Email Instructor, Nita Sturiale

Thursdays, 2:15-6:30 pm, Room 310, Computer Arts Center, Tower Building.

Course Requirements:
€ Be present in body - come to class.
€ Be present in mind - participate in class discussion.
€ Read the readings and be prepared to discuss the readings at length in class.
€ Create a project for yourself in three parts.
€ Completion of Mid-term Self Evaluation AND Final Self Evaluation.
€ Completion of final project and presention of your final work to the class.

Recommended Texts:
Visual Quickstart Guides, Adobe Photoshop 5

Jan 21
Greetings - class logistics. Bits,Bytes and Pixels; Computer lab logistics; Mac Graphic User Interface;

Required: email account and a ZIP disk,
Activity: Define computer terms
Activity: Take digital portraits
Reading: The Reconfigured Eye, Mitchel

Jan 28
Discuss Reading; Scanning tutorial; File sharing/lab network; Photoshop desktop; selection tools; File size; Layers;

Activity: Combine your digi. face with someone else's in the class - make it look believable - work in pairs, no filters.
Reading: Information, Burgy
BRING IN IMAGES FOR NEXT WEEK!!

Feb 4
More Photoshop tools; Adjusting color and light levels; The skills you need to learn will be determined by your idea.

Activity: bring in 3 digital images or objects that interest you, scan them in.
Reading: Faking It, Will Hively, (on reserve in Library, ask for reserve items for Sturiale)
Project Part 1 - sketch out a proposal for your final project (perhaps a series of images that express an idea or question?) Due Feb 11.

Feb 11 Project Proposal Due
Visit to the Transitions Video Show in the Bakalar Gallery at Massart.

Reading: The Reconfigured Eye (chapter on Electronic Tools), Mitchell

Feb 18
Text in Photoshop; Visit to the Device Control lab with Dana Moser.

Reading: Microgallery from Resisting the Virtual Life, Brook & Boal

Feb 25 Project Part 1 due
SNOW DAY

Mar 4
Show work in progress; Printing tutorial.

• Mary N.
• Mary C
• Lamar
• Julia

Mar 11 Mid Term Self Evaluation
Show work in progress;
Crash course in web technology; Intro to HTML.

• Bosco
• Joe
• Charleen

Activity: create a simple HTML page
Project Part 2 - pursue your ideas in Part 1 or start over.

Mar 25 NO CLASS/Faculty Day

Apr 1 Project Part 2 due

Reading: The Digital Atelier, Fifield

Apr 8 - 22
Lab time; Where would you like more instruction?
Visits to other departments at MassArt to see how they are using computers.
Field Trip to MIT?

Apr 29 Final Project due
Present final projects.