ART 360 with sean cohen

“A picture is worth a thousand words. An interface is worth a thousand pictures.”—Ben Shneiderman, 2003

All of the discussions in this class will be based on some questions, and the answers to these questions will often be personal or idiosyncratic, which means they are neither wrong nor right, but instead contributions to our common dialog.

1. Put on your critical thinking caps and describe this for me.
2. What is a screen?
   
   “How it would be, if a house was dreaming.”
   “The conception of this project consistently derives from its underlying architecture – the theoretic conception and visual pattern of the Hamburg Kunsthalle. The Basic idea of narration was to dissolve and break through the strict architecture of O. M. Ungers “Galerie der Gegenwart”.”

   More can be found here.

3. Who are you, who am I, what do we bring to the class?
4. What is Digital Art?
5. What do you expect from this class?
6. How can this class help you achieve your goals?
   

   parkour motion reel from saggyarmpit on Vimeo.

7. How is the class relevant to being an artist?

1. Make a blog
2. wait, before you fall asleep – naming conventions

Golan Levin, an artist and engineer, uses modern tools — robotics, new software, cognitive research — to make artworks that surprise and delight. Watch as sounds become shapes, bodies create paintings, and a curious eye looks back at the curious viewer.

Watch his Ted presentation on some art he has done recently.

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Lets discuss:

“If nature has made any one thing less susceptible than all others of exclusive property, it is the action of the thinking power called an idea, which an individual may exclusively possess as long as he keeps it to himself; but the moment it is divulged, it forces itself into the possession of everyone, and the receiver cannot dispossess himself of it. Its peculiar character, too, is that no one possesses the less, because every other possesses the whole of it. He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me. That ideas should freely spread from one to another over the globe, for the moral and mutual instruction of man, and improvement of his condition, seems to have been peculiarly and benevolently designed by nature, when she made them, like fire, expansible over all space, without lessening their density at any point, and like the air in which we breathe, move, and have our physical being, incapable of confinement or exclusive appropriation. Inventions then cannot, in nature, be a subject of property.” – Thomas Jefferson

1. Send an email to sean.r.cohen@gmail.com with the subject line “ART360” and your return address. Please write (don’t copy and paste) a joke that is not a one-liner and is not crude. Include a link to your blog. Make a comment to this post with your blog address.
2. Please post an entry in your blog which links to 5 other classmember’s blogs.
3. Self Portrait 1: resampling, digital drawing and painting - due next week
   Create a self portrait from a digital photo that you take.  Using Photoshop tools and resample the entire image. Use every tool possible and explore multiple variations at different stages. Use the image from shoulders up. The image must depict a particular emotion through facial expression. You can also incorporate objects or symbols into the portrait. Transform the photograph as much as possible. The final image should NOT read as a photo.
   Technical Outcomes: photoshop painting and drawing tools, custom brushes
   Conceptual outcomes: personal style, digital mark-making, self actualization

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