Please note:

This schedule is subject to modification and revision depending on the needs of the class.

Students are responsible for knowing and adhering to due dates for readings, projects, and other in-class activities. I will announce any changes to the schedule during class time and post them to the class website. Students are responsible for noting all changes and adhering to them. Please check the web site at least twice a week.

Part 1- Digital images and the real

Week One- 01.05

Introduction to the course. Main questions. Our approach

Homework: Reading: The Adventure of a Photographer,  by Italo Calvino

Week Two- 01.12– Digital images and the Real

Questions and comments about the reading. What is a digital image? Pixel, resolution, image size, manipulation. Image formats.

Homework:

Elaborate a definition for ‘digital image‘

Week Three- 01.19– Digital images and the Real

Discussion definition. Introduction to the use of the camera. History of the photographic camera. Parts, exposure

Homework:

Depict a passage home- POSTPONED!

Week Four- 01.26– Digital images and the Real. Discussion homework

Week Five- 02.02– Digital images and the Real.

Week Six- 02.09– Labor Day

Reading: Tlon, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius, By Jorge Luis Borges. Choose a passage to comment on. How to approach a difficult text

Week Seven- 02.16- Midterm break

Reading: Tlon, Uqbar. Respond to questions

Week Eight- 02.23- Digital images and the invisible

Discussion Borges. Depicting an experience. Impressionism, Futurism

Homework: Poetic depiction / visual poem

Week Nine- 02.30- Digital images and the invisible

Discussion homework.

Week Ten- 03.06- Digital images and the possible

Borges’ poetic object. Haiku. Plato

Homework:

Poetic object

Week Eleven– 03.13– Digital images and the possible

Discussion homework

Homework:

Reading: Genesis poem

Week Twelve– 03.20– Digital images and the possible

Discussion Reading

Week Thirteen & Fourteen– 03.20– Presentation Final Projects

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