Luis, is the second short in a series titled Lucia, Luis y el lobo by Chilean artists Niles Atallah, Cristobal Leon, and Joaquin Cociña. Luis was created using dirt, flowers, charcoal, found objects, and cardboard. It's sister video, Lucia, was also shot frame by frame with a digital photo camera.
Fall 2009 Visual Lecture Series
Jila Nikpay, photographer and filmmaker
6PM Monday, November 2, 2009
Location: Bohannon Lecture Hall (room 90)
http://www.jilanikpay.com/
Jila Nikpay is an Iranian artist who lives in the U.S. She is a filmmaker and a photographer, working exclusively in black and white. Her still photography is staged, and marked by dramatic lighting. The films are poetic tableaus, comprised of short vignettes with no dialogue.
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Lecture by photographer Luis Gonzáles Palma
Tuesday, October 27th, 6:00 p.m.
in Montague Hall 70.
Over the past decade, Luis González Palma has become recognized as one of the most influential photographers in
Latin America. The artist employs photo-collage and hand painted warm toned photographic images that are easily identified for their color and mysterious, sometimes theatrical scenes. His innovative visual language is rich in the symbolism of indigenous myth and culture, Catholicism and humanity. González Palma's photographs are marked by visual texture
and symbolism reflective of Latin America's legacy of colonialism, the subjugation of the native cultures of his home country Guatemala and, more recently, the vague complexities of interpersonal relationships...
more info
http://www.d.umn.edu/tma/exhibitions/palma.html
post your extra credit reflection to the comments here.
http://www.art-for-a-change.com/Obey/index.htm
A critique by artist Mark Vallen
Most well known for his "Obey Giant" street posters, Shepard Fairey has carefully nurtured a reputation as a heroic guerilla street artist waging a one man campaign against the corporate powers-that-be. Infantile posturing aside, Fairey's art is problematic for another, more troubling reason - that of plagiarism.
Magical short by Guilherme Marcondes of Brazil, based on a William Blake poem. Tyger blends puppetry, illustration, photography and CGI.
Students have completed the digital compositing project. Here are some visions of a campus utopia...
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http://www.d.umn.edu/~jrock2/utopian_campus/
In my Utopian campus I would integrate more "art" into everyday areas where students would walk past or even walk on. I would also want to build a channel for a river that would flow through campus where students could swim or canoe. There would also be many unique bridges over it for access to other buildings on campus. I would also change the sidewalks and boring concrete walls around UMD and fill them with student designs so that our school would be customizable to our time. And the architecture would be more unique for each building so that It would be easy to navigate and be pleasant to look at as you walk though school. Overall I would just want the atmosphere to feel less like a business building and have a more creative feel that could inspire students as they travel and learn on campus. ~Garrett Danielson
As you walk through the bright hallways you will find a large wooden door. This leads to the courtyard. As you enter there is a boardwalk that leads you down the center and along side the reflecting pool. After that, feel free to walk on the grass or along the granite walkways on either side. It is recommended to take your shoes off to enjoy this place of tranquil delight. Spend time walking around the art pieces as well as the gardens and trees. As the seasons change the courtyard changes. In the fall, enjoy the rich colored trees and crisp, cool air. Once the snow falls, a large, clear dome will protect the courtyard from snow and ice. It will turn into an indoor courtyard. The natural order of trees may change but the grass will stay green all year and the flowers will be at constant care. The courtyard's maintenance will provide students with jobs as well as class projects and volunteer work. There are more windows and sky-walks around campus as well. This allows everyone to see the beautiful place on his or her way to and from class.
~Amara Barthelemy
For my design I decided to do the theme of super human abilities. It is a fun project to ask my friends what super power they would want to have and then try to create what they want. I decided to try and make it look realistic yet also have qualities of a fantasy. The composition of a panorama opens up the picture and allows the characters to interact with their location in space and their environment. Having the whole background consist of an actual pieced together wide view of a real part of the campus gives it part of the realistic feel. Heightened contrast and slightly unsaturated colors in the background make the characters pop more and also a more fantasy, cartoon feel. Recreating the sky digitally makes it a little more dreamlike and less realistic feeling. My aim is to create a unique wide angle view of the UMD campus with a few make-believe twists. ~Beau Walsh
The kind of Utopia I envision in a university setting is one that brings together all students and faculty of diverse areas of study, as one educational unit. The centrally planned architecture and sustainable nature of the university encourages congregation and intermingling, as well as the educational structure itself. From the first day of class to graduation day, students collaborate with other areas of study on group projects. The campus relies on on-campus agricultural land as its source of food, as well as solar power and rain water collection systems. The university acts like communal society, but with advanced technology on their side making every day living safe and convenient..~David Roberts
Obscura Mint Plaza Building Projection
Building Projections
See also:
LED throwies > Graffiti Research Lab
http://graffitiresearchlab.com/?page_id=6
The Crown Fountain > Millennium Park Chicago
http://www.millenniumpark.org/artandarchitecture/crown_fountain.html
Project 1 > Due Wed Sept 30th
Students contribute to a class image bank, sharing their collective documentation of landscape, architecture, plant life, people, transportation, recreation...
Individually, students develop Utopian visions of a new UMD campus. Students can explore the roots of utopian thinking, research artwork that depicts idealized communities through out history, or investigate virtual worlds in the digital era.
Each student creates at least 3 views of their utopian campus, rendered by using digital compositing techniques in photoshop. Final images should be horizontal format, printable to 8x10 (or larger). Keep print resolution at 200ppi, if possible. Some image bank images may be lower resolution.
Prepare a statement about your approach to this project and your vision of an ideal campus. ( about 150 words). Post to the blog by Mon Sept 28. Save images as jpgs for online photo gallery.
Here is the research by students in Art 2016 - section 2 (my noon class)
to be posted by October 5 and presented to the class that week.
Here is the research by students in Art 2016 - section 1 (my 10am class)
to be posted by October 5 and presented to the class that week.
Choose an artist from the text, Digital Art by Christiane Paul.
(see sign up sheet in class)
Please post your research about the artist to my blog by October 5. You
will present the links to the class + talk about your artist that week.
POST your research as a comment under my entry for your Digital Studio Section. (See a separate entry for your section!)
Please post a detailed (about 1 page) overview about the work of this
artist, including:
1.YOUR NAME
2. Your artist's name
3. Background info on the artist + their work
4. Description of their digital art
5. Context + category of their work in the book
6. A specific work you like + why
7. How their work might influence your digital art
++++ ALSO INCLUDE >
3 links to the artist's work on the web
AUTHENTICITY + SUSTAINABILITY
Dawn Hancock lecture
Monday Sep 21 6:00 Boh90.
Dawn Hancock . . .
does design with high moral purpose.
Dawn is a talented, exciting and wonderfully idealistic designer who
devotes an unusually high percentage of her company's resources to work
for the public good. Dawn started Firebelly in 1999, at the height of the dotcom era, a time when all the big agencies were buying up the boutique firms. Leaving
behind inflated budgets, corporate greed and style-over-substance, she
cashed-in her 401k and started creating "Good Design For Good Reason".
see her work
http://firebellydesign.com
http://www.zinema2.com/index.php/index/
Zinema 2- Duluth's Only Independent Movie Theater
222 E. Superior St. Duluth, MN, 55802 . 218.722.7300
TONIGHT>
Renowned experimental filmmaker Roger Beebe, will be rollin in to Duluth on Sept 18th to present his award-winning short film work. Roger's films have shown around the globe from Sundance to the Museum of Modern Art and from McMurdo Station in Antarctica to the CBS Jumbotron in Times Square. In his recent films, Beebe explores the possibilities of using multiple projectors-running as many as 8 projectors simultaneously-not for a free-form VJ-type experience, but for the creation of discrete works of "expanded cinema."
Vegetal City: Idealistic Visions of Our Urban Future
by Ariel Schwartz
http://www.inhabitat.com/2009/07/31/vegetal-city-idealistic-visions-of-our-urban-future/
Check out this cool installation of a utopian city: Vegetal City by visionary architect from Brussels, Luc Schuiten.
http://vegetalcity.net/
Inhabitat.com is a weblog devoted to the future of design, tracking the innovations in technology, practices and materials that are pushing architecture and home design towards a smarter and more sustainable future.
http://www.inhabitat.com/new-york-design-week-2009/
full movie is viewable for free on the internet
http://www.sitasingstheblues.com
At the beginning of every semester I ask students to share something they have recently noticed in digital culture...
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