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
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Tues (CACL 260)
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Thurs (FA 538)
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Jan:
Course Intro.
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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
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Presentations:
Selected artists working in
Art-Science—Technology from Steve Wilson’s Links
Reading 1 & Presentations: Due
Feb 14:
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
Biography of Vannevar Bush
Vannevar Bush - Inventor of the
week
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Mining new
ground
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Feb. 5
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Intro to the computer lab:
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Procedures
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Storage
(and connection to the CIA lab)
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Policies
re: printing on campus
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How
to handle machine failure
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Relationship
between the two labs
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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.
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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.
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Feb. 12
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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
10:30: meet in CACL
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Review of Chance Operation assignments in progress
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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.
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Mapping
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Feb. 19
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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
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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’
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Feb. 26
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Continue working on Virtual
Intervention pieces.
Demo:
Google Earth continued-
• Producing and transferring GPS Tracks
• Working with QR Codes
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Introduction to upcoming workshop:
Citizen Mapping using Aerial
photography
Guest: Stewart Long, from Public
Laboratory
Related Links:
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Mar 5
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Complete Virtual
Intervention project:
Demo:
• Documenting work in Google Earth
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photos,
sound and video
• Automating
movement in GE: Making tours
• Exporting your kmz files
• Presentations and discussions or work
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Workshop: Citizen mapping-
Guest: Stewart Long, from Public
Laboratory
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Mar 12
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Photoshop1: Basics
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Pixels
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Resolution
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Image
size
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Layers
• Open lab: work on composite of images from Aerial
mapping for view on Thurs.
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• Class presentations: Artists
using mapping
• Discussion of reading
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Tourism
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Mar 19
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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:
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Masks
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Batch
processing
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Talk: On tourism : being a citizen
of the world
From 17th century Wunderkammer
(cabinets of wonder) to 19th 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:
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Search
current and historical tourist materials for the same place. How has it
changed?
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Compare
famous and not-so-famous places through tourist ads.
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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?
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Mar 26
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SPRING BREAK
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SPRING BREAK
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Apr 2
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Photoshop 3:
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Image
alteration
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Compression
options and outcomes
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File
size and print size
• Continue working on your tourist poster. Keep all text
in a separate layer.
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Class review of
posters in process.
Please print out your
poster for discussion.
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Apr 9
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From Photoshop to Illustrator:
Introduction to Illustrator:
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bitmapped
versus vectors
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tools,
workspace
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outline
and fill
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layers
Bring your digital poster image to class. You will be
importing it into Illustrator to complete.
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TBA
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Apr 16
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Illustrator 2:
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Tracemapping
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Working
with Bezier curves
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Working
with text
Continue working on your tourist poster in Illustrator.
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Talk: On Monuments.
Presentation: Your ideas for, and preliminary sketches of
your site’s monument or landmark.
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Apr 23
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Demo: Sketch up
Bring your sketches to class.
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Class discussion of readings on
tourism and monuments
Class presentations of related
artists and projects
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Apr 30
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Sketch up continues
- Bringing your designs into Google
Earth
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May 2
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Individual meetings
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May 7
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Open Lab
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Open lab
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May 14
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Final Presentations
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Final Presentations
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21-24
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Final Exams-University Wide
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Commencement
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