Michael Moriarty

Digital Imaging: Space and Place

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After learning basic tools of Adobe Photoshop, the students will recollect a place they either currently or once inhabited. Next students will be introduced to perspective and different ways space has been depicted in different times and places in history. The class will then begin gathering images from the internet as the final pieces will consist of only found images. This place may be a former house they lived in, a relative’s or friend’s old house, or perhaps a park they used to frequently visit when they were a child.

After considering the many different ways space has been depicted in different times and places—including Western perspectival and Egyptian iconographic systems, students will be forced to make many decisions on how perspective will be used in their pieces.

After learning and discussing various ways on how perspective can be depicted, the students will use Google image search to extract found imagery. Using the found images, each student will recreate a once intimate space.