UCSB art 22 - winter 12 - intro

A class focusing on digital media approaches specific to fine arts practice; exploring conceptual, technical and artistic methods of digital media arts. Topics covered include digital graphics prep, website design, construction & maintenance, FTP, HTML, CSS, Javascript, DOM, etc.

There is a comprehensive art 22 website at: http://www.arts.ucsb.edu/faculty/budgett/classes/art22/

Email us your details [full-name, perm#, major, email, website], put "art 22" in the subject line to receive details of the first assignment:

Graham Budgett: budgett@arts.ucsb.edu

Tristan Newcomb: tristan.newcomb@gmail.com

Structure/Content
In general, Thursdays will be for talks/demos/crits etc. Tuesdays will be for individual or small-group technical/conceptual attention. Our office hours will supplement this lab-time. Depending on class size and members we may run two concurrent paths for 'beginners' and 'intermediates'.

Beginners start with an image-editing project using Adobe’s Photoshop [bitmap/vector graphics, file-types, compression, resolution, print & web-preparation, etc.] We'll move quickly and concurrently, to HTML/CSS [plus website structuring, maintenance, Uweb, FTP, style-sheets, etc.] Web projects will cover: imaging for web; interface-, interaction-, & information-design; ‘database logic’; advanced styling with CSS; multi-media; basic Javascript; etc. Intermediate assignments start with an introduction to 'DHTML' [a combination of HTML/CSS and basic Javascript].

Grading
Attendance, punctuality, work out of classtime, midterm report demonstrating an understanding of readings, individual progress and skills aquisition, participation in discussion and critique, final submission of all projects. All of these are considered toward your final grade.

For our next meeting: start an 'image-bank' or archive by gathering 10 high-resolution images of your choice. Think of a tag or keyword for each image that isn't just a label [the word 'tree' is redundant given a recognizable image of a tree; whereas the word 'breath' would point out a not so obvious function of a tree].
[Shoot, scan or download the images at a good size and resolution.]