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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...