         
course descriptionImage Studio - Fall 2004Paul Wittenbraker CAC 1117 616-331-3578 wittenbp@gvsu.edu http://148.61.32.220/imagestudio This studio investigates the static image. It is informed by multiple histories; painting, communication, cultures, . . . .). The context is the current state of art, media, and culture. This includes methods of production (technologies), contexts of presentation/distribution (institutions, media, public space private space), understandings of reception/valuation, desire, and exchange (criticism, market, political affiliation). We will ask some basic questions: What images can be made? How can they be made? What images matter? Why? How can they be presented? What can images be for? How can they be used? What makes images powerful? What makes images relevant? How do images relate to other things? Issues around images are currently in great flux with the expansion of new technologies and the dramatic interplay of cultures. A primary strategy in the studio will be to not let presumptions (about images, use, contexts, histories) sit un-provoked. We will make these investigations for dual purposes. 1. To gain a better understanding of images and their use. 2. To open new possibilities of the fabrication, use, and understanding of images. Processes: hand-generated image, image transfer processes, the camera as a source for image acquisition, and the use of digital imaging processes for forming and manipulating images. Media: drawing, painting, print, poster, collage, site specific image, projected image, digitally produced print, book, folio, combined media. Considerations include: use, context of presentation, size, media, form, subject matter, finish, and the image as object. . . .as we investigate the ways that images work. Text: Practices of Looking: An Introduction to Visual Culture, by Marita Stufken and Lisa Cartwright, Oxford University Press, 2001
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