8/25__Monday:
Go through syllabus and class policies
Make sure everybody is signed up for blog and Lynda.com. Get oriented in the studio.
8/27__Wednesday:
Go over how to make a pin hole camera. Make a pin hole viewer in class. Talk about first project. Another link to Project One guidelines.Weather permitting, experiment with different kinds of lenses. Bring digital camera or phone if you have.
The Great Legacy
http://www.legacyphotoproject.com/
http://www.lynda.com
Charles Schwartz
http://www.cs-photo.com/obscura/obscura.php
Room Sized Camera Obscura Blog
http://room-camera-obscura.blogspot.com/
Slide show of DIY pinhole camera
http://www.slideshare.net/favalora/fastest-pinhole-camera-obscura-project-ever/
About the Camera Obscura
http://www.cs-photo.com/obscura/about.php
Merlin Pinhole Camera
http://www.paintcancamera.com/cameraobscura.html
Pin hole camera won't offer wallet sized photos
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5493587
Episode 124: Camera Obscura
http://www.uh.edu/engines/epi124.htm
Make a Pin hole viewer
http://www.friendsofphotography.org/hoh/pv.html
Another how to make a pin hole camera site
http://www.arts.arizona.edu/are476/Davis/files/CamObs.htm
Digital Pinhole Camera
http://www.foundphotography.com/PhotoThoughts/archives/
2005/04/pinhole_camera_2.html
Single pixel camera takes on digital
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/6263551.stm
due 8/27__Wednesday: Go through pin hole camera links above.
Listen to Episode 124
You will need to buy a magnifying lens
due 9/3___Wednesday:
Read Walter Benjamin's Art in an Age of Mechanical Reproduction You will post to the blog on a question that I will sent you right before class
http://www.marxists.org/reference/subject/philosophy/works/ge/benjamin.ht
9/1__Monday:
No class Labor Day
9/3__Wednesday:
As a group you will construct a large, room sized camera obscura in the raw space next to Jack Stenner's office. You will document your effort with photographs the building of the camera obscura and the images that you are able to capture with it. Blog on Benjamin article. Possible field trip to Art Library.
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Color, Thin FIlms, and Interference
http://acept.asu.edu/PiN/rdg/interfere/interfere.shtml
WiFi Camera
http://www.aether.hu/2007/wificamera/
The Giant Camera
http://brightbytes.com/cosite/sanfran.html
Exhaustive list of ways to think about a camera obscura
http://www.acmi.net.au/AIC/CAMERA_OBSCURA.html
due 9/8___Monday:
Project 1 check in. Look at images from camera lenses. Experiment 2 on creating a lens for camera. I handed the guidelines out in class. Here is another copy
due 9/10___Wednesay:
Read first 20 pages of Mediated Sensorium in the Sensorium book
9/8__Monday:
Project 1 check-in
Studio time to work on Project 1
Crit lens images. Talk about more salient points of Benjamin. If time play exquisite corpse type activity with photoshop actions. If we do not get to this today we will do in class next Monday.
9/10__Wednesday:
Cup drawing machine in-class activity .
Contextualize drawing machines.
Talk about Sensorium reading.
Thoughts on a pinhole camera
http://www.foundphotography.com/PhotoThoughts/
archives/2005/04/pinhole_camera_2.html
Felix Gonzalez-Torres
http://www.flickr.com/photos/sukabumi/
Dosso's Fortune
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/8/8b/Witchcraft_WGA.jpg
/300px-Witchcraft_WGA.jpg
Andy Warhol Soup Can
http://www.jssgallery.org/Other_Artists/Andy_Warhol/campbells.jpg
Brody Condon
Atget
http://www.getty.edu/art/gettyguide/artMakerDetails?maker=1763
Benjamin notes
due 9/15__Monday:
Work on Project One with your group.
Read the rest of The Mediated Sensorium chapter adn be ready to discuss.
due 9/17 ___Wednesday:
Artist presentation on artist who use machines or apparatus to make mark. You will find an artist and then show us his or her work, explain how this person uses a machine or apparatus to make work, and tell us how this artist affected you or potential work.
9/15__Monday:
Discuss Reading.
Scanning Part 1.
Individual meetings with me in your group about Project One.
9/17__Wednesday:
Artist Presentations
Small group crits of Project One.
More on scanning.
Understanding Bitmapped Graphic Resolution
http://www.thegoldenmean.com/technique/resolution.htmlBit Depth
http://www.cambridgeincolour.com/tutorials/bit-depth.htm
Artists
Susan Hiller
http://www.susanhiller.org/Info/artworks/artworks-splithairs.html
http://www.susanhiller.org/Info/artworks/artworks-FM.html
Agnes Meyer Brandis
http://www.blubblubb.net/index_e.html
Nicole Cohen
http://www.coin-operated.com/
http://www.getty.edu/news/press/nicole_cohen/index.html
Mouchette
http://www.mouchette.org/
Triple Candie
http://www.triplecandie.org/
Hokes Archives
http://pranks.com/author/blyons/
The Art of Prank
http://pranks.com/
Duke Riley
http://www.dukeriley.info/portfolioMain.html
Rory MacBeth
http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/exhibitions/artnow/
liveworks/rorymacbeth/
Greg Turk
http://www.mindspring.com/~intherealm/accontextreview.html
Eleanor Antin Last Days of Pompei
http://www.pbs.org/art21/artists/antin/index.html
Walid Raad
http://www.theatlasgroup.org/
9/22__Monday:
REading in Sensorium
9/24___Wednesday:
9/22__Monday:
Discussing reading.
Listen to Actions Tutorial
Project One check-in.
9/24__Wednesday:
Harn field trip to see Maggie
Taylors work with scanning (postpone until next week or week after)
Go to Alec Soth lecture
Discuss reading Sensorium Part 2
Project One Check-in
Blog on PS experience
Paradise Institute
http://www.cardiffmiller.com/artworks/inst/paradise_institute.html
Broadway Boogie Woogie
http://www.webexhibits.org/colorart/mondrian2.html
Jacques Attali
http://www.notbored.org/attali.html
very tangential, but interesting and sort of relevant to current events
Ryoji Ikeda
http://www.ryojiikeda.com/info/
Glen Gould
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g7LWANJFHEs
Haghighian
http://www.fdk-berlin.de/en/arsenal-experimental/artists/natascha-sadr-haghighian.html
Christian Jankowski
http://www.medienkunstnetz.de/works/lets-get-physical/
Monell Chemical Sense Center
http://www.monell.org/
History of modernism diagram
http://bp3.blogger.com/_Eiwce13X738/RwH4PhLGIVI/AAAAAAAAAV4/f-4wfWIeGWU/s1600-h/ModernismHistory.JPG
9/29__Monday:
Reading in Sensorium.
Godscan pp 146-148
Networked Eyes
pp 174-179
Ocularity
pp 190-193
Work on Project One
10/01___Wednesday:
PROJECT 1 DUE