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WEEK 4 IAT100 – Digital Image Design Fall 2011
Dr. Kate Hennessy
Simon Fraser University , School of Interactive Arts & Technology | Fall 2011
iClicker Question
What Gestalt Principle is demonstrated in the Picasso film clip?
A. Closure
B. Figure/Ground C. Proximity
D. Similarity
E. Continuation
Today’s Agenda
Peer Review + Art Criticism Sequential Art Abstraction
Icons and Symbols
Thinking about Project # 2
iClicker: Which is NOT a Step in Art Criticism?
A. Description B. Analysis C. Interpretation D. Preference E. Judgment
The Treachery Of Images (La trahison des images 1928-‐29) is a pain.ng by Belgian Surrealist painter René Magri<e
Peer Review
Good Critique and Not So Good Critique…
Critique is valuable if it is critical – if it evaluates the success and failure of design techniques
Critique builds a community of practice Those who critique you effectively may be the people you
want to critique you in more high-stakes projects
Define: Sequential Art
Juxtaposed pictorial and other images in deliberate sequence, intended to convey information and /or to produce an aesthetic response in the viewer. (McCloud, Ch.2)
Not the same as Montage…
Any two sequences, when juxtaposed, inevitably combine into another concept which arises from that juxtaposition of two events, two facts, two objects. -- Sergei Eisenstein
Battleship Potempkin
Additional Example: Parallax View
Narrative Identifiable Beginnings, Middles, Endings
Freytag’s Pyramid: Exposition > Complication > Climax > Resolution > Denouement
Strong focus on Temporality Retention of the past, attention to present action,
and future anticipation
Focus on Characters
Narrative Art Pictorial
Narrative Digital
Narrative
In Lucas Cranach the Elder's "Adam and Eve" different scenes of the Biblical story are shown in the same painting:(1472-1553)
Web as Medium for Narrative
The Medium is the Message – McLuhan Browser Interface
Browser Window Scrolling Back / Forward Clicking Interaction
Transitions
Time Voice / Silence / Meter (Pace) / Pattern
Advancing the Plot Changing Focus Various Viewpoints
Icons
‘Mosaic of Christ in the Hagia Sophia, Istanbul.
‘Mother of God of Korsun’, 19th Century, Russia
Mother of God Kazan, (patron saint of Russian housewives) 17th century, Russia
Amida Nyorai, Japan, Treasure of Chusonji 12th century
Icon
Greek ‘eikon’; Russian ‘ikona’; English ‘icon’ = image ______________
An image that is used to represent a person, place, thing or idea. (McCloud, Ch. 2)
Icons the Vocabulary of Art
The Treachery Of Images (La trahison des images 1928-‐29) is a pain.ng by Belgian Surrealist painter René Magri<e
Which is the correct set of McCloud’s terms describing this diagram?
A) Design Picture Plane Text B) Reality Drawing Icon C) Literal Abstract Descriptive D) Reality Picture Plane Language E) Picture Drawing Abstract
1 2 3
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iClicker Question:
Project 2: Sequential Art
Skills: Composition, colour, & how to form an idea from project 1 Use of icon to build language in work Manipulation of time both between and within the frame
(sequencing). How to position yourself within a work that is not
autobiographical.
Contact Kate Hennessy
hennessy_kate@sfu.ca
ALWAYS Include IAT100 and your lab section number in the subject line of all emails to me or your TA. (Example – Subject: IAT100 E106 – How can I get an A???)
Office Hours When: Thursdays, 1:30-3:20pm (or by appointment)
Where: My office, Pod 2, 2821