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"A: 5 Textures"
Using only Adobe Photoshop Filters (at least 4 for each image) create 5 image files. Your goal is to create visually interesting textures. Go CRAZY with filters!:)!
Image Size/Format: 600X600 pixels.
"B: 5 Formal Arrangement"
Using Photoshop's MARQUEE and SELECT tools create formal geometric compositions using the textures you have created in the above assignment.
Use work by Constructivist artists for referrence.
Image Size/Format: 800X600 pixels. We will critique PROJECTED images.
“Portrait of a Single Day”
Use Photoshop to create a collage. Create a composition from a variety of photographic visual elements (scanned material, cell phone photos, images from the web, digital camera output, any other visual sources you can think of) to create a “Portrait of a Single Day”.
Think of different visual inputs that you have during a day (watching sunrise, driving a car, watching TV, working in front of a computer,…) and then think of the emotions that each one of these actions evokes. Are these emotions reflected in your creative output? What are some of the ideas generated based upon your experiences? How can these ideas be communicated to a viewer?
Avoid simple linear narratives i.e. first I woke up, and then I brushed my teeth, and then I walked out the door..:)
Use work by Hannah Hoch, Raul Hausmann and other dada collage artists for referrence.
Image Size/Format: 8.5 inches by 11 inches at 150 dpi. We will critique PRINTED images.
"Cheesy Techno"
You will be given a basic (and very cheesy) drum track. Based on that track you will create a multitrack technoish sounding demo using sound library which comes with Soundtrack Pro. You must use more then 5 tracks!
There will be breakbeats at the beginning and the end of the drum track so you will be able to play your work back to back to back in class. Pa-a-a-arty + some art theory reading!
"Synthetic Soundspace"
Make a field recording of at least 3 spaces. Create a composition using your sound recordings. Try to arrive at a general emotional/conceptual focus that will unify all of the recorded tracks in your project i.e. it should feel like a single composition and not just a collection of interesting tracks. Instrumental elements might be added with instructor's permission. Th length of your composition should be between 1.5 and 3 minutes.
For referrences pls look at the following:
http://www.acousticecology.org/soundscapelinks.html
http://www.emf.org/
There will also be 3 CDs on reserve at the library:
"Critical Response"
Create a video (no shorter then 1.5 and no longer then 3 min) as a critical response to at least 2 of the readings and/or artworks we discussed in class. You must generate your own soundtrack, no songs or song-like structructures allowed.
An essential part of this assignment is a one page project proposal.
Video art shown in class will be on reserve at the library in case you want to refer to ideas/techniques used by any of the presented artists.
Check out the following links from Wikipedia: