Art410-sp13: 2013

SP 2013 – San Francisco State University, Art Department

Art 410 Conceptual Strategies

Day/Time: Tuesday (Creative Arts Computer Lab, Creative arts Building, Rm 265)

Thursday (Fine Arts Room 538)

9:10-11:50 am)

Units/Hrs: 3 units/3 hours per week

Instructor: Paula Levine

Office/Phone: Fine Arts Rm. 537/ 415-337-0753

Email: plevine@sfsu.edu

Office hours: T/Th 12:15-1:45, and by appointment

SCHEDULE 2

Theme/ Topic	Tues (CACL 260)		Thurs (FA 538)
Jan: Course Intro.	28	Course introduction: Talk- On CIA- area, focus, courses, art & artists Assignment: Due Jan. 31 1. Create a dedicated blog for the class and bring in your url. 2. Search through Steve Wilson’s Links on Art-Science-Technology (http://userwww.sfsu.edu/infoarts/links/wilson.artlinks2.html). Select an area of interest and blog 3 artists/works. Of these , select one to present to the class from your blog	31	Presentations: Selected artists working in Art-Science—Technology from Steve Wilson’s Links Reading 1 & Presentations: Due Feb 14: As We May Think by Vannevar Bush. This is a seminal article from 1941 by the man who directed the Manhattan Project that designed the atomic bomb in WW11. Bush writes about technology from his point in time, and makes predictions about future technological changes. Write: Blog a response to the article. Comment on Bush’s vision of the future. How accurate was he? What limited or informed his predictions? Make your own 3 predictions future technological changes, developing at least one of these predictions in an area you chose to select from Steve’s links. Do some searching online or in primary material (library+books) to see what the current innovations are in your selected area(s) to root your predictions in currently emerging changes and developments. Blog your predictions in your journal, along with any drawings, images or sketches of what you envision. Use your blog to make a 5 minute presentation on your vision of the future. Links: Inventions of Leonardo di Vinci http://www.da-vinci-inventions.com/ Biography of Vannevar Bush http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vannevar_Bush Vannevar Bush - Inventor of the week http://web.mit.edu/invent/iow/bush.html
Mining new ground	Feb. 5	Intro to the computer lab: - Procedures - Storage (and connection to the CIA lab) - Policies re: printing on campus - How to handle machine failure - Relationship between the two labs - Sharing knowledge and information – trading skill for skill In-class exercise: MindMeld – CollectiveSpeedBrainBlog Create an ongoing collection of ideas to share In 10 minutes, blog as many ideas as you can on your blogs. These can be words, phrases, thoughts, ideas, what you might want to do with materials, performance ideas, things you fear, hate, love, miss, desire, things you want to record in sound, video, memory, what you want to build… Don’t “make sense” of anything that comes to mind. Just spew from brain to 0101010010… “Everyday is a beautiful day, providing that you don’t have notion of ‘beautiful’ in you.” John Cage 1. No censorship 2. No edits 3. No use of the words or questions like: Is this any good? This is stupid. I can’t think of anything. I’m not creative. I can’t think fast, etc.	7	Assignment 1: Chance Operations Project (collaboration) Due Feb. 21 (See Assignment 1: Chance on course blog) Talk: Chance as a way of working and artists using chance operations • You will be randomly assigned to a partner in class and will have some open time to begin planning with your partner.
	Feb. 12	9:10-10:10: Library orientation by Darlene Tong, Head, Faculty Co-Chair & Creative Arts Library Liason http://www.library.sfsu.edu/about/staff/staff.php?libid=88 Please meet in the new library, rm 289. promptly at, or before 9:10. Darlene’s areas of resource research expertise include: • American Studies Art (Databases) Creative Arts (Databases) Dance (Databases) Design & Industry (Databases) 10:30: meet in CACL - Review of Chance Operation assignments in progress	14	Class discussion: Vannevar Bush and As we may think *From 1941 to now/ from now to 60 years hence* Class discussion of article, As you may think and presentations of your predictions. Please have your responses to the article on your blogs along with your three predictions of life and technology in 2073.
Mapping	Feb. 19	Introduction to Google Earth Talk: New cartography- tools, artists, works Assignment 2: Virtual Intervention (See assignment description) You will need a camera (your cell phone is fine as long as you know how to transfer images from your cell to the screen) Demo: Google Earth Basics	21	Presentations, Discussion and Critiques of Assignment 1: Chance operations Please bring in the chance pieces if they are portables. Everyone should have your chance instructions as well as documentation of their pieces on their blogs. Please prepare a presentation of your projects (max 10 min.). Discuss what you did and what you ended up with: - How does it relate to other things you do? - Can it be used as an idea for other projects? - Talk about it in terms of ‘aesthetics’
	Feb. 26	Continue working on Virtual Intervention pieces. Demo: Google Earth continued- • Producing and transferring GPS Tracks • Working with QR Codes	28	Introduction to upcoming workshop: Citizen Mapping using Aerial photography Guest: Stewart Long, from Public Laboratory Related Links: http://publiclaboratory.org/home http://grassrootsmapping.org/ http://www.openstreetmap.us/
	Mar 5	Complete Virtual Intervention project: Demo: • Documenting work in Google Earth - photos, sound and video • Automating movement in GE: Making tours • Exporting your kmz files • Presentations and discussions or work	7	Workshop: Citizen mapping- http://publiclaboratory.org/tool/balloon-mapping Guest: Stewart Long, from Public Laboratory
	Mar 12	Photoshop1: Basics - Pixels - Resolution - Image size - Layers • Open lab: work on composite of images from Aerial mapping for view on Thurs.	14	• Class presentations: Artists using mapping • Discussion of reading
Tourism	Mar 19	Open lab: Review of tools todate •Assignment #4: Tourism Review of project (see Assignment #4: Tourism) Bring in digital files of images you want to use in making a poster for your tourism project. Photoshop 2: - Masks - Batch processing	21	Talk: On tourism : being a citizen of the world From 17^th century Wunderkammer (cabinets of wonder) to 19^th century stereograms to 21st century skype Class presentations: What does tourism look like? The good/the bad/the ugly. Bring in examples of the language, appearance, style, ways of persuasion that tourism materials use to bring the tourists to them. Ideas: - Search current and historical tourist materials for the same place. How has it changed? - Compare famous and not-so-famous places through tourist ads. - Search tourism in your home town. How does it appear similar or different? What are the gaps between the way it’s portrayed and what you experience? Have your materials on your blogs and make a 5 minute presentation on what you found. What works? What doesn’t? What’s camp? What’s high culture? What’s low culture? Who’s the audience?
	Mar 26	SPRING BREAK	28	SPRING BREAK
	Apr 2	Photoshop 3: - Image alteration - Compression options and outcomes - File size and print size • Continue working on your tourist poster. Keep all text in a separate layer.	4	Class review of posters in process. Please print out your poster for discussion.
	Apr 9	From Photoshop to Illustrator: Introduction to Illustrator: - bitmapped versus vectors - tools, workspace - outline and fill - layers Bring your digital poster image to class. You will be importing it into Illustrator to complete.	11	TBA
	Apr 16	Illustrator 2: - Tracemapping - Working with Bezier curves - Working with text Continue working on your tourist poster in Illustrator.	18	Talk: On Monuments. Presentation: Your ideas for, and preliminary sketches of your site’s monument or landmark.
	Apr 23	Demo: Sketch up Bring your sketches to class.	25	Class discussion of readings on tourism and monuments Class presentations of related artists and projects
	Apr 30	Sketch up continues - Bringing your designs into Google Earth	May 2	Individual meetings
	May 7	Open Lab	9	Open lab
	May 14	Final Presentations	16	Final Presentations
	21-24	Final Exams-University Wide
	25	Commencement

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