Penn State University -- School of Visual Arts
Spring 2019
Interdisciplinary Digital Studio, Seminar II
Professor: Eduardo Navas (ean13@psu.edu)
M & W 3:35 - 5:30 PM

Office Hours: Mon & Wed 11 AM - 12 PM, 206 Arts Cottage
Please contact me at: ean13@psu.edu

Syllabus:
Webpage
PDF

 

ASSIGNMENTS

SITES FOR USE THROUGHOUT THE TERM

Week 10:
Friday, March 15, 2019

Critique of Major Project 2 Introduce premises for Major Project 3 | Students evaluate how what they explored in major projects 1 and 2 can be expanded and/or incorporated in more advanced projects | Work on weekly assignment due on March 22


Week 9:
March 4 - 8, 2019
Spring Break

 


Week 8:
Friday, March 1, 2019
Weekly assignment critiqued | Work on Major Project 2 due on March 15

 


Week 7:
Friday, February 22, 2019

Weekly assignment critiqued | Work on weekly assignment due on March 1| Prepare to work on Major Project 2 due on March 15

 


Week 6:
Friday, February 15, 2019

Critique of weekly assignment | Work on weekly assignment due on February 22


Week 5:
Friday, February 8, 2019

In class critique of Major assignment 1 on image, sound, and text | Introduce premises for Major Assignment 2 | Weekly exercise due on February 15 | Lectures on drawing images and/or modeling environments

 


Week 4:
Friday, February 1, 2019

Discuss Weekly Assignment on Image | Introduce Major Assignment 1 on image, sound and text.

 


Week 3:
Friday, January 25, 2019
Discuss Weekly Assignment on Sound | Introduce Weekly Assignment on Image

 


Week 2:
Friday, January 18, 2019

Discuss first Weekly Assignment on Text | Introduce Weekly Assignment on Sound

 


Week 1:
Friday, January 11, 2019

Introduction to class | First Weekly Assignment on Text

 

 

Week 3

Links for the week of January 25, 2019

Relevant examples:

'La Jetee' | Critics' Picks | The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/30/magazine/la-jetee.html
Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tgC7Eh355E4

Visualizing newspapers history: The Hawaiian Star, 5930 front pages, 1893-1912
http://lab.softwarestudies.com/2012/03/visualizing-newspapers-
history-hawaiian.html

David Crawford:
http://transition.turbulence.org/studios/crawford/index.html

 


Week 2

Links for the week of January 18

Music Selection Relevant to Weekly Assignment:

John Cage on Silence
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pcHnL7aS64Y

John Cage - 4'33"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gN2zcLBr_VM

Scott Benzel:
http://scottbenzel.net/video/

Andrea Parker:
http://www.andreaparker.co.uk/showcase/artist-showreel

Nick vs. Nic at Transitio MX:
http://remixtheory.net/?p=399

Modular Framework, Exhibition videos of Constantini, MacKern, and Mendoza performances:
http://navasse.net/modular/video.html

Sounds of Aronofsky:
https://vimeo.com/42191484

Previous Student samples (pay attention to the sound):

Brooke Mitchell:
https://vimeo.com/194544960

Michelle Lake:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_i8kVyPUGvE

Shannon Tarr:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ssgQdTRD81I

Mike O'Halloran:
https://vimeo.com/148362776

 


Week 1

Links for the week of January 11

Sources relevant to weekly Assignment due on January 18:

Creative Layout Ideas https://www.canva.com/learn/collage-ideas/
Poetry Foundation: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/
Thinking with Type: http://thinkingwithtype.com/
Dada Poetry: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fBS-9Tm7EmQ

Related art movements and groups:

Dada
https://www.theartstory.org/movement-dada.htm
Surrealism
https://www.theartstory.org/movement-surrealism.htm
Fluxus
https://www.theartstory.org/movement-fluxus.htm
EAT
http://www.fondation-langlois.org/html/e/page.php?NumPage=306
Conceptual Art
https://www.theartstory.org/movement-conceptual-art.htm

Artists:

Marcel Duchamp
https://www.theartstory.org/artist-duchamp-marcel.htm
Jean Arp
https://www.theartstory.org/artist-arp-hans.htm
William Burroughs
https://www.britannica.com/biography/William-S-Burroughs
John Cage
https://www.theartstory.org/artist-cage-john.htm
Sol LeWitt
https://www.theartstory.org/artist-lewitt-sol.htm
Casey Reas
http://reas.com/
Douglas Davis
https://www.eai.org/artists/douglas-davis/biography
Karlheinz Stockhausen
http://www.karlheinzstockhausen.org/
Pierre Schaeffer
https://www.allmusic.com/artist/pierre-schaeffer-mn0000679092/biography
Pierre Henry
https://www.allmusic.com/artist/pierre-henry-mn0000344330/biography