A r t —a s s i g n m e n t s — #1 — #2 — #3 — Final

#2. Technoscape

Construct a series of 3 images inspired by the concept of Technology Expanding the Horizon. Technology affects every aspect of our lives - how we exist and perceive our physical surroundings and notions of the landscape, real and virtual. With ubiquitous Google Maps, the World Wide Web, digital photography, and nanotechnology, the landscape, a physical place, has been evolving into the landscape as a virtual place. As an artist, you are a meaning-maker, contributing to the important dialogue about how technology impacts and changes our perception of the landscape.

This assignment was inspired by a symposium organized by the Department of Art called, Technology Expanding the Horizon: A Reinterpretation & Investigation of the Landscape. The symposium website contains streaming media of the lectures and panels discussions as well as images from the related exhibitions.

Gallery of related work from past students

Related artists and projects

• Adriaan Stellingwerff's Eternal Sunset - "enjoy the sunset live from any location, at any time".
• Second Life - an online virtual world where you can purchase and sell land and, through an avatar, do pretty much what is done in real life.
• Michael Najjar's Netropolis Project - a digital exploration of the way the artist imagines cities will develop in the future.
• Center for Land Use Interpretation - "a research organization interested in understanding the nature and extent of human interaction with the earth's surface."
• N55's Land - a new way to think about land and an information distribution system and manual designed to help people share it.
• Anthony Goicolea - digitally enhanced nature/landscape photographic artwork (artist statement about his landscape series)
• Thomson & Craighead's Light from Tomorrow - an experiment in time travel through the internet
• Milk Project - using GPS to map the travel milk from the udder of the cow to the consumer
• Berliner Taxi - an interactive time-twisting time space shifter
• Google Sightseeing - "why bother seeing the world for real?"
• Eye of Science - incredible microscopic images
• Andreas Gursky
• Lori Nix
• Peter Garfield
• Joomi Chung's Signoscope-Signoscapes
• Andrew Au
• Vik Muniz's Pictures of Junk

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• IMPORTANT INFORMATION about turning in each art assignment in this class • 
Before the start of class on the date of each critique, you must upload 3 separate, high-quality jpeg images that are each at least 2000 pixels in either the width or height. Label each of your final image files with the project number, followed by your last name, then version # (for example: 1Smith_v1, 1Smith_v2 and 1Smith_v3). These images are to be uploaded to the appropriate assignment dropbox folder in Carmen. In case of file error problems you are also required to bring a backup of your files to class on a CD or USB drive.

If you used any source image files that are not your own, you must also upload a text file to the Carmen dropbox for this assignment that explains where each came from and includes image permissions for images that are not explicitly copyright free. This is to ensure that you are not violating copyright law by misusing images that do not belong to you.

ASSIGNMENTS WILL BE EVALUATED BASED ON THE FOLLOWING CRITERIA:

• CREATIVITY - originality of thought and expression.
Does the artwork show innovation and uniqueness? Did the artist solve the given assignment problem in an expected or unexpected way? 25%

• COMPOSITION - arrangement and organization of elements.Has the artist carefully considered elements such as balance, proportion, texture, color, shape, and positive/negative space? 25%

• CRAFTSMANSHIP - attention to detail.
Does the artist skillfully manipulate the images? Are all details carefully finished and/or intentional-looking? 25%