Left to Our Own Devices?
By Monika Sziladi

The rapid development of wireless communication, social media, reality television, crowdsourcing and the proliferation of photography by the general public have had a clearly discernible impact on human behavior. Posing, posting, sharing, self-broadcasting, commenting, texting, and multitasking are replacing conversation and reflection. Narcissism and anxiety are among the most common types of psychological disorders affecting people today. The figures in my images, like most of us, are caught constrained by mobile devices and image consciousness. While navigating the professional and social competition of our economically divided and ecologically precarious world, our ubiquitous practice of (self-) promotion generates sufficient noise to render us invisible and ultimately turn us into interchangeable voices, inaudible within the crowd. On the other hand, our recorded and broadcast self-expression, mined by big data, threatens our privacy and agency over our choices. Digital technology transforms our traditional sense of public and private. In parallel, the sense of space and perspective in my work alludes to a collapse between the physical and the virtual. As the borders disintegrate, I aim to create images that simultaneously produce humor, awkwardness, liberation, and suffocation, with the intention of replicating and enhancing the unsettling sense of being exposed in an increasingly virtual world. 

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Michellene
Doh
Matt
Daniell
Katelyn
XingYao
Rebecca

27th

YuJung
Taylor
Siyvia
Elizabeth
Jack
Janna

Hello All,

Don't worry about leaving a feedback about the movie, Watermark. 

We will finish watching it next Monday. (only 19 minutes left)

Enjoy the rest of the week. 

Cheers, 

Fabulous Photography Courses in the Fall!!!

Various photography course are offered in the photo program in the fall, 2015. 

AD267, Digital Media 1: Photography Imaging and Aesthetics, and AD331 Digital Video Production and Aesthetic. 

Would you please spread words about these classes?

Digital Media 1: Photography Imaging and Aesthetics
AD 26700 FALL 2015 (TUE/THU) 2:30-5:20 PAO HALL B162

Instructor: Min Kim Park
Tuesdays and Thursdays 2:30-5:20
park500@purdue.edu

Course Description

This course addresses methods in both technical and aesthetic foundations in photography utilizing digital camera and intermediate and advanced Photoshop techniques. Problems in exposure, lighting, composition, camera controls, file management, image adjustments and digital printing will be covered. In addition to learn operating digital cameras, this course explores processes and concepts extending beyond the single photographic image. Narrative and formal strategies within manipulation and sequencing; exploring the materiality of the photograph will be emphasized. Development of each student’s personal vision will be encouraged as well as knowledge of the medium’s history and current practices.

Class sessions will be devoted to lectures, discussions, critiques, technical demonstrations and lab days. Students should expect to spend additional hours in the lab and on image capture each week. Students will receive feedback on their work both in the form of group and online critiques, as well as individual meetings with the instructor at mid-term and at the end of the semester. Students are expected to actively participate in all aspects of the class.

NO PREREQUISITE!!!

Fun, exciting yet comprehensive class to learn intermediate to advanced photogshop and be aquainted with digital photography!!!

Digital Video Production and Aesthetics
AD 33100 FALL 2015 (TUE/THU) 11:30-2:20 PAO HALL B162

Instructor to be announced: TBA

Tuesdays and Thursdays 11:30-2:20PM

Course Description

 
This course is a basic studio introduction to video production and how video can be used as an artistic medium. Classes will consist of lectures, hands on demonstrations, and critiques. There will be limited work time available in class, but for the most part students will be expected to work on projects on their own. Topics include video/film formats, lighting, audio, editing, distribution, experimental, live event, and extensive time spent on mastering the camera and editing. Students will be screening the work of modern to contemporary video artists as well as hosting guest speakers with various specialties in the video world. Students will produce three projects, each of which focuses on a different aspect of video as a medium and how these can be applied in narrative or experimental ways, followed by one final project. (Students make Experimental, Documentary and Music Video/Commercial Video)

NO PREREQUISITES!!!
Although this is 300 level course, you could take the class without prerequisites. Talk to your advisors and/or Min Kim Park (park500@purdue.edu) to waive the presequisites!

Go to this event at Ringel Gallery at 2PM on April 18th!

Chicago-based artist Nick Cave will lead a Soundsuit Invasion through Purdue University’s Spring Fest on Saturday, April 18th. Nick Cave’s soundsuits are a unique combination of fashion, sculpture, and dance. The attention-grabbing performance will feature student dancers from the Purdue Contemporary Dance Company and will begin at 2 pm in the Robert L. Ringel Gallery in Stewart Center and proceed to Memorial Mall as part of Spring Fest on campus. 

Nick Cave is currently professor and chairman of the Fashion Department at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago; he is represented by Jack Shainman Gallery in New York. Cave's soundsuits have been shown nationally and internationally, including recent exhibitions at the Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston; the Denver Art Museum; the Trapholt Museum in Denmark; the Peabody Essex Museum, Salem; and le Tri Postal in Lille, France. Cave's work is included in a number of public collections, including the Brooklyn Museum; the Detroit Institute of Arts; the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; the Smithsonian Institution; the Indianapolis Museum of Art, and now Purdue University.

The performance at Purdue is part of the recent acquisition of two Nick Cave soundsuits for Purdue's Lonsford Collection. The Lonsford Collection is an on-going permanent series of sculptures, paintings, and other major art pieces that are acquired through the Lonsford fund. The fund was established through the generous gift of Florence H. Lonsford, a former Purdue graduate and artist who desired “to support the acquisition of art objects in the Department of Visual and Performing Arts” at Purdue University. Mrs. Lonsford particularly wanted to place art works in spaces where students could gain an understanding and appreciation of their beauty, meaning and significance. The soundsuits will be on permanent display beginning in the fall semester of 2015.

The Robert L. Ringel Gallery is free and open to the public
Monday - Saturday 10 am to 5 pm, and Thursday, 10 am to 8 pm.

#NickCavePurdue

Hello Everyone,

Yes, it's snowing... the winter has not given up yet.... it's really Holding on!!!!!
But there are always sunny news that make our spirit/soul 'FAT.'

I wanted to let you know that our beloved classmate, Elizabeth Geller, majoring in chemical engineering, recently received the" Women in Engineering Merit Award." The award is given in recognition of outstanding female students who are academically excellent, well rounded with demonstrated leadership experiences and significant potential in the field of engineering.

And this year's winner is Elizabeth! It's truly a great honor to have her receive this award!
She will be attending the Women in Engineering awards banquet next Monday, March 30th, so she won't be in the class, but let's congratulate next time we see her!

Congratulation Elizabeth!!!

Monday, March 23rd. We are having individual meetings: I will meet with you for 5 minutes and discuss your performance in the class, and give you the result of the grade for the midterm and oral presentation. See you tomorrow. Check your time slot. I will meet you in the lab.

Doh (5:30-35)

Janna (5:35-40)

Katelyn (40-45)

Sylvia (45-50)

Elizabeth (50-55)

Jack (55-6:00)

Yoo Jung (6:00-6:05)

Taylor (5-10)

Matt (10-15)

Michaelene (15-20)

Rebecca (20-25)

Daniell (25-30)

Xingyao (30-35)