Artech exhibition June 10 - June 26
Workshops
Here's what people had to say about the 2008-2009 workshop lineup:
"Thank you for these wonderful series of workshops!"
"I can't believe I learned so much in such a short time frame. Presentation was well structured."
"This was an excellent intro - going over enough basics to get you started, some additional possibilities info, and still allowed for some give and take/question and answer time."
"The participants had varying skill levels, and the teacher was quite accommodating and willing to repeat information often to help all participants stay caught up."
"I took the InDesign class and loved it-- it really helped me!"
"These are great classes. Very helpful."
"Great room set up and technical support. Great Job overall....great offering for students and the public. Thank you."
"I knew a lot of the information, but it was helpful to confirm what I was doing right (or wrong) and to get a few pieces of info I was missing. I'll be back!"
"I thought it was excellent. I learned a lot about a subject that I knew very little about."
Please note that this workshop is hosted by RIT's College of Imaging Arts and Sciences. It's not an Artech workshop, but we're hosting registration for it on the Artech site for your convenience. If you'd like, you can attend this workshop in the morning and then attend the Artech workshop on Digital Video in the afternoon.
Participants in this workshop will use hand-building methods to create a decorative accent tile. We will demonstrate examples of designing, layout, low and high relief, framing, as well as discuss ways to limit warping. (Material Fee $10.00, payable to professor upon arrival)
Workshop Difficulty: Beginner
Instructor: Tybre Newcomer
Room: 7A-2630
Tybre Newcomer is a Visiting Assistant Professor at the School for American Crafts at RIT. He has taught at SUNY New Paltz, given workshops and lectures across the northeast and Taiwan, and has exhibited nationally and internationally.
The Digital Video workshop will:
* Show examples of how digital video has been used in creating art
* Discuss basics of camera perspectives, framing and movement
* Summary of various digital video formats
* Hands-on practice importing, editing and publishing digital video withAdobe Premiere Pro
Instructor: Michelle Harris
Location: Building 7A, Room 1540
Difficulty Level: 1
W. Michelle Harris is a media artist who freely mixes digital immaterials with found and crafted objects in a variety of textures. She is a frequent contributor to Rochester's ImageMovementSound festival, and in 2006 won the award for Most Innovative Entry in the Rochester ArTech Digital Art Exhibition with her interactive video projection, "Upper NY Bay: 2001". Harris is an Assistant Professor at RIT, teaching courses in interactive media.
This will be an introduction to Sketchup, an amazingly intuitive 3D modelling program available for free from Google. (If you've seen buildings in Google Earth, they were probably made with Sketchup.) We'll go over the basics, and get some hands-on experience, but don't wait for the workshop! Download it to your own computer from http://sketchup.google.com/product/gsu.html and start tinkering!
Workshop Difficulty: 1
Location: Building 7A, Room 1540
Instructor: Jon Schull
Jon Schull is an Associate Professor in Information Technology at RIT's Golisano College of Computing and Information Science. He teaches courses on "Innovation and Invention", and interaction design. In previous lives he was an internet entrepreneur, and a Biological Psychologist at Haverford College.
Why teach web development as part of a digital art series? Because artists need a website to showcase their work. There's certainly also an art to designing a website, but we won't get into that. We'll look at the basics of building a website including basic HTML tags, a quick overview of cascading style sheets (CSS), and how you go about getting the site you build on the internet. This workshop is designed for the novice with little or no previous experience. Be sure to bring a pen and paper to take notes!
Workshop Difficulty: 1
Instructor: Dean Ganskop
Room: 7A-1540
Dean has a Bachelors in Information Technology, with concentrations in multimedia and web site development, and a Masters, also in IT, with a focus on instructional technology, both from RIT. Dean is the director of Artech, principal at Ganskop Development, LLC, and IT manager at ExecuScribe, Inc, a local transcription company.
This workshop will cover the use of the computer as a tool to create content, and also power an Epson printer to make a flexible plate used in a hand made printmaking process Professor Singer has invented called digital transfer print making.
Workshop Difficulty: 2
Room: Printmaking Studio, 7A-4501
Limit: 15
Instructor: Alan Singer
Alan Singer is a painter, printmaker, writer, lecturer, and educator living in upstate New York. Born in New York City in 1950 to a family of artists and designers, Alan began exhibiting his paintings while still in college at The Cooper Union in New York City. Through college and graduate school at Cornell University, Alan won scholarships, and created work of distinction in programs held at Yale University, Norfolk, CT, at Boston University in Tanglewood Lenox, MA, and at The Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan, ME. Subsequently Alan has illustrated published books and worked as a graphic designer. In the 1980’s Alan designed and illustrated an award winning series of postage stamps with his father, Arthur Singer. Alan is an active writer on the visual arts with a 1999 publication of “Wildlife Art”, and a book in progress “ Studio Practice”. His recent articles for Metropolitan Magazine chronicle cultural events. Currently, he is Professor of Art in the School of Art, College of Imaging Arts & Sciences at the Rochester Institute of Technology, in Rochester, New York. Alan's paintings have been featured in museums such as the Everson Museum of Art in Syracuse NY, The Norman Rockwell Museum in Stockbridge, MA, and in the Smithsonian in Washington, D.C. His work has also been featured in numerous solo and group exhibitions, primarily in the New York area. Visit Alan Singer at: www.singerarts.com.
"Thank you for these wonderful series of workshops!"
"I can't believe I learned so much in such a short time frame. Presentation was well structured."
"This was an excellent intro - going over enough basics to get you started, some additional possibilities info, and still allowed for some give and take/question and answer time."
"The participants had varying skill levels, and the teacher was quite accommodating and willing to repeat information often to help all participants stay caught up."
"I took the InDesign class and loved it-- it really helped me!"
"These are great classes. Very helpful."
"Great room set up and technical support. Great Job overall....great offering for students and the public. Thank you."
"I knew a lot of the information, but it was helpful to confirm what I was doing right (or wrong) and to get a few pieces of info I was missing. I'll be back!"
"I thought it was excellent. I learned a lot about a subject that I knew very little about."
Photoshop
12/12/2009 2:00 PM - 4:00 PMRoom 1540 Building 7a
This workshop is an introduction to the very basics of photoshop. It is intended for someone who has no experience with the program. We will be learning how to use the tools, blending modes, and image adjustment features, while creating a simple photo manipulation.
Workshop Difficulty: 1
Instructor: Gayle Himmelstein
Gayle Himmelstein is a high school art teacher near Albany, NY. She recently graduated from RIT with her MST in art education and her BFA in illustration. Gayle first participated in Artech as a gallery assistant for Gallery R and is excited to be working with this wonderful program again.
Teaching Assistants:
Jonathan Brennan
Malika Butler
Adam Goldman
Jesse Thoman
This session is full. Registration is closed.
Typographic Personality
12/19/2009 11:00 AM - 1:00 PMThis workshop will take place in room 1540 of building 7a.
Please note this workshop begins at 10am.
Type and typography surround us every day. Each style has their own personality based on historical period, design, shape and stance. Wouldn't you like to view them as the characters they are! Participants will learn a brief history of type and a bit of personality psychology then design their name using a typeface the is suitable to communicate the essence of their personality. Adobe Illustrator will be used.
Workshop Difficulty: 1
Instructor: David Damico
David Damico is originally from central Louisiana and has received a MFA in Graphic Design, Studio Art from the University of Houston. He has taught as an adjunct in the Communication/Journalism department at St. John Fisher College in Rochester and as a visiting professor in graphic design at Alfred University. David most recently worked at the Genesee Country Village and Museum as a 19th century Letterpress printer of historical documents.
Registration opening soon.
Audio Production with Audacity: Make a Ringtone!
01/09/2010 2:00 PM - 4:00 PMAudio is arguably the most neglected time-based medium. In a visual world, sound is often seen as subservient to video, animation, and other visual media. However, the emergence of high quality sound cards on normal computers, along with the inexorable ongoing increases in processing power, ave resulted in the ability to produce studio quality sound at home.
This workshop takes a whirlwind tour of audio production using an open source (free!) audio editor called Audacity, which runs on Macs, Windows, and Linux. After learning what sound is, how it is created and perceived, and how it is processed digitally, you'll produce a brief multi-track digital audio piece that you can carry around with you. In other words, you'll make your own ringtone! Bring a jump drive with you so that you can take home a copy of your ringtone project and work with it on your own copy of Audacity.
Please bring a jump drive with you so that you will be able to take the ringtone that you create home with you.
Workshop Difficulty: 1
Room: 70-2570
Instructor: Al Biles
Al Biles is a professor in RIT's Interactive Games and Media department, where he teaches digital audio and computer music courses, among other things. He is the creator of GenJam (the Genetic Jammer), an evolutionary computation based realtime interactive performance system that improvises jazz and performs with Al on a regular basis.
This session is full. Registration is closed.
Maya: Basic Modeling, Color, Transformations, and Rendering
01/16/2010 2:00 PM - 4:00 PMThis workshop will be held in Room 1212 of Building 7
I will be covering the creation of simple polygon objects and the different manipulators (move, rotate, and scale) as well as the different viewpoints. From there I would like to cover the different component selections (face, verticies, and object), and then move into some very simple keyframe animation. I would like to touch on the hypershade and some of the simple different textures (nothing crazy, just simple shaders) and show them how to do a quick render (actually just one button).
Workshop Difficulty: 1
Instructor: Tom Weaver
Tom, a Rochester native, is a full time student at the Rochester Institute of Technology pursuing an MFA in Computer Graphics Design. He has been working in graphic design for 10 years and currently working for Wegmans doing in-store advertising.
Teaching Assistants:
Max Lopez
Justine Raymond
Yuya Takeda
This session is full. Registration is closed.
Adobe Flash - For the Sanity of the Web: Principles of Animation and the Flash Timeline
01/23/2010 2:00 PM - 4:00 PMThis workshop will be held in room 1540 in building 7
Applying even the simplest principles of animation can make a world of difference in your Flash animation. This workshop briefly reviews the 12 animation principles popularized by Disney and how they are used in Flash timeline animation.
Workshop Difficulty: 2
Instructor: Doug Burnett
Doug is an interaction artist pursuing his Masters of Fine Arts at Rochester Institute of Technology. He has been using Flash and Photoshop for more than a decade, working as a graphic design team manager of a media department, lead designer for a magazine, an interaction art director at a Portland Oregon-based interaction design company, and a freelance graphic designer. He has designed work used by L'Oreal, the International Red Cross, US government agencies, and featured at the Student Original Film Art International Festival. His greatest accomplishment was getting his wife, Emily, to agree to marry him in 2007.
Registration opening soon.
Adobe Flash - I Promise, It's Easy: Code Art with Tween, Physics, and Emitter Engines
01/30/2010 2:00 PM - 4:00 PMCode can be an artistic tool. This workshop shows how a few lines of code can make beautiful, quickly modifiable, and time-saving animations. This more fully allows the designer to focus on communicating his or her message rather than how that message is executed. The workshop also describes how to use external classes, which lays the ground work for thousands of other simple code options.
Workshop Difficulty: 3
Room: 7A-1540
Instructor: Doug Burnett
Doug is an interaction artist pursuing his Masters of Fine Arts at Rochester Institute of Technology. He has been using Flash and Photoshop for more than a decade, working as a graphic design team manager of a media department, lead designer for a magazine, an interaction art director at a Portland Oregon-based interaction design company, and a freelance graphic designer. He has designed work used by L'Oreal, the International Red Cross, US government agencies, and featured at the Student Original Film Art International Festival. His greatest accomplishment was getting his wife, Emily, to agree to marry him in 2007.
Teaching Assistant:
Vivian Liao
Registration opening soon.
Handmade Tile Workshop
02/06/2010 10:00 AM - 1:00 PMPlease note that this workshop is hosted by RIT's College of Imaging Arts and Sciences. It's not an Artech workshop, but we're hosting registration for it on the Artech site for your convenience. If you'd like, you can attend this workshop in the morning and then attend the Artech workshop on Digital Video in the afternoon.
Participants in this workshop will use hand-building methods to create a decorative accent tile. We will demonstrate examples of designing, layout, low and high relief, framing, as well as discuss ways to limit warping. (Material Fee $10.00, payable to professor upon arrival)
Workshop Difficulty: Beginner
Instructor: Tybre Newcomer
Room: 7A-2630
Tybre Newcomer is a Visiting Assistant Professor at the School for American Crafts at RIT. He has taught at SUNY New Paltz, given workshops and lectures across the northeast and Taiwan, and has exhibited nationally and internationally.
Registration opening soon.
Digital Video
02/06/2010 2:00 PM - 4:00 PMThe Digital Video workshop will:
* Show examples of how digital video has been used in creating art
* Discuss basics of camera perspectives, framing and movement
* Summary of various digital video formats
* Hands-on practice importing, editing and publishing digital video withAdobe Premiere Pro
Instructor: Michelle Harris
Location: Building 7A, Room 1540
Difficulty Level: 1
W. Michelle Harris is a media artist who freely mixes digital immaterials with found and crafted objects in a variety of textures. She is a frequent contributor to Rochester's ImageMovementSound festival, and in 2006 won the award for Most Innovative Entry in the Rochester ArTech Digital Art Exhibition with her interactive video projection, "Upper NY Bay: 2001". Harris is an Assistant Professor at RIT, teaching courses in interactive media.
Registration opening soon.
Sketchup
02/13/2010 2:00 PM - 4:00 PMThis will be an introduction to Sketchup, an amazingly intuitive 3D modelling program available for free from Google. (If you've seen buildings in Google Earth, they were probably made with Sketchup.) We'll go over the basics, and get some hands-on experience, but don't wait for the workshop! Download it to your own computer from http://sketchup.google.com/product/gsu.html and start tinkering!
Workshop Difficulty: 1
Location: Building 7A, Room 1540
Instructor: Jon Schull
Jon Schull is an Associate Professor in Information Technology at RIT's Golisano College of Computing and Information Science. He teaches courses on "Innovation and Invention", and interaction design. In previous lives he was an internet entrepreneur, and a Biological Psychologist at Haverford College.
This session is full. Registration is closed.
Web Development
03/13/2010 1:00 PM - 3:00 PMWhy teach web development as part of a digital art series? Because artists need a website to showcase their work. There's certainly also an art to designing a website, but we won't get into that. We'll look at the basics of building a website including basic HTML tags, a quick overview of cascading style sheets (CSS), and how you go about getting the site you build on the internet. This workshop is designed for the novice with little or no previous experience. Be sure to bring a pen and paper to take notes!
Workshop Difficulty: 1
Instructor: Dean Ganskop
Room: 7A-1540
Dean has a Bachelors in Information Technology, with concentrations in multimedia and web site development, and a Masters, also in IT, with a focus on instructional technology, both from RIT. Dean is the director of Artech, principal at Ganskop Development, LLC, and IT manager at ExecuScribe, Inc, a local transcription company.
This session is full. Registration is closed.
Intro to Flash
03/20/2010 1:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Room 1540 in Building 7
Flash is a big presence in our lives today, but can seem daunting if you have not worked with this program before. This workshop will introduce users to the Flash CS4 interface as well as familiarizing individuals with two-dimensional, linear animation techniques.
Workshop Difficulty: 1
Instructor: Lydia Powers
Lydia is a currently working on her MFA at RIT in the Computer Graphics Design Program. She received her BFA at James Madison University in Graphic Design. She has been working in the field of graphic design for 8 years, and is excited to be in a program that applies her graphic design skills to Flash applications. Although she currently designs everything in Flash, she does still understand approaching the program from a beginners perspective, since she was in that same position just last year.
This session is full. Registration is closed.
Digital Printmaking
03/27/2010 1:00 PM - 3:00 PMThis workshop will cover the use of the computer as a tool to create content, and also power an Epson printer to make a flexible plate used in a hand made printmaking process Professor Singer has invented called digital transfer print making.
Workshop Difficulty: 2
Room: Printmaking Studio, 7A-4501
Limit: 15
Instructor: Alan Singer
Alan Singer is a painter, printmaker, writer, lecturer, and educator living in upstate New York. Born in New York City in 1950 to a family of artists and designers, Alan began exhibiting his paintings while still in college at The Cooper Union in New York City. Through college and graduate school at Cornell University, Alan won scholarships, and created work of distinction in programs held at Yale University, Norfolk, CT, at Boston University in Tanglewood Lenox, MA, and at The Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan, ME. Subsequently Alan has illustrated published books and worked as a graphic designer. In the 1980’s Alan designed and illustrated an award winning series of postage stamps with his father, Arthur Singer. Alan is an active writer on the visual arts with a 1999 publication of “Wildlife Art”, and a book in progress “ Studio Practice”. His recent articles for Metropolitan Magazine chronicle cultural events. Currently, he is Professor of Art in the School of Art, College of Imaging Arts & Sciences at the Rochester Institute of Technology, in Rochester, New York. Alan's paintings have been featured in museums such as the Everson Museum of Art in Syracuse NY, The Norman Rockwell Museum in Stockbridge, MA, and in the Smithsonian in Washington, D.C. His work has also been featured in numerous solo and group exhibitions, primarily in the New York area. Visit Alan Singer at: www.singerarts.com.