ART 2107 - Visual Imaging in the Electronic Age

(crosslisted)
(also ARCH 3702, CS 1620, ENGRI 1620)

Fall or spring. 3 credits.

Counts as Theory and Criticism or MQR course for B.F.A. students. Counts as MQR for B.Arch. and U.R.S students.

D. Greenberg.

Interdisciplinary survey course designed to introduce students in the creative arts, science, and engineering to the concepts of digital pictorial representation and display. It is a concept and theory course that concentrates on “why” rather than “how.” Topics include perspective representations, display technology, how television works, bandwidth concepts, digital photography, computer graphics modeling and rendering, matting and composing, color perception, data acquisition, volumetric imaging, and historical precedents, primarily from the art world. Also included are other modes of imaging.