/SEM236

Time Based Strategies Processing Code

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SYLLABUS

Course Department: Sculpture & Expanded Media
Course Name: Time-Based Strategies
Course Number: SEM 236.00
Meeting Days: Monday
Meeting Times: 08:30AM - 11:30AM | 01:15PM - 03:15PM
Room: 317
Faculty name: Anthony Warnick
Faculty contact:
Office Room: 303
Office Hours: by appointment
Office Phone: 216-421-7930

COURSE DESCRIPTION

This course will provide students with an opportunity to investigate the concepts and practices of various time-based media arts. This will involve an introduction to art- making as a process involving transactions between people, objects, technologies and sites. Lectures focus on a range of contemporary artists and consider characteristics of recent production including simultaneity, immersion, duration, a collapsing of the distinction between art and life, and a realignment of the relationship between audience and artwork. A fundamental introduction to the processes of video art, sound art, and media installation will be explored through a series of workshops and will serve as the basis for the production of several projects. Assignments will be grounded in the development of media literacy, media ethics, dissemination techniques, and teamwork.

COURSE GOALS AND LEARNING OBJECTIVES

Students will gain exposure to the intricacies of utilizing and integrating digital technologies in fine art practices. Students will become literate in the history and theory associated with artists experimenting with digital and analogue media. Students will advance their skills with the software used to produce projects, including the Adobe Creative Suite, Google SketchUp, Ableton Live, Javascript, and Processing. Students will manage complex processes and projects, understanding and mastering complicated digital file management and workflows. Students will use a multidisciplinary approach to subject and content of a given project. Students will establish a pattern of self-learning and troubleshooting electronic and digital technology. Students will utilize team structures and collaboration to develop projects of larger scope. Students will master basic use of video sequencing, sound sequencing, 3D modeling, and web media.

COURSE TOPICS

  • Historical Context
  • Contemporary Context
  • Media Study & Film Theory
  • Interdisciplinary Art
  • Video Art
  • Sound Art
  • Raspberry Pi
  • Installation Art
  • Process Art
  • Net Art
  • Procssing.org/P5.js
  • Collaboration
  • Digital File Management and Workflow
  • 3D Modeling

PROJECTS/CLASSWORK

  • 3 Individual projects
  • 1 Group project
  • Group and individual experiments and exercises both on and off campus
  • Presentations and critiques (group and individual)
  • Readings and discussion
  • Studio Visits
  • Field trips/class time adventures, experiments and exercises

READINGS

PDFs will be provided by Faculty...no book required.

CLASS MATERIALS

  • Raspberry Pi Kit (purchase from Erin)
  • 1 Sheet (4x8) MDF $34.93
  • Some money for 3D print at think[Box]
  • USB 3 Thumb Drive [16gb]

SCHEDULE

Assignment 1

Video / CNC

Week 1 (Aug 28)

Syllabus - Introduction to Video

Week 2 (Sep 11)

Introduction to CNC

Week 3 (Sep 18)

Reading - Montage / Work Day

Week 4 (Sep 25)

Presentation / Crit

Assignment 2

Sound / Raspberry Pi FM

Week 5 (Oct 02)

Introduction to Recording / Adobe Audition

Week 6 (Oct 09)

Introduction to Raspberry Pi

Week 7 (Oct 16)

Presentation / Crit - Reading - The Science of Sound

Assignment 3

Processing

Week 8 (Oct 23)

Introduction to Programing

Week 9 (Oct 30)

Expanding Programing

Week 10 (Nov 06)

Using programming with data and the web

Week 11 (Nov 13)

Presentation

Assignment 4

3d Modeling

Week 12 (Nov 20)

Introduction to CAD

Week 13 (Nov 27)

Introduction to Unity

Week 14 (Dec 04)

Introduction to 3D printing

Week 15 (Dec 11)

Presentation / Crit