review times
WED 28 MAR
4:00 Alice
4:15 Winnie
4:30 Anne
4:45 Rachel
5:00 Shinae
5:15 Teresa
THURS 29 MAR
12:00 Marc
12:15 Mike
12:30 Merry
12:45 Carly
23 March 2007
22 March 2007
schedule for the end days
W/Th 28/29 March
HW: Complete Lynda.com Dreamweaver TUTORIAL: INTERFACE + SITE CONTROL
(I will check to see that you've done this through Lynda.com by the start your class time, so don't delay!)
WED: critiques that were postponed from last week
THURS: story boards for animation in-class
M/Tu 2/3 April: BRING ALL YOUR MATERIALS FOR THE GROUP VIDEO
assemble the photo-roman in class!
W/Th 4/5 April: STERLING/MANDIBERG READING-POST TO BLOG
WED: intro to net art
THURS: Melissa Dean
M/Tu 9/10 April: TUTORIAL: THE BASICS + LINKING
MON: DW demo with FT
TUES: intro to net art
Tu/Wed 11/12 April: TUTORIAL: TYPOGRAPHY + TABLES
-post a list of 5 website links for project ideas to your blog
M/Tu 16/17 April: TUTORIAL: LAYOUT + CSS
-post a collection of images (collage them in photoshop) & a word association of at least 10 terms about your site's subject to your blog. Click HERE for an example of a collage I made about the subject of "video".
-in class: what is a site map?
W/Th 18/19 April:
-post a hand-drawn site map, in color, to your blog.
These should be legible enough that you could hand them off to someone else and they would be able to make the site template (without content) for you. These sketches should show that you have taken into consideration the visual DESIGN of your site. Bring your sketches to class.
Check out these sites for more info on the principles of design:
http://www.digital-web.com/articles/principles_of_design/
http://www.digital-web.com/articles/elements_of_design/
http://www.digital-web.com/articles/principles_and_elements_of_design/
M/Tu 23/24 April: TUTORIAL: ROLLOVERS
in-class work day
W/Th 25/26 April: TUTORIAL: INSERTING MEDIA OBJECTS
LAST CLASS SESSION!
- ROUGH DRAFT of project due for feedback. This means at least 3 of your pages should be designed and uploaded for viewing on the WWW.
MONDAY MAY 7 by 5 pm: FINAL PROJECT DUE!
-Your complete website must be uploaded and you must send me a link to it by email as well as placing a CD-R with all your files in my mailbox. This deadline is firm: broken links, incomplete sites, or no CD submission will not receive extensions, no matter what the technical catasrophe.
20 March 2007
Chris Ware - TAL animation
preview of a segment from Showtime's upcoming This American Life show, animated by Chris Ware:
http://link.brightcove.com/services/link/bcpid271557392/bctid666401814
Accidental hard drive erasure cost Alaska $220,000
Moral of the story: Always back-up your work in at least 2 locations.
http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/03/20/lost.data.ap/index.html?eref=rss_topstories
15 March 2007
PRINTING
Click on image to enlarge.
Link to the PRINT project description.
+ NEVER print .PSD files!
+ To use your own paper, you must load it in tray 1, the bypass tray (it's the one above) that folds out. If you don't know how, ask me or get the lab monitor to help you. Always make sure it is LASERJET paper.
+ Print each image to a separate piece of paper. Don't forget to choose orientation and paper size as well as the printer in the Print & Page Setup options boxes. You should print a proof to the B&W printer to check for mistakes before printing your final draft in color.
Directions:
1- Finish your image and save it as a .PSD
2- Go to Layers > Flatten Image (Omit this step if your file has text).
3- Go to File > Print with Preview
4- Click on checkbox "Show more Options". Pull-down menu should be set to "Output".
5- Choose "Encoding: ASCII" (not Binary)
6- Click PRINT.
7- Click "Save as PDF"
8- Save the PDF copy of your file to your project folder.
9- Open the PDF and print it in Preview using "Print with Preview".
March 19-28 schedule: weeks 9-10
MON Mar 19
PM class: cancelled so that you can attend this:
4:30 digital art lecture! MARK COOLEY in Library 321
Here's his website: http://www.flawedart.net. He also has work up now at Maryland Art Place.
TUES Mar 20
AM class: last work day for postcards. FT will meet with you individually to do mid-term assessments during class. We will only meet until 11:15.
12-1: I will give an artist talk in the Library 321 as candidate for the digital position.
WED/THURS Mar 21/22: POSTCARDS ARE DUE + STUDENT ART SHOW SUBMISSIONS TOO! Postcards must be printed BEFORE the start of class.
We will hang the postcards in the hallway upstairs for a Hall Walls show.
Cardstock will be available in the ProLab for you to print on... please use judiciously.
Don't forget that neatness counts when trimming your cards.
NB for WED PM class: Postcards are still due, but I have been asked to do a teaching demo for the faculty search committee and they will be visiting our class so we will have a special session.
MON Mar 26: Fereshteh in Chicago for lecture
PM class will meet with Andrew Kieper in Media Services, who will talk about his work and influences. Please go to Media Services on the 3rd floor of the library.
TUES Mar 27: Advising Day, no classes
WED/THURS Mar 28: intro to next project and tutorial/demo.
installation at thomas circle in DC
See more of these tape sculpture horses here: http://www.xmarkjenkinsx.com/traffic-go-round.html
mid-atlantic art recommendations
Remember, going to a show off-campus is always eligible for your blog.
Installation art is all over the Hirschhorn Museum: Check out light works and collaboration between Pae White and Virgil Marti.
Jasper Johns prints and paintings are at the National Gallery in DC
31 first-year candidates in Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA)'s, master of fine arts (M.F.A) programs are featured in a parallel series of group exhibitions in Bunting Center’s Pinkard Gallery (1401 Mount Royal Avenue), in Baltimore. Runs Friday, March 16 through Sunday, March 25, with an opening reception on Friday, March 16, 5–7 p.m., and open studios on Friday, March 16, 7–9 p.m.
In Words, curated by artist Lance Winn, will close March 21 at the University of DE Museum in Newark, DE.
The Contemporary in Baltimore has a show called CELL PHONE: Art and the Mobile Phone.
Speaking of cell phones, I have a piece featuring downloadable ringtones at Space 1026 in Philadelphia.
07 March 2007
scan blog
Do you know Malena? She was at SMCM before she transferred. Here is a blog she has where she scans some of her belongings: http://www.owningit.blogspot.com/
06 March 2007
new blog feature
I made a section to the right that will have links to some class documents.
The first one is for the postcard project info, in case you need to review it or you lost it since I distributed it in class.
05 March 2007
mail art exchange
Send them 15 stickers that you made (in Photoshop, perhaps?) and they will send you 15 stickers made by other artists from around the world: http://www.stickertraders.com/
04 March 2007
more postcard links
- old postcards for every taste: giants, cats, midgets, big potatoes, etc
- printable cold sores (technically not a postcard project but a good way to think about the possibilities for print media)
- boring postcards, mostly from Sweden
- Yiddish postcards
- vintage postcards from around the world
- motel postcards through the ages
- postcard art show in London with famous artists
- May, 1945 article from Popular Science tells the story of how American POWs in a Nazi prison camp were smuggled a custom Donald Duck logo prepared by the Walt Disney Studios on the back of a Red-Cross delivered postcard.
How will this project be graded?
Tips on what I'm looking for in the postcard project:
Begin by doing brief research on the people to find out who they are, Wikipedia is a good start. Then, from that general overview, choose two who are interesting to you even if you didn't know them before. Then you will do some more in-depth research about the people, finding interesting details or information about their lives. You don't have to use their faces or portraits in the postcard, you could represent them with symbols or other objects that could be associated with them. Your viewer may not know who it's about right away, but you want to give them information or clues in a visual form. Use the assignment as a basis for the choice of images you use.
As for the relationship, imagine what it would be like if they met, or if they were penpals, or if they lived during the same time period, or if they were lovers or went on a trip together to outerspace. Think of them as characters that you will create a fiction with. Maybe one person travels from the future to the past, when one of the other people lived.
The photos you take on your own can be anything, but could be used as a background or other element of the vingette you are creating. Perhaps one of the characters goes sailing on Saint Mary's River, or we find Calvert alive again roaming historic Saint Mary's City or driving a car. So you would take a photo of the river, the city, or even a car.
Think also about how this is a postcard and how postcards function: often they represent a place, and are used by tourists for a souvenir or to write home. Take advantage of this form and remember that the 2 postcards are meant to be shown together. So perhaps one will not have full form or meaning without the other.
The scans due on Wed/Thurs will be the raw images you will use for your piece, so for example, I might scan a picture of a Paris because I discovered that one of my people used to live there, or a picture of a swimming pool because I want them to be there. So I will need to visit the library to find a good image of Paris to scan in, because Google is not allowed. And then I will use Photoshop to put their body in that background. Or maybe I scan my sweater because I think it might make a good texture for the sky in a scene I'm creating.. Bringing in your photos will count too.
Of course as with any project, some element of creative brainstorming with pen and pencil, doodles, and word lists is the first step. Do some initial research and I'm sure you'll start getting some ideas for interesting images and elements you could use. The sketches due on Mon/Tues are a start for your to know what elements you want in your final piece.
For more guidance about mail art, you have to look at the work of Ray Johnson, I've given some places for you to start below.
Ray Johnson, father of MAIL ART!
article on Ray Johnson
In the early ’60s, Johnson turned his back on convention and gave his art away to anyone who interested him, via something he called the New York Correspondence School. He set up the tongue-in-cheek institution, infuriating dealers and delighting the friends and acquaintances who received the works. By sending his pieces through the mail, he created an international network of collectors and shattered boundaries in the art world, meanwhile remaining its best-kept secret.
“Johnson formed a complex, ‘pre-digital’ creative network,” notes Donna De Salvo, curator for the Whitney show and curator at large at the Wexner Arts Center at Ohio State University. Indeed, before there was an Internet, there was “Mail art, ” an unorthodox movement, currently in its fourth decade, that hails Johnson as its “Grand-dada.”
“Johnson’s mail-away art can’t be bought or sold but only received,” the late critic David Bourdon once remarked.
mail art and postcards
- What is mail art?
- PostSecret is a gallery of postcard-sized images posted anonymously to unveil a secret. Shared confessions in art form.
- postcard exhibit at the Smithsonian
- postcard archive
- vintage American postcards
- long list of postcard sites
- University of Delaware postcard collection
- What kind of things can I send through the mail? Some amazing experiments testing the delivery standards of the United States Postal Service. Everything from balloons to $20 bills in clear envelopes.
- US Postal Service guidelines
01 March 2007
special note for the MW section
I won't be in class Monday because I am giving a lecture at another school. To make up for it, you will need to attend the mid-term presentation/crits for AT LEAST FOUR of the graduating senior art majors.
To get credit for your blog, you need to write about the work and also what went on during the critique. Act as an arts reporter, since I won't be there: fill me in on everything I missed, and let me know your opinions about the work and the discussion as well!
I will be checking your sketches+proposals on your blogs so don't forget about the homework... check the class blog over the weekend for some examples of mail art and postcard design.
Monday, March 5th from 6-8:45pm
Studio SMP critiques
6pm Reena: sculpture in the sculpture studio
6:15 Ashley: fibers/portraits in the painting room
6:30 Tom: photography in the drawing room
6:45 Vanessa: drawing/painting in the drawing room
7 dinner break
7:45 Jeannie: sculpture in the Boyden Gallery
8 Erica: photo and participatory: gallery or ?
8:15 Hilary: photography, hallway wall
8:30 Amy: children's book illustration, hallway wall
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