Using New Media for Practice-based Fine Arts Research in the Classroom

This paper and demo describes our approach and initial results of using David Hockney’s work as a model for practice-based arts research in a digital imaging class. Hockney’s innovative photo-collages of the 1980sdemonstrate an artist thinking in media, while the Hockney-Falco thesis promotes discussion on the relationship artists have with technology. Using Hockney’s photo-collage work as a practice-based research agenda, we describe a series of class projects to extend his joiner technique into the new dimensions of 3D and interactive media.

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Topher Maraffi

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Publication date: July 2016

Publication date (Print): July 2016

Pages: 103-110

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[1 ] University of South Carolina Beaufort

Beaufort SC

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DOI: 10.14236/ewic/EVA2016.24

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Conference name: Electronic Visualisation and the Arts

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Conference location: London, UK

Conference date: 12 - 14 July 2016

Conference sponsor: Electronic Workshops in Computing (eWiC)

Conference theme: Electronic Visualisation and the Arts

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[1] B. Bolt 2006 Materializing pedagogies: Working Papers in Art and Design 4, University of Hertford ext-link-type="uri" xlink:href="https://www.herts.ac.uk/data/assets/pdffile/0015/12381/WPIAADvol4bolt.pdf">https://www.herts.ac.uk/data/assets/pdffile/0015/12381/WPIAADvol4bolt.pdf 12 March 2016

[2] S. Boxer 2001 The Great Optics Debate New York Times ext-link-type="uri" xlink:href="http://www.nytimes.com/learning/students/pop/20011205snapwednesday.html">http://www.nytimes.com/learning/students/pop/20011205snapwednesday.html 12 March 2016

[3] C. Falco 2016 Hockney-Falco Thesis ext-link-type="uri" xlink:href="http://fp.optics.arizona.edu/SSD/art-optics/index.html">http://fp.optics.arizona.edu/SSD/art-optics/index.html 12 March 2016

[4] D. Featherstone 1983 David Hockney: Joiner Photographs, DVD ArthausMusik, GmbH

[5] D. Hockney 2015 Hockney: Live at the Getty ext-link-type="uri" xlink:href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4lcb28fCz8">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4lcb28fCz8 12 March 2016

[6] D. Hockney 2013 Photoshop is Boring ext-link-type="uri" xlink:href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oAxaYGmpoM">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oAxaYGmpoM 12 March 2016

[7] D. Hockney 2012 Hockney Wolds 9 Cameras ext-link-type="uri" xlink:href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-MXSQdMHGsE">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-MXSQdMHGsE 12 March 2016

[8] D. Hockney 2006 Secret Knowledge: Rediscovering the Lost Techniques of the Old Masters (Second Edition) Viking Studio New York

[9] D. Hockney 2002 Secret Knowledge BBC Documentary part 1, YouTube ext-link-type="uri" xlink:href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JKbFZIpNK10">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JKbFZIpNK10 12 March 2016

[10] D. Hockney 1981 The artist’s eye: Looking at pictures in a book at the National Gallery July-August 1981 London, UK The National Gallery

[11] D. HockneyC. Falco 2000 Optical Insights into Renaissance Art ext-link-type="uri" xlink:href="http://fp.optics.arizona.edu/SSD/art-optics/papers/OPN.pdf">http://fp.optics.arizona.edu/SSD/art-optics/papers/OPN.pdf 12 March 2016

[12] P. Joyce 1988 Hockney On Photography: conversations with Paul Joyce Harmony Books New York

[13] J. Maeda 2013 STEM + Art = Steam ext-link-type="uri" xlink:href="http://scholarship.claremont.edu/steam/vol1/iss1/34 /">http://scholarship.claremont.edu/steam/vol1/iss1/34 / 12 March 2016

[14] A. Marr 2001 What the Eye Didn’t See... The Guardian 7 October ext-link-type="uri" xlink:href="http://www.theguardian.com/theobserver/2001/oct/07/featuresreview.review1">http://www.theguardian.com/theobserver/2001/oct/07/featuresreview.review1 12 March 2016

[15] G. Sullivan 2006 Artefacts as Evidence within Changing Contexts: Working Papers in Art and Design 4 University of Hertfordshire UK ext-link-type="uri" xlink:href="https://www.herts.ac.uk/data/assets/pdffile/0004/12397/WPIAADvol4sullivan.pdf">https://www.herts.ac.uk/data/assets/pdffile/0004/12397/WPIAADvol4sullivan.pdf 12 March 2016

[16] Teller 2013 Tim’s Vermeer, DVD Sony Pictures Classics New York

[17] Vermeer and the Camera Obscura ext-link-type="uri" xlink:href="http://www.essentialvermeer.com/cameraobscura/coone.html#.VuSKQZMrLwd">http://www.essentialvermeer.com/cameraobscura/coone.html#.VuSKQZMrLwd 12 March 2016

[18] P. Weiss 2003 Reflections on Art: Scientists debate whether the old masters used optical aids Science News 163 22 31 May 346 ext-link-type="uri" xlink:href="http://www.phschool.com/science/sciencenews/articles/reflectiononart.html">http://www.phschool.com/science/sciencenews/articles/reflectiononart.html 12 March 2016

[19] L. Weschler 2013 Why David Hockney has a Love-Hate Relationship with Technology The Smithsonian USA ext-link-type="uri" xlink:href="http://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/why-david-hockney-has-a-love-hate-relationship-with-technology-864777/?no-ist">http://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/why-david-hockney-has-a-love-hate-relationship-with-technology-864777/?no-ist 12 March 2016

[20] L. Weschler 2013 Love Life: David Hockney’s Timescapes YouTube ext-link-type="uri" xlink:href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KyzsY2mXZoI">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KyzsY2mXZoI 12 March 2016

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