Sunday, May 3, 2026

DAy 15


You need to bring the following with you to the final:

1. your two artist trading cards 

- printed on cardstock, cut, and signed

- One working in AR on the Artivive app








  


Meshy.ai


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Exporting 3D models

 


- In Vectary export your 3D models as an GLTB if you can, if not export as an FBX file format!

 
- name your files with the following naming convention:  HC-your first name-number. i.e. HC-JOe-1.fbx
 
- Email your files to the professor

 

 

 

Studio Time

- create 10, 3D models. Show the professor when your done.

- texture wrap two 3D digital sculptures

 

 

Projects

- Work on Project 3 Artist Trading Cards pt.2 & pt.3 and Project 4 Digital Sculptures 





Tuesday, April 28, 2026

DAy 14

 




TinkerCad Basics

- whats where



Starters get help here


Placing an Object

Controlling the View 

Moving your Object

Rotate your Object

Change the size of your Object





Lessons get info here


Learning the Moves

Camera Controls


Scale, Copy and Paste
 
 
 

Studio  
 
Work on Projects
 
 
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Project 4 - Digital Sculpture

For this assignment you will be creating abstract sculptures using TinkerCad and Vectary, 3d molding software. 
 
Part 1 - create at least 10 different prototypes 3D models spending no more than 10min on each model. Show the professor your 3D models. 
 
Part 2 - Texture wrap the two 3D models the professor picked. Wrap with the JPEGs from your artist trading cards or any JPG images you choose.







 

Sunday, April 26, 2026

DAy 13

Virtual Space


The Internet
  

[6min 41 sec]



[5min]

 



[2min 40 sec]
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The Deleted City from deletedcity on Vimeo.

 
 
 

R/Place


 

ThruYou


 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Jackson Pollock






 

 

 

In B Flat


 

 

 

 

 

 


The Sistine Chapel






 

 

 

 


 
 


Surveillance Capitalism
 
A concept in political economics which denotes the widespread collection and commodification of personal data by corporations. This phenomenon is distinct from government surveillance, though the two can reinforce each other. The concept of surveillance capitalism, as described by Shoshana Zuboff, is driven by a profit-making incentive, and arose as advertising companies, led by Google's AdWords, saw the possibilities of using personal data to target consumers more precisely. 


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* How to create a 9 up on an 8.5"x11" of your Artist Trading cards for printing.


- create a new document 8.5 x 11nches at 180 dpi






- Flatten your image and save it as a photoshop PDF file - (not PSD but PDF. the printer center in Clark prints using PDF's)

- Repeat the process for your second artist trading card.

- Email your finished PDFs to copycenter@hartwick.edu

*Ask for two prints of each pdf file, color, 8.5x11 on cardstock. Say thank you.


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Project 3.5 ATC - AR Experience

description:

Break one of your Artist trading cards into six layers. Save the layers as PNG files and upload them into Artivive. 

 

 


Projects
- Work on Project 3 Artist Trading Cards pt.2 & pt.3 and Project 4 Digital Sculptures

 

 

Thursday, April 23, 2026

Day 12

 Digital Artist

 
Camille Utterback - Interactive Projection Art - The viewer activates the art


Daniel Rozen - Reactive Art: 1 min 4 sec

   

 

Ai WeiWei and Olafur Eliassons 5 min 48 sec
   


 
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* How to create a 9 up on an 8.5"x11" of your Artist Trading cards for printing.


- create a new document 8.5 x 11nches at 180 dpi






- Flatten your image and save it as a photoshop PDF file - (not PSD but PDF. the printer center in Clark prints using PDF's)

- Repeat the process for your second artist trading card.

- Email your finished PDFs to copycenter@hartwick.edu

*Ask for two prints of each pdf file, color, 8.5x11 on cardstock. Say thank you.


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Project 3.5 ATC - AR Experience

description:

Break one of your Artist trading cards into six layers. Save the layers as PNG files and upload them into Artivive. 

 

 


Projects
- Work on Project 3 Artist Trading Cards pt.2 & pt.3 and Project 4 Digital Sculptures

 

 

Tuesday, April 21, 2026

Day 11

 Review Artist Trading Cards

 

 Things to talk about:

 

- the Elements of Design:

Line

Shape

Color

Texture

Space

 

- You can say what the image reminds you of / Where have you seen something like it before?

 

- What does the image make you think about? 



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Getting your ATC set up for Augmented Reality

 


* How to split an image into 6 layers
 

Step 1 - Open your flattened artist trading card in Photopea (or Photoshop). This will be your background(trigger) image in Artivive.
 
Step 2 - Duplicate the base layer to create a copy on a second layer. Use the 'eraser tool' and/or the selection tools to delete the aspects of the image that you don't want to see on that plane.

Step 3 - Repeat 'Step 2' until you have six total layers

Step 4 - Save your image as a PSD file
 
Step 5 - Go to 'File' --> 'Export Layers'. Use the following settings.

 
 
Look for a ZIP file in the downloads folder
 
 
 
 
Double click the ZIP to open a folder. Inside the folder will be your PNG layer files!




 
 

Thursday, April 16, 2026

Day 9

 

Virtuality

 
 
Robot  -  Android  -  Cyborg  -  Human


 

 

 

Levels of mediation

real -----> virtual



 

Plants are fighting back!

 

 

Biobots

The field of Biobots is relatively new and has a variety of ideologies from animal brains controlling robot bodies, animal bodies being connected to electronics and new lifeforms being designed with new technologies.

 

When the Virtual meets the Physical: Bio Bots

 “These are novel living machines,” Joshua Bongard, a computer scientist and robotics expert at the University of Vermont who co-led the new research, said in a statement. “They’re neither a traditional robot nor a known species of animal. It’s a new class of artifact: a living, programmable organism.”

[2min 02sec]


 

 [3min 13 sec]


 

 

[?min ?sec]


 

 [4min 54sec]


 

Living Brain Computer

  

 

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Getting your ATC set up for Augmented Reality

 


* How to split an image into 6 layers
 

Step 1 - Open your flattened artist trading card in Photopea (or Photoshop). This will be your background(trigger) image in Artivive.
 
Step 2 - Duplicate the base layer to create a copy on a second layer. Use the 'eraser tool' and/or the selection tools to delete the aspects of the image that you don't want to see on that plane.

Step 3 - Repeat 'Step 2' until you have six total layers

Step 4 - Save your image as a PSD file
 
Step 5 - Go to 'File' --> 'Export Layers'. Use the following settings.

 
 
Look for a ZIP file in the downloads folder
 
 
 
 
Double click the ZIP to open a folder. Inside the folder will be your PNG layer files!




Outside of Class time
 
 
 
Projects
- Work on
Project 2 & Project 3 Artist Trading Cards
 
 

Tuesday, April 14, 2026

Day 8

 

 Meshy.Ai - text to 3D model





Murf - Text to speach



Krea - Design in real time. Lots of Ai design tools


 


Will virtual and augmented reality move us into the knowledge age? by Zenka

 

 

Example of Exponential Change



 

 

Outside of class work

Review Photopea - Exporting PNG layers for Artivive

Review Artivive - How to 3D Pro Basics 

 

 

 

Projects

- Get your drawing laser etched

-Work on artist trading cards



 

 


Sunday, April 12, 2026

Day 7

 

 

Neural Networks 

A digital solution for Artificial Intelligence 

[2min 35sec]



[5min 44sec]


[5min 57 sec]



 

Promptography
 

 
 
How Midjourney Evolved Over Time


 
 
Generative Ai
 
Gemini - link *the college has opened up the free Gemini account you get with your college email account
 
ImageFX - link
 
 
Others to try:
 
DALL-E 2 Ai Image Generator link
- note you only get 15 credits
 

ChatGPT (ask for an image)

 


Chat Ai

- ChatGPT (Ask it questions, make artist statements)
 
Gemini - link (Ask it questions, make artist statements, review your artwork)
 
- Google NotebookLM Ai that uses your own sources (research for students)
 
- Perplexity as a ai chat research tool
 



Ai Prompt Frameworks - its all about language

 

 

  The man who turned his father into a chatbot 

 

 

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Project 3 Artist Trading Cards

description:

For this project you will be creating 'Artist Trading Cards' also known as ATCs. The creation of ATCs by artist comes from a long history of artists trading small samples of their work with other artist or were sold to make a little extra cash. They were very popular with Impressionistic era artists. The cards are generally 2.5" x 3.5" big and are either unique or are created in small editions.

 

example links:

 

whats due:

- 8 different Artist Trading Cards, 2.5" x 3.5" in size at 180dpi.

- Each card shows examples of your ability to manipulate images using Photopea or Photoshop

- Each card should have a total of at least five layers

    Three layers should be generated using ImageFX - link here or Gemini - link of landscapes and/or things

    One texture layer

    One layer of color.

- All your cards files need to be uploaded as flattened 'jpegs' to the Google class assignment album.

 

What should you do?

This is an open project. Be creative, express yourself. Find your style, create something retro-cool, urban chic, surreal abstraction, whatever, just create 8 images you are proud of.

 

First due date

Your 8 images uploaded to the class Google Albums. Label your card files with your first and last name and a number.

Example - joevonstengel-1.jpg, joevonstengel-2.jpg. Save as JPEG file format.

 

Second due date: day of the Final

Layout your artist trading cards as 8 ups. Print your two best cards 16 times each. Cut them out and sign them. Have them ready for the final

 

 Work on Projects

 

 

 


Tuesday, April 7, 2026

DAy 6

Ai and Digital Art


 




ChatGPT

Prompt: Using what you know about me please create an image that you think represents my life (I had used ChatGPT lightly for 2 years at this point)


Prompt: Using what you know about me, create an action figure with packaging



Prompt: please create a photo of a two butted goat standing in a field of flowers with sky and mountains in the background, hdr photo


Layering and blending imagery in Photopea!


We will be starting Project 3

 - using Photopea and the step by step instructions above, create 3 artist trading cards following the process.


1. Create a  card template 2.5" x 3.5" in size at 180dpi.

2. Each card should have a total of at least five layers

    Three layers can be of anything you want. Landscapes,             animals, people, or objects.

    One texture layer, think things like fur, stone, old paper

    One layer of color(or colors) 

These image can be taken from the internet using an image search how to here, or you can generate them using ImageFX - link here   

 

3. Export your final three artist trading cards as .jpg files and email them to the professor vonstengelj@hartwick.edu



This is about layering and abstraction! You are not expected to create a scene. The layers will be blended together. Just change the blend mode until it looks interesting.
 

 Examples:

 






Review Vector Drawings Day 2



Studio Time


Sunday, April 5, 2026

DAy 5


Making faux Holograms with the Laser Cutter

A real hologram is a three-dimensional image formed by the interference of light waves, creating an illusion of depth. It is created using holography, a technique that records the interference pattern between two or more beams of coherent light. When light is shone onto the hologram, it diffracts the light and recreates the original light field, resulting in a three-dimensional image that can be viewed from different angles.

Holograms have some unique properties. For example, if a hologram is cut in half, each half will still contain the whole image. Even a small fragment of a hologram will still display the entire picture. Additionally, if a hologram is made of a magnifying glass, the holographic version will magnify other objects in the hologram, just like a real magnifying glass


 

How to photograph drawings for Project 2

- you need light!

- watch out for shadows

- hang drawings on the wall flat!

 

Upload the 6 images of your drawings to the Google Photos album.

 'Art116 Vector Drawings S26-2' in Google Photos saved as JPGs


 

Review Project 2 six drawings

 

 

 

Process the selected 2 images and prepare for Laser 

 get help here!

 


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Skill Building

1. Photopea How to Basics
 

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Projects

Project 2  Laser Cut Vector Design
[Due] 

description:
For this project you will digitize your drawings, clean the images in a photo editor, turn them into a vector graphic, and etched them into wood or plastic.

1. Take a photo of your six drawings
 
2. Upload the JPG files to the class "
Art116 Vector Drawings S26-2" Google Photos Album
  
3. Participate in the group critique
 
4. Clean the best two up in a photo editor
 
5. Convert your favorite image from the ones chosen in the critique, into a vector graphic and email it to the professor for laser etching.
 
Things to consider:
The image needs to be two colors only, black and white. The laser will etch the black lines into the material. The white is the material itself. Lasers burn the material. In the case of wood it leaves it looking dark and burnt. Plastic looks frosted.


What’s Due:
Six image files up in the class '
Art116 Vector Drawings S26-2' in Google Photos saved as JPGs