Aug-30

Welcome to Fall 2022 Experimental Capture!

  • 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:

  1. Read all 13 pages of the Syllabus, if you have not already
  2. Complete the ExCap Welcome Form (including its FERPA Waiver), if you have not already
  3. Login to the ExCap website (login here). Note that you will need to use your Andrew credentials to access the WordPress Dashboard.
  4. 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.
  5. Bring an item for the Electron Microscope.
  6. Bring an item to propose to X-Ray at Creative Electron.

Reading for Tuesday 9/6:

  • ReadPhotography 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:


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