TUE/THR 13:40PM-16:30PM [syllabus]
Chromatic Constructs: The Evolution of Color Reproduction in Media
Week 1
1/23 (TUE)
C
1/25 (THR)
C
R
Read by this class:
  • [5 pages] Color Film (p202 or p203 2nd paragraph from bottom - 207) by Friedrich Kittler in Optical Media [PDF]
  • Color Goes Electric by Claire Lehmann at Triple Canopy (the site can be wonky so try a different browser, Chrome, Firefox, Safari if it does not work. If not here is a [PDF])
Week 2
1/30 (TUE)
C
2/1 (THR)
C
Week 3
2/6 (TUE)
C
2/8 (THR)
C
R
Read by this class:
  • [23 pages -> 20 pages] p67 - p81, p67 - p76, p79 - p81, p86 - 96. Technique of the Observer by Jonathan Crary (Part I) [PDF]
Week 4
2/13 (TUE)
C
  • Camera Obscura/Pinhole camera workshop
  • David Hockney's Secret Knowledge
2/15 (THR)
C
  • Studio work time
Week 5
2/20 (TUE)
C
  • Studio work time
2/22 (THR)
D
Constructing Time and Space in Media
Week 6
2/27 (TUE)
C
  • Color presentation part #2
  • Discuss reading
R
Read by this class: "Devices of Wonder" by Barbara Stafford [PDF]
  • I am including more pages in the PDF for your reference. Please read the following by class (not the easiest read but that is okay. Do your best and enjoy the pictures):
  • [5 pages] p1-6 THE DEMON OF ANALOGY
  • Optional [7 pages] p47-54 TECHNIQUES OF EPIPHANY
  • [10 pages] p79 - 90 PHANTOMWARE
  • [10 pages] p90 - 102 BRIGHT ORAMAS
  • [5 pages] p109 - 115 COSMOS IN A PALM
2/29 (THR)
C
R
Read by this class:
  • [20 pages] p97 - p116 Technique of the Observer by Jonathan Crary (Part II) [PDF]
Week 7
3/5 (TUE)
C
R
- Read by this class:
  • [17 + 15 pages] Theoretical Presuppositions (p29 - 46) & Ch3.2 Film (p145 - 160) from Optical Media by Friedrick Kittler [PDF]
S
  • Lecture "The Black Androids: History and the Technological Underground" 3/5 (TUE) Eliot Hall 314 @ 4:45pm
3/7 (THR)
C
  • Stereoscope (how to) [slides]
  • View your zoetrope animation
  • By day before next class take stereo photos and submit using [template]. Demo how to use template in Photoshop
D
  • Bring to class zoetrope paper you worked on
S
  • Lecture "The Chatbot's Real Self: Textuality, Cultural Concepts, & the Archaeology of Artificial Personas" by Courtney Handman, 4:30pm Eliot Hall 314
SPRING BREAK Mar 9–17 (Sat–Sun)
Week 8
3/18 (MON)
C
3/19 (TUE)
C
  • View stereo images
  • Discuss readings [slides]
R
  • [27 pages with pictures]: "3D Double Vision" by Britt Salvesen (ed), 2018. p9 - p14, P15 - p 37 [PDF]
  • [20 pages] p116 - 136 Technique of the Observer by Jonathan Crary (Part III) [PDF]
3/21 (THR)
C
  • Discuss VR experience (you should have gone to Tony@Mlab (ETC 226) by this class)
  • 3D Video [slides][sample source files]: Please come to class with some ideas (eg. bring idea, props). Submit your completed 3D video [here]
  • Film theory [notes] from Art 196 (Digital Video)
A
By the beginning of this class, please go to the Mlab and watch the following VR (3D) videos on the VR headset (Quest)
S
Week 9
3/26 (TUE)
C
3/28 (THR)
C
  • Studio work time
S
  • Lecture@PNCA Sat May 30th 5pm, CRITICAL CONVERSATIONS: TINA RIVERS RYAN AT PNCA -- Media Art's Future, Present, and Past: Notes from the Field
Week 10
4/2 (TUE)
C
  • Studio work time
4/4 (THR)
D
Machine Learning and Media
Week 11
4/9 (TUE)
D
4/11 (THR)
C
R
Week 12
4/16 (TUE)
C
  • Studio work time
4/18 (THR)
C
  • Studio work time
Week 13
4/23 (TUE)
D
4/25 (THR)
C
  • Studio work time (LAST DAY OF CLASS)

CRITIQUE DURING FINALS WEEK -- NOTE DIFFERENT SCHEDULE!

5/6 (MON) 9am - 12pm
D
  • Final project presentation


    • For the final project, I ask that you strive for some depth and/or resolve whether as an art work, or as some kind of deeper engagement with the material we covered in class in your presentation. I'm pretty open about what form it can take. For example, you can present completed art works or make a presentation.

    Recall the presentation we saw in the first class
5/7 (TUE) 6-9pm
D
  • Final project presentation
S




C Class............plans for class..subject to change
L Lab............darkroom/lab session
A Assignments......what you should be doing outside of class among other things.
R Readings.........finish reading by.
D Due.............yes, due date.
S Supplementary.....further reading/references/artists discussed in class