current art and design courses

Check these lists for accuracy–if you are not on a team, please let me know.

Bottom Feeders

• Tiffany C
• Rebecca B
• Della J
• Chris D
• Kathryn S
• Savannah C
• Justin H
• Christopher O

DUOTONE

• Beth L
• Sage V
• Larin L
• Andre C
• Jesse J
• Nelson B
• Brittany C
• Madison K

Three Musketeers

• Liz T
• Trevor B
• Johnny W
• Richard H
• Iva Garcia
• Elizabeth G
• Andrew S
• Heidi Z

Group 4

• Michelle C
• Connie H
• Shea T
• Rachel M
• Brittany W
• Erica L
• Lauren B

Demolition 5quad, Bitche5!

• Rachel W
• Maya C
• Paul S
• Justine L
• Nick V
• Megan H
• Joey T

This site will serve as a clearinghouse for assignments, news, and projects for the students in my History and Theory of Design lecture. Notes will be posted in reverse chronological order, blog-style, in this space. Each post will be tagged (this one is tagged News) for easy sorting, and will be available in a monthly archive (link to the right) after it ages off the main page.

Anyone may comment on posts, and I encourage you to do so if you have questions, concerns, or burning opinions; all comments are held for moderation, though, so they will not appear instantly. Finally, posts and comments are searchable (mostly) from the search box in the upper right of the page.

In addition to news, you’ll also find my contact information, the current course syllabi, and pages with links to external resources for each class in tabs across the top of the page. I am using del.icio.us to manage links, so in addition to the course-specific links, you’ll also find a tag cloud linking to a wide array of topics (some relevant to these classes, some less so) at the bottom of the main page. Please feel free to nominate sites you feel your classmates and I should know about.

I am looking forward to a great fall semester!

Shortcut to syllabus

The Dream Before - Laurie Anderson

Excerpt from Theses on the Philiosophy of History, IX:
“A Klee painting named ‘Angelus Novus’ shows an angel looking as though he is about to move away from something he is fixedly contemplating. His eyes are staring, his mouth is open, his wings are spread. This is how one pictures the angel of history. His face is turned toward the past. Where we perceive a chain of events, he sees one single catastrophe which keeps piling wreckage upon wreckage and hurls it in front of his feet. The angel would like to stay, awaken the dead, and make whole what has been smashed. But a storm is blowing in from Paradise; it has got caught in his wings with such violence that the angel can no longer close them. This storm irresistibly propels him into the future to which his back is turned, while the pile of debris before him grows skyward. This storm is what we call progress.”
- Walter Benjamin

• Jermaine
• Chris & Dan
  
• Brandon
• Jessica G.
• Jacques
• Nick
• Kirsten
• Jessica S.
• Zach
• Amanda
• Eric
• Mimi
• Jeff
• Beth
• Natalia
• Rebecca
• Sage

Max/MSP/Jitter

• The Max mothership: Cycling ‘74
• Jitter recipes (awesome stuff)
• HUGE database of Max/MSP/Jitter ‘external’ objects to add functionality

PureData is Max-like, but less polished…then again, the price (free!) is right

VVVV (”a toolkit for visual synthesis”) is free for artists, utterly nutty (my vote for most idiosyncratic interface evar) and Windows only…but, it can produce absolutely amazing visuals (check the galeria) and doesn’t blink when confronted even with thousands of moving elements…recommended only for the brave

Cricket (and SuperCricket) are available at Gleason Research

• Nick: The Chute
• Eric: 30 second…ish video
• Kirsten: Invisible Editing Assignment
• Mimi: Ice Cream
• Natalia: Hollywood Editing
• Amanda: Song of My Heart
• Rebecca (with us in spirit): proj 4
• Jessica G: Project 3 - Continuity Editing
• Jessica S: I Don’t Need Shoes to Dance (Trailer)
• Jaques: Mafia
• Beth: Violin Practice

And where are the rest? What public humilation awaits those unfortunate souls?

• Zach: It’s Time

Just came across this excellent site for low-budget/no-budget video production techniques which is perfect LoFi video:

GEARBOX

At the site you can find how to:

• Hijack CCTV cameras for hard-to-get shots
• Create a covert Starbuck’s Venti-cam
• Make fake cuts/bruises/blood for cheap
• Build a budget reflector
• Subtitle your videos

…and much more. Well worth a look.

Each student will provide a brief introduction for the class to the video artist they select by random drawing. This presentation will include:

• a short biography of the artist
• major themes in the artist’s work
• how the artist uses video
• a clip from one or more of the artist’s major works (via DVD or online)

These introductions will be presented on Thursday, June 5th 2008 Monday, June 9th 2008

EDIT: Due to the mysteriously low attendance today, the presentations are postponed until Monday…