8/27__Monday:
Go through syllabus and class policies
Make sure everybody is signed up for blog and Lynda.com
Advanced Photoshop Interface and Shortcuts
8/29__Wednesday:
Play with filters. Go over how to make a pin hole camera. Make a pin hole viewer in class. Talk about first project.
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 8/29__Wednesday: Go through pin hole camera links above.
Listen to the first two sections of the Photoshop Filter Tutorial in lynda.com
Listen to Episode 124
You will need to buy a magnifying lens
due 9/5___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.htmListen to sections 3, 4 and 5 on filters in lynda.com.
9/3__Monday:
No class Labor Day
9/5__Wednesday:
I will not be in class, but you still need to meet. You will receive a blog assignment as class starts. Then 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.
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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 9/10___Monday:
Quiz on filters and PS shortcuts
Project 1 check in.
Listen to sections 7-16 in the filters on lynda.com
9/10__Monday:
Discuss Benjamin reading.
Quiz on filters and shortcuts.
Project 1 check-in
Studio time to work on Project 1
Another link to Project One guidelines
9/12__Wednesday:
Look at some of the art that I saw in Germany
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 9/12__Wednesday:
work on Project 1
Bring in the images you created thus far both with filters and the pinhole camera
due 9/17 ___Monday:
Project 1
9/17__Monday:
Critique of Project 1
Discuss ideas of serialization, archiving and collection.
Discuss Project Two guidelines.
Look at artists who incorporate the idea of fictions into their work
Scanning Part 1.
9/19__Wednesday:
Field trip to Digital Library at Smathers
Anatomy of a digital image.
More art from Germany if we have time
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/
9/19__Wednesday:
Listen to lynda.com introduction to scanning
Written brainstorm on blog of ideas for project 2
Read Agnes Meyer Brandis interview. See links above
http://www.we-make-money-not-art.com/archives/009083.php
9/24___Monday:
Scanning quiz.
Reading TBA
probably something from How Images Think. Be prepared to to write about and discuss this reading.