Catalog Description: Offers studio experience using personal computer in the generation and processing of imagery in the visual arts. Prereq., ARTS 2126. Same as ARTS 5126. Formerly FINE 4126.

Goals:

• To extend the understanding of the digital medium as pertains to Arts practice.
• To continue to develop a personal aesthetic in the digital medium.
• To understand aspects of digital culture, including community, collaboration, tribalism, personal networks, tagging, identity and narrativity, and create artwork/interfaces that demonstrate that understanding.

Objectives:

• To derive an approach to common problems of creating computer-based or computer-enhanced work.
• To develop an understanding of art as program, and art as concept
• To understand the use and application of Object-oriented programming techniques in a Fine Art context.

Recommended Texts:

• Internet Art
  Rachel Greene
  Thames & Hudson
  ISBN: 0-500-20376-8
• Digital Art
  Christiane Paul
  Thames & Hudson
  ISBN: 0-500-20367-9
• The New Media Reader
  Noah Wardrip-Fruin & Nick Monfort, eds.
  MIT Press, 2003, 823 pp.
  ISBN: 0262232278

Books/Articles on Reserve

• TBA

Materials:

• For creating your work:
• USB Flash Drive
• Digital Camera
• Digital Video Camera
• CD-Rs, CD-RWs, DVDs
• Sketchbook
• Pens, ink, pencils, etcetera…

• For displaying your work:
• Laptop Computer
• Paper
• Solid Mat Boards or Chipboard
• Spray Mount (3M Super 77 recommended)
• xacto knife
• Binding Materials as needed