Laurel Nakadate - Relative Strangers

Brain Games - In Living Color

  Brain Games S03E01 In Living Color from Reginald Lee on Vimeo.

Project 3 Composite

Jessica Wascak

This assignment will be constructing a photomontage by compositing different digital images together to form both a coherent design and to suggest new forms of meaning behind the images.  In this assignment you will take a high resolution portrait image (preferably .tiff)  from the Library of Congress.  You must find a portrait, however it maybe be full figure or not.  You will fully cut out the portrait image from it’s background and place it in a new photoshop document.  

http://www.loc.gov/pictures/

Your new Photoshop document must be 11 x 14 inches at 300 ppm.  Keep in mind the resolution of the image you are downloading to avoid quality loss.  In this document, I want you to create a composite using the older photo with your own photographic imagery and design sensibility to create a modern interpretation of the portrait.  

When is it due? 

You will present your work and turn it in at the start of class on Thu 2/16 (TR class) or Wed 2/15 (MWF class)

Tips/Suggestions

Portraits can tell stories about people, but in ways that rely heavily on photographic signifiers.  Facial expressions.  The background.  The clothes, the light/color, everything is part of the story.  

Consider using the portrait subject as an avatar for an imagined character, or a self portrait.  Consider using empathy to try to illustrate the “true” character of the portrait.  

While you want your image to be cohesive, you do not need to make a photo realistic composite.  

Consider expressive use of design elements such as line, texture, and color.  

Words to consider: editorial illustration, composite, photomontage, appropriation, recontextualize, empathy

Sally Grizzel Larson
Mark Mothersbaugh
Martina Lopez
Meghan Boody
Nancy Devanport
Peter Kennard
Tom Chambers

Jessica Wascak

Steve Parke

Hexedit glitching

Turning songs into glitch art

Project 2 Glitch

Glitches, pauses, beeps, sweeps, and creeps...these are the artifacts that occur when our digital media break down.  I like to think of it more like the digital media we are gazing upon is taking the opportunity to show us it's means of construction.  Sometimes these moments are temporary glitches, sometimes they make our image, data, game, etc unreadable.  This project is learning how to embrace, create, and control those chance moments to make new images.  The purpose is to continue to learn how digital works are constructed through hacking code, and to continue the themes of the last project of play.  These works will also introduce an embrace of random results which can be rare in our heavily controlled media environments.  

What is due and when:

Create a series of glitch art pieces (minimum 3).  These works can be audio, video, or photo based.  Please be prepared to present three finished works at the beginning of  class 1/31 (TR class) or Wed 2/1 (MWF class)

Ideas to consider:

Fan art, Parody, Media Critique, Satire, Databending, Glitch Art, Transcoding

Watch and Look at Artists to look at for inspiration

The Art of Glitch | Off Book | PBS Digital Studios 

Ignite Craft - Boston

Ben Baker-Smith

Glitch Artists Collective
Jehad Nga, The Green Book Project
James H. Connolly
Rosa Menkman
Daniel Temkin
Phillip Stearns 
Joseph Nechvatal
Nam June Paik

Turning Glitch Art into Tactile Objects

The Bizarre Phenomenon Known As Glitch Art

History of Glitch Art

Rise of Glitch Art

Gizmodo

Demos: Tutorial on Databending and Glitch Art Paul Weiner

Databending and glitch art primer, part 1: the wordpad effect

Glitch Art Tutorial for Audacity
Using a hex editor

Glitch Art Resources from Phillip Stearns

An Easy 7-Step Protocol for Databending Michael Betancourt

HTML editing tutorials

Get to know the World Wide Web consortium's website for all things about web standard program languages. For example they have a good scripting tutorial for HTML.

Here is another from codeacademy.

And another.