Digital Art:  WHAT TO BRING TO THE FIRST CLASS:

1. Any examples of work you have done using photographic images in digital art. If you have had no previous experience or skills in this area, that is fine.  The portfolio review is only to assess your level of content experience at the beginning of the program.

2. IMAGE SOURCE MATERIAL: Since the project that you will be working on will be a portfolio of digital prints, you will need to bring with you to the first class some images related by a theme. Choose from the following list:

            The human form

            The irrational world

            The urban environment

            Time and motion

            The Holocaust

            Images of War (after 1830)

            Feminism in the 20^th century

            Images of a non-western culture

            The scientific world

            Race relations

            Humans and technology

The list provides general categories from which to choose.  As you gather images based on the theme you selected, think about how you might more narrowly focus your topic within the theme category, either visually or conceptually.  At the first class meeting, you will be asked to identify your theme.   

These images should be of the best quality possible.  The better your original image, the better your final product.  They may consist of:

1.  Original photographs, prints or slides - in focus!

2.  High quality reproductions from books and magazines

            4.  Files of stock images/photographs

5.  You many want to bring a digital camera, Polaroid camera, or a regular camera and use a local 1 hour developing service.

6.      High quality images off the web.

Caution:  Please do not select to use images of your friends or family members since the images you do use will be artfully distorted and manipulated.  It has been our experience that creative freedom becomes greatly inhibited when working with pictures of ones close to us.