Art 410 - Conceptual Strategies

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con-cep-tu-al adj. being or characterized by concepts or their formation; conceptual discussions; the schizophrenic loses ability to abstract or do conceptual thinking; sex is a notional category, gender is a grammatical category

strat-e-gy n. pl. strat-e-gies 1. the science or art of combining and employing the means of war in planning and directing large military movements and operations; 2. the use or an instance of using this science or art. 3. skillful use of a stratagem: The salesperson's strategy was to seem always to agree with the customer. 4. a plan, method, or series of maneuvers or stratagems for obtaining a specific goal or result: a strategy for getting ahead in the world.

- Questionnaire
- Roster
- Introductions plus why do you want to take this class?
- Andy Cox presentation
- Class Blog
- Curriculum
- Expectations and Grading
- Reading List
- What is Art? What is Conceptual Art?
- Video: The Examined Life - What is Art?
- Next class

- Watch "The Examined Life - What is Art?"
- Andy - A Very Short Introduction to Concpetual Art
Download PowerPoint presentation
- Break
- Assign conceptual artist or group for research
- Wall Drawings: discuss, assign, plan

See NY Times Circuits

- Review last class: presentation uploaded

- NY Times Circuits re: acronyms

- Conceptual Artsist assignments

- Wall drawing groups and assignments will be posted before class on Thursday

- How to blog, and upload images. (Note: width of blogging space = 510 pixels)

- Blog short summary of the Kaprow essay: "Art Which Can't Be Art"

- Presentation on the digital representation of images Download presentation

- Break (20 minutes)

- Introduction to Photoshop

- Class completes Adobe Classroom in a Book - Chapter 3. Download the image for the tutorial here.When complete, upload the image to your blog. Create a blog entry with a link to your image file (the image is not to be displayed in your blog).

- Class copies self-portrait file to computer. Open in Photoshop. Crop image so that it occupies 1.5 x 1.5 inches on the screen. Correct any color caste. Adjust contrast as needed. Upload to personal blog as an embedded image in a new posting.

- Assignment due Tuesday, September 11 (see separate posting for details).

- Conceptual Godesses: Kruger / Holzer / Ono

Yoko Ono Instructions
Yoko Ono Film
Yoko Ono Sounds

Jenny Holzer Truisms
Jenny Holzer Truisms installation

Barbara Kruger Style Guide
Barbara Kruger and John McEnroe (?)

- Wall drawings, assignments are as follows:
Wall Drawing #44
Straight lines less than 10 inches long, not touching, covering the wall entirely. Black pencil.
Group: Bethany, Andrew, Kristen

Wall Drawing #46
Vertical lines, not straight, not touching, uniformly dispersed with maximum density, covering the entire surface of the wall. Black pencil.
Group: Robert, Eric, Chris, Melody

Wall Drawing #51
All architectural points connected by straight lines. Blue snap lines.
Group: alexander, Peter, Taryn

Wall Drawing #65
Lines not short, not straight, crossing and touching, drawn at random using four colors, uniformly dispersed with maximum density, covering the entire surface of the wall. Colored pencil.
Group: Elyjah, Monika, Crystal, Francisco

Wall Drawing #73
Lines not straight, not touching, drawn at random, uniformly dispersed with maximum density, covering the entire surface of the wall. Black pencil.
Group: Suzannne, Jason, Kati

Wall Drawing #86
Ten thousand lines about 10 in. long covering the wall evenly. Black pencil.
Group: Nicolaus, Arash, Maya, Ryan

Split into groups. Select desired wall. Agree approach. Start. Cleanup.

Soundworks, videos, and interviews.
http://www.wnyc.org/music/johncage.html

- My Top 10 Photoship tips
1. color mode: indexed v. rgb
2. zooming: in/out/100%
3. image size: resolution / resampling
4. selections: moving and adjusting / new image
5. save for web and devices
6. cloning and healing (foreground and background color)
7. undo: cmd-z / history palette
8. layers and text
9. create space: remove pallets
10. printing: size / rgb / cmyk

- Complete Adobe Chapter 3 Exercise
- Save for web as jpeg 250 wide, maintain proportions
- Break
- Edit and upload portrait
- Derive images: open in Photoshop
- Intro to Google Earth and Panoramio

- CLASS ROSTER - some people in the class are NOT on the list!

- Conceptual Gizmoz - discuss

- What's so special about conceptual art anyhow, haven't engineers, builders, and architects been using instructions to make things for thousands of years?

- Google Earth and the culture of surveillance and the uploaded self - discuss in relation to masochism and eternal life
http://www.google-watch.org/

- Discuss instructional art ideas and allocate

- Wall drawings - discussion of progress / experience to date / CLEANUP!

- Moblogging?

received via Andrew Bramer's virtual identity................

Hey 410 become a part of V.V.S,

So a few of use are interested in doing some video/performance work,and we would very much like this to be a collaborative effort. Similarto the Yoko Ono stuff we did. We are really exited about the idea ofworking on art as a group, and are curious if any of you were alsointerested. So here is what we have come up with so far.

- Basically it’s an interview with an avatar of yourself, which we createin second life (Second Life is a virtual world with millions of users).
- The only catch is it’s a live broadcast.
- The way we do this is by projecting an image of the avatar “live” in second life.
- Then the interviewer sits in front of the projection next to his or her own avatar.
- The avatar will be life size and the happenings in the background will be live and uncontrollable.
- A camera will be in placed real life so as to capture the video of the two subjects.
- This broadcast will be shown live via the Internet.

This will be the basic platform with a few variations on this set up coming in weekly episodes.
Episode one (or the pilot) will be a conversational performance piece.
- The object is to have a conversation with your Virtual self.
- This will be accomplished by using Internet programs known as chatterbots.
- These are simple interfaces that are complex math formulas aimed at reproducing Human speech patterns.
- There are many out there; however none are perfect.
- So what the interviewer will do is ask these chatterbots questions andwhatever the chatterbots response is, will be sent to (Text To Speech)software (computerized voice).
- That way people watching the broadcast will be able to hear the questions and the response.
Episode two has not yet been formalized so we encourage you to think of some ideas that might fit in.

If you are interested:
-E-maileither me Bramerandrew@yahoo.com or Eric at ecaselton@gmail.com with aphoto of your self (straight view Just like the gizmo deal) then we canget them processed before hand.
- Go to the chatterbot databaseweb link and find a chatterbot you would like to talk to. Document whatyou asked the bot and what its replies were.
-Then either e-mail them or print them.
-Remember when constructing the dialogue that the conversation is theactual piece of art. So think about what questions or responses youintend viewers to have.

Thanks a lot V.V.S.

http://www.virtuallyvirtualstudios.com/
http://www.geocities.com/brizglace/

Submissions are due.

http://www.dafont.com/

Blog a jpeg of the ID plus upload the original Illustrator file by end of day today (Tuesday)

I will print on Wednesday from your Illustrator file.

On Thursday I will bring in the prints. We will trim them and laminate them.

(If you miss uploading your file today, then you will need to bring in a print on cardstock on Thursday)