| Visual
Language I
Fall 2006, Massart
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Jane D.
Marsching email
office 3rd floor south 309 , hours: Mon 1:30-3 Tue 2-3:30 signup sheet
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Class
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Module 1: Object
Image Development / Vocabulary / Material & Process Fluency
5 weeks
Description: A series of 5 projects based on examing one object and exploring
the ways we use and understand images by applying 2D design elements,
principles, and compositional strategies using several tactile and digital
materials and process.
Objectives: Learn 2D design vocabulary and image development through a
series of assigned projects
Context: slide lectures on fundamentals and contemporary art
Resources: Art Fundamentals chapter 1-6
Critique Handbook Chapters 1&2
Marita Sturken and Lisa Cartwright chapter 1
Processes: collage, digital imaging
Project 1 Self Portrait and toy
Project 2 Growing up and your world
Project 3 Images and Ideology
Project 4 All about you
Module 2:
Space & Place
3 weeks
Description: Three short assignments that continue your explorations of
visual vocabulary, experimentation with digital imaging, variations on
one theme with the added idea of living in a digital world. Choose a place
that interests you to create a multi-image project that you will disseminate
to a defined audience.
Objective: : further exploration of composition fundamentals, experiment
with different scales of prints for different contexts, examine the notions
of audience, time, and presentation format
Context: slide lectures on place and digital art
Research: research presentation/library tour
Resources: Art Fundamentals chapter 7
Critique Handbook Chapters 3&4
Processes: digital camera, photoshop, printing, emailing images
Questions: What is place? How does one represent one's connection to place?
How is sound, weather, time, era, locale, etc., all a part of place? How
are we influenced by the places which we inhabit?
What is the significance of context in making art? How do the materials
and places of presentation affect images? What is your audience?
Module 3: Extracting Interpretations
3 weeks
Description: Create a work that responds to an article on the front page
of any newspaper from anywhere in the world using the medium of digital
photography.
Objectives: To explore extracting ideas from outside sources
Context: slide lectures on digital art
Resources: Art Fundamentals Chapters 7 & 9
Critique Handbook Chapters 5 &6
Processes: digital photography
Assignments: Extracting Interpretation
Questions: How do ideas develop? W here do I get inspiration? How can
I work with ideas drawn from other media/disciplines?
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