Course Schedule

Upcoming Courses at the International Center for Photography


January 2012

Collage-Montage-Composite (Digital Projects)

1/16/12 - 1/20/12 (10am to 5pm)

This workshop explores constructed design in photographic practice.

The collage/montage challenges us to see the edge of picture-making. Where straight photography makes the frame invisible — an inviolable boundary between photo and non-photo which hides the choices made by the photographer — the collage/montage makes the edges visible, foregrounding the photographer’s relationship to the material of the work.

This foregrounding of choice (choice of subject, angle, and body position, to name just a few) concentrates our attention on issues that are fundamental to all photographic practice, and then pushes us toward a newly engaged and active response to those issues.

The goal is to acknowledge photographic choices, and to make them visible in our work.

To register for this course at the International Center of Photography, visit their website {here}.

Winter 2012

Photoshop 3: Digital Imaging for Photographers, 10-Week Course

1/26/12 - 3/29/12

In this intermediate course, students refine their use of Photoshop’s basic tools by investigating advanced working methods such as Camera RAW techniques, selection and masking techniques for adjustment layers to correct color and tone, retouching with the history brush, and black-and-white conversion methods in adjustment layers. This course is recommended for photographers confident with digital input, overall adjustment, and output in Photoshop who require the skills to refine particular areas of their digital images. prerequisite: Photoshop I or portfolio review.

To register for this course at the International Center of Photography, visit their website {here}.




In Spring 2012 I'm also teaching courses for matriculated students at:

Teachers College Columbia University
Program in Art & Art Education
Art & Technology: Making and Teaching Art on the Internet

ICP Full-time and MFA programs
Technical Seminar in Digital Photography

Parsons the New School for Design
Critical Reading & Writing (Art, Design, History & Theory)

Basic Photography in Black & White
College of Staten Island
LEARNING RESOURCES

EDUCATION IN THE DIGITAL AGE

Institute for Distributed Creativity
iDC on Facebook.
An international network of advanced creative production, research, events, and documentation. Conferences focus on new media learning; its forum is for new media researchers ranging from media artists, urbanists, librarians, scientists, designers, and educators.

Academic Commons
A community of educators who are interested in two interlocking questions: how do creative uses of new technology support the project of liberal education, and, perhaps more interestingly, how do they force us to re-think what it means to be liberally educated?

Columbia Center for New Media Teaching and Learning
CCNMTL was founded at Columbia University in 1999 to enhance teaching and learning through the purposeful use of new media.

The World Simulation
A radical experiment in learning at Kansas State University, that was created in a fit of frustration with the large lecture hall format.

Digital Media Pedagogy
a mindmeister map by Trebor Scholz

The Machine is Using Us, and A Vision of Students Today
Two videos by Michael Wesch

Media Commons
A network in which scholars, students, and other interested members of the public can help to shift the focus of scholarship back to the circulation of discourse.

Rhizome: New Media Art
Rhizome is dedicated to the creation, presentation, preservation, and critique of emerging artistic practices that engage technology.

UNDERSTANDING THE WWW

Original WWW Proposal
W3C (governing consortium)
The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is an international community working together to develop Web standards. Led by WWW inventor Tim Berners-Lee, its mission is to lead the Web to its full potential.
HTML/CSS — what is it?
HTML and CSS are core technologies for building Web pages. HTML provides the “structure” of the page. CSS describes the display.
W3 Schools Tutorials
Elizabeth Castro (tutorials)
CSS Examples (Zen Garden)
Mimo y Mima (tutorials)
Mimo y Mima (part 2)
Eric Meyer (CSS examples)
Beautiful CSS (forum)

Wikis, Blogs, Social Networks
Blogger (aka Blogspot)
Google Sites
Ning
PBWorks
SocialGo
Stumble Upon
Tumblr
Twitter
Wikispaces
WordPress
PHOTOSHOP & LIGHTROOM TEXTBOOKS

Visual Quickstart Guide /Photoshop for Windows & Macintosh (Peachpit Press)
A visual synopsis. Easy to follow. Not too much detail.

These are more in-depth:
Adobe Photoshop One-on-One
by Deke McClelland.

Adobe Photoshop CS5 for Photographers
by Martin Evening.


These are specialized but highly useful:
Mastering Digital Black and White
by Amadou Diallo.

Adobe Photoshop Lightroom
by John Beardsworth

COPYRIGHT

Stanford Copyright and Fair Use Center
ASMP Copyright FAQ & Tutorials
Creative Commons (definition)
Creative Commons (licenses)
Lawrence Lessig
A Professor of Law at Stanford, focusing on law and technology as it affects copyright.

VISUALIZING & MAPPING THE INTERNET

The Opte Project
The Internet Mapping Project
Lumeta Network Visualizations

ON-LINE LEARNING (Software)

Lynda.com
Thousands of video tutorials.
Adobe for Educators
Adobe Press (IT Network)
Adobe Press Chapters & Articles (free online learning examples)
Safari Books Online
Visual Quickstart Guide Series
Adobe TV (free tutorials)
Adobe Communities (aggregator)
Final Cut (training and resources)
Final Cut Express (tutorials)
Final Cut Express Apple Forum
O’Reilly Forums
O’Reilly Academic Solutions

DIGITAL ASSET MANAGEMENT

Wikipedia: A definition.
The DAM Book: Digital Asset Management for photographers.
Universal Digital Imaging Guidelines
Archiving: DAM—The Art of Archiving

COMPUTER FUNCTIONS & VOCABULARY

Wikipedia
Fact Monster
How PCs work
Digital Video Aspect Ratios
Introduction to Computers from URI
Part A
Part B
Part C
Part D
Part E
Part F
Part G
Part H

ACADEMIC SOFTWARE SALES

Nubs