VISUAL LANGUAGE (2D)

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

Andres Manniste
Autumn 2011

SYLLABUS (Revised 08/21/11)


Week 1: (August 24, 25)
Introduction to course. Reading art (powerpoint)
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 and Digital Art Museum http://www.dam.org/intro.htm
To look up: What is a Google?

Week 2: (August 31, September 1)
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 9 (“Defining New Media art” to “Themes/tendencies“).
Browsing: Petra Cortright (2007) vvebcam and John F. Simon, Jr. (1997) Every Icon


Labour Day: September 5


Week 3: (September 7, 15)

Lab: Logon, working with programs, entering and exiting files, portable memory, network.
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 (“Themes/tendencies” to end of article).
Browsing: Shelley Jackson (1997) My Body and Takeo Yamaguchi (2006) Candy Factory Projects ,Tokyo Rose Advertising

Week 4: (September 14, 22)
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 21, 29)
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)
Browsing: Anime to Arts

Week 6: (September 28, October 6)
Lecture: Benjamin (Benjamin slides)
Browsing: http://www.bewitched.com/bewitched and http://crazyimages.com/ and Computers Club Drawing Society


Thanksgiving break October 8-11


Week 7: (October 5, 13, mid term assessment)
Lecture: Vannevar Bush (Bush slides)
Project 1 due
Project 2 (15%)
Homework: Write a proposal (5%)
Reading: Natalie Bookchin, Alexei Shulgin (1999) Introduction to net.art (1994-1999)
Homework: Simple animation (5%).
Rafael Rozendaal (2010) http://www.towardsandbeyond.com/

Week 8: (October 19, 20)
TEST (10%) On readings, lectures and browsings to date.
Introduction to Project 2
 (15%)
Lecture: the context for media art. New Media Art Powerpoint Presentation.
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 www.jodi.org
Jodi (2006) MAX PAYNE CHEATS ONLY ————————————————————————————————.webloc

Week 9: (October 26, 27)
Presentation of proposals. Formation of groups. How to work in groups
Introduction to simple animation.
Simple animation due (5%).
How to write a proposal (bis)
Homework: Take a movie of yourself and save it as .avi or .mov to your usb key or on a dvd.
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 2, 3) (in Lab)
Guest artist: Rachel Echenberg Working with Quicktime and iMovie
Reading: Tribe, Mark and Jana, Reena (2007) New Media Art, “Mouchette“, p. 66-67.
Browsing: Stellarc (1996) Ping Body (Google it!) and Mouchette (Avatar, 1996-2010, Martine Neddam) http://www.mouchette.org/

Week 11: (November 9, 10)
Introduction to Internet, Web workshops
Homework: Simple webpage (5%).
Simple webpage mini-tutorial
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 Smilehttp://www.yhchang.com/SUPER_SMILE.html and Alexei Shulgin (1998) 386DX Cyberpunk rock band 

Week 12: (November 16, 17)
Project 2 due
Project 3 (20%)
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 23, 24)
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: Kim Jong-il Looking At Things

Week 14: (November 30, December 1)
TEST (10%) On readings, lectures and Browsings to date.
Work session

Week 15: (December 7, 8)
Project 3 due, 
class critique

Supplementary week: (December 14, 2011 at 15:00) Last submission of projects


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