ARTX110 Digital Art—Schedule

Winter Quarter 2018, Kalamazoo College

Richard Koenig, Professor

 

Week

Tuesday

Thursday

1

Introductions, Syllabus, and Schedule

Overview of Course

Demonstration: Photoshop (1 and 4)

Destructive and Non-Destructive Editing

 

Talk: Design & Composition

Assign Basic Collage Series

Demonstration: Photoshop (5 and 6)

Work Time; Handout Reading One: Druckrey

2

Discuss Reading One: Druckrey

Demonstration: Photoshop (Review 5 and 6)

Talk: Quality of Light & Color Theory

Working critique for Basic Collage Series

Talk: History of Image Technology

Talk: Assign Triptych

Demonstration: Photoshop (7—LM, Guides)

Work Time for Basic Collage Series or Triptych

Assign reading for collaborative project

3

Half Class Period: Collaboration with students two sections of Human Physiology class

Talk: Digital Works One

Working critique for triptych

Assign Reading Two: Ghost

Discuss Reading Two: Ghost

Assign Image/Text

Demo: Text with Photoshop and Illustrator

Work Time to finish A1 (2 parts)

A1 Due—Basic Collage Exercise, Triptych (Friday 5:00 PM)

4

Talk: Digital Works Two

Working Critique—Image/Text

Assign Printed Piece—Darwin Poster

Heads up: Journal due in one week

 

Explain color space, profiles, and CMYK mode

Work Time for Image/Text or Printed Piece

Working Critique—Poster

5

Half Class Period: Collaboration with students two sections of Human Physiology class—critique posters

Work time for Image/Text and Poster

Homework: watch Kiwi

No Class Today—IÕm out of town

Work with your small group to have your Darwin poster printed at the Center for New Media

 

Journal and A2 Due—Image/Text, Printed Piece (Friday 5:00 PM)

6

Discuss Kiwi

Assign Animated GIF (quick test piece)

Demonstration: Animated GIF with Photoshop

(including Òsave for webÓ)

Work Time for Animated GIF

Talk: Digital Works Three

Critique of your ÒtestÓ GIFs

Assign Second and Third Animated Gif

Work Time

Assign Three Videos as a ÒreadingÓ

7

Discuss Three Videos

Work Time for Animated GIFs

Working Critique—Second and Third Gifs

 

Assign Open Project along with Structured Reflection—look at PPTX and past SW examples

Assign Reading Three: Appropriation

A3 Due—Test plus Two Animated Gifs

(Friday 5:00 PM)

8

Discuss Reading Three: Appropriation

Show more SW video works from past

Go around the room to discuss ideas for Open Project

Work time

 

Talk: Digital Works Four

I-Movie and Cinema-graphs

Individual Meetings to discuss Open Project

9

Work time for Open Project

Working Critique—Open Projects

Heads up: Journal due in one weekÕs time

 

 

 

10

Working Critique—Open Projects

Course Evaluations

Working Critique—Open Projects

Conclusion

Journal and A4 Due—Open Project and SR (Friday Midnight)

 

I will e-mail you when your work may be picked up.

 

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