Description: The studio art department wishes to incorporate computer graphic and video technology into our curriculum. Primarily, we propose to create tutorials so that students can easily use Photoshop, Premier, and Pagemaker software for class assignments, independent projects, and to compose thesis documents. Although each of these software packages comes with its own tutorials, there are no tutorials to guide students in the use of two or more types of software simultaneously for the production of artist books. We would like to simplify the information so that student can be shown the primary tools to be used in creating short documentary and artist pieces. Additionally, a tutorial that is interactive will enable students to learn through their own experience of the tool.
Artists Books and Thesis Documents - Development of a tutorial to be used by students in Printmaking, Intermediate Sculpture and Multi-Media, Intermediate Painting, Independent students, and studio theses to guide them in using Photoshop and Pagemaker in order to create Artist Books and Thesis documents. This tutorial will be an interactive program in which the student can be guided through the processes of laying out documents in Pagemaker, scanning original art and photography, and enhancing them through the use of Photoshop. The tutorial will work as a reference guide in which the exercise sequences will be set up on the same computer students will use to create their documents. The tutorial will take them through the entire project so that they can apply this information to the production of their final art work. Students in the printmaking and Intermediate classes will be given an assignment to compose books of their own art work.
Documentary Video/Artistic video &endash; Development of a tutorial to be used by students in Intermediate Sculpture and Multi-Media, independent students, and thesis students to guide them in using Adobe Premier for creative and documentary video pieces. Two interactive tutorials will be created, one for documentary video and another for experimental video art works. The first version will be an interactive program that simply and clearly outlines the functions needed to create documentary video and can be used to record installation and performance works. The second version will be more advanced and will allow the student to alter sequences of images, using color enhancing, non-linear editing processes, merge images and fade images on the screen. Students in Intermediate Sculpture and Multimedia would be given an assignment in which they would create a video as a supplement to a work or as the main work of art. We initially expect that between 20-30 students will use the tutorials each semester though they may eventually be used by many more students, both majors and non-majors.