Assignment #1

Assignment #1 Digital Collage

Program: Photoshop CS6
Imagery: Found/Appropriated

Pick a theme, interpret it literally or loosely through digital collage. Think about how images, words, and colors are connected. Any imagery that is not copyrighted can be used. Any tools in photoshop can be used. You MUST use text in some way, as well as one element of color.

Due date: Monday, Feb 4. 

Technical References:
Classroom in a Book: Adobe Photoshop CS6 Chapters 3 & 4

Some Inspiration: Lesley Dill

http://halsey.cofc.edu/exhibitions/lesley-dill/

PHEW!!!

That article was a whole lot of business and marketing mumbo jumbo, right? I hope you guys muddled through it even though a lot of it was consumerism theory. Think about how this parallels the art world. Think about branding issues, copyright infringement, colonialism infiltrating/changing societies.  Like consumerism and consumption, art, specifically new media, is being targeted to influence and changed to accommodate demand.

REMEMBER - Media is ALWAYS changing. Programs are constantly being updated for better use and manipulation. We must adapt or go home!

Things you should take away from this article:

- consumerism is largely based on visual culture

- ethical consumerism is based on fair trade

- ethical visual consumerism is based on properly appropriating imagery

- be ethical in your visual pursuits, for there's a long line of predecessors setting the example

Inaugural Post

This is the very first post EVER on the New Media blog. I am terribly excited!!!!
Here's a link to my faaaaavorite website.
CATS!
And here's a link to my second faaaavorite website.
:)
And here's my faaaaavorite picture in the world.

Yay! New Media!!!

Mainstreaming Fair Trade: Adoption, Assimilation, Appropriation.

EBSCOhost: Mainstreaming fair trade: adoption, assimilation, appropriation.