Brainstorming

Remember to be thinking about ideas for the collaborative project. Watch this video presentation by the collective, Eating in Public.

Abstraction, Removed

1. Troika by Lisa Jevbratt
2. A Prayer for Clean Water by Paul McClean
3. Color Bubbles
4. | Reconstruction | by Michael Takeo Magruder
5. by Michael Takeo Magruder
6. ooFFF-Pixelation Routine by Morgan Jones
7. 33 Secrets by Johnny Rogers
8. Hive by John Geraci
9. Workly Collection by Niel McDonald
10. World:It Just Keeps Changing by Kate Southworth

Rhizome Exhibition

Curate an online exhibition of your favorite new media artists through Rhizome

Choose 10 to 12 works of art that interest you. Post each work to your blog with the artist's name, Title, and dimensions. Give your show a title and make that the title of your blog post.

Composite Images

This Assignment will be broken down in to two pieces:

1. You will create a composite image made from images you find on the web.
2. You will create a composite image made from your own photos.

Due date: 3/16 (After spring break)

Part 1
Change the meaning of a historical or current event by adding or subtracting information.
Spend time searching for a high quality image.
Make sure your selection and blending techniques are strong. The image should appear as seamless as possible.
The image should be between 5 x7 and 8 x10. Save it as a psd to keep your layers.

Part 2
Create an impossible landscape. Think about ways you can create an unusual space or place through layering elements of photographs which you have gathered. This may begin by choosing an object or shape, and then building upon it. You may use some of the photos you took in the beginning of the semester, or choose to take new ones. Focus on layering techniques and creating visual texture. Experiment with transparency.
The image should be between 5 x 7 and 8 x10 (preferably closer to the latter) and 200 dpi or larger. Save it as a psd to keep your layers. We will print this image in class after the critique.

Mary Lydecker

Think back to our readings a few weeks ago from Bruno Schulz's The Street of Crocodiles. Schulz's writing style was rich and illustrative. See this assignment as a way of making a visual equivalent of Schulz's writing.

Shepherd Fairey Articles

http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/editorial_opinion/outofline/2009/02/how_phony_is_shepard_fairey.html

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/13/arts/design/13fairey.html

http://www.colbertnation.com/the-colbert-report-videos/215976/january-15-2009/shepard-fairey

http://www.colbertnation.com/the-colbert-report-videos/218732/february-12-2009/obama-poster-debate---david-ross-and-ed-colbert

For next class, 3/2

**Post your restored image to your blog, along with the original.

**Three questions/points for discussion/observations on the readings.
(See the Blackboard folder "Fair Use Readings".

**If you haven't already, post a jpg of Part 3 of Drawings on Place, which we just critiqued.

**We will start class with a discussion about Fair Use

****WATCH EXIT THROUGH THE GIFT SHOP!!!*****

Link to Illustrator Keyboard Shortcuts

http://help.adobe.com/en_US/illustrator/cs/using/WS714a382cdf7d304e7e07d0100196cbc5f-6426a.html