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Introduction to Production

ART 116 SC-01: Intro to Digital Photo

  • Instructor: TBA
    • Monday/Wednesday; 10:00AM-12:00PM
    • Room 05, Steele Hall
    • Intro to Production

A studio art course in digital photography with an emphasis on image production. Students will explore, discuss, and contextualize historical and contemporary uses of photograpic media. Student will learn or expand on their skills in Photoshop and Lightroom. Students must have access to a DSL or Lensless camera w/ full manual camera settings. The course will include student presentations, technical assignments, writing assignments, and a final portfolio.

ART 141 SC-01: Introduction to Digital Art

  • Instructor: Macko, Nancy
    • Tuesday/Thursday; 10:00AM-12:00PM
    • Room 05, Steele Hall
    • Intro to Production

This course is designed to provide students with a working knowledge of digital art through the use of digital art software. The curriculum is designed to assist students in approaching their artistic ideas from a fine arts perspective, to draw upon formal elements in art and conceptual issues related to art and technology thus influencing and informing their creative process, projects and goals. Also listed as MS 041 SC.

ART 145 SC-01: Intro to B/W Darkroom Photo

  • Instructor: Gonzales-Day, Ken
    • Monday/Wednesday; 10:00AM-12:00PM
    • Room 119, Lang Art Building
    • Intro to Production

A studio course in black-and-white photography with an emphasis on image production, developing, and printing 35mm film, in a wet darkroom. Instruction in basic camera operation, and darkroom techniques, and considers historical and contemporary uses of the photographic medium. Students should have access to a 35mm camera. Some cameras are available for check out from Scripps AV. Prerequisites: Art 100A, Art 100B, Art 141, Intro to Media Studies.

ART 148 SC-01: Introduction to Video Art

    • Instructor: TBA
      • Tuesday; 10:00AM-12:30PM
      • West Hall Q120 (Pitzer Campus)
      • Thursday; 10:00AM-12:30PM
      • Room 214, Lang Art Building
      • Intro to Production

A studio course introducing students to the basic techniques of digital video production: camerawork, audio recording, lighting and non-linear editing. Production is augmented by critiques, screenings, and discussions of conceptual and formal ideas. Course has pre-req.

MS 038 SC-01: Machine Learning for Artists

  • Instructor: Goodwin, Doug
    • Friday; 1:15-4:00PM
    • Room 05, Steele Hall
    • Intro to Production

Machine learning (ML) is a new branch of computer science that provides services for automatic translation and speech recognition (Apple’s Siri, Amazon’s Alexa, Google Assistant), product recommendations (Netflix, Amazon, etc.), transportation (Waymo, Tesla, the City of Copenhagen), and political campaigns (Facebook and Cambridge Analytica). ML is becoming a familiar presence in our lives; computer scientists and developers introduce new applications every day for chatting with humans, recommending the best course of action, and making predictions about the future. In spite of all the press, ML remains daunting to non-specialists. This class seeks to mend this divide. This class will introduce ML concepts to students without prior experience and provide templates to get students working in ML right away. We will study and remake artworks by Mario Klingemann, Anna Ridler, Sougwen Chung, Memo Akten, Helena Sarin, Tom White, and others. They will use techniques such as image segmentation, CycleGAN, pix2pix, and Tensorflow. Students will propose and work on a larger project in the last third of the class. Prerequisite: Any experience with programming, especially with Python

MS 041 SC-01: Introduction to Digital Art

  • Instructor: Charlesworth, Vivian
    • Tuesday/Thursday 1:15-3:45PM
    • TBA
    • Intro to Production

This course is designed to provide students with a working knowledge of digital art through the use of digital art software. The curriculum is designed to assist students in approaching their artistic ideas from a fine arts perspective, to draw upon formal elements in art and conceptual issues related to art and technology thus influencing and informing their creative process, projects and goals. Also listed as ART 141 SC.

MS 055 PZ-01: Digital Storytelling

  • Instructor: Acosta, Andrea
    • Tuesday/Thursday; 2:45-4:00PM
    • West Hall Q116
    • Intro to Production

This creative production and writing course explores new genres of writing on the Internet. We follow emerging trends in digital storytelling to develop new ways of creating works that are equally likely to appear on Instagram, in online videos, on a Twitter feed, or in PDFs. Studying digital formats alongside contemporary art and letters, we?ll reimagine writing practices through today?s emerging forms. How might Twitter facilitate a serial narrative? What does YouTube demand of autobiography? Using creative workshops and peer-to-peer discussion, we’ll engage in digital writing experiments that attempt to find our own narrative answers to today’s technological environment.

MS 057 SC-01: Intro to Game Design

  • Instructor: TBA
    • Tuesday/Thursday; 1:15-3:45PM
    • Room 229, Steele Hall
    • Intro to Production

This course serves as an introduction to the foundations of game design. Talking about games may conjure memories of Sonic and Mario, but gaming long precedes the digital forms we know today. Games are as old as any human art form and exist across every culture; playful behavior even precedes human language. In this course we will explore this question through a formal approach, focusing on game design as a creative and cultural practice with deep history and common principles that can be studied, practiced and effectively enacted. In this setting, game design does not require mastery of code nor a life-long obsession with games. Rather, like other aesthetic and experiential forms, game design has fundamentals that may apply across media, platforms and contexts.

MS 059 SC-01: Intro to Python

  • Instructor: Goodwin, Doug
    • Friday; 9:30AM-12:00PM
    • Room 05, Steele Hall
    • Intro to Production

This is an introduction to computer programming that supports Scripps College’s interdisciplinary vision. It is for everyone–visual designers, data scientists, and fine artists–who wants to create interactive media and computer graphics. This course links software concepts to principles of visual form, motion, and interaction. Students learn the fundamentals of Python programming (data structures, sequencing, selection and sorting, iteration and recursion, functions, object-oriented code) and use Processing.py to analyze and visualize data, generate drawings and sounds, manipulate images, create interactions for games, use network communication to collect data, and learn how to work with remote data to create environmental simulations. Prior programming experience not required. This course satisfies the pre-requisite for DS2 in Scripps’ Data Science minor.

MS 082 PZ-01: Introduction to Video Art

  • Instructor: Talmor, Ruti
    • Wednesday/Friday; 1:15-3:45PM
    • West Hall Q116
    • Intro to Production

This is an introductory course In digital video production. This class encourages a critical, creative approach to the medium, non-traditional solutions, and explanation of the history and methodology of independent video and video art. Class session combines hands-on technical training in script writing, storyboarding, camera operation, off-line and non-linear editing, lighting and sound equipment with critical analysis of subject matter, treatment, and modes of address in independent as well as mass media.