Welcome to Fall 2022 Experimental Capture!
- Amuse-bouche: selections from Koyaanisqatsi
- Be sure to have completed our Welcome Form
- Syllabus & Calendar (N)
- Personal Introductions (N) (see “About our Cohort” below)
- A message about the STUDIO, its public events, & the FRFF (N)
- Discussion: What is Experimental Capture? (G+N)
- Prompt: Assumptions to Question (G)
- Presentation: Some ExCap Student Projects (G) & More (2020)
- X-Ray Assignment (with the help of Creative Electron) (G)
- Scanning Electron Microscope Assignment (visit from Donna Beer Stolz, Associate Professor of Cell Biology and Associate Director of the Pitt Center for Biologic Imaging) (N)
- Equipment Buffet; Wednesday Buffet (G)
- Assignment for Thursday 9/1; Reading for Tuesday 9/6 (see below)
- Exit Ticket (Below); Camera Obscura on 3rd floor!
Assignment for Thursday 9/1:
- Read all 13 pages of the Syllabus, if you have not already
- Complete the ExCap Welcome Form (including its FERPA Waiver), if you have not already
- Login to the ExCap website (login here). Note that you will need to use your Andrew credentials to access the WordPress Dashboard.
- Create a new “Looking Outwards” blog Post on this website. In this Post, you are asked to discuss a project that you admire, by someone who is not you, which you feel is relevant to this course. (For example, it might be a project in which an artist developed a custom process in order to capture the world in a new way.) In your post, be sure to include all of the following:
- Write a brief (100-150 word) written description of the project (what is it?);
- Write a few sentences about why you find it interesting;
- Include an embedded image and/or video illustrating the project;
- Link to the project, if it has a webpage or other online documentation;
- Categorize your blog post using the WordPress Category, ProjectToShare.
- Bring an item for the Electron Microscope.
- Instructions from Donna HERE.
- And sign up for a slot.
- Bring an item to propose to X-Ray at Creative Electron.
Reading for Tuesday 9/6:
- Read “Photography and Observation“, which is Chapter 1 of Photography and Science by Kelley Wilder. This is a 14MB, 34-page PDF of approximately 6500 words (~20-25 minutes of reading).
- Create a new blog Post on this WordPress site. In this post, please:
- Write 100 words (about a paragraph) about something interesting or new-to-you that you encountered in this article.
- Write a 100-word response to the prompt: In your opinion, What is an artistic opportunity, made possible by methodological/scientific/scientistic approaches to imaging, that is interesting to you?
- Categorize your WordPress post with the Category, Reading-1.
Exit Ticket for Tuesday 8/30:
About our Cohort
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