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Deliverables Timetable

Upcoming and New Assignments:

  • (Due Weds. 11/6) Person in Time Project.
  • (Due Weds. 10/23) Person in Time WIP: In a blog post, prepare a Work-in-Progress presentation about your Person-in-Time project. You will present this in small group (pod) meetings with your classmates to provide each other with feedback. Categorize your blog post #PersonInTimeWIP. Note: please do not link to external presentations in Google drives.
  • (Due Weds. 10/9) Looking Outwards #04: Do some research. Write a blog post about three projects which demonstrate approaches to temporal capture and/or portraiture that interest you. For each project, include a sentence or two that describes the project and why you find it interesting. Also include images or embedded videos, and tag your post with #LookingOutwards04.

Past Assignments:

  • (Due 9/16) FFMpeg test: The purpose of this simple test is to ensure that you’re able to use FFmpeg. Record two brief videos with your phone or webcam (e.g. just a couple seconds long). Using FFmpeg, write a command which concatenates the two videos together, and exports the resulting video, with a (resized) width of 240 pixels and moderately heavy compression. In the Discord channel #ffmpeg-test, upload the small video and post the text of the command that you used. Feel free to use ChatGPT to help you compose the command.
  • (Due 9/16) Work-in-Progress Review for Typology Machine: Create a blog post on this WordPress site, tagged #TypologyMachineWIP, containing a snapshot of your work-in-progress on the Typology Machine project. Include ideas, sketches, research. You will present your work to your peers in multiple small-group “pod reviews”.
  • (Due Monday 9/9) Pocket Postulating. Pick 3 from the following list of phone-based expanded capture techniques: Panorama, Slowmo, Timelapse, Slitscan, Lightpainting (long exposure), and/or some other app from our spreadsheet. Now: using your phone, use these techniques to make some casual (low-stakes) recordings of subjects of your choice. Make a blog post with your three captures and explain your processes. Consider: what are good subjects for your chosen method? What are good methods for your chosen subject? Categorize your post with #PocketPostulating.
  • (Due Monday 9/9) Reading/Response. 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). Now: 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. In your response, include what you think is an interesting artistic opportunity, made possible by methodological, scientific, or scientistic approaches to imaging. Categorize your WordPress post with the Category, #Reading-1.
  • (Due 9/4) Looking Outwards #03: Explore your mobile phone’s App Store, and identify an app that expands the capture/sensing/measurement/recording possibilities of your phone in an interesting way. Add the app to our shared spreadsheet (see Discord for link). In a blog post, write a few sentences about the app you found: what it does and why you find it interesting. (If you can, obtain the app and use it to make some captures.) Include an image and tag your post with #LookingOutwards03.
  • (Due 8/28) Looking Outwards #02: Write a post about a creative project (by someone else) which demonstrates an “experimental capture” approach that interests you. Include an image or embedded YouTube/Vimeo video, and tag your post with #LookingOutwards02.
  • (Due 8/28) Looking Outwards #01: Identify a capture “device” (tool, algorithm, workflow, system, process, instrument, etc.) out in the world that you find intriguing. Add a post to this WordPress site about this device. There are no constraints on your selection; it could be exotic, historic, local…. In about 100 words, explain why you find it interesting and speculate about how you might use it if you were able to access it. Include an image and a link to more information. Tag your post with #LookingOutwards01.
  • (Due 8/26, 11:59pm) Complete the ExCap Welcome Form.