January 22-24 “Photographic Manipulation”

Outcomes

• Technically execute a work of digital art, and apply formal decisions that communicate ideas visually.
• Identify personal inspirations and interests as a way to see their own artistic agency as self-reflective practitioners.
• Enact a critical outlook as visual readers, recognizing how meaning is cultivated and perpetuated through representation.
• Produce ethical, informed, multi-dimensional, work that is situated in contemporary concerns.

Lecture

Digital Photography, do photographs lie? From analogue to digital, what changed? Overall, we will talk about ‘truth’ and ‘fabricated’ photographic documents, and their relationship with truth.

Lab

You will have time to conduct approximately 5 minute personal meetings with each student to talk about their project.  You may have them sign up for exact times the week before if you like.  You could also conduct the lab to have the two hours serve as “drop in” time and speak to whomever is interested.

If you like, you can also conduct group work for them to look at artworks, but it might be difficult to facilitate this as well as meetings -so be careful of how much you put on your plate for the day!  However, if you are up for it there are some ideas of how to do this scheduled in week 4, you can do some of it this week.

Homework Reminders

• Other ½ of Module 1 and accompanying quizzes should be done this week even though they are due January 28 at 11:59pm
• Students may also want to watch the “Manipulation” video
• Remind students that an upload of their draft to ComPAIR is due February 1, end of day
• Assign particular due dates for midterm critiques on Trickery taking place in labs on February 5-14 (10 students per day) and post the schedule on Canvas or via email to your class