Anderson Ranch Arts Center Workshop Catalogs 2000-2009 | Page 11

Creating Worlds: the Godzilla

August 4 - 8

technique

Platinum/Palladium Printing
from Digital Negatives 

Nathan Carter   

Dan Burkholder   
Tuition: $1040  Studio Fee: $125
Code: P1022  Enrollment Limit 10

August 11 - 15

Photographing the New West 
Deborah Bright   
Tuition: $1040  Studio Fee: $135
Code: P1124  Enrollment Limit 10

Still from Tomoyuki Tanaka’s 1954 film production of Godzilla

* See page 34 for a full workshop description.

Deborah Bright, Glacial Erratic Series (installation view)
Dan Burkholder, High School Auditorium, New Orleans (detail)

August 4 - 8

Interactive Imaging: computational

and interactive artworks
Golan Levin   
Tuition: $1040  Studio Fee: $60
Code: P1023  Enrollment Limit 10

CONCEPT: Combine the warmth and beauty of platinum/palladium printing with the precision of digital negatives in a workshop that combines old-world aesthetics with new-world
power. From digital capture or scan to the final print, you’ll
learn all the steps to crafting high-quality handmade prints.
Activities will include enlarging negatives (without getting
your hands wet) and experimenting with different types of
negatives, papers and chemistry.
MEDIA & TECHNIQUES: You will work with your own images
on the computer, taking them from digital capture or scan
to completed platinum/palladium print. Materials include
fine watercolor papers and platinum/palladium chemistry.
We’ll coat, expose and process the fine print, and use inkjet printers to make digital negatives that print with a full
range of tones.

Golan Levin and Zachary Lieberman with Jaap Blonk and Joan La Barbara, Messa di
Voce (installation version)

CONCEPT: This workshop is an introduction to the use of interactive graphics to create an expressive visual experience.
Imagine a studio art workshop using the computer for artmaking, where the objective is developing a compelling and
immersive experience and the medium is software you create. Graduated exercises in the flavor of Java will help you
develop control over static, dynamic and interactive forms.
Topics include computational play with point, line and shape;
texture, value and color; time, change and motion; reactivity, connectivity and feedback. Students will become familiar
with basic software algorithms, computational geometry, digital signal filtering, kinematic simulation and the application of
these techniques to aesthetic issues in interaction, interactive design, information visualization and reactive art.
MEDIA & TECHNIQUES: This workshop is taught using Processing, a free, cross-platform, open-source toolkit for developing
interactive art and design projects.

ACTIVITIES:  Making negatives and printing in the darkroom
and classroom will be interspersed with field trips where we
will make new images to print.
PREREQUISITES: Students should have a basic knowledge of
Photoshop CS2 or CS3. A casual familiarity with the Macintosh operating system will also be helpful.
FACULTY: Dan Burkholder received his BA and MFA in photography from Brooks Institute of Photography. He is the author
of The Color of Loss: an Intimate Portrait of New Orleans
after Katrina. His prints are included in private and public collections internationally.

August 4 - 15

Sculpture Sound & Image 
Robin Lasser   

ACTIVITIES: Writing code, swapping code, group critique and
plenty of fun exercises.
PREREQUISITES:  For artists and designers eager to learn to
create interactive software. Individuals interested in creating camera-driven interactions or computer-vision based programs. Programming experience is helpful but not required.

CONCEPT:  This is both a critical thinking and photography
practice workshop, focusing on the landscapes of the “New
West.” New West Studies were instigated by scholars from
the Center of the American West at the University of Colorado in the 1980s. These historians and geographers were
interested in looking at the region between the Great Plains
and the Sierra. They viewed this region as a complex space
where explosive development and in-migrations of diverse
populations bump up against traditional and indigenous cultures and enduring nationalist mythologies. All of this makes
for a rich “stew” of images and ideas that, in places like
Aspen and Snowmass, can produce the sensation of “schizophrenia” — defined by Frederick Jameson as the essential
condition of postmodern consciousness. Slide talks and readings will enhance our discussion of these new perspectives,
and each student will photographically explore Snowmass Village as a “New West” site.

2d digital media and photography

July 28 - August 1

MEDIA & TECHNIQUES: Image exposure with digital or film
cameras (all formats welcome) with inkjet or black & white
output. Photoshop software on Macs with Epson inkjet printers. Black & white darkrooms also available.
ACTIVITIES:  The first two mornings feature slide talks and
discussion based on a selection of topical readings distributed the first day. Remaining time will be spent photographing or in the labs, processing and printing. On the
final afternoon, we will have a group exhibition of student
work from the week. Film will be processed overnight at
the student’s expense.
PREREQUISITES:  Basic knowledge of Photoshop and/or
black & white darkroom printing required. We will be happy
to tutor those whose skills are rusty.
FACULTY:  Deborah Bright is a photographer, writer and
chair of the photography department at the Rhode Island
School of Design. Her photographs have been shown
internationally and are in the collections of the Whitney
Museum, Victoria and Albert, National Museum of American Art, Addison Gallery, Fogg Museum and others. Her
book, The Passionate Camera (Routledge, 1998) is a landmark study of contemporary photography and sexual cultures. www.deborahbright.com

Robin Lasser, Picnic Dress (detail)

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