Spring 2025
Course Description
This course is an introduction to the fundamental perception, representation, aesthetics, and design that shape today's visual culture. It addresses the way artists and designers create images; design with analog and digital tools; communicate, exchange, and express meaning over a broad range of media; and find their voices within the fabric of contemporary art, design, and visual culture. Emphasis is placed on building an extended form of visual literacy by studying and making images using a variety of representation techniques; learning to organize and structure two-dimenstional and three-dimensional space, and designing with time-based and procedural media. Students learn to develop an individual style of idea-generation, experimentation, iteration, and critique as part of their creative and critical responses to visual culture.
Canvas
Door code 4253
︎︎︎︎︎︎︎︎︎︎︎︎︎︎︎︎︎︎︎︎︎︎︎︎︎︎︎︎︎︎︎︎︎︎︎︎︎︎︎︎︎︎︎︎︎︎︎︎︎︎︎︎︎︎︎︎︎︎︎︎︎︎︎︎︎︎︎︎︎︎︎︎︎︎︎
︎︎
︎︎︎
︎︎
︎
You can also text/call me if you need to get in touch
6o9238863o
Assignment #2
Assignment 2: Create a piece of digital art using Figma that contains:
1. Linguistic messages
2. Coded Iconic Messages
3. Non-coded Iconic Messages
Size: minimum 1 4500 x 3000 Pixels in .jpeg or .png or .MP4
but you may create additional pieces to form a series.
Method: Use Figma tools to create a new image. You may bring in found source material or material/images that you have taken yourself. You can also create shapes and forms in Illustrator and Photoshop and bring them into Figma to manipulate further. This labor will yield a digital work of art. This work may include movement if it serves the piece.
Thematic center: Choose one aesthetic category ( Zany/Cute/Interesting) to integrate visually in this piece, ask "What are its bounds, conditions, or peeks?" and "What part of our visual and digital culture is it responding to?"
Please expand upon these choices and your process in a 1 page-written document (word doc).
Upload using the file structure
YEAR_MONTH_DAY_DIGITALART_NAME
Reference Artists:
http://joshuacitarella.com/
https://fakeittillyoumakeit.lol/
https://verse.works/series/im-feeling-lucky-by-maya-man-1
https://mollysoda.exposed/