• Brian Eno, ‘The Studio as Compositional Tool’ (21.6 Mb)
• Chapman & Chapman: Sound (Chapter 9) (64.7 Mb)
• Douglas Kahn: Reading from “Noise Water Meat” (39.6 Mb)
• Russolo, Luigi. The Art of Noises: Futurist Manifesto, 1913
• Varèse, Edgar. The Liberation of Sound, 1936
  

Demonstration sound files:

• Doug Wallin (North Carolina) (3.849 Mb)
• Leterel (Autechre) (6.554 Mb)
• The Big Payback (James Brown) (3.133 Mb)

Information about uploading your audio via SoundCloud

http://en.blog.wordpress.com/2009/08/13/soundcloud/

An alternative to SoundCloud is ‘ODEO’ (it seems to be more lightweight and faster)

• Modern Hieroglyphics (17MB)
• Vector Graphics Fundamentals (24MB)
• Martin Paetsch, “Van Gogh From the Sweatshop“. Spiegel Online, 08/23/2006.
• Clement Valla, “Chinese Oil Painting Factories“. Chapter 3 of “Original Copies”, RISD MFA Thesis, 2009.

Example images for Unit 3x:
From “InstructoArt” by Marcos Vescovo, and “Wordless Diagrams” by Nigel Holmes.
Also see Lufthansa’s For Your Safety air flight guide, here.

• Black and Curly
• People you trust with your children
• Gay / Straight
• Proclamation of One’s Own Attractiveness
• How to Milk a Cow
• How to Blow a Bubble
• How to Roll a Joint
• How to Cremate Someone

Retouching Exercises:

• Improving Tone and Contrast:
  • http://www.digitalretouch.org/download/ch_02/ch02_small/ch2_profile_sm.jpg
  • http://www.digitalretouch.org/download/ch_02/ch02_small/ch2_girl_sm.jpg
  • http://www.digitalretouch.org/download/ch_02/ch02_large/ch2_biergarden_lg.jpg
  • http://www.digitalretouch.org/download/ch_03/ch03_small/ch3_xmas_sm.jpg
  • http://www.digitalretouch.org/download/ch_02/ch02_large/ch2_statue2_lg.jpg
• Working with Color:
  • http://www.digitalretouch.org/download/ch_04/ch04_small/ch4_ballgirl_sm.jpg
• Image Repair: Scratches, Mold, Pimples
  • http://www.digitalretouch.org/download/ch_06/ch06_large/ch6_scratch_lg.jpg
  • http://www.digitalretouch.org/download/ch_05/ch05_large/ch5_antiquemold_lg.jpg
  • http://www.digitalretouch.org/download/ch_09/ch_09_large/ch9_blemish1_lg.jpg

Compositing Exercise:
Collage a food item so as to appear as if it were a barge in the Danube.

Readings:

• Readings about Truth in Digital Imaging:
  • Farid, Hany. “Photo Tampering Throughout History“. Web site. An amazing chronological compilation of photo-tampering examples, and one of the best classroom resources of its kind.
  • Farid, Hany. “Seeing Is Not Believing” IEEE Spectrum Magazine, 8/2009 (Link)
  • Mitchell, William. “How to do Things with Pictures”. In The Reconfigured Eye: Visual Truth in the Post Photographic Era, MIT Press, 1992. pp 190-223 (Link)
  • Mitchell, William. “When is Seeing Believing?”. In Scientific American, February 1994. pp 68-73 (Link)
  • Paul, Christiane. “Digital Technologies as a Tool”. In Digital Art, 2004 (Link)
• Readings about Fashion Retouching:
  • Collins, Lauren. “[The World of Fashion] Pixel Perfect: Pascal Dangin’s virtual reality.” The New Yorker, 5/12/2008.
  • Jesella, Kara. “The Remix: The Skinny, Something To Smile About” The New York Times, 10/22/2006.
  • Williams, Alex. “I Was there. Just Ask Photoshop.” The New York Times, 8/15/2008.
  • Wilson, Eric. “Smile and Say No Photoshop“. The New York Times, 5/27/2009.