MegMitchell_teaching

Here is Adobe’s Kuler Website. If you register for a free account, you can construct color pallettes that can be loaded into your swatches pallette in Illustrator.

Your assignment for Mon Sept. 13th is to create three iterative drawings using the techniques we have discussed in class and the recent examples.

When selecting your individual forms and color pallette, think about places where you see repeated forms. Potential reference points for this project are:

biological growth (plant growth, cellular groupings, etc.)

http://www.artcom.de/process/project.php?n=1

http://users.design.ucla.edu/~mflux/manifest/

http://www.lumicon.de/wp2/?page_id=494

architecture (aggregates of repeated 3d forms)

http://www.processing.org/exhibition/works/d5lv/index_link.html

http://www.mos-office.net/project/2008_Onthevergeofcollapse

mathematical patterns (islamic decoration, lace, fractals, etc)

http://www.davebollinger.com/works/ifsgray/

http://www.unlekker.net/proj/packing/

http://www.unlekker.net/proj/drawingmachine13/index.html

From a technical perspective, your drawing should include(but is not limited to!) usage of the following:

more than 4 colors in your color pallette
svg files (or use a 3d drawing mode)
shape primitives
iteration(for)
rotation
translate();
pdf output

You only need to write one program for this assignment, the drawings should be variations captured from the same basic code.
Your images should be output as pdf files! For this assignment you will be uploading the applet to the server AND the pdf files.

Here is the list of readings that you will be assigned, beyond the readings in the textbook. This list is subject to change, so please make sure you keep up with the course calendar to make sure you are aware of which readings we will be discussing on which date.

Open Source Software, the Open Source Movement:

Why Software Should be Free by Richard Stallman

What is the “Creative Commons?”

Code Based and Generative Art in an Art Historical Framework:

The Matrix of Sensations – Donald Kuspit

Visual Intelligence: The First Decade of Computer Art – Frank Deitrich

Software Art – Andreas Broeckmann

Contemporary Artists working with code:

Interview with Casey REAS

Interview with Golan Levin

Interview with Amy Alexander

Line Dynamics – In class assignment

Variables, Math, and Logic Control

Basic Syntax and Structure

If this is your first exposure to the Mac operating system, use the following tutorials to familiarize yourself with the interface. We will spend a very limited amount of time introducing the basics of the operating system before jumping into Adobe Illustrator, so it will be helpful for you to complete these tutorials on your own time in order to bring you up to speed. The good news is that the mac operating system is intuitive and easy to use!

Finder Basics

From a PC to a Mac – Making the Switch