*** Includes preclass or homework, may include includes pre-recorded you tube video
To Be Prepared in Advance of class starting: PreClass: Please bring 5 images that represent your work / submit and screen introduction on flipgrid Paul Thek’s Teaching notes. Reminder to collect 10 NY Times Newspapers (cover spread only)/ Screen: How to Document Artwork and here
Week 1 Thursday, September 3
Class: Introduction, class expectations, Introduction to point and line, Introduction to the Web / Introduction to html (please bring 5 images that represent your work)/Resizing images/ html cheatsheet
Assignment: Line Drawing / Watch Introduction to the Web / Introduction to html and complete Website Portfolio (resize images and post) upload website folders to class google drive (include initials) WC3 html tutorial: html basics elements, headings, paragraph links, images, lists
Reading Assigned: Read excerpts from "Michel de Certeau "The Practice of Everyday Life: Walking in the City" See Project 1 description
Week 2 Thursday, September 10
Due: Line Project WIP / web portfolio
Class: Zoom Break out rooms to look at Line Project / Introduction to CSS / Workshop: Point to line continued: sewn text (words of protest and reform, exhibition: Threadlines)
Assignment: Introduction to CSS - create index page using Adobe Brackets / Line Project
Resources: WC3 schools: HTML and WC3 CSS tutorial (HTML: Layout, file paths, CSS: syntax, how to, backgrounds)
Week 3 Thursday, September 17
Due: index page / Line Images / 10 NYtimes
Class: Critique and Discussion of Line Project / Intro All the News That is Fit to Print (screening Sarah Charlesworth, Aleksandra Mir, Adrian Piper, Rikirit Tirivanija, Lorraine O’Grady, Michalis Pilcher, and more)
Workshop: techniques ( adding -sharpie and gouache, extracting (exacto), commenting and highlighting (highlighter and sharpies), alternative materials (oil, wax, etc).
CSS tutorial continued (text, webfonts, color, margin and padding, height and width, nav bar, box model, positioning align, and more)
Assignment: CSS continued - creating projects and writing pages / begin developing ideas and methods for Project 2: All the News That is Fit to Print prepare at least 3 options for next week
Reading Assigned: Listen to "The Last Newspaper: Artist in Conversation Sarah Charlesworth, Aleksandra Mir, and Nate Lowman" Three artists engage in a discussion about their use (and abuse) of the daily newspaper in their art practices, as well as the importance of the newspaper in their daily lives. Please take notes and include on website. How does this influence your individual project? In a statement regarding your project please include quotes and reference to this interview. Post in Writing section of your website.
Week 4 Thursday, September 24
Due: CSS project and writing pages with content, first drafts News Project
Class: WIP News - show samples individual or group TBD
Assignment: Project: All the News That is Fit to Print
Hayal Pozanti,46 Acrylic on canvas 40 x 40 inches - 102 x 102 cm Source statistic: percentage increase in requests by world governments for Twitter user data since the beginning of 2014 2015
Week 5 Thursday, October 1
Due: NEWS project and audio response /Website updated with recent projects and writing.
Class: Critique NEWS project / Websites: finishing up and UPLOADING using Filezilla
Assignment: Intro Illustrator Exercise (part 1 | part 2)
Allan McCollum Shapes Project
Week 6 Thursday, October 8
Preclass: Intro Illustrator Exercise (part 1 | part 2)
Class: Hand in: Intro Illustrator .ai google drive / Introduction to Project: Line to shape (screening Allan McCollum, Hayal Pozanti, Cheryl Donegan) / Visiting Artist Glendalys Medina: Artist Talk/ Experimental Drawing Workshop/performance (response related to artist talk, take notes!)
Assignment: Shape + Pattern + Textile: shoot everyday shapes (10+ using your dslr)
Richard Dupont, The Spinning Top Realized as an Action (after Hans Bellmer), 2007
cast pigmented polyurethane
Figure: 34 x 27 x 21
Week 7 Thursday, October 15
Preclass: Trace 3 or objects (photographs) using the pen tool
Class: Illustrator continued: Shape + Pattern + Textile/ upload to spoonflower
Week 8 Thursday, October 22
Class: Intro to 3D project zoom meet with Laguardia Studio /Looking at Websites: Midterm Website Deadline (upload through shapes)
Assignment: 3D PROJECTshoot space or object of protest/reform see project
Reading: The 3D Additivist Manifesto by Morehshin Allahari
Week 9 Thursday, October 29
Preclass: 3D intro: Process images in Lightroom
Class: Worktime for 3D project.
Assignment: 3D PROJECT
Week 10 Thursday, November 5
Class: WIP Critique 3D project
Assignment: 3D PROJECT reshoot if needed
Assignment: Using color image(s) at least 5 from your archive that inspire you...
Assign Reading: Color Goes Electric, May 31, 2016 by Claire Lehmann for Triple Canopy magazine. AND Color excerpts from Cabinet magazine see pdf here or individual links: cyan, khaki, pink, mauve, beige, ultramarine, black, sulphur , in addition if you search Cabinet Magazine for "colors" you can choose your own color reading. Use these readings to influence writing about the color in your image. Choose one image AFTER reading to write about!
Week 11 Thursday, November 12
Class: Color / Adobe Color /Color and Websites /Introduction to Artist Book/Zine project
Assignment: Multiples/Distribution/Exchange COLLECT IMAGES / 3D Project
Reading: Seth Price Dispersion 2008
Week 12 Thursday, November 19
DUE: 3D projectClass Indesign Continued / Multiples Project: WIP review ideas with class
Assignment: Multiples/Distribution/Exchange
3D Project - Printing
Week 13 Thursday, December 3
Class: WIP individual meetings artist book final edits
Assignment: Multiples/Distribution/Exchange/Printing and simple booklet binding/ saddle stitch / Finalize website - WEBSITE CHECKLIST / 3D Project - Printing