art303–Intro to Digital Art

Overview Interactive Voices  is an exploration of the meaningful integration of sound, movement and interactivity. The student will create an work of generative art combining audio, motion and interactivity. This Project will utilize skills covered in Lectures 4 and 5, and Exercise 4 (Hour of Code, In-Class Demos, and review of examples.) Assignment Theme:  The content of the project is entirely at your discretion, and the audio and visual elements may be objective or non-objective. Sound sources may be found online, sampled audio, or recorded by you. Visual elements will be generated from within Processing. What is most important is that the sounds interact meaningfully with the appearance and movement of the visual objects. Avoid using simple narrative. Do not approach the project as a music video or cartoon. Rather than telling a story, try to create an abstract experience, as in the Oskar Fischinger films. Think of this as poetry (literary work in which special i...

  EXERCISE 04: GENERATIVE ART WITH PROCESSING Overview Generative (or Algorithmic) art is art or design produced by an artist or designer or anyone who chooses to create and explore imagery by writing computer programs by oneself or with the aid of a programmer. “Processing integrates a programming language, development environment and a teaching methodology into a unified system. It was created to teach fundamentals of computer programming within a visual context. Students, artists, design professionals and researchers use it for learning, prototyping and production.” ( Processing: A Programming Handbook for Visual Designers, Second Edition,  Casey Reas and Ben Fry.) It is built on a simplified version of Java. Objectives Learn enough Processing coding to enable execution of the final project for the ART303 course. Develop a basic understanding and facility for solving visual problems algorithmically. Explore aesthetic ideas and visual structures through algori...

Topics Covered In this tutorial the student will learn to: play a sound using Audacity select, copy and paste portions of a sound change the pitch of a sound work with multiple tracks within a document at a time, mix them, set left/right balance and volume apply Effects (amplify, reverb, echo, pitch shift, tempo, fade in, fade out, normalize, equalize) generate noise, silence, tones record sound & voice at appropriate levels to avoid distortion exporting Audacity project files to MP3 or WAV for integration with other applications Step-by-step Note:  Before launching Audacity, open System Preference and set the  SOUND> INPUT  to  Internal Mic (iMacs) or External Mic (Mac minis and Pros) . Also check the  volume  of your computer. Set it loud enough to hear but not too loud as to disturb others. Use headphones (plugged into the small speaker jack on the back of the computer) if available. 1. Create a New file Name it  [your_last_name]-ex3.aup ...

Overview Synthsized Meaning  is an exploration of the impact on communication when images are recombined, repositioned and reprocessed, when the lines of “reality” are blurred. Students will collect and assemble found or original images into a Photoshop montage. The original “meaning” of each original image will evolve in relation to the others. It will be seen that meaning itself can never be fixed, but that it changes relative to the point of view of the observer, cultural preconceptions, and the context in which it is perceived. Montage  [Fr.: “mounting”]. Assemblage that results from the overlapping or joining of various materials, images or objects to form a new single picture. Timothy Druckrey wrote in the article From Dada to Digital that “one of the central considerations in the emergence of electronic montage is the redefinition of narrative. Sequential or arrayed, information is created in forms that suggest that the single image is not sufficient to serve as a recor...