Esslinger's Classes at Kenyon College
  • Introduction
  • Digital Imaging
    • Abstract Formalism
    • Experimental Collage
    • The Altered Portrait
    • The Altered Scape >
      • Exhibition Design
      • Digital Experimentation
      • Fictitious Advertising
    • Soundscape
    • Gesture >
      • Aesthetics of the Ordinary
    • Final Projects
  • Video
    • Stop-Motion Animation
    • Exp. Film and Video >
      • Lyrical Juxtapositions
      • Artist Presentation
      • AppropriationSocialComment
      • Personal Experimental
      • Expanded Cinema
  • Installation
  • Advanced Studio
  • Artists and Info
    • Miscellaneous
    • assignment presentations
    • Creative preparations
    • Video
    • Experimental Film
    • Sound
    • Animation
    • Photo
    • Cinemagraphs
    • New Media >
      • Notes New Media
    • Installation
    • Design/Anti
    • Web based
    • General Art
    • Performance
    • Painting/Drawing/Prints
    • Paper/ Fiber/Books
    • Sculpture
    • architecture
    • Research >
      • Makerspace at Kenyon
      • tech research
    • Student Presentations >
      • student research video artists
      • Student Presentations Installation
      • Themes of Contemporary Art
    • Alumni
  • Manuals
    • Scanning
    • Lightroom
    • Photoshop
    • Premiere Pro CC >
      • New Premiere Pro Video Tutorials
    • After Effects
    • Davinci Resolve
    • InDesign >
      • InDesign Video Tutorials
    • Fonts
    • Animation
    • New Media Programs >
      • manuals from others
    • Audio
    • Lighting
    • Cameras+Equipment
    • Sculptural Processes
    • AHistoryofArtandTechnology for Digital Imaging
    • A History of Art andTechnology for Video and Film
    • professional presentations
    • Rome Home >
      • Experimental Media in the Eternal City >
        • Questions Venice
      • Simulations: Public Art in the Imagination in Rome >
        • External recordings
      • Adventures
ARTS 107 

​Digital Imaging is a broad term for using digital tools to engage in aesthetic and conceptual practices in contemporary art.  In this class personal studio projects allow investigation of a variety of subjects such as: the role of digital media in the history of artistic practice, the relationship of the arts to popular culture, the aesthetics of abstraction, the development of metaphor, new versions of magic-realism and the effects of social issues on the creation and interpretation of art work.  Students come to understand the fundamentals of composition and develop technical skills with still-image and video-production tools.  Through theory and practice, effective art criticism skills are developed, allowing for creative group interactions and defining of a personal aesthetic vision.  Presentations by the professor are supplemented by student readings about contemporary artists and issues.  

​samples of student work from Digital Imaging in the Visual Arts:
click on specific assignments below for more


Examples:

Images from Digital Collages/Formalism


Images from Altered Portraits and Scapes: Magic Semi-Realism

Images from Fictitious Advertising and Catalog Design

Cinemagraph examples from internet under Links
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VIdeo from the Electronic Mirror

Video from Aesthetics of the Ordinary

Video from Gesture AKA Signifying Actions

Video from Narrative Assignments



Extras: 
Evocative Writing, Word Painting/ perhaps a basis for Alternative Narratives 
Bruno Shultz chapter: Birds
Nicole Krauss:The Age of Silence: Gesture from the History of Love 
​Anthony Doerr: About Grace 

Digital Media Professional certain examples

Mass (currents new media festival 2021)
​Computer 1.0. Victoria Manganiello Weaving