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CPSblog: 18 April 2006
	I put the installation books on display and archived them on a new gallery program I'm experimenting with. You can check out the display in the front hall and also check out the online archive. You can download your images from this site if you need them.
CPSblog: 17 April 2006
	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, April 17th through Friday, April 21st.
CPSblog: 11 April 2006
	Here is another slide show of student collection projects.
CPSblog: 9 April 2006
	Just a reminder to upload a folder of your images from your artist/designer presentation to the "wittenbp" space on the "do.art.gvsu.edu" server. Put your folder in "wittenbp/cpsw06/art:des pres images/".
CPSblog: 6 April 2006
	Finals meeting times: Morning Group will meet on Thursday, April 27th from 10-11:50 Afternoon Group will meet: Tuesday, April 25th from 4-5:50 I've posted a gallery of the last semester collections
CPSblog: 28 March 2006
	Archives: http://merz.art.gvsu.edu/~admin/metarchives/slippery http://merz.art.gvsu.edu/~admin/metarchives/container http://merz.art.gvsu.edu/~admin/metarchives/link http://merz.art.gvsu.edu/~admin/metarchives/centerperph http://merz.art.gvsu.edu/~admin/metarchives/wholepart http://merz.art.gvsu.edu/~admin/metarchives/path
CPSblog: 14 March 2006
	Studio plan today: clean studio complete signup and schedule for artist/designer pres computer stuff iview rename and upload files to do.art.gvsu.edu/~wittenbp/cpsw06/archives iview web site slide show photoshop objects in space installation studio view archives install slide shows
CPSblog: 2 March 2006
	Here are studio things for spring break: Archives: These are 10 good digital images that you collect that exemplify or demonstrate the ideas we are focussed on below. Have these ready to format into web archives at the beginning of studio on Tuesday, March 14th Slippery Objects. Think about the sorting exercise and the whole notion of objects whose form is open to varied interpretations and "readings". It is best to find objects whose identity or "name" does not blot out other imaginations. "Seeing is forgetting the name of the thing one sees"-Lawrence Weschler. Installation Sites. Check out the installations project description. Shoot 10 "sites" that you think would be good for this project. Limit your sites to the near vicinity of Calder Art Center. Metaphoric Structures: Container Whole-Part Linkage Center-Periphery Source-Path-Goal Also have a set of 20 multilples of some object that you can use for studio work on the installations project. Please also review the images in the collection slides and installation slides, installation notes slides lectures online. You should be gathering objects and images for use in your final projects CPS project materials. Read the collections assignment to get ideas for containers and objects.
CPSblog: 28 February 2006
	For Thursday be sure to sign up for the artist/designer process presentations each section has a separate signup list. Also, the snack label project is due at the beginning of the studio on Thursday. Don't forget Matt Madden on Thursday night 7pm UICA.
CPSblog: 23 February 2006
	Our last required visiting artist lecture is Matt Madden, Thursday March 2, 7pm, UICA Other visiting artists in the department are: Caroline Yi Cheng, Ceramics, Monday Feb. 27th, 2pm Mary McDonnell, painting, Wed. March 1, 12:00, 1718 Valerie Zimany, ceramics, Tues. March 28th, 2pm For Tuesday, March 31 have 4 good prints of the snack label vector designs. Of the 4, they should be from at least 3 sources. These need to be printed out by the beginning of class so we can crit right away.
CPSblog: 17 February 2006
	We're going to wait a bit on doing the installations projects. Instead we're going to do the snack label project. Here is what we're up to in the next week. Tuesday Feb 21 chicago, be here at 7:25 at the latest. Thursday Feb 23 Bring at least 5 packages to work with on the snack label project. We'll also look a bit more at the artist/designer process presentations list.
CPSblog: 15 February 2006
	Project pages and deadlines are set for: Studio Writing: American Visions Studio Writing: Chicago We're going to do the installations project next and do a new variation of the label project at the end of the course. After the installation project will be the collections project. In preparation for this begin collecting and strategizing about things you might use. See CPS project materials for some insight into these and read the project descriptions linked above or in the CPS projects list. We'll also begin doing our artist/designer process presentations right after spring break. Begin preliminary research and we'll pick our subjects before we go spring break. Here is our studio plan for the next week or so. Thursday Feb 16. American Visions 8, Research prep for Installnotes. Intro of Artist/Designer process project. Tuesday Feb 21 chicago, be here at 7:25 at the latest. Thursday Feb 23 Present "Installnotes" slides. Bring at least one set of 15 of some common object to work with on the installation project with your Install groups.
CPSblog: 2 February 2006
	I made Studio writing pages for both Sue Coe (tonight at 7pm) and for Rikke Luther (Weds. Feb. 8 8pm). Be sure to check the writeup deadlines for each of these: Studio Writing: Sue Coe Studio Writing: Rikke Luther Also, linked here Rikke Luther is the press release for her lecture. For Tuesday, Feb. 7th print many of your projects and select 10 for crit: 3 word word, 3 word image, 3 image image, and one additional one of your choice.
CPSblog: 31 January 2006
	For Thursday, Feb. 2 Collect an additional batch of images and select 20 that you think might be good in a project. Be sure they are of an appropriate size and quality for our eventual output. I really encourage you to capture these with a digital camera if possible. Try combining these in photoshop; word image, image image, word word. We'll cover how to to this in the studio. Don't forget to go to Sue Coe Thurs. night.
CPSblog: 26 January 2006
	For Tuesday Jan. 21st read thoroughly the project assignment image and word 1 folder with 12 images for word/image exercise 1 folder with 12 words (put into an image with black background) spend some time looking at the web lecture wordimage
CPSblog: 24 January 2006
	Upcoming visiting artists: Thursday, Feb. 2 Sue Coe 7pm at UICA Wednesday, Feb 8 Rikke Luther 8pm UICA
CPSblog: 9 January 2006
	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. Remember to check this coweb swiki every couple of days. Check these three things: calendar to see what things are on the schedule for upcoming days. The format is a bit weird with the future at the top. You have to scroll down to get to the present. The calendar has arrows that switch it to different months. CPS blog the thing you are reading is the CPS blog. Here I'll post important information or comments on things. You can start your own blog on your id page. See the "help" page to see how it is done. (the cps blog originates on another page, but is shown here using the special swiki function called "inline". changes is one of the links that shows up in the menu on the left side of every page. It is a complete listing of recent changes. It shows every page that has been changed and the time it was changed. Use this site to keep up on the current state of the swiki without having to look through the whole thing.

Were I called on to define, very briefly, the term Art, I should call it ''the reproduction of what the Senses perceive in Nature through the veil of the soul.'' The mere imitation, however accurate, of what is in Nature, entitles no man to the sacred name of ''Artist.''-Edgar Allan Poe

When you die, if you get a choice between going to regular heaven or pie heaven, choose pie heaven. It might be a trick, but if it's not, mmmmmmm, boy. -Jack Handy

I saw this billboard when I was escaping my home, to another house that had heat, and water. And I have noticed a lot of advertisements that would fit into our word word project.

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