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BITS & TANGENTS | ART 126B F05 | Lecturer: Anne Hayden Stevens

PROJECTS

drawing
erasure
color
light
motion/sound

Schedule for the final four weeks: Tuesday in top row, Thursday below.

website review	Video	Video	Video: streaming work to media server
making Color crit Video screening/video project discussion	Holiday	In class work	Final Critique

THE COURSE

DESCRIPTION | This course, Bits & Tangents, will provide an introduction to digital imaging environments through the vocabulary of painting, drawing and image/text relationships. Imaging softwares including Adobe Illustrator and Adobe Photoshop will be used, and various output methods will be experimented with including large format printing, the book form, and posting streaming work to the web.

SYLLABUS | You will produce five projects that build upon each other, both conceptually and technically. The emphasis in this class is upon process and experimentation in the digital realm. We will post work to individual student websites and work back and forth between print and web environs. All artwork content is to be your own, from images to sound to text. Every project examines the role of the handmade mark/sound/image in digital media.

Schedule

Week 1-3: Introduction to the web
coding html/participation in an online artwork/
creating drawings/ image creation in photoshop

Week 4-6: Image/text/physical form
Working in Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator/printing vector and raster imagery/ building form with paper

Week 7-10: Time-based work
Making short films incorporating sound, drawings and video imagery

COURSE PROCESS
Tuesdays 2:30 pm: Lecture and work in MGH 058.
Thursdays: 2:30 pm: pinup in Art 228 and continued in class work in studio and SOACC.

Refrain from checking email during class time. There will be a 15 minute break during each session. Turn off cell phones. Working with headphones is okay, but conversation and collaboration across workstations is preferred.

Save often and with variant names.

Test and archive all projects the night before critique.

GRADING

Project evaluation is based on the following:

active participation in the studio and critiques.
in depth exploration of your ideas.
work complete at critique (projects not shown at critique receive no credit).
timely delivery of project files at the end of the quarter.

PROJECT EVALUATION | Individual projects in this class are graded with a +, o, -. This evaluation is based upon the depth of exploration and the conceptual & formal strength, not technical aptitude or simple completion of the project. Your overall grade is generated from the evaluation of the five projects and is affected by your participation in critiques and in the lab. All project work must be complete at critique. Projects not shown at critique receive no credit. To make sure your work is ready for critiques, test, output and archive your work the day or night before the project is due.

LOGISITICS | Students work in the SOACC. Wacom tablets are available for check out in the lab. There are two labs in Gould Hall that also have Wacom tablets (but no styluses). Styluses are available for purchase at the University Book Store for $70. and can be resold to other students for the following quarter.