FA 210
Intro to Digital Media and Computing in the Visual Arts
T/Th 3:30-5:00PM
Watt 6
Project #1.
Reality after the death of photography.
The renaissance gave birth to perspective. Modern art is often
contextualized in reaction/relation to the development of the
photograph. Today classical photography is considered obsolete,
replaced by smaller lighter weigh cameras. Kodak has recently released
a disposable digital camera's from which images are delivered to the
consumer as image CD's making not only the film negative and the photo
print a thing of the recent past. Is photography dead?
Early analogue photography was thought to bear an indexical relation to
its subject. It was thought that a photo could not lie because light
had a direct and physical effect upon the silver nitrate in film stock.
Today cameras' increasing use a CCD (charge coupled device), where light
is encoded and decoded through circuitry as information and recorded
without any immediate physical trace to the optical referent. The
digital image from it's inception is known and assumed to have been
preprocessed. Has photography grown closer to or further from reality?
Produce a self portrait that seeks to answer these questions. Develop
an image (or images) that is uniquely digital, utilizing techniques such
as scanning, appropriation, or digital recording. Be prepared to argue
your conceptual reasoning for choosing the techniques you have employed
to this end.
RESOURCES:
NANCY BURSON
VanLamsweerde
http://www.mcachicago.org/MCA/exhibit/past/pretty/images/wendy.html
http://www.pdnonline.com/20years/fashion/20_inez_van_lamsweerde.html
http://www.airdeparis.com/inez3.htm
Keith Cottingham
Tom Friedman self portrait
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