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CPSblog: 2 December 2005 | |
| Our class will be completing the end-of-semester course evaluation online using Blackboard. http://bb.gvsu.edu/ Click on the link for your course or lab’s evaluation. Here are complete instructions on doing the evaluations. The evaluation site will be available from Monday, December 5th through Friday, December 9th. | |
CPSblog: 1 December 2005 | |
| Please copy a folder with your artist/designer presentation images to the folder I set up on the Merz server called "artist/designer presentations". I do not need the iview catalogue file - just the images in a folder. merz.art.gvsu.edu users/shared/arti designer images I may need to do the login for you in the studio. | |
CPSblog: 20 November 2005 | |
| Studio schedule for the remaining time: 1. I've set dates for the artist/designer process presentations for the 3 consecutive studios after Thanksgiving break. You can choose your date by signing up on the day of your choice on the presentation schedule page for your section. 2. The collections projects are due on the last regular studio day (Wednesday, December 7 or Thursday, December 8) at the beginning of the studio. Also, each section will select a time to meet for our final meeting which will consist of a collaborative studio. Please review the 3 time slots available (listed in catalogue- we have 3 choices because there is a finals time alloted for each hour) for your section and we will pick a time. I reserve Monday of finals for a grading day. MW morning section- meets Tuesday, December 13th 8-9:50 TTH morning section- meets Tuesday, December 13th 10-11:50 TTH afternoon section -meets Thursday, December 15th 10-11:50 | |
CPSblog: 14 November 2005 | |
| Some folks have had some problems with printing freehand files for their Installation books. Some reasons might be;
My big solution is to output your freehand file to a pdf file. You can do this in the print dialogue box, but I recommend doing it by exporting it. To export go to file menu and down to export. In the export dialogue box pick pdf as the format. then export. Once you export the file you can open it in Adobe Acrobat reader or in apple preview program. Print from one of these. Acrobat probably has better printing features. | |
CPSblog: 11 November 2005 | |
| We're shifting our work now to the collections studio. We'll be needing all of the space on the shelves for this work/projects. Please take away anything that you might have stored on the metal shelves in cps. We'll be throwing away the excess in a week or so. | |
CPSblog: 10 November 2005 | |
| Wednesday 9th and Thursday 10th - bookmaking studio. For these studios have your text written, images selected, and spreads and general book design established. Monday 14th and Tuesday 15th - installations books due - first collections studio. We'll begin working with our object/image collections and review how to use iview for the artist/designer process presentations. For these studios bring 10 objects and a container of some sort with you to the studio. | |
CPSblog: 2 November 2005 | |
| The project details are updated for the book portion of the installations project. We'll be presenting these in class for critique on M-Tu Nov 7 and 8th. Also, descriptions are up for the artist/designer process presentations and collections projects. The final visiting artist for the semester is Suzanne Ramelyak at the UICA 7pm on Wednesday, November 9th. This one is not required, but highly recommended. We'll discuss it in studio. | |
CPSblog: 22 October 2005 | |
| After watching "the way things go" in the studio some students (you can put your names here) mentioned that it was similar to a recent honda commercial. I asked that someone post it to the wiki and they did at Honda Commercial I've posted some specifics for upcoming studio work. The installations page has detail about that project. calendar: 24 October 2005 has detail about what you should bring to that studio. Studio Writing: Bruce Mau has the format and question for your studio writing on the Bruce Mau visit which is due at the beginning of your studio on Oct 26, 27th. | |
CPSblog: 8 October 2005 | |
| If you want some good sources for work on your Massive Change Bruce Mau project, your fellow student Princess McIllwain created a page of links to great "change" websites. These are good sources, but also a great example of how the wiki can make possible dynamic group learning. Feel free to create other pages as they are relevant to our work and also add links to Princesses 'change' page. | |
CPSblog: 6 October 2005 | |
| I posted specific studio assignment for mon/tues at calendar: 10 October 2005. This is a new studio so approach it with full knowledge of how lucky we are to have the capacity to do new things. Also it helps to use an optimistic approach. Two of your fellow students suggested that Mau's Incomplete Manifesto for Growth was a help in understanding Mau's thinking. It also is a good guide for living in general. Don't forget the Opening in the gallery tonight (thurs).
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CPSblog: 4 October 2005 | |
| Check out our new project Massive Change Bruce Mau. Also be sure to plan to attend the dialogue with students at 2pm in Cook Dewitt. If you have a class conflict talk with Paul and plan to attend the lecture that evening at Loosmore auditorium in the GVSU Devos Complex downtown. The bus goes right to Devos. See the calendar listing calendar: 18 October 2005. Also check out the opening recpetion for Jamaica Today: Six Women Artists. The opening recpetion is Thursday October 6th in the Gallery (good food) and there is a discussion with the artists on Friday (see gallery for time).
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CPSblog: 28 September 2005 | |
| Map to UICA for the Mary Jane Jacob lecture can be found here: uica map
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CPSblog: 25 September 2005 | |
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CPSblog: 18 September 2005 | |
| I posted the image and word project on the CPS projects page. This is our first big studio project and we'll begin right away. Give it a read. I finalized the handout for the Chicago Trip and noticed that the exhibit in the Rice Building (one of the galleris I instructed you to see) in the Art Institute of Chicago has the Toulouse-Lautrec and Montmartre show. This is a bit of a "blockbuster" show and costs an extra $15. You are not required to pay the extra and see this exhibit. If you do wish to see it you might not be able to buy tickets at the door. Sometimes shows like this require reservations. If you wish to check out the chicago map that will be on the handout I posted it to the calendar page for the date of the trip calendar: 20 September 2005.
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CPSblog: 15 September 2005 | |
| Art 21starts Sunday night on WGVU channel 35 Sunday, September 18th at 10:30pm Go to the official website at: Art in the Twenty-First Century: Power or check out the hot topic page art21 by Karissa Morgan These shows document the lives and works of contemporary artitsts. They are entertaining and informative and would enhance your learning in CPS. "From politics to mass media, the theme of power pervades daily life. The artists in this program - Cai Guo-Qiang, Laylah Ali, Krzysztof Wodiczko and Ida Applebroog - negotiate personal and cultural histories, re-imagine social space and challenge authority, oppression and control. David Alan Grier hosts." -Art21 web promo
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CPSblog: 13 September 2005 | |
MERZ The studio web server merz is ready for us to use. We'll start on an informal basis and see where that leads us. These web sites will be online at least until the end of the semester. After that we'll determine what to do with them. We will begin by opening things up for use and grow the sites by learning and sharing amongst ourselves. As we need to we'll cover parts of this in the studio through demonstrations. The web server is turned on and is live on the internet. This is done simply by connecting the computer to an internet connection (in our case it is on GVSU ethernet but it works the same on broadband or even dial-up connection) and turning on Personal Web Sharing in the Sharing System Preferences. Mac OS X runs a version of "apache" web server which is an open source unix program that is widely used and respected. The web address of the server is: http://merz.art.gvsu.edu To get set up you must first create an account for yourself on the server, Merz. This is the blue G4 that is sitting on the floor in the Studio. Name: use your real full name Short Name: use a short string of letters with no spaces. This will be part of your web address so make it easy to type and remember Password: this is the password you'll use to get back into your account area on the computer as well as for uploading files via ftp (file transfer protocol) As soon as you set up your account a home directory is created for you on Merz. This directory (folder) is created with a "sites" folder which contains a default web page (index.html) that you can replace with one of your design. The default page includes some description and instruction about how this works. You'll be able to update your web sites right on the server or by using FTP file transfer protocol to move files from any other computer with an internet connection. You also should be able to make a network connection to your home directory from anywhere on the GVSU network. Your web address on merz will be: http://merz.art.gvsu.edu/~urshortname Once you put up anything of your own creation please add it to the Merz roster. There are many useful sites on the internet about designing web pages. When you find useful resources, please post them to this web help page. Include a short annotation about the site that describes why it is good. All computers in the Art Department have the web editing program Dreamweaver. The also have the FTP program Fetch. The FTP address is: ftp://merz.art.gvsu.edu. Be sure to observe copyright law by only using things (image, text, music) that you own or have permission from the copyright owner to use. If you have interest in running extra things; cgi scripts, php, mysqul . . . . or anything else please email me at wittenbp@gvsu.edu. The idea of 'merz' comes from the artist Kurt Schwitters. Find out about this and share it with the class. You'll get a free "prize" from the prize cabinet.
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CPSblog: 9 September 2005 | |
things to do this weekend 99-911celebration on the grand is a big festival in downtown gr with free bands, food, and fireworks.uica has opening receptions for 3 exhibitions tonight (friday) during the day on saturday you can catch the ionia street market This is run by a gvsu art grad saturday nightdyce productionsis throwing a fashion and art show on saturday 9/10 This is produced by current gvs students and others are participating.division avenue arts co has a show saturday as well. (GV art folk involved here too) If you live in Allendale and don't have a car or you want to save money on gas, you can take the gvsu connector downtown for many of these events.
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CPSblog: 8 September 2005 | |
Mirror Neurons and Thrift Stores
The video shows the new research in "mirror neurons". These same neurons fire in your brain whether you are doing some task or watching others do the task. So we have built in to our "wiring" an empathetic response. Much of this operates in the subconscious - so it might seem familiar, but its full activity is below normal cognition. This research shows how integrally connected the brain and body are. This explains the mechanism by which we learn most things through imitation and mimicry. This also relates to much of the visual perception reading we just discussed by showing us the mechanism by which the external (cultural and environmental things) actually become internalized. When we consider meaning and how it it conveyed in images/objects, this new research gives support to a major theory; that we relate to things mostly in terms of metaphor. This also give support to how feeling and seeing, and movement are connected. When we watch something our minds fire as if it was us doing the action, and that action is connected to feeling. Culture: According to V. S. Ramachandran at a key moment in our evolution our mirror neurons got way better. Once we got better at mirror neurons we could copy quickly any feature that we might witness in animals or nature rather than having to wait for the slow progression of evolution to select for that feature ......... these complicated methods are codified not in genes but in culture which is passed from generation to generation through cultural objects, methods, and practices. In conclusion, we see the power of the visual: To present to the viewer a visual image or object is to have them mentally perform or do what is in the image or to be done with the object. In the language of both of our readings, this is how the world is mediated; in images, objects, other people, games, sports, dance, pets . . . . . . .
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CPSblog: 7 September 2005 | |
| I added a page in the Table of Contents called CPS project materials. This is a listing of things you can be on the lookout for to use for projects. I also created a page for visual perception glossary. The MW group presented today and will add terms to this list that we found important from the text. The TTH groups will then add definitions and descriptions to these terms. Be sure to purchase your chicago tickets soon. The latest point you can turn them in is Wednesday the 14th by 4pm. Details can be found at calendar: 20 September 2005.
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CPSblog: 1 September 2005 | |
user:passwordI've just implemented the user id and password scheme that I discussed in class. Now when you go to this swiki a little window will pop up requiring you to login. Enter the user id and password I gave you in class. If you have any trouble with this at all please email me asap at wittenbp@gvsu.edu.Also have another look at your hot topic pages. Please check that any text that is not your original text is appropriately marked (with quotation marks) and sited.
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CPSblog: 30 August 2005 | |
| Wow, what a great first round of meetings for the CPS studio. I found out that there is great energy and lots of existing knowledge about technology and visual culture. I think we're destined for a dynamic and beneficial experience. We've accomplished a lot and created a great resource. For those of you who might have been a bit shocked by our diving in the deep end of technology, don't worry. We'll take things step by step as well as this immersion technique. Most of our work and projects won't get this deep in the crunchy technology. On the subject of technology. I've started a page of tech guides that is linked in the table of contents. This page has guides and links to resources regarding software and technical things in general. Dimitris Moore added a link to a color selector for html that several people were using tuesday. There are some other links and pdf's existing there. Tuesday morning we were talking about finding the best deals for the supplies for CPS. Someone in a A or B put up a link called CPS Tech Deals for us to share prices and deals we might find on these things. Remember to check this coweb swiki every couple of days. Check these three things:
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CPSblog: 18 August 2005 | |
| This is the first semester that the CPS web site will be run on a wiki. For more information about wikis check out the link at wikipedia. Wikis are collaborative software that operate in an open source manner. Using a wiki allows this space to be treated as a common area in which all participants can contribute to the groups focus; in our case learning about meaning in the professional practice of the visual. Over the time of the studio we'll build a knowledge base and record of our dialogue and inquiry. In this way it will be mediated or captured in a substance.
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