Professor: Eduardo Navas (ean13@psu.edu)
Office Hours: Mondays and
Wedsnesdays , 10 AM – 11 AM, 206 Arts Cottage
This is a
studio art class that focuses on creating, authoring, exhibiting, and
critically evaluating interactive multimedia artworks. The course explores
experimental uses of new media in the visual arts with emphasis on integrating
digital media with current studio practices in two-, three-, and
four-dimensional art. In addition to the actual creation of new media artworks,
the course will engage students in research methods to advance their skills in
new media and help them to develop an understanding of the critical evaluation
and assessment of new media artworks.
This course
will explore the nature and potential of digital art through lectures,
readings, demonstrations, studio practice, and critiques. Assignments will
cover a range of digital multimedia applications in sound, image, motion,
interactivity, interface design, and media authoring.
The course
will culminate in a final multimedia authored project for presentation.
Class sections for
the most part will be divided as follows: on Mondays, class will consist of
discussion and lectures on material being researched for weekly and major
projects. On Wednesdays, class will be a day of work and research. These
activities may swap from week to week depending on holidays and other events
that may come up. But for the most part, there should be ample lab time
throughout the course. Check the syllabus for details as well as the weekly
webpage resource which will be available online at the beginning of class.
Students will be enhancing their technical skills according to the focus they
choose for each of the four projects, but will be expected to gain basic skills
in all the software and development tools discussed throuhgout the course.
Students will meet with the instructor individually as needed. The students
will turn in a total of four major projects.
Learning
Outcomes:
A
Note on Plagiarism
Plagiarism will not be tolerated. A
student who commits plagiarism will be reported to the office of the visual
arts. The student¹s behavior will be taken very seriously and dealt with
according to the guidelines provided by Penn State University – School of Visual Arts.
To avoid plagiarism, please cite your sources when appropriate.
Academic Integrity Statement
University
Policies and Rules Guidelines states that academic integrity is the pursuit of scholarly
activity in an open, honest and responsible manner. Academic integrity is a
basic guiding principle for all academic activity at The Pennsylvania State
University, and all members of the University community are expected to act in
accordance with this principle. Consistent with this expectation, the
University's Code of Conduct states that all students should act with personal
integrity, respect other students' dignity, rights and property, and help
create and maintain an environment in which all can succeed through the fruits
of their efforts. Academic integrity includes a commitment not to engage in or
tolerate acts of falsification, misrepresentation or deception. Such acts of
dishonesty violate the fundamental ethical principles of the University
community and compromise the worth of work completed by others.
Academic dishonesty includes but is not limited to acts such as
cheating on exams or assignments; plagiarizing the words or ideas of another;
fabricating information or citations; facilitating acts of academic dishonesty
by others; claiming authorship of work done by another person; submitting work
completed in previous classes; and/or submitting the same work to multiple
classes in which a student is enrolled simultaneously.
Accessibility Statement
Penn
State welcomes students with disabilities into the University's educational
programs. Every Penn State campus has an office for students with disabilities.
The Office for Disability Services (ODS) Web site provides contact information
for every Penn State campus: http://equity.psu.edu/ods/dcl. For
further information, please visit the Office for Disability Services Web site: http://equity.psu.edu/ods.
In
order to receive consideration for reasonable accommodations, you must contact
the appropriate disability services office at the campus where you are
officially enrolled, participate in an intake interview, and provide
documentation: http://equity.psu.edu/ods/guidelines.
If the documentation supports your request for reasonable accommodations, your
campus¹s disability services office will provide you with an accommodation
letter. Please share this letter with your instructors and discuss the
accommodations with them as early in your courses as possible. You must follow
this process for every semester that you request accommodations.
Safety Information
Students in the School of Visual Arts may
find themselves working in the shop or in their studios or classrooms using a
variety of power and hand held equipment, which may cause injury. Students
should use the shop only after having received an orientation in the use of
such equipment and when supervised by faculty or shop personnel. Should any
injuries occur, in the shop, studios, or classrooms in the School of Visual
Arts please report them to Matt Olson, Shop Supervisor, Room 108-A Visual Arts
Building, Phone: 814-865-3962, email: mjo5165@psu.edu.
Available at the bookstore:
Crow, David. Visible Signs: An Introduction to Semiotics in the Visual Arts. New
York: Bloomsburry, 2016.
Suggested
Reading
Not available at the bookstore:
Lupton, Ellen. Thinking with Type.
New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 2010.
Course
Requirements
Please
note that final grades are dependent upon consistent performance in all course
requirements.
Grading
Total 100%
Grade
Scale
Letter grade assignments are as
follows:
Attendance
Office
hours: Tuesdays, 10:00 AM to 11:00 AM.
Semester
Schedule
Note
that the class includes a series of short exercises, which are considered part
of class participation. These exercises are designed to complement the
successful completion of your projects. Lectures on history and theory will
take place according to the students¹ needs to gain practical knowledge from
week to week.
Week
1:
Monday, August 22, 2016
Wednesday, August 24, 2016
Week
2:
Monday, August 29, 2016
Wednesday, August 31, 2016
Lab
day
Week
3:
Monday, September 5, 2016
Labor
Day, No Class
Wednesday, September 7, 2016
Week
4:
Monday, September 12, 2016
Week
5:
Monday, September 19, 2016
Wednesday, September 21, 2016
Lab Day
Week
6:
Monday, September 26, 2016
Wednesday, September 28, 2016
Week
7:
Monday, October 3, 2016
Wednesday, October 5, 2016
Week
8:
Monday, October 10, 2016
Wednesday, October 12, 2016
Week
9:
Monday, October 17, 2016
Wednesday, October 19, 2016
Week
10:
Monday, October 24, 2016
· Weekly Assignment
critiqued
· Begin online
discussion of Crow¹s ³Chapter 3: Reading the Sign²
Wednesday, October 26, 2016
Week
11:
Monday, October 31, 2016
Wednesday, November 2, 2016
Week
12:
Monday, November 7, 2016
Wednesday, November 9, 2016
Week
13:
Monday, November 14, 2016
Wednesday, November 16, 2016
Week
14:
Monday, November 21 2016
Thanksgiving
Wednesday, November 23, 2016
Thanksgiving
Week
15:
Monday, November 28, 2016
Wednesday, November 30, 2016
Week
16:
Monday, December 5, 2016
Wednesday, December 7, 2016
Week
17:
December 12, 2016