*** Includes preclass or homework, may include includes pre-recorded you tube video
To Be Prepared in Advance of class starting: PreClass: Reminder to collect 10 NY Times Newspapers (cover spread only)/ Screen: How to Document Artwork and here
Week 1 Thursday, January 28 / Monday, February 1
Class: Introduction (Paul Thek’s Teaching notes), class expectations, Introduction to point and line(screening artists Sol Lewitt, Julie Mehretu, Luis Camintzer, Francis Alys, Lee Walton) / Project 1: Line Drawings
Assignment: Line Drawing Reading Assigned: Read excerpts from "Michel de Certeau "The Practice of Everyday Life: Walking in the City" See Project 1 description
Week 2 Thursday, February 4 / Monday, February 8
Due: Line Project WIP
Class: WIP Line Project / Workshop: Point to line continued: sewn text (words of protest and reform, exhibition: Threadlines, Kay Rosen, Jeffery Gibson, Threads (Foxy Production)
Assignment: Continue to work on sewn text / Line Project
Week 3 Thursday, February 11 / Thursday, February 18 (NO class February 15th President’s Day so Thursday Meets on a Monday Schedule on Feb. 18)
Due: 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).
Assignment: Begin developing ideas and methods for Project 2: All the News That is Fit to Print prepare at least 3 prototypes for next week, submit to google drive folder / Finish Sewn Text project (Thursday)
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 in your journaling. How does this influence your individual project? In a statement regarding your project please include quotes and reference to this interview.
Week 4 Monday, February 22 / Thursday, February 25
Due: First drafts News Project
Class: WIP News // Introduction to Color
Assignment: Project: All the News That is Fit to Print / Finish Sewing Project - Monday
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 Monday, March 1/ Thursday, March 4
Due: NEWS project and audio response
Class: Critique NEWS project / Color-Joseph Alber’s Interaction of Color Exercise
Assignment: Using a color image from your archive that inspires 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!
Allan McCollum Shapes Project
Week 6 Monday, March 8 / Thursday, March 11
Class: Screen visiting Artist Glendalys Medina: Artist Talk/ Experimental Drawing Workshop/performance (journal: related to artist talk, take notes!) / Introduce Project Shape + Pattern + Textile : Line to shape (screening Allan McCollum, Hayal Pozanti, Cheryl Donegan)
Assignment: Shape + Pattern + Textile: shoot everyday shapes (10+ using your dslr) Finish Intro Illustrator Exercise (part 1 | part 2)
Richard Dupont, The Spinning Top Realized as an Action (after Hans Bellmer), 2007
cast pigmented polyurethane
Figure: 34 x 27 x 21
Preclass: Intro Illustrator Exercise (part 1 | part 2)
Week 7 Monday, March 15 / Thursday, March 18
Due: illustrator exercise .ai uploaded to google drive
Class: Trace Three Objects / Illustrator continued: Shape + Pattern + Textile/ upload to spoonflower
Week 8 Monday, March 22 / Thursday, March 25
Class: Intro to 3D project zoom meet with Laguardia Studio 11:00am Monday, 3:30pm Thursday / Looking at Midterm Portfolios (through shapes)
Assignment: finish Metashape exercise / 3D PROJECT shoot object on turntable see project
Reading: The 3D Additivist Manifesto by Morehshin Allahari / Post-Photographic Presences or How to Wear a Digital Cloak, by Haidy Geismar (see handouts or link)
Preclass: 3D intro: Process images in Lightroom
Week 9 Monday, March 29 / Thursday, April 1
Class: Worktime for 3D project.
Assignment: 3D PROJECT reshoot turntable if needed /shoot space
Reading: The 3D Additivist Manifesto by Morehshin Allahari / Post-Photographic Presences or How to Wear a Digital Cloak, by Haidy Geismar (see handouts or link)Week 10 Monday, April 5 / Thursday, April 8
Class: WIP 3D project / Introduce Multiples/Distribution/Exchange project (screen: Andy Warhol, Richard Prince, Hank Willis Thomas, Penelope Umbrico, Printed Matter etc) 20+ images sized and saved for book
Assignment: 3D PROJECT: reshoot if needed / make appointment with LGS / Multiples begin collecting images
Preclass: Introduction to Indesign
Week 11 Thursday, April 15 / Monday, April 12
Due: Images for artist book/zine
Class: Visiting Artist Workshop /WIP: Ideas
Assignment: Multiples/Distribution/Exchange / 3D Project appointments with LGS
Reading: Seth Price Dispersion 2008
Monday April 19, Spring Break NO Homework / No Class Monday, April 19
Week 12 Thursday, April 22 / Monday, April 26
DUE: 3D projectClass Indesign Continued / Multiples Project: WIP review ideas with class
Assignment: Multiples/Distribution/Exchange
3D Project - Printing
Week 13 Thursday, April 29 / Monday, May 3
Class: WIP individual meetings artist book final edits
Assignment: Multiples/Distribution/Exchange/Printing and simple booklet binding/ saddle stitch