Jim Campbel

Jim Campbel's work varies from print to physical computing interactive sculptures and animated panels. His entire body of work is worth a deep look and is both technically interesting and very refined and poetic at the same time.

http://www.jimcampbell.tv/

Rafael Lozano-Hemmer

Lozano-Hemmer is a very interesting and prolific artist dealing with new media and interactive architectural installations. He is a Concordia Graduate is Physical Chemistry. 

Here are some links to interesting projects of his, but it is worth taking the time to navigate his site and go deeper in the entire body of work. 

body movies

close up

pulse park

Thomas Ruff

It is really hard to show a selection of Thomas Ruff's work as his artistic practice is huge. Each large series explores a specific element of contemporary culture or technology. He has looked at the modern nude through academic compositions of modified internet porn images, he has explored jpg compression with images of nature and disaster (also culled from the internet), he has examined 3D software animation curves, photoshop layering of comic books, stellar photography, extreme large scale photo, stereoscopic photography, etc. the list is almost endless. 

Ruff, perhaps a prime example of what my project is asking for. He looks at technology and what technology allows or facilitates. He maintains a conceptual practice, while also mixing it with a very aesthetic one. He will always allow the technology to take centre stage, but will intervene with a very trained eye to make sure all compositions are aesthetic and balanced.  

Loretta Lux

Loretta Lux is a very successful german artist who's work is a fusion of photography, very meticulous digital retouching and painting. Her education and training was as a painter. After graduating from painting she ventured almost completely unversed into photo and digital and I feel that is what made her strength. 

Her work makes many references to a painting tradition, renaissance art, and traditions of portraiture while very openly referencing very contemporary media and technology.

Reworking the blog design

I am currently tweeking the way the blog will work. My new idea is to have all the important references linked in the side bar ie. Course outline. And I will post artist and discussion points in the regular blog page.

Artist site worth seeing: Cory Arcangel

Here is a link to Cory Arcangel's blog/site/portfolio/whatever. It is full of playful interactions with both technology and pop culture. Check out the section of "things i made". Sometimes you need to try a little bit to make things work as he has done some programming and the technology doesn't always work. He is also a bit of an expert at moding old game cartridges to create interactive game art. Look for his works " I shot Andy Warhol" and "Super Mario Clouds".

http://www.coryarcangel.com/

New sections section in the side bar

I have created a section in the side bar where we will place appendices. For now, there is only an artist reference page that contains one artist that may be interesting to look at but i will add more throughout the week. Please look into them further as, for the most part, the few images and simple description I give will not adequately explain their link to the subject matter we are looking at.

Class Outline

Here is the class outline in PDF form.

Class outline here

Welcome to PRIN 351/498E

I'm glad to have you all in this class and am looking forward to doing some interesting things with this subject.

As of now, the blog will be the number one reference for all communications concerning this class. If Possible, you should subscribe with a feed reader or as a follower, or just make the site your homepage for the duration to stay informed.

On the very rare chance I have to cancel a class I will post it here as well (but, I really would not count on it every happening. In my entire undergrad, and Master's I missed a total of 4 classes, so it is not likely)