4591557.html?ref=topbar
Jon Feinstein
http://winstonsmith.com/
http://www.jonathanallen.org/collage.html
http://matthewrosestudio.net/Matthew_Rose_COLLAGES_A_KICK.html
http://hollischorno.com/index.html
http://www.fredtorres.com/artists/george-rahme/
http://www.chamblissgiobbi.com/index.html
http://mattcusick.com/paintings-collage/map-works/view/197
http://www.chamuconegro.com/

Wednesday, January 29, 2014

Final Writing Assignment and Presentation

Final Writing Assignment and Presentation

1) This is a two part final assignment. You will be creating a 5 to 10 minute presentation for class and a 1500 word Illustrated Blog Post/Paper on the same subject matter.

2) Choose two artists (or artists groups/collaboratives) from the following websites featuring literally hundreds of artists for you to explore. You are to choose artists we have not covered in class:
http://www.eyebeam.org/people/current (search through "fellows" and "residents" for hundreds of amazing artists, links to their websites will generally be on their profile pages)
http://userwww.sfsu.edu/~infoarts/links/wilson.artlinks2.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_art
http://rhizome.org/art/
http://www.gamescenes.org/

2) Research your chosen artists. Make sure to record citations of where to find the works, links, etc.

3) Choose ONE representative work from each of your artists for a total of two works to be considered in your paper and presentation - you may choose to include more works by these artists in your visual presentation to the class, but your main thesis will revolve around your ONE representative work from each artist.

4) Describe, analyze, interpret, compare and contrast the artist’s works, considering broadly their chosen formal and conceptual strategies, being careful to address genre (film, video, performance, interactive art, simulation, game art, etc) in your general analysis of the works. As part of your research, make an attempt to contact both of your artists to ask questions regarding the work. (If you don't hear back from them please note such in your paper). For the paper/blog post, make appropriate citations following standard academic paper guidelines (MLA or Chicago Manual Style)

Please limit your chosen artists/works to those created after 1980 - the only requirement is that the artists are somehow intrinsically involved in the creative use of digital technologies in their works.

The intent here is to give you the opportunity to critically engage in basic research and analysis of artists and artworks, while at the same time encouraging a greater depth of experience of various artists' creative production and contexts.

The paper is to be in the form of an extended blog post - include illustrations, videos where appropriate, etc.

Grading:
Your presentation and writing will be graded according to the quality of your research, the originality of your analysis, the clarity of your writing, design and clarity of your presentation.

Due Dates:

In Class Presentations

3/31

Alicea,Jasmine

Badger,Megan

Booth,Joshua

Byers,Kelly

Cimorelli,Sidney

Cyr,Olivia

Graves,Brittney

Hossick,Kalie

Khoo,Caryn

Kohut,David

4/2

Lien,Jessie

Luna-Barajas,Christian

Morales,Joseph

Phillips,Ambur

Sezpkouski, Hayden

Ramirez,Shani

Sanchez,Leeza

Shane,Sienna

Thomassian,Marina

Toulouse,Flora

Paper as Illustrated Blog Post:
Posted by: 4/28 Midnight

Monday, January 27, 2014

How to upload your GIF

Click this button and you will be able to upload your GIF. Select your image, then click "Add Selected."

SCORPION DAGGER!!!!!

http://scorpiondagger.com

Thursday, January 23, 2014

How to save as a GIF file

After you have created your amazing animation to start your international exhibition career, you need to save the work as a GIF.

(If the timeline is not visible go to Window -> Timeline, then click Create Frame Animation

PhotoShop has two types of animation interfaces. This is the frame animation that we covered in class. You can switch to video timeline if you click the button in the lower left corner. Both are valid ways to create your work and I recommend playing with both so you can discover the way you enjoy working. EXPERIMENT! EXPERIMENT! EXPERIMENT!

To save your final work as a GIF file. Remember to keep an eye on your file size!!

This is the fancy program inside PhotoShop that you can create your GIF file with. You have the option to choose file format, size, amount of colors, and where to save it.