Art 733 and 451 Advanced Imaging

Textbook:	The Photography Reader Liz Wells Editor ISBN 0-415-24661-X	Recommended Readings Art 21
Course Objectives:	The student should become proficient in a range of digital imaging techniques both still and moving. The student should also become aware of the important theoretical concerns artists are grappling with in the 21st century.
Course Description:	We will concentrate on a range of imaging techniques both still and moving. We will also attempt to address many of the theoretical concerns in contemporary photography.
Grading:	oral presentation - 5% Narrative assignment - 15% 3d Assignment - 15% Video assignment - 20% Final Portfolio - 25% Class participation - 20% Attendance is mandatory. After three absences you will be dropped from the class. Do not be late. If you are late three times, it will constitute one absence.
Materials:	DVD+R Zip discs as needed CDR Recommended: external firewire hard drive of minimum 30 gigs
	Topic - Practical	Weekly reading - Theoretical
Week 1	The Imaging Chain  Using the digital cameras Assignment - Shoot at least 20 images with the digital camera. See next week's assignment for details. register for PhotoPlusExpo at the javits center	Originality and other modernist myths - Ch 3 Walter Benjamin The Work of art in the age of mechanical reproduction  and The Originality of the Avant-Garde and other modernist myths
Week 2	The IApps ITunes through IDvd assignment - Digital Narrative or non narrative sequences	The Paradoxes of Digital Photography Manovich Ch. 23 Look at Duane Michals work in class. Discuss Ken Burns style documentaries.
Week 3	Advanced Photoshop and ImageReady including: Alpha channels and layer masks, Web gallery, Gif v Jpeg generation, Patterns, generating textures,	The Precession of Simulacra Jean Baudrillard.
Week 4	Using the Imacon, nikon and flatbed scanners and the Film recorder	The society of the spectacle Guy Debord
Week 5	Critique of narrative assignment 3d assignment given
Week 6	Lighting for digital photography
Week 7	Image Transfers - Inkjet tranfers, Polaroid and Lazertran
Week 8	Stereopticon, Anaglyph and Lenticular, QTVR
Week 9	Using the DV cameras Assignment - Shot log of favorite TV show	Look at early Wegman videos in class. How camcorders work
Week 10	FCP and AfterEffects	Video Identity project
Week 11	Creating moving Titles ALpha channels in Photoshop for titles
Week 12	Oral Presentations given in class
Week 13	Professional development - Getting exhibitions and
Week 14
Week 15	Final Critique

Artists that use video
Paul pfeiffer and at Art 21
Wegman
McCoys
Nam Jun Paik
matthew barney
shirin neshat
gary hill
tony oursler
rauschenberg
Vito Acconci
Bill Viola
pipilotti rist

recommended books:
The Digital Printing Handbook - A photographer's guide to creative Inkjet Techniques by Tim Daly. ISBN 190253817X Amphoto Books an imprint of Watson Guptill publications
Mastering Digital PRinting by Harald Johnson ISBN 1-929685-65-3 Musk & Lipman publishers

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