Tuesday, April 29, 2025

DAy 14

Virtual Space


The Internet
  

[6min 41 sec]



[5min]

 



[2min 40 sec]
.

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. 
 

 

 
 
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 


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  
 
- create 3D digital sculptures
 
 
 
 -------------------------------

 

Project 4 - Digital Sculpture








 

Sunday, April 27, 2025

DAy 13

 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
   



3D Modeling

 

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


Image wrapping a 3D model in Vectary



Exporting 3D models for Membit

 * Vectary has changed recently, so we can no longer export USDZ and GLB files! 

1. Export your image wrapped 3D models as FBX files
 
2. Name your ZIP file as follows:  HC-your first name-number. example HC-JOe-1.zip

3. A ZIP file that contains your 3D model and image file will be in your downloads folder
 
4. Email the ZIP file to the professor 
 



.
.
 
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 
 

* 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.


- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -

 

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. 

 

Project 4 Virtual 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 four 3D models the professor picked. Wrap 2 with JPEGs from your artist trading cards. The other 2 can be wrapped with any JPG images you choose.


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

 

 

Thursday, April 24, 2025

Day 12

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

 
 
 

 Review Artist Trading Cards Day 3


 


How to Create a 9 up on an 8.5x11” paper

 



 

 

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

 

 

 

 

 

Tuesday, April 22, 2025

Day 11

 

Virtuality

 
 
Robot  -  Android  -  Cyborg  -  Human


 

 

 

Levels of mediation

real -----> virtual



 

Plants are fighting back!

 

 

How to Create a 9 up on an 8.5x11” paper

 



 


Review Artist Trading Cards Day 2

 



 

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

 

 

 

 

 

Sunday, April 20, 2025

Day 10

Review Artist Trading Cards Day 1

 

Upload your 8 Artist Trading Cards to the class Google Photos Album "ART116-2 Artist Trading Cards" in JPG format before class today.

 

 


 


 

 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
 
 

Thursday, April 17, 2025

DAy 9

Review Vector Drawings Day 3

 

 

 

XR - Extended Reality

AR - Augmented Reality

VR - Virtual Reality

MR - Mixed Reality

 

AR examples jvonstengel.com


--------- --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- ---------


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 15, 2025

Day 8

 Review Project 2 Vector Images Part 2

 

 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 13, 2025

Day 7

Take Photos of your drawings and upload them to the Google Photos Album!

 

 

Review Vector Drawings

 



 

 

Neural Networks 

A digital solution for Artificial Intelligence 

[2min 35sec]



[5min 44sec]


[5min 57 sec]




Ai Prompt Frameworks


 


Studio 

- Create ATC’s in Photopea

- Laser etch Vector images

 

 

Studio Time

- clean up drawings and expot as a SVG file. Save with your name on it.

 

 - Work on Project 3 ATC's



 =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-

 

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 Dall-e 2 - link here (Dall-e has a usage limit, ImageFX does not) 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

 

 

Thursday, April 10, 2025

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


Google Ai Studio & NotebookLM
- describe an image
- help with writing
- help with balance
- basic illustration

 

Space Travel Video generated with Pika



NotebookLM and Google Ai Studio
- research
- information gathering
- coding
 

Promptography
 

 
 
How Midjourney Evolved Over Time


 
 
Generative Ai
 
ImageFX - link
 
DALL-E 2 Ai Image Generator link
- note you only get 15 credits
 

ChatGPT (ask for an image)

 

Google Ai Studio (Use 2.0 Flash Image Generation model)



Chat Ai

- ChatGPT (Ask it questions, make artist statements)
 
- Google Ai Studio (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 

 

 

 =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-

 

Studio Time

 

Project 2  Laser Cut Vector Design
[Due] by the end of the class

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 favorite six drawings
 
2.  Upload the JPG files to the class "Art116 Vector Drawings S25-2" Google Photos Album


 =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-

 

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 Dall-e 2 - link here (Dall-e has a usage limit, ImageFX does not) 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