Wednesday's Class

Do you guys feel abandoned? Ya mad at me?

Tutorial on Portrait

First off, take a portrait of yourself in Photobooth. Open the image in Photoshop, convert it to black and white and up the contrast and brightness.

In Illustrator, set up a new document at 12 x 12 inches. GO TO: File > New, and this is what your window will look like. Click advanced and make sure your Color Mode is CMYK, Raster Effect is High 300, and your Preview is Default.

Make sure your Layers window is open. GO TO: Windows > Layers.

Immediately open a new layer in this new document. Into this new layer (layer 2), you will drag your portrait.


Scale the image to fit in your canvas. Note, your image will become pixelated. Don't worry. You will delete this image/layer once your typo portrait is finished.

Click and drag Layer 2 to be under Layer 1. Double-click on Layer 2 and check the Lock and Template box in the Layer Options window. Now select Layer One.

Select the type tool (it resembles the one from Photoshop). Click the area on your image where you want the text to go and start typing. You can change the size and scale of your text. Use more text to create the illusion of darkness and less text to create the illusion of lightness.

Lesson 7 in your books will help you reshape and warp text or to create text paths.

Once you are finished adding text, delete Layer 2, the layer that contains the original photographic portrait.

Assignment #4 Typographic Portrait

Assignment #4 Typographic Portrait

Program: Illustrator CS5

Imagery Tools: TEXT, TEXT, and more TEXT

Create a self portrait in Illustrator using text.  You can use ANY font/typeface, but you must ONLY use that font/typeface.  You may change the color, font size, orientation... etc.

Step One: Take a photo of yourself RIGHT NOW using Photobooth. Use it as your guide for creating your portrait. There should be NO trace of this image in your final typographic portrait. The image should be 12 x 12 inches.

Step Two: Utilize text to create a typographic portrait. It can be ANY text you choose -- letters, numbers, symbols... etc. Play around with font sizes, color, rotations, warps... etc.

Step Three: PRINT!

The finished product must be on 13" x 19" paper at 300 dpi (resolution). You will be printing this image! You can use the Digital Print Lab here in the Art Dept or another print source of your choice. It MUST be printed on photographic grade paper! NOTE your portrait will be 12 x 12, but printed on 13 x 19 paper! 

Due date: MONDAY, MARCH 18.  - Come to class with your finished print! And upload your final image to your blogger as well as your Photobooth portrait (for comparison)!

A Shout-out To: The Class Website

Have you guys checked out the class' Weebly site???? I'm posting your new media assignments as well as your curatorial projects. So ya mammas and daddys and significant others can see the fruits of your labors.

http://newmediautsa.weebly.com/

It's rad.

REMINDER

Spring break is March 11 - 16. Classes do not meet!

Sherry Turkle: The Tethered Self

Here's a link to Sherry Turkle's The Tethered Self. It's a great article about how technology has taken over our everyday lives -- sometimes for the better, sometimes for the worst. It's a great read! Ruben would definitely like it.

http://newmediautsa.weebly.com/uploads/3/6/0/2/3602870/turkle.pdf

Assignment #3 Curatorial Project

Assignment #3 Curatorial Project on New Media Artists

All research to be posted onto your WEEBLY accounts. 

Here are the following pages that must be present:

Home - An image of your main artist or the artist's work. 

Artists - A list of artists including the artist I assigned you as well as two similar artists that you've found while researching, with brief descriptions of each (5 sentences each).

Portfolio - Images of your artists' work, or documentations of their work/performance/video. Five images per artist.

Curatorial Statement - A brief statement (500 words) on your three artists and how their work or methods are similar. How do they connect visually or conceptually?

References - A list of all links, books, magazines, articles... etc... that you used while researching and putting together this site. 

Due date: Monday, Feb 25

Listed below are the student-artist pairs:

Kat - Nam June Paik

Moriah - William Kentridge

David - Bill Viola

Rosa - Martha Rosler

Samantha - Joseph Beuys

Ray - Paul Chan

Daryl - Harun Farocki

Fernanda - Carolee Schneemann

Jason - Bruce Nauman

Kayla - Dan Graham

Ruben - Dennis Oppenheim

Fabian - VIto Acconci

Assignment #2

Assignment #2 Scanography

Program: Photoshop CS6

Imagery: Scanned Imagery

Create a composition in Photoshop using scanned objects. You can use ANY scanned object!!* You must use at least 7 different scanned elements. 

With this project, you will learn edits for photographic images, transparent layering, and overlaying.

The finished product must be 13" x 19" at 300 dpi (resolution). You will be printing this image! You can use the Digital Print Lab here in the Art Dept or another print source of your choice. It MUST be printed on photographic grade paper! 

Due date: Wednesday, Feb 20.  - Come to class with your finished print! And upload your final image to your blogger!

Technical References:

Classroom in a Book: Adobe Photoshop CS6 Chapter 5


* Do not scan dirt, liquid, sand... etc... Avoid things that will get the scanner dirty or potentially break it.