ulrika andersson / teaching / interactive color seminar
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Interactive Color Seminar An undergraduate Interdisciplinary Seminar at the San Francisco Art Institute, Fall 2004 Instructors: Ulrika Andersson, Richard Brown Reader: Vision and Art -The Biology of Seeing by Margaret Livingstone
Science and Art: two distinct ways to investigate color Survey and discussion of students, interests and goals. Exercise: draw a picture of a given environment. Indicate the sources and characteristics of the light in the scene. The spectrum of Color Complimentary Colors Light Sources - sun, sky, varieties of artificial light Exercise: Look at your own work through a selection of the colored filters we gave you. Write down what you saw: did anything surprise you? Names of Colors Are colors universal? The Stroop effect -when the name interferes with the color Light below the surface of objects Inventing new colors Exercise: bring in a selection of colors that best characterize your own work. As an example you might bring in a pie chart of the five most common colors in your work Color and Language: Are there exactly 11 basic colors?
Field trip to Brian Gross Fine Art, 49 Geary St, 5th Floor. Meet us there at 12 noon.
Rods and night vision: “At night, all cats are gray” Cow's eye dissection: visit by Exploratorium Explainers Exercise: Look at your own work using only your rod vision. Write down what you saw: did anything surprise you? Written proposals for midterm project due
Color Vision Variations: colorblindness, animal color vision Interaction of Colors: Chevreul, Albers, Patterns of Colors: colored textures Exercise: Take two identical swatches of grey paper; then try to make them look as different as possible by putting them in different contexts. Midterm project due
Meet us at the entrance of The Exploratorium, 3601 Lyon St. Interactive exhibits on color. Shadows and Shading: from circle to sphere Black and White versus Color: what color adds to an image Exercise: Bring in two images of your artwork, one in original color, the other a black and white photo of the same artwork. Characterizing illuminants: brightness, color temperature, color-rendering index, polarization Angle, size and distance of lighting Lighting your art Color and Time: Gradual changes, Flickering colors, Colors in motion, Color animation Color Illusion: McCollough Effect, Akiyoshi Kitaoka's Illusions Exercise: Take a piece of your own art under different lighting conditions: try to optimize the lighting conditions: write us a note on what you did and what you saw:
Color and Culture: color meanings and fashions Color reproduction: color processes and color gamuts, Digital Color: new color technologies. Be prepared to give a 5-minute presentation of your final project. To the extent possible you’ll be presenting your projects in the conference room. That room will be available to you at 7PM. Two points to cover in your presentation: 1. How is this color experience interactive? 2. What were the trials and errors on the way to achieve this result?
Featured artists will be Banksy, Yokoo Tadanori. Visiting speaker will be artist Nick Ackerman
We will watch and discuss snippets of film from directors who use color in important and distinctive ways, such as Greenaway, Argento, Jarman, and Bergman. Final Projects are due
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