Digital Media Workshop

Time: Wednesday, 1 - 5:20, H-UL-Lab A
Instructor: Lisa Link, lisa.link@umb.edu
Office: McCormak 407
Phone: 287-5730
Office Hours: Wednesdays, 11:45 - 12:30, please call/email ahead

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SEPTEMBER

3
lecture: History of Digital Art & Intro to Public Art
activity: Resources on campus & cameras visit Library archive

homework: Re-Visualizing Umass: Journal, note pathways around campus. Photograph and take notes on 1 or 2 areas of Umass campus that need attention. Bring prints or sketches - black & white laser is fine & notes for discussion. Bring ideas of what could inhabit each space. You will narrow your 2 ideas down to one in class on the 10th.
read: begin Lucy Lippard: “Public Art: Old & New Clothes” 1997


10
lecture: More Digital Public Artists - Emphasis on Photography
activity: Peer review of ideas, narrow 2 concepts down to one

homework: Make 2 draft montages responding to/addressing your chosen space. You may build something, re-photograph it & scan the photograph. You may collage different elements together. You may use words, found objects, create a projection series. Spend more time at your chosen site. Bring color prints of your montages for discussion.
read: begin Christiane Paul, “Digital Technology as a Tool," 2003.
John Berger, Essay 7 from”Ways of Seeing,” 1972


17
lecture: Even More Digital Public Artists, Activists
activity: Peer review of your 2 draft montages

homework: Revise piece, prepare for final presentation -flush mounted on board, typed artist statement, 1 paragraph.
read: “The Invisible Town Square: Artist collaborations and Media dramas in America’s Biggest Border town," 1995.


24
lecture: Digital Artists
activity: Show Projects to Group.

homework: Digital Transformations: Map out your daily paths for 3 days - photograph. sketch & write down your observations.

 

Pick one to two potential areas for a virtual public art piece.

 

Sketch out or Photograph the space.

 

Think of the readings/artists shown & how they respond to place - through examining history, politics, people ... what kind of piece could you create that engages the viewer in that space? A series of photomontages on billboards or signs? An interactive kiosk? An LED series? Lighting/projections?

** Hand in your notes On October 1 - at least one page of ideas/thoughts

read: on Judy Baca, "Raising Community Consciousness with Public Art: The Guadalupe Mural Project," 1995.


OCTOBER

1
lecture: Community Engagement/Artists
activity: presenting preliminary ideas to class. Devising a plan for 1 idea and making a studio schedule of what needs to be done - images to photograph or scan, research to conduct, site visits to make, interviews to arrange...

homework: 3 rough drafts for one place, sketches, interviewing others about the space. Present color prints, 8.5 x 11.
Read: "Maya Lin" from Dialogues in Public Art, 2000.


8
lecture: budgets & proposals, presenting for places, practical issues in public art
activity: Harbor Gallery. critique rough drafts - review studio plans for your work.

Homework: research theoretical budget for your project - printing costs, installation costs.
Read: Excerpts from "A Field Guide to public Art."


15
lecture: Studio Work, printing in class on large printer.
activity: critique again. Also searching for potential funders in class on the web - real resources for public art.

homework: Finish projects. Draft 1 of artist statements.


22
Activity: Everyone presents their finished "Digital Transformation" to the class, Not on boards but but printed to full size. Written critique of each other.
Lecture: Online Art projects & Intro to web

homework: read: Mark Amerika “How to be an Internet Artist”

Read Web Design Basics


mid- term at UMB

29
lecture: VISITING ARTISTS: LILLIAN HSU, Hand in presentations with final edits.
Intro to Web Design
activity: Looking at online art projects

homework: Your Own Artist Web Site: Work on wireframes for presentation in class, what is your content? how do you engage viewers? begin researching online artists.

NOVEMBER

5
lecture: Joe Peters, Umass Webmaster. FTP, photoshop slices
activity: peer review of wireframes, begin designing visual look.

Homework: Design an entrance screen to your site, begin gathering images/texts
Finish your brief artist report & hand in. Will present to class this month.


12
lecture: VISITING ARTIST: NITA STURIALE
Web page code, pop up windows, css styles, rollovers.
activity: present homepages sketches, define individual workplans

homework: gathering more materials, revising design according to plan


19
lecture: CSS styles review, student presentations - CSS tutorial -Navigation. Mini-Flash demo
activity: production work

26 (day before Thanksgiving)
lecture: Install your show in art lobby. Work on web pages in Lab.

homework: Keep revising work on web pages


DECEMBER

3
in studio work, individual meetings. mini-Flash demo. Navigation.

10
final Presentations & individual critiques
web site:, papers, (12th last day of classes)

17th Last day to turn in a revised project. I/the office will be accepting projects until 1:00. After 1:00, final grades based on what is there.