Tuesday, November 13, 2018

Reading due Monday, November 26


Photos of the Resource Center, Chicago by Claire Pentecost

In preparation for work on the next assignment ("Near/Far"), read the text "Quiet Fires of All Degrees" by artist Kristin Schimik. How might you trace or map some experiences of scale or time similar to those that she describes? For example, we could start with her description of automobiles rusting from exposure to salt then transition to the salt covering extensive road networks across Northern Michigan (or the entire northern part of North America) which then takes us back in time to the geologic era in which the salt originated from a (then) much larger sea. Or her vast comparison between a pellet of iron ore and a distant star, connected by chemical processes. What objects from your own experience (in the past or present) might function in a similar way?

Thursday, November 8, 2018

For Monday, November 12

Readings: Paglen: "Seeing-machines" +  Tom Simonite: "Machines Taught by Photos Learn a Sexist View of Women".
Trevor Paglen's description of "seeing machines" argues that intentional, camera-based photography, as it has commonly been understood, is increasingly a minor contributor to the vast number of images produced in the world. This line of thinking has led to him to the conclusion that most images being today aren't even being made for humans, a point taken up by Simonite for WIRED. Simonite's article takes up questions of machine learning based on culturally constructed archives, both textual and pictorial.
Post a short response to these texts to your Tumblr. Consider one of the following questions:


Monday, November 5, 2018

For Wednesday, November 7

We will be critiquing your site-based proposal projects. Have your posters printed and ready BEFORE class.

Wednesday, October 24, 2018

For Monday, October 29

Teams will present on their chosen site/location. These presentations should not address your proposals, but should tell us what you find important and significant about your site. Refer to part A of the instructions.

Tuesday, October 16, 2018

For Wednesday, October 17

Skatestoppers – because signs alone are not enough.’ Photograph: Daryl Mersom

Read a text by art historian Miwon Kwon on site-specific art and "locational identity." Post a response to Tumblr, taking into consideration the following questions:
How do ideas of identity and site merge to form what we think of as "place"?
Are there examples of a site in which you belonged (in your own estimation) that was altered in some way that caused you to feel excluded or rejected? 
Or, how about a site where its community changes over some period of time? 
Have you ever participated in an intervention in, or defense of, a site?
There are also links to three additional recent articles from news sources that address monuments and the more recent contemporary moment. You should give those a look over:
Gary Shapiro's "The Meaning of Our Confederate ‘Monuments’" (on distinctions between memorials and monuments)
A transcript of the mayor of New Orleans on the removal of Confederate monuments
David Graham's The Stubborn Persistence of Confederate Monuments

Wednesday, October 10, 2018

For Monday, October 15

Project 2 is due on Monday, October 15.
Final output will be two prints (1 photo montage + 1 data visualization), printed at tabloid/11x17 from the inkjet printers in the lab (Print from Photoshop to RGB, Illustrator to CMYK, unless you created your document as RGB). Either matte or luster paper is OK.
Some basic instructions on printing from Photoshop.
Printing from Illustrator.
If you're unfamiliar with A&D's printing services that use Papercut, look here.


Wind map by Martin Wattenberg

Wednesday, September 26, 2018

For Monday, October 1


What you need for class on Monday:
1. Read the article by Mushon Zer-Aviv on "Disinformation Visualization," and post a brief response to your tumblr. One thing to consider: How does Mushon's analysis of infographics relate to Erol Morris's discussion of photographs and truth?
2. Think of some ways that you produce data about yourself through everyday activities. As we utilize communication devices, make purchases using credit systems, and browse the web, we create what some scholars call our "data body." Service providers like Google and devices like the iPhone document parts of this data body in ways that you can easily access, while others entities are less accessible). Bring in some ideas for types of data about yourself that you would be interested in finding out about.

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