January 23-27 “Medium Specificity”

Outcomes

• Identify the characteristics of medium towards the interpretation of an image, in order to make informed material choices for their own work.
• Enact a critical outlook as visual readers, recognizing how meaning is cultivated and perpetuated through representation.

Lecture 

This lecture will focus on properties/medium specificity and innate characteristics of photography, and delve into its implication on how medium can influence how we read an image.  An overview of art history featuring photography to show the evolution of how one understands document, indexical, objectivity and ‘truth’.

Lab

Please use this lab to exercise concept models for photographic series projects.  For example, have them write out a formula and then pass it on to another person, does the other person have enough direction to execute the project themselves?

You may also wish to look at select works that use a formula, have the students debate the effects of developing and carrying out the formula.

TECHNICAL GUIDANCE:  You may wish to show them how a project would look in Photoshop – different layers all in one document.

Reminders

• Module 2 is due January 28, end of day
• Critiques for the formula will take place during the February 6 labs
• If you wish to set up individual meetings for next week’s lab time, you might want to have them sign up for specific times this week.