Project 1 : Climate Remix

Spring 2019 > Over the next month Digital Art students will experiment with ideas and methods of REMIX via collaborative image making on the theme : Climate Remix.

Step one will be creating a class imagebank on google drive. Each student will contribute at least one unique image to each of the 10 categories in the Climate Remix Imagebank. (Abstract, Biological, Botanical, Elemental, Maps, Migration, Seasons, Toxicity, Weather). 

All the images must be original, and at least half of the images should be created by hand, via traditional art processes like drawing and painting. The other half of the images can be photos or digitally generated images. We will use this project to explore various uses of remixed imagery: for prints, installation, projection, animation and mixed-media works.

Remember: each image you upload into the imagebank must be yours to share fully with the rest of the class, and that they have the right to use and alter creatively.

Please title each image to include your name: Category_YourName.jpg   Flatten files and export as jpg or png for the imagebank. If possible, please keep resolution good  enought for printwork, but no RAW files.

Tuesdays we will work digitally, Thursdays we will use mixed-media materials. Back and forth, we will mix traditional art with digital techniques. Plan to work fast and light, generating plenty of versions of your remixed collage works. Come prepared to work and play!

MORE INFO ON COPYRIGHT / CREATIVITY This project stresses the shared-use of imagery, as another way of understanding creative property rights and the creation of public domain content.

More info at: https://creativecommons.org/share-your-work/

Wanna Work Together? from Creative Commons on Vimeo.

View More about Remix Culture blog: https://jrockdigitalart.wordpress.com/category/remix-culture/

NEW YEAR REMIX Wrap-up

Digital Art Mixed-Media Students / NEW YEAR REMIX Wrap-up

The Remix Project asks you to work up multiple versions of your experimental remix images each day in class. Over the weekend, please use the watercolor background paintings to remix another set of playful compositions. You will have digital work time in class on Tuesday, but please begin these over the weekend, to be sure you will have 10 fresh remixed images by end of day on Tuesday ok? I am hoping you can assert your own aesthetic and create some surprising images that mix and balance the messiness with some simplicity. Empty space is a great tool for setting off the complexity of layered remixes. Find your own way to express the theme : New Year Remix

DUE NEXT WEEK on THURSDAY:  The project will wrap up next week, DUE in YOUR OWN FOLDER in google drive name it : YOURNAME_REMIX_FINAL

inside, please include folders of many DIGITAL versions due :

Your Image Bank (photos, drawings, etc)

10 images of Day 1 digital remixes

10 images of Collage Day

10 images of Day 2 digital remixes

10 images of Watercolor Paint Day

10 images of ROUND 3 Final Digital Remixes

 ALSO DUE ON THURSDAY
4 prints of your BEST REMIX IMAGES (horizontal, 11 x 8.5 paper size) quality prints. We will combine selected prints into a class showcase on the theme NEW YEAR REMIX

In class next week we will also experiment with printing on the inkjet sample materials from your kit (fabric, transparencies, lazertran, etc)

Remix Project / Creative Process WEEK 2

Here is where we are so far…

Remix Project / Creative Process WEEK 2

On your own computer, create a folder with your own IMAGE BANK

Please include:

10 images from REMIX DAY1 Photoshop

10 images from Paper Collage Day

10 NEW images, original photos or drawings, on the NEW YEAR / NEW LIFE theme (Assignment for the weekend!)

BY THE NEXT CLASS:

Please upload 5 of your images to the Class REMIX IMAGE BANK on google drive. Be sure to title your images with your name in the title…

example:  Leaf_drawing_JoRock.jpg

Only upload jpg or png files

NO layered photoshop files (thanks!)

Continue working with ideas (both conceptual and concrete) on the NEW YEAR REMIX THEME. Continue brainstorming and inventing ways to express the theme.

Here are ideas from the chalk board:

NEW YEAR REMIX THEME

Renewal

Beginnings

Chaos

Health

Happy

Optimistic

Restart

Motivated

Pressure

Goals

Fresh

Birth

Persistance

and specific imagery:

starburst

sunrise

leaf

flowers

spring

confetti

branches

roots

snake

phoenix

butterfly

fireworks

mirror water

dog

lanterns

circle

RiP! A Remix Manifesto

Digital Art Mixed-Media  / Online Viewing Assignment :

RiP! A Remix Manifesto (it’s about 86 minutes)

https://player.vimeo.com/video/8040182

Week 1: Please view full video online. Take notes on what you find most revealing or surprising about the contemporary practice of remix artists. Does the video raise issues about your own use of digital media… in your artwork or your life? How do you feel about the artistic practice of remixing? Do you side with the CopyLEFT or the CopyRIGHT?

RiP: A Remix Manifesto from Laurent LaSalle on Vimeo.

Prepare your comments (about 150 words).We will also discuss in class. SAVE your writing to later upload to class folder called Rip! Remix Reflections.

Public Domain Review

I like to visit the Public Domain Review, an online resource for public domain content, especially historical imagery that inspires my own remix projects.

…curated collections of images, books, audio and film, shining a light on curiosities and wonders from a wide range of online archives. With a leaning toward the surprising, the strange, and the beautiful, we hope to provide an ever-growing cabinet of curiosities for the digital age

http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/

So much great stuff to look at here, including the recent release of the Met Museum’s collection of hi rez images:

http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/a-selection-from-the-mets-public-domain-collection/

View: Rip! A Remix Manifesto

Digital Art Mixed-Media  / Online Viewing Assignment

RiP! A Remix Manifesto (it’s about 86 minutes)

https://player.vimeo.com/video/8040182

Please view full video online. Take notes on what you find most revealing or surprising about the contemporary practice of remix artists. Does the video raise issues about your own use of digital media… in your artwork or your life? How does the video relate to recent internet blackout/protest and SOPA (Stop Online Piracy Act) legislation? Do you side with the CopyLEFT or the CopyRIGHT?

RiP: A Remix Manifesto from Laurent LaSalle on Vimeo.

http://ripremix.com/Prepare your comments (about 150 words). Upload to class folder called Rip! Remix Reflections. We will also discuss in class.

RiP! A Remix Manifesto

Digital Art Mixed-Media  / Online Viewing Assignment

RiP! A Remix Manifesto (it’s about 86 minutes)

Please view full video online. Take notes on what you find most revealing or surprising about the contemporary practice of remix artists. Does the video raise issues about your own use of digital media… in your artwork or your life? How does the video relate to recent internet blackout/protest and SOPA (Stop Online Piracy Act) legislation? Do you side with the CopyLEFT or the CopyRIGHT?

RiP: A Remix Manifesto from Laurent LaSalle on Vimeo.

http://ripremix.com/Prepare your comments (about 150 words). We will discuss in class the following week.

REMIX WRAP-UP > Spring 2016

REMIX WRAP-UP > The assignment asks you to develop combinatory creativity, drawing from the class imagebank and generating multiple versions of your own unique mashed-up images. The goals of the assignment are to discover new ways of working with borrowed imagery, to explore using layers and tools in photoshop, to find new rhythms of work while maintaining an open, playful and experimental attitude. All imagery should be originally generated by students in the class (photos, drawings, designs). The project requires you to test techniques of mixing imagery in many ways. Your final folder should show evidence of your various experimental versions.

Please Note these Dates:

Tuesday March 1 : Finish 16″ Remix Squares, (UMD stores will cut 16 inch squares of adhesive foamcore for purchase next week so that prints can be mounted)

Thursday March 3 : Multiple Digital Versions and Print Square DUE

What should you include in your final remix folder ? :
• images you contributed to class IMAGE BANK
(you contributed at least one image to each folder)
• repeat pattern tests for game textures
• snapshots of image transfer tests onto materials
• folder with 10-20 VERSIONS of your remix square
• final 16”x16” square

Name your folder : YourName_Remix_Final
Name each image : yourname_remix_version1, yourname_remix_version2…

Upload your folder with all your versions and other evidence of digital work on the remix project to our class google drive folder: Art2016_Remix_WrapUp_spring16

Tues March 15: No Class, use time for a workday on mixed-media or View Digital Nation video online

Thursday March 17 : Mixed-Media Image transfer Remix DUE
(either a 3d object, or a large 2D work at least 32 inches)

Blog Assignment : RiP! A Remix Manifesto

Fall 2015 / Digital Art Mixed-Media Classes

Online Assignment  for THURSDAY Sept 24

RiP! A Remix Manifesto (it’s about 86 minutes)

Please view full video online. Take notes on what you find most revealing or surprising about the contemporary practice of remix artists. Does the video raise issues about your own use of digital media… in your artwork or your life? How does the video relate to recent internet blackout/protest and SOPA (Stop Online Piracy Act) legislation? Do you side with the CopyLEFT or the CopyRIGHT?

RiP: A Remix Manifesto from Laurent LaSalle on Vimeo.

http://ripremix.com/Prepare your comments (about 150 words). We will discuss in class the following week.

Blog Assignment > Watch Rip! Remix Manifesto

Blog Assignment
Spring 2015Digital Arts / Mixed-Media Studio:
We used to be able to watch this entire documentary film online… but now they are asking for donations. Please try to view full video.
RiP! A Remix Manifesto (it’s about 86 minutes)

RiP: A Remix Manifesto from Laurent LaSalle on Vimeo.

http://ripremix.com/

Take notes on what you find most revealing or surprising about the contemporary practice of remix artists. Does the video raise issues about your own use of digital media… in your artwork or your life? How does the video relate to recent internet blackout/protest and SOPA (Stop Online Piracy Act) legislation? Do you side with the CopyLEFT or the CopyRIGHT?

Prepare your comments (about 150 words) and have them ready to post to the blog…