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Arno Minkkinen, Ismo’s Stick Fosters Pond Niort (detail)
Joshua Davis, Untitled (detail)
Scrapyard Challenge participant
July 16 - 20
July 16 - 20
July 16 - 20
Arno Rafael Minkkinen & Jonathan Singer
HYPE Framework and a Techno-Isel
CNC Router
Jonah Brucker-Cohen &
Katherine Moriwaki
Taking Charge of Your Vision
Skill Level: II & III
Concept: The workshop focuses on the exploration of a personal vision. We find inspiration
and motivation through daily presentations of
traditional and contemporary artists. Arno and
Jonathan help participants identify and build
the conceptual and visual strengths to create a
sustainable and unique artistic vision. Students
learn to interpret the final form of the work—
the photographic print—as a fine-art object.
Digital printmaking skills develop dramatically
as master printer Jonathan Singer guides participants to design an optimal work flow that
matches personal working style.
From Digital to Physical:
Joshua Davis
Skill Level: III & IV, basic understanding of
Flash and ActionScript required.
Concept: My first computer with the Commodore 64 was an amazing piece of technology,
but what I could do with my hands far outpaced
the inferior graphics of the C64. Today with the
aid of a massive arrays of programming, libraries, frameworks and plain computing power,
the computer is capable of surpassing the
human hand like never before. How can we use
this new frontier in art making to generate the
impossible?
Media & Techniques: Digital photography,
printmaking and work flow using Adobe Photoshop and Epson printers.
Media & Techniques: Adobe Flash CS5, ActionScript 3, the HYPE Framework on Macintosh
computers, and the Techno-Isel CNC Router.
Activities: Slide presentations, individual and
group critiques and field trips. Each student
works on an individual project, either an ongoing
body of work or discovering new pathways.
Activities: Students use Adobe Flash, ActionScript 3 and the HYPE Framework to advance
basic Flash design skills, develop working
prototypes of interactive designs and animation and create a small project. Joshua demonstrates HYPE, a creative coding framework
built on top of AS3, presents methods to speed
up production and gives hands-on exercises
and extensive one-on-one help. Our final project is output using the Techno-Isel CNC Router
in the Woodshop.
Faculty: Arno Rafael Minkkinen is a Finnish-American photographer and educator. He teaches at
the University of Massachusetts-Lowell. Arno’s
work can be found in the collections of the Centre Pompidou, Musée d’Art Moderne in Paris,
the Museum of Modern Art in New York and the
Center for Creative Photography in Tucson.
www.arno-rafael-minkkinen.com
Jonathan Singer, a pioneer in the field of fine-art
digital printmaking, is a printmaker and founder
of Singer Editions, one of the world’s preeminent fine art digital printmaking ateliers.
www.singereditions.com
Tuition: $1145 OR Tuition + Studio Support Donation: $1345
Studio Fee: $175 Code: P0715 Enrollment Limit 12
Faculty: Joshua Davis is a New York-based
artist, designer and technologist producing both public and private work for companies, collectors, and institutions. He gives
lectures, teaches workshops, exhibits work
in gallery and museum institutions, and participates in the international design scene.
www.joshuadavis.com
Tuition: $1145 OR Tuition + Studio Support Donation: $1345
Studio Fee: $150 Code: P0714 Enrollment Limit 10
Scrapyard Challenge
Skill Level: Open to all
Concept: Enter the Scrapyard Challenge and
build a simple electronic project from found
or discarded junk! We reuse and reimagine
all manner of castaway items using digital
and analog inputs. At the end of this intensive
workshop, students present and demonstrate
their creations. No electronics skills required;
students can participate fully without any technology experience.
Media & Techniques: Outdated electronic and
non-electronic objects such as computers,
record players, toys, motors, batteries, conductive fabrics, furniture and more.
Activities: A series of mini-workshops building drawbots, wearing MIDI (musical instrument digital interface) controllers, urban hacking and more.
Faculty: Jonah Brucker-Cohen is a researcher,
artist and writer. He teaches in the Media, Culture, Communication Department of NYU’s
Steinhardt School of Culture Education and
Human Development. Jonah was a 2006 and
2008 Rockefeller Foundation New Media Fellow
Nominee. His writing has appeared in WIRED
magazine, Rhizome.org and Gizmodo.com.
www.coin-operated.com
Katherine Moriwaki teaches at Parsons the
New School for Design. Her work has appeared
in IEEE Spectrum magazine and numerous festivals including numer.02 at Centre Georges
Pompidou, Siggraph, London Science Museum
and Ars Electronica.
www.kakirine.com
Tuition: $950 OR Tuition + Studio Support Donation: $1150
Studio Fee: $125 Code: P0716 Enrollment Limit 10
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