RYERSON UNIVERSITY
School of Image Arts
Photography New Media Film
Lab 3 hours. This is a required second year two semester course. Prerequisite is MPM 016. Course Weight of the entire course is 3.0 (this lab is worth 1/3 of the entire Course Weight).
Effective Fall 2003 semester, students are required to use their Ryerson e-mail address. This address will be the only one used to communicate with you. It is your responsibility to check your Ryerson e-mail regularly.
This second year production course will involve an investigation of evolving media and media systems. The interplay between creative expression and technological capability will be explored through physical and virtual-based media with emphasis on constructing and evaluating innovative form and content for media artifacts. The issues addressed in these productions will be studied with relation to the human interface and personalized media through participatory workshops and innovative pedagogical strategies.
This production component is a three-hour per week lab course and will be based mainly on illustrated lectures supplemented with in-class demonstrations, and production time. Since there is no computer lab for this course, student-guided learning will be encouraged to complete the assignments outside the class time. In addition to the production component, theoretical approaches will be introduced through readings, critiques, and class discussions.
Class preparation will be evaluated on the basis of class attendance and participations in seminar discussions that will be based on readings that will assigned from time to time, films and videos that will be shown during the class or other information introduced during each class. There will be two minor assignments and two major assignments during the year. The minor assignments will consist of detailed outline and prototype of the Term Project to be completed in at the end of each semester. Each student will present the Term Project in class for review and critique.
This course represents one third of your overall production mark. Your final second year production mark will be the average of the three production courses. Each course is of equal value (1/3 total mark). You must pass each component to receive a passing production grade.
Data, database, information, space, place, land-based art, projection, spatial database, geocoding, digital photography, image processing, geopositional systems, remote sensing, satellite imaging, geographic information systems (science), wireless technology, cell phone, ground truth, data mining, visualization.
Data, database, information, space, place, land-based art, projection, spatial database, geocoding, digital photography, image processing, geopositional systems, remote sensing, satellite imaging, geographic information systems (science), wireless technology, cell phone, ground truth, data mining, visualization.
Conrad, J. (1902) Heart of Darkness, Penguin, London.
Creswell, T. (2004) Place: A Short Introduction, Blackwell, Oxford.
Dean, T. and Millar, J. (2005) Art Works: Place, Thames & Hudson, London.
Kunstler, J.H. (2001) The City in Mind: Meditations on the Urban Condition, Free Press, New York.
Lipkin, J. (2005) Photography Reborn: Image Making in the Digital Era, Abrams Studio, New York.
Longley, P.A., Goodchild, M.F., Maguire, D., and Rhind, D.W. (2005) Geographic Information Systems and Science,
Wiley, Chichester.
Manovich, L. (2001) The Language of New Media, MIT Press, Cambridge, MA.
McLuhan, E. and Zingrone, F. (eds.)(1995) Essential McLuhan, Anansi Press, Concord.
Rush, M. (1999) New Media in the Late 20th-Century Art, Thames & Hudson, London.
Steadman, P. (2001) Vermeer's Camera: Uncovering the Truth Behind the Masterpieces, Oxford University Press,
Oxford.
Ströhl, A. (ed.)(2002) Writings: Vilém Flusser, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis.
Tuan, Yi-Fu (1974) Topophilia: A Study of Environmental Perception, Attitudes, and Values, Columbia University
Press, New York.
Students may be assigned readings from the web or handouts during class. Students are expected to come to class prepared to discuss assigned readings.
Creswell, T. (2004) Defining Place
Creswell, T. (2004) The Genealogy of Place
Stalbaum, B. (2004) After Land Art
Blanchette, J-F. and Johnson, D.G. (2002) Data Retention and the Panoptic Society
Hemment, D. (2004) Locative Dystopia
Huhtamo, E (2005) Slots of Fun, Slots of Trouble
Manovich, L. (1998) Database as Symbolic Form
Manovich, L. (2006) After Effects, or Velvet Revolution in Modern Culture Part 1
Manovich, L. (2006) Social Data Browsing
Paul, C. (2002) The Database as System and Cultural Form Anatomies of Cultural Narratives
Sack, W. (2003) Aesthetics of Information Visualization
Conrad, J. (1902) Heart of Darkness (p.68)
Stalbaum, B. (2002) Database Logic(s) and Landscape Art
Stalbaum, B. (2003) An Interpretive Framework for Contemporary Database Practice in the Arts
Thayer, P. (2004) On Narrative, Abstract and Location
Viola, B. (1995) Will There Be Condominiums in Data Space
The best way to communicate with me is through email (michalak@ryerson.ca) or skype (panwczerni). If you are planning to talk to me during the office hours please check the timetable posted outside my door at least 24 hrs ahead of time or send me an email.
The Faculty Course Survey will be administered during the last three weeks of the current term.