Add a digital negative assigment next time I teach this. Paper negs, on transparecy film, use orange color neg mask, think in reverse
8704 Experiments in Digital Imaging: From Pixel to Paper Professor Terry Towery email terryt@mac.com |
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| Textbook: | Required
Textbook: Robert Hirsch's Photographic Possibilities: the Creative
use of material and processes Optional Recommended Textbook: Real World Photoshop |
Recommended
Readings: The Digital Printing Handbook - A photographer's guide to creative Inkjet Techniquesby Tim Daly Mastering Digital Printing by Harald Johnson ISBN 1-929685-65-3 Musk & Lipman publishers |
| Prerequisites: | Knowledge of, and interest in, photography, photoshop and some other art making process besides zone system photography is required (eg: painting, drawing, sculpture or multimedia, etc...) | General: There is to be NO EATING OR DRINKING in the classroom. We will take short breaks for Input and output. I expect you to be on time to class. We will often have lecture/demonstrations at the beginning of class and then allow time for in class lab/practice time at the end of class. |
Course Description: |
This class is designed to encourage the student to experiment with digital output. This will be an exploratory class to encourage the student to integrate digital tools into the traditional creative process. We will focus on integrating photo quality digital imaging along with tradtional art making processes. Using the Epson Photo quality printers, the film recorder, polaroid materials and alternative/nonsilver processes we will concentrate on producing a portfolio of experimental images. The focus of the course will be on printed still images however it should be noted that mixed media is strongly encouraged. While Photoshop and other software packages will be explored, We will focus on output devices and their alternative possibilities. Breaking the rules and learning a healthy DISrespect for the technical process will be encouraged. |
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| Grading: | Your
grades will be based on both technical ability and creativity. Creativity
is your own unique approach to the assignmmnet or problem, Technical
ability is straightforward and relates to how well the technique suits
the imagery. There will be three open content assignments that will comprise 15% each of your grade = 45% There will be an oral presentation that will comprise 10% There will be a final portfolio Due at the beginning of the last session that will comprise 35% of your grade Class participation will comprise the remaining 10% |
Structure: The course will alternate weeks between lecture/Demos and critiques. It is expected that the student will create a portfolio of 15-20 images for the final session. Traditional straight photographic images are not acceptable as fulfilling this criteria. The student will submit SLIDES of their final pieces for me to keep. The final portfolio will be as though you were submitting your work for gallery review or publication |
| Recommended Materials: | Lazertran -
wait until I discuss it in class. |
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Topic
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weekly
reading
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| Week 1 | Introduction
to course Philosophy. First
assignment given, Extending the image Intro to OSX
for OS9 users Begin Lecture on the Imaging Chain. |
Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction |
| Week 2 | Discussion
of different output devices. Example slides. Direct scanning assignment |
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| Week 3 | Demo of Output devices available. film recorders, laser printers, plotters, inkjets, Dye Sublimation,Projectors, shooting off the screen... | |
| Week 4 | Crit direct scanning project. Student example slides. Input and its impact on the output or Garbage In Garbage Out. Flatbed, Slide, PhotoCD, Drum... Resolution, Bit Depth, File size |
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| Week 5 | Image
Transfers - Inkjet tranfers, Polaroid and Lazertran |
Digital Tansfers |
| Week 6 | Critique Extending the image | Second assignmnet given The 3rd dimension |
| Week 7 | Anaglyph
demonstration See the handout |
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| Week 8 | Immersive imaging eg; QTVR | |
| Week 9 | Second Crit 3d | |
| Week 10 | Third assignment Multiple imagery. Series, scrolls, books... | |
| Week 11 | Permanence
and stability
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| Week 12 | oral projects given in class | |
| Week 13 | Third Critique | |
| Week 14 | preparing a portfolio for submission | final portfolio |
| Week 15 | Final Critique The final portfolio should consist of at least 15 pieces. High quality, properly labelled slides along with support materials of the works must be submitted at THE BEGINNING OF CLASS for you to pass the course. | |
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Links: Suppliers:
Places
that make prints from your digital files Shops
that make Irises Artists: Longevity: stereogrpahic Lenticular
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