Mirroring and doubling are ingredients of realism. They have nothing to do with being faithful to “reality”. Think of Dostoyevsky’s “The Double” and Jean-Claude van Damme’s “Double Impact” or those weirdo-cool twins you hardly knew in highschool.
Week 03: Imaging Work
The imaging outlined below is due on Wednesday, September 11. Each team is graded on the quality of their image output. Compose the images according to the effects you are starting to see and the affect the images are producing -- reference our studio discussions. Look intensely, think about light, shadow, material texture, space, etc. …
Week 02: Real Talk Leaves Room for Doom
A few notes from our conversation on Friday. Let’s keep talking. Realism (not the artistic movement or naturalism) is an aesthetic position based on estrangement. What does it mean to be estranged? Realism isn’t a commercial vehicle for predicting the future or establishing solid design alibis. It’s not the final frontier of positivism — everything …
Week 02: From Painting to Image
Week 02: Photo(image)shop
Below is an excerpt and link to an entry by Manovich into the Journal of Software Studies. The writing discusses the origins and conceptual logic of Photoshop in relation to specific commands and its organizational structure. I shared this writing with last year's Dieste Shop. http://computationalculture.net/inside-photoshop/ “Regardless of whether they refer to some pre-existing …
Week 02: Not a Rose
Not a Rose by Heide Haltry haltry_not a rose+bosch
Week 02: Imaging
All imaging described in this document is due on Monday, Sept. 9 at the start of class. fa19_arch451_imaging-wk02
Week 01: Casts
Week 01: Casts
Week 01: Casting and Imaging
Project 1 is conducted through strict Casting and Imaging criteria. After working through material and imaging techniques, Project 2 will be much more open. Casts. Each group will start with 1 concrete cast. By next Wednesday (Sept. 4) every group will have at least 3 casts completed. Casts can't measure more than 6" in any …
