ART5930: The Digital ImageAs I completed my final project for my class on the Digital Image, I began to reflect on how what I have learned can transfer over to the classroom. In The Digital Image with Alan Calpe, we did numerous projects from abstracting photographs by rotating, color rendering and size manipulation, creating photomontages that express aspects of social media, to constructing our own surreal images using Photoshop, and finally imagining our own bodies in the post human era, and what technology means to us as humans living among machines. I think all of these projects have relevance in the art room, whether playing with composition and color, or imagining and building super human alter ego's. The possibilities are endless with photoshop these days, and allowing our students to grasp and look critically at the neverending "realities" that photoshop provides is very important among our visually stimulated culture. Even if I don't have the privilege of having photoshop for my students, at my next art teaching position, I plan on showing them the neverending possibilities of it and how it is shaping our advertising industry, and hopefully have my students construct their own "human" world among those advertisements. I've added a page to the website that features all of my projects from this class... check it out!
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Laura KeeneyArtist. Educator. Student. Archives
August 2013
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