NEW LENSES: Experimental Capture and Release

CLASS PART ONE: Welcome to class!

Lets go over the syllabus

Lets go over how to make a wordpress post:

Please make a short intro post that includes:
1. your name,
2. any preferred nicknames or pronouns,
3. what your timezone is if you are remote and
4. what your current favorite place to “waste” time on the internet is
PLEASE SELECT THE “INTRODUCTIONS” CATEGORY FOR YOUR POST

Let’s get to know each other! We will share these posts and I will also ask you to tell us one thing you’ve done recently that you’re proud of. (This can be a small thing, a big thing, a school thing, a life thing, or a silly thing.)

CLASS PART TWO: Let’s take a field trip!

To the Fotomuseum Winterthur

First stop: An overview of capture technology through time https://www.photographic-flux.ch/

Second Stop: A theoretical approach to considering the power of screenshots: https://www.fotomuseum.ch/en/2019/07/15/screenshot-or-it-didnt-happen/

Last stop: An exhibition about self publication of art online (content heads up: some nudity and depictions of menstrual blood):

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1R-hXpqaehdQ8Y1eAcwND6siYxMYdasC-smAcfX2GdVc/edit#heading=h.8oih4hrcysyp