Day 12 Wed Sept 29th

 

Virtual Space

The Internet
  

[6min 41 sec]



[5min]

 

Geo Cities

[2min 40 sec]

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The Deleted City from deletedcity on Vimeo.

Just Delete Me

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Upload to the Google Photos Album "Art116 Artist Trading Cards FA21"

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Critique Artist Trading Cards

Vocabulary to use in the critique

Line 

Shape

Color

Form

Value 

Texture 

Space

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Getting your ATC set up for Augmented Reality

 

 

* How to split an image into 6 layers

Step 1 - Open your artist trading card in Photoshop. This will be your background 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

 

Your file can only contain seven layers in total. A background and six other layers.

Day 11 Sept 27th

Saving your images as jpgs

1- Flattening your image

Layer --> Flatten Image

 - it should say "background' as the only layer in Photoshop

 

2- use 'Save As' to save the file

File --> Save As --> jpeg

 

3- Name your file and hit 'Save'

 

4- in the JPEG Options box choose the following:

5- Hit OK

 

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Upload to the Google Photos Album "Art116 Artist Trading Cards FA21"

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Critique Artist Trading Cards

Vocabulary to use in the critique

Line 

Shape

Color

Form

Value 

Texture 

Space

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Getting your ATC set up for Augmented Reality

 

 

* How to split an image into 6 layers

Step 1 - Open your artist trading card in Photoshop. This will be your background 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

 

Your file can only contain seven layers in total. A background and six other layers.

Day 10 Fri Sept 24th

Augmented Reality with Artivive

download the app!

 

 

 

 

 

example jvonstengel.com

 

 

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 Lets run through the process!

 

 

 

Timed trading card production

 You have 10 min to gather the following:

 

- 5 jpgs of landscapes

- 5 jpgs of textures

- 5 jpgs of objects

- 10 jpgs of people or animals 

- each group of images should be saved in a folder labeled with what it is.

 

- three 2.5 x 3.5" artist trading card templates saved as PSDs

Timed Creation

• you have 6 min for the first ATC

• you have 4 min for the second ATC

• you have 3 min for the third ATC

 

Work on Project

Day 9 wed Sept 22

 

Hand in Assignment 2

Vector Image in Wood

I shared a Google Drive Folder with you. Check your email.

 - Just open the folder and drag and drop it in!

- Go in to see Brendan about getting it Laser Etched

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Purpose of life

[10min 40sec]

 

 Making Art with Machine Learning

[16min 29sec]

 

 

 

 

Creating Artist Trading Card (ATC) in Photohsop.

 
1) create a new 2.5" x 3.5" document at 180 dpi (resolution) ---- File New

2) use "save as" to save the document 8 times as "temp-1.psd", "temp-2.psd", "temp-3.psd".....

3) find images on the internet and save them to your desktop. *Make sure to use the advanced search function to search for "Large" Images only

4) open your images in Photoshop and "Copy" and "Paste" them into your Template file. You should have 3 persons,places, and/or things, 1 texture and 1 layer of color.

5) move and alter your layers ----- Try "erasing", changing the "blend mode" of a layer, "selecting" and "deleting", using "adjustments" and "filters"

6) when finished save the file as a .PSD (These files will need to be "Flattened" to be saved as the final JPEG file.)

 

 

 

Timed trading card production

 You have 10 min to gather the following:

 

- 5 jpgs of landscapes

- 5 jpgs of textures

- 5 jpgs of objects

- 10 jpgs of people or animals 

- each group of images should be saved in a folder labeled with what it is.

 

- three 2.5 x 3.5" artist trading card templates saved as PSDs

Timed Creation

- you have 5 min for the first ATC

- you have 4 min for the second ATC

- you have 3 min for the third ATC

Get your Project 2 laser etched and finish Project 3, artist trading cards.

 

Day 8 Mon Sept 20th

 

It's ok to fail, you just forgot

[15 min 08 sec]

 

 

Artificial Arm

 [4min 49sec]

 

 

Robots

[10min 6 sec]

 

 

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Work on Project 2 and Project 3

 

Project 2

Finish up Project 2 

- crop your image

- adjustments --> threshold  

- erase excess image info

- flatten the image

- save as a jpeg

- convert into an SVG

- show professor

 

- If your SVG file is ready, take you file in to Brendan in the FabLab to get it laser etched!

 

 

 

Project 3 

Creating Artist Trading Card (ATC) in Photohsop.

 
1) create a new 2.5" x 3.5" document at 180 dpi (resolution) ---- File New

2) use "save as" to save the document 8 times as "temp-1.psd", "temp-2.psd", "temp-3.psd".....

3) find images on the internet and save them to your desktop. *Make sure to use the advanced search function to search for "Large" Images only

4) open your images in Photoshop and "Copy" and "Paste" them into your Template file. You should have 3 persons,places, and/or things, 1 texture and 1 layer of color.

5) move and alter your layers ----- Try "erasing", changing the "blend mode" of a layer, "selecting" and "deleting", using "adjustments" and "filters"

6) when finished save the file as a .PSD (These files will need to be "Flattened" to be saved as the final JPEG file.)

 

Day 7 Fri Sept 17th

 

More 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.

 

 [3min 13 sec]

 

 

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 [4min 54sec]

 

 

Photoshop Day 2

 

Image Resolution

Photoshop is a "bitmap" based image editor. This means images are broken down into tiny squares called pixels. These pixels are measured on the X and Y axis.

When we want to print an image we need to think about the images resolution. Resolution is described by how many pixel there are in one inch.

180 dpi - lowest printing resolution

300 - 600 dpi - professional printing resolution

Resizing images in Photoshop

* Situation: you are applying for a grant or show and the application states that images are required to be1920 pixels on the largest size.

? How can you find out the current size of you image?

? How can you change the size of your image?

Go to Image --- Image Size

From this window you can see the images current size in inches, pixels, mm, or cm. You change the size and/or resolution in this window. You can also lock the proportions to keep your images from looking distorted. 

Saving Files in Photoshop

File Types

PSD - Working File: specific uncompressed file type which contains all the images information

JPEG - Finished File: universal compressed file type

All files in Photoshop need to be "flattened" before they can be saved as a JPEG.

 

 

Useful Tools

• Move Tool

• Clone Stamp

• Colors

• Gradient

• Smudge Tool

• Type Tool

• Vector Tools

 

 

Selection Tools

- making a selection

- cut, copy, paste

 

 

 

Creating an Artist Trading Card (ATC) in Photohsop

 
1) create a new 2.5" x 3.5" document at 180 dpi (resolution) ---- File New

2) use "save as" to save the document 8 times as "temp-1.psd", "temp-2.psd", "temp-3.psd".....

3) find images on the internet and save them to your desktop. *Make sure to use the advanced search function to search for "Large" Images only

4) open your images in Photoshop and "Copy" and "Paste" them into your Template file. You should have 3 persons,places, and/or things, 1 texture and 1 layer of color.

5) move and alter your layers ----- Try "erasing", changing the "blend mode" of a layer, "selecting" and "deleting", using "adjustments" and "filters"

6) when finished save the file as a .PSD (These files will need to be "Flattened" to be saved as the final JPEG file.)

Finish up Project 2 

- crop your image

- adjustments --> threshold  

- erase excess image info

- flatten the image

- save as a jpeg

- convert into an SVG

- show professor

 

 

 

Assignment 3

ART116 Fall 2021

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.

some useful links:

ATC Wike

ATC collection

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 Photoshop

- each card should have a total of at least 5 layers. 3 persons, places, and/or things layers, 1 texture layer and 1 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.

 

What’s Due

 

First due date: Fri Sept 24th end of class

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

 

 

 

DAy 6 Wed Sept 15th

 

-----------------before class---------------

 

Don't forget to upload your image to the "Visual Diary" before class.

 

-----------------in class with professor---------------

 

 

What is Virtual Space? (day 2)


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





Aspects of Virtuality

* what are the qualities of virtual space? what does it mean to be virtual?

* where do we see virtual space overlap society?



VR to help extend our understanding

Virtual Continuum

The Virtuality Continuum is a phrase used to describe a concept that there is a continuous scale ranging between the completely virtual, a Virtual Reality, and the completely real:Reality. The reality-virtuality continuum therefore encompasses all possible variations and compositions of real and virtual objects. The concept was first introduced by Paul Milgram.

Reality<--------------->Virtual Reality

The area between the two extremes, where both the real and the virtual are mixed, is the so-called Mixed reality. This in turn is said to consist of both Augmented Reality, where the virtual augments the real, and Augmented Virtuality, where the real augments the virtual.

Reality    Augmented Virtuality    Augmented Reality   Virtual Reality

Human   Cyborg       Android         Robot

Mann's Continuum includes the level of degrees of mediation.

M = level of mediation

R = reality

V = virtual reality

 

Traditional example of mediated reality. Viewing the world through the machine(camera)

Extended Reality - XR 

- the over arching category that contains Virtual Reality VR, Augmented Reality AR, & Mixed Reality MR

Augmented Reality - AR

4 min 49 sec

Google Search AR

You can use Google Search to put AR animals and objects into space where ever you are!

Try it out yourself - directions (its easy)

 

Virtual Reality - VR

17 min 53 sec

4 min 42 sec

Google Cardboard - try VR at home!

 

 

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Finding Images on Google to use in Photoshop

* use the "Tools" select "Size" and choose "Large"

* only use images that are at least 1000 pixels on the smallest side

- After you choose an image "control" click on the image and choose "open image in a new tab"

- navigate to the new tab and drag and drop the image onto the desktop (or "control" click and choose "download image", save it to the desktop)

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Bringing images into Photoshop

 * Drag and Drop the JPEG or PSD file onto the photoshop icon in the 'Dock'

- once open in Photoshop use "command"+"a" to select the entire image.
- use "command"+"c" to copy the image - navigate to the template you want to put the image onto
- use "command"+"v" to paste the image

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 Photoshop - Day 1

Creating & Manipulating Images in Photoshop

Menu
File -- New / Open / Save / Save As
Image -- Image Size / Canvas Size / Canvas Rotation

Layers
- new layers
- layer visibility
- blend modes
- opacity
- changing layer position

Finish up Project 2 

- crop your image

- adjustments --> threshold  

- erase excess image info

- flatten the image

- save as a jpeg

- convert into an SVG

- show professor

Upcoming project 3

Day 5 Mon Sept 13th

 

-----------------before class---------------

 

Don't forget to upload your image to the "Visual Diary" before class.

 

-----------------in class with professor---------------

 

 

Photograph your 6 drawings and upload to Google Album

 

Review Project 2

 

 

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What is Virtual Space?


Writers:
Donna Haraway - The Cyborg Manifesto

Artist:
Stelarc - Conceptual Art - The body is useless we are the mind.

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

Day 4 Wed Sept 8th

 

-----------------before class---------------

 

Don't forget to upload your image to the "Visual Diary" before class.

 

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 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.”

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Glowforge Laser cutter/engraver

Digital C-n-C router

[4 min 36 sec]

[13 min 35 sec]

 

 

 

What are Vector Graphics?

Vector graphics are a purely virtual form of drawing. It is mathematically based.

There are many file types that support vector graphics. 

 

The most common file type is the SVG (scalable vector graphic).  All the digitally based production technology in the FabLab, like the Laser Cutter, C-N-C router, and 3D printers utilize the SVG file type.

Hand Drawn

 

Vector Graphic

 

Assignment 2

ART116 FA 2021

[Assigned - Wed Sep 8th]

[Due - Mon Sept 13th]

Laser Cut Vector Design

description:
For this project you will be creating a BxW drawing that will be converted into a vector graphic and etched into wood or plastic

1. Using a sharpie or other marker create a pattern or drawing or abstraction in a 5" x 5" square on a piece of paper.

2. Convert the image into a vector graphic using Adobe Capture CC. 

3. Upload the file to the class "Art116 Vector Images" Google Photos Album

4 . Repeat the process six times

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 BxW SVG files up in the class 'Art116 Vector Album' in Google Photos

 

Work on Projects

DAy 5 Fri Sept 10th

 Meet with FabLab Tech Brendan Gaffney

Day 3 Fri Sept 3rd

 

-----------------before class---------------

 

Don't forget to upload your image to the "Visual Diary" before class.

 

-----------------in class with professor---------------

The secret to becoming great at something!

1. Natural Aptitude
2. Love 
3. Focus
4. 10,000 hours of practice

Extension of Self video

 

The Vocabulary of Visual Art
- there are many aspects to consider when creating a piece of art or design. 


Composition is the arrangement or placement of visual elements in a piece of art or design.

image credit

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How to use a Mac Computer

Login name = student

Login pass = artist

1) Desktop

2) The Dock

3) Top Menu

4) Making a new Folder 

5) Renaming files and folders on the desktop

6) Opening a program

7) Opening a file

8) Saving a file

9) Closing a program

Using Safari

1) Tabs and Windows

2) Searching

3) Downloading an image

- tools --- size --- large

- get images that are at lease 1000 pixels on the smallest side

Using Googles Apps

To use Googles Apps you need to be logged into your Hartwick College email.

- Calendar

- Drive/Docs

- Photos 

 

Questions about Google Photos and handing in assignments?

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Lets review the class Visual Diary album on Google Photos

 

# Review Experimental images from Assignment 1 (use art vocabulary)