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

 

 

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!

 

 

Day 10

Review Artist Trading Cards Day 1

 

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.”

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 [3min 13 sec]

 

 

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 [4min 54sec]

 

Living Brain Computer

  

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

 

Outside of Class time

- Review Tinkercad - How to Basics
- Review Thingiverse - How to download a 3D model 

 

 

 

Projects
- Work on Project 3 Artist Trading Cards pt.2 & pt.3

 

 

 

 

 

 

Day 9

XR - Extended Reality

AR - Augmented Reality

VR - Virtual Reality

MR - Mixed Reality

 

AR examples jvonstengel.com

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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

- Review Tinkercad - How to Basics
- Review Thingiverse - How to download a 3D model 

 

 

 

Projects
- Work on Project 2 & Project 3 Artist Trading Cards

 

 

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

[15:18]

 

 

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

 

 

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:

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 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

 

 

 

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

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

 

 

 

Skill Building

1. Photopea How to Basics

2. How to Process a Drawing

3. How to Create an Artist Trading Card

 

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Review Project 2 six drawings

 

Process the selected 2 images and prepare for Laser 

 get help here!

 

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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 favorite three to six drawings

 
2. Upload the JPG files to the class "Art116 Vector Drawings S26-1" 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 S26-1' in Google Photos saved as JPGs

Day 4

Review Bad Photos

 

What are Vector Graphics?

Vector graphics are a purely virtual form of drawing. It is geometry based digital drawing system.

There are many file types that can save a vector graphic

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, vinyl cutter, and 3D printers utilize the SVG file type.

Hand Drawn Etching

 

 

Hand Drawn Vector Graphic

Vector Graphics Image Search

 

 

The Fabrication Lab (FabLab )

- Digital production equipment used to cut into or etch onto a variety of materials including; wood, metal, plastic, rubber, leather & ceramic.

 

3D Printing

Glowforge Laser cutter/engraver

Digital C-n-C router

[4 min 36 sec]

[13 min 35 sec]

 

 

Laser etching wood and plastic

Image translated into a vector and laser etched into cherry plywood

 

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Studio Time
Work on Project 2

- Process 5x5” drawings in Photopea

 

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Outside of Class Time
- Review Photopea - Creating an ATC
- Review Ai Image generation

 

 

ImageFX - Googles Ai image generator

 

 

DALL-E 2 Ai Image Generator link

- note you only get 15 'credits' a month so there is a limit on how much you can generate without paying.

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 favorite three to six drawings

 

2. Clean them up in a photo editor

3. Upload the JPG files to the class "Art116 Vector Drawings S26-1" Google Photos Album

4. Participate in the group critique
 
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 S26-1' in Google Photos saved as JPGs

Day 3

Review Bad Photos 

 

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

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Skills

Google Photos

 

 

The Google Photos app helps you organize and store your photos in the cloud that you can access on your phone or computer. It can also be used to organize images in albums that can be shared with other people. You will be using the Google Photos App to upload most of your assignments and projects for this class through out the semester. 

1. Download and Install Google Photos App

2. Open App and sign in with your Hartwick gmail account information 

3. At the bottom of the screen you will see "Sharing". This is where you can find the albums for the class. Put your images for the bad photographs assignment use the “Art116 Bad Photos” album.

Digital Image Basics

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 printing an image consider 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



Saving Files in Photopea and 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.

PNG - Finished File: uncompressed file type that can contain transparency

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 Brain-Connected AR-VR Headset 

A prototype version of OpenBCI's Galea, a sensor-studded brain-sensing VR/AR headset array.

Scott Stein/CNET

 

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Studio 

- process 5x5” drawings in Photopea

Outside of Class work

- Review Photopea - Saving & Exporting images

Review Sections: 

Saving the image as a PSD

Exporting Files

- Review Google - Advanced Image Search

Projects 

Upcoming Project 2 Vector Drawings

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

1. Draw a pattern or drawing or abstraction in a 5" x 5" square on a piece of white paper.

2 . Repeat the process six times or more

3. Pick your favorite 6 drawings and take a photograph of each

4. Use Photopea to process your drawings and save as jpgs

5. Upload the 6 processed jpg images to the class Google Photos album "Art116 Vector Drawings S25-2"

6. Participate in the group critique

7. Convert one of the two drawings that were chosen in the critique to an SVG and email it to the professor. 

8. Laser etch you drawing into wood or plastic.

 

Things to consider: Your image will be cut out of a 5x5 inch square. The image will need to be in two colors only black and white. The laser will etch the black lines into the wood or plastic. The white is the wood or plastic.