NOTE: THIS CALENDAR IS WRONG.
This schedule is a prediction of course topics and times, written before class began.
Reality is great at thwarting plans -- that goes for my schedule, as well as your projects.
To see what topics were actually taught and what homework was assigned,
REFER TO THE REGULARLY UPDATED CLASS NOTES IN CARMEN.
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Week 1:
1)
Introduction to the class and instructor and each other
2) Take role. Release of claims forms.
3) Have students log into computer. Bring ID for getting
door access to 156 and 180.
4) This class will be devoted to going over the syllabus
and structure for the class. Read syllabus and answer any
questions students may have.
.
5) Assignment 1: (3 excellent sketches)
of perspective, front and top views-different views of the
(Telepistomological Themies) during class
two. (Refer to projects page) This should be designed as
an extension object that attaches to your phone to take
photos of animals, insects, things at all scale located
around campus.
7) Web video http://www.pbs.org/wnet/nature/episodes/raccoon-nation/full-episode/7558/
>> Full episode no longer available, but watch all eight related shorts. Full episode is available on YouTube, but only with distracting narration for the blind.
8) Review of software interface and tool set basic.
Conceptual inspiration: Explaining
Project 2 on projects page. Discussion
of quality of drawings. Show examples from past students.
Conceptual
inspiration: Video TED Kevin
Kelly talk; technology as new species.
Review of software interface, using viewports,
translating and moving objects in the viewport, the attribute
manager, the object manager, adjusting renders settings,
primitive objects, grouping objects.
Where
can you read about new technology for inspiration? Peruse
both these publications for homework and become famiar with
them as source for new ideas.
http://www.wired.com/
http://www.physorg.com/
Week
2:
Tuesday
PROJECT 1 DUE TODAY FOR CLASS CRITIQUE.
Today will include review and critique of all notebooks
for 3 different sketched views of the "Telephistomologic
themie ". Be prepared to present your project ideas
with excellent research and your complete sketches with
shading etc related to your capture device.
Thursday
Inspirational
video Carnivorous
Domestic Entertainment Robots James Auger, Jimmy Loizeau
and Alex Zivanovic
Brittany
Ransom and Dog Cams
Camera
falls from plane into pig pen
software
/ 3D Interface. Parametric primitives and their
attributes. Moving objects, scaling objects, rotating objects,
selection properties, simple materials. Objects menu, coordinates
menu, attributes menu. Windows, axis, object tool, extrude,
polygonal meshes, selection tools, point mode, line mode
and polygon modes. Boolean opperations with form. Exporting
a .stl for rapid prototyping.
Homework:
Read about the relation of Platonic
Solids to philosphy and understand the origin of the
language of polygons.
Week
3:
Tuesday
Artists
inspiration
Austin Stewart Second Livestock
Review
drawings of better more detailled sketches.
Lessons: Polygon based modeling continued
parametric primitives, fillet, functions>duplicate, array
hypernurbs, parent/child organization in objects manager,
symmetry objects, materials with transparency and alpha
channel and introduction to shaders. Extrude, cut, non uniform
b splines. Class time to work on your models due thursday
of week four.Dragging the drawings into the program as guides
for 3D modeling
***Homework
Assignment: Read and review whats
its like to be a bat? from Thomas Nagel
Thursday
Video
in class inspiration:
Life in the Undergrowth David Attenborough
Lessons: polygon based modeling extrude, extrude inner,
bevel, add point. Introduction to Nurbs
Generators: Extrude, Lathe, Loft, Sweep & Splines. Lecture
on Materials and texture mapping.
Homework:
Bring to class a thumb drive to turn in one paragraph describing
your Telepistomological Themie and its function.
Week 4:
Tuesday
Render settings. lighting. Setting the stage for your models.
A portion of class will be spent working on project 2. Deformers:
Twist, bend, bulge, shatter, etc. Also continued lessons
on Nurbs and their advanced features. Discussions regarding
the homework readings. Materials and how to apply. Staging.
Individual project meetings.
Lighting
continued. Shadows. Ray depth. Rendering and render settings
in preparation for critique in class 8.
Introduction
to project 3 and assign due date.
Thursday
Video
inspiration: U-Ram
Cho
PROJECT 2 DUE TODAY, Today's class will
be spent in critique of Project 2. Bring 3 complete renders
ready to show on a thumb drive.
Bring
your written description of project 2 that was given to
me last Thursday
Homework Assignment: Read Michael
Rees article from sculpture magazine.
Week 5:
Tuesday
Go
over the STL issues and get a tour of the Arts and Design
Studio. Other considerations for your design. Does it have
to be in one piece or can you breakdown and simiplify?
Lessons
are the use of the cut tool
Thursday
Artistic Inspiration
Video inspiration Niel
Gershenfeld
Lessons
on the use of the sculpting tools in c4d.
Sculpting
tools in C4D
Work
on your ideas for the next project.
Intersecting
sight project.
3 - Sketches due Tuesday of week 6. This will be a work
you wear on your head and will be constructed of material
either cardboard and or soft material of some form. It may
use the phone to view 3D space as with the google cardboard
where you would purchase lenses to function with your phone,
or it may also be modified to redirect your vision in some
way.
It must fit on your head and be completely wearable and
performable and the form of the work you create must in
some way be related to what you are going to be seeing.
So if you were to see as a fish, you would then want to
choose a form of fish, a fin a gill...perhaps a complete
fish, to imagine their vision. What would it be like to
be a giant mushroom or a stump?
Inspiration: Look at remapping vision of Carsten
Hoeller
Week 6:
Tuesday
123D
make converting your models from solids into flat laser
cut models.
Inspiration Vic
Muniz
Polygon based modeling for rapid prototyping continued with
soft selection
depth of field
Bluriness selections
lWork day to pursue your models.
Thursday
Kenneth
Snelsons Web site here
and read this article on the Weaving, Mother
of Tensegrity for discussion.
Basic model due of your project + three sketches
which must accomodate feedback from professor.
Bring all to class today Thursday.
Week 7:
Tuesday
Art
Inspiration Chris
Cunningham all is full of love
Class
time for working on project #3.
Thursday
Work day to help students realize their models
and discuss approaches to work and production.
Week 8:
Tuesday
Project
4 3D models .stl's for rapid prototyping due in class for
critique today.
All must be complete and ready for production
In
this assignment you are to have 1) complete .stls if you
are rapid prototyping and they must be to the correct size
according to the objects they will be attached to. 2) if
you are doing a laser cut piece bring the .ai files 3) bring
your objects to class that are being attached to the laser
cut files or .stls yoyu are rapid prototyping 4) have 3
well rendered and lit models showing how the work is going
to appear once it is complete with the sculpture you are
going to build and 5 bring all your sketches of the project
and relevent research.
Thursday
Class
trip to Laser
Reproductions and deliver .stls to Laser Reproduction
for printing.
Meet with your vehicles outside Hopkins Hall for class trip.
Week 9:
Tuesday
Assign
final project and printing project. Biodesign nature,
science creativity.
Using
hair, materials, shaders, adding bones and targets.
Adding bones to polygon meshes.
Depth of field renders
Portion
of class is shop day to focus on building your projects.
Bring all materials for work on projects.
Thursday
Introduction to Body Paint and painting directly onto the
3D surfaces.
Remainder
of the class is shop day to focus on building your projects.
Week 10:
Tuesday
5
quick sketches of 5 different ideas due for Project 5 for
FINAL PROJECT the biophillic FUTURE and individual
meetings with professor. These should be well researched
ideas that show you have done your careful research and
in depth reading. Individual meetings with professor to
present your idea.
Free day to ask me for individual help in getting your projects
done.
Remainder
of the class is shop day to focus on building your projects.
Tuesday
****Homework
Assignment: Read these two Essay's by
Dan Collins
#1 and #2.
Test
printout is due for presentation to professor in class.
This printout should come from our labs and be close to
scale.
Remainder
of the class is shop day to focus on building your projects.
Week
11:
Tuesday
Work
on Final projects. Individual help.
Printouts are due today of your first project or second
project 3D models.
Tuesday
Work
on Final projects. Individual help.
Week
12:
Bring
$.4. for food fund for final show.
Tuesday
Project
4 complete and due today with all rapid prototyping, laser
cutting or CNC works ready to show and critque in class.
Thursday
Printer Demo and test print in class.
Thursday
Week
13:
Tuesday
Introduction
to Advanced Lighting and Camera Techniques.
Thursday
Individual meetings with professor to confirm your works.
Week
14:
Tuesday
FINAL PROJECTS DUE critiques in class on
Object from the future and rapid prototyped works. ALL projects
due on this date.
FULLY
RENDERED, PRINTED AND READY TO GO. HAVE IN FRAME AND READY
FOR DROP OFF ON
All work must be in by this date including papers, project
redos and clean color adjusted scans. If you are doing a
3D print of your work it must be ready for critique in class
by this date. If you are doing high quality printer output
they must be printed by this date and ready to show in class.
Rapid
prototyped works and sculptural installations must be finished
and printed.
End of semester Show:
There is an end of the semester exhibition at the Hopkins
Hall Gallery and the hallway for all students in Art
and Tech classes.
Biopresence Art +Technology Exhibition
An art exhibition about noticing and sensing all the living things surrounding us at the Ohio State University campus and local urban environment. At scales large and small, we acknowledge and celebrate the value of all life; birds, raccoons, bees, bacteria, and trees. We look to the wonderment and wisdom of intertwined symbiosis that makes the Ohio State University Campus a unique urban ecosystem that involves human and non-human species.
This themed, new media art exhibition will include animations, robotic art, internet art, tactical media, sound works, maps, digital art, installation, video and algorithmic approaches to sensing and representing non-human beings. It will be held at the Ohio State University main campus and the Mote Galleries on High Street, in Columbus, Ohio.
The exhibition will begin at the Mote Galleries in November 13, 2015 with selected invited artists. From December 10th through the 16th, BioPresence will expand into a large-scale exhibition in the Hopkins Hall Gallery and throughout the building. Opening celebration at 6pm, Thursday December 10th.
Students, staff and faculty are invited to submit artwork to this unique media art exhibition that reveals and considers the presence of biological beings in the unique urban habitat of the Ohio State University.
Jurying will take place in Hopkins Hall on December 9th, 2015.
December 9 Drop Off/Jury/Install Hopkins
Hall Gallery
December 10 Install/opening 5-8 (Reception)*
December 10 – 16 Exhibition (open
normal gallery hours) Hopkins Hall Gallery
Thursday, December 16 4:30pm (Closing
collection of work)
Congratulations!
