BIOGRAPHY -- COURSES -- SCHEDULE -- ARTWORK -- MAIN -- VIZLAB
VIZA 689 -- REFERENCES -- CALENDAR -- WORKSHOPS
Spring 2005
VIZA 689 Digital Media
Inspiration and Process
Carol LaFayette, Assistant Professor
Phone: 845-5691 / email: lurleen@viz.tamu.edu
Tuesday and Thursday, 12:45 - 2:00, CARC 347
Teaching assistant: Kurt Phillips
(kurtie@viz.tamu.edu)
Course Description
Credit: 3
Prerequisite: Graduate classification in Visualization Sciences program or
approval of instructor.
Exploration of artwork
and literature that has informed contemporary creativity provides a broad
basis for discovery. Through reading, writing, and studio projects, students
will demonstrate a knowledge of creative strategies including but not limited
to mapping, database, allegory, sampling, and generative systems.
For Spring 2005, VIZA 689 will host four visiting artists: Patty Carroll,
Annika Erixån, Steve Rowell/Center for Land Use Interpretation, and
Shawn Brixey. A full description of artists' biographical information and
workshops and can be found on the Artists
in Residence web page.
Credit is available to any student in the college who wants to take part in
the workshops. Students in 689 form the core working group; others will take
part on a per-workshop basis.
Evaluation
Expectations include visual research in preparation for the visits; attendance
at all workshops during the artists' visits, which will require evenings
and weekends; attendance at all lectures, reviews, and other activities
scheduled by the artist; full participation in the art process; installation
of the final review for each artist's workshop; and participation in the creation
of archival documentation of each workshop.
Individuals are evaluated for group participation and artistic contribution
(quality and technique). The entire group is evaluated for overall quality
and completeness of the final installation and overall quality and completeness
of the archival documentation.
| Individual
participation, on a daily basis, including pre-visit visual research and post-visit documentation |
100 |
| Individual artistic contribution, each workshop | 100 |
| Final installation, one score for the entire project, each workshop | 100 |
| Archival documentation, one score for the entire project, each workshop | 100 |
| Total | 400 |
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