undergraduate
media studies
Life Drawing Trevor Flynn Autumn & Spring Terms The figure will be used as a point of departure as we work through several exercises that enable us to study tone, mass, line and simple underlying structures in a range of drawing media and in short and longer poses from male and female models. We will also explore concept sketches, viewpoint, biomorphic improvisations and remind ourselves of the Matisse maxim, ‘exactitude isn’t truth’. Introduction to Information Eugene Han Autumn & Spring Terms Students will be introduced to the management and communication of quantity-dependent numerical systems, and will learn to develop techniques to manage, utilise and explain information based environments. Materiality of Colour Antoni Malinowski Autumn Term The course focuses on the potential of subtractive colour in creating/manipulating space. In a series of workshops students will develop sensitivity to the use of colour and tone in relation to the dynamics of space and movement. Colour of Light Antoni Malinowski Spring Term The emphasis in the spring term will be on the interaction of subtractive and additive colour. We shall be considering microstructure of pigments and other materials as a source of the perceptual interdependence of micro and macro scales.
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Video: First Year Joel Newman Spring Term Students taking this course will be required to make a one-minute animation. We will start by looking at and discussing various techniques, softwares and directions. Any soundtrack must be composed by the student, while the final piece itself must be submitted as a DVD. Second Year Courses Coding As Thought Process/ Emergence Shajay Bhooshan Autumn & Spring Terms As ‘creative’ code-writing and computational tools increasingly become part of the architectural repertoire, the seminar will provide, over two terms, a sound conceptual footing into the world of computation and design. The seminar will use processing as an easy-to-use software platform to make this foray. Drawing(s) Animation Valentin Bontjes Van Beek Autumn Term In this course we will animate ideas by creating and erasing drawings both analogue and digitally. Animation is what gives life to the static. This distance between drawings and animations is what we wish to explore, manipulate and convey simultaneously. The course will culminate with a short animated filmic clip. Pending Structures Valentin Bontjes Van Beek Spring Term Going beyond the scale of the standard model, this course focuses on developing a working understanding of fabrica-
media studies tion through designing on the CNC for an actual scale. Throughout the term, students will develop projects that address the design of installation pieces within the school, examining the relationship of material structures and physical resolution. The course will culminate with the fabrication of a final project at Hooke Park. Tagging Contours Monia De Marchi Autumn & Spring Terms This year’s investigation will focus on how to superimpose streams of figures on a formulated context. After defining an organisational method, you will use the CNC machine to scratch out material to allow for the positioning of distant figures and objects. Employing specific toolpaths and methods of manufacturing, you will investigate ways of tagging contours between different figures, moving from the seamless and homogenous to a lush and distinct outcome. The final output will be a relief investigating a systematic objectification of contours between incongruent figures and operations. Customised Computation Eugene Han Spring Term This course will focus on the manipulation of digital geometry using scripted techniques within a NURBS modelling environment. We will cover the basics of scripted logic to customise geometry using iterative logic. Students will also be introduced to the basics behind the theory of computation as a means to establish intelligent geometrical systems that can be applied to their ongoing unit projects.
undergraduate
Driving Miss Data Eugene Han Spring Term Students will extend their knowledge of scripted techniques, learning how to request from and return to value-driven databases using Rhino as the primary platform. Various representational media will be used to document the process of individual design projects. Rendering Environments Matej Hosek Autumn & Spring Terms Using both 2D digital collage and 3D renderings, we will experiment with the genius loci phenomenon, aiming to achieve a seamless manipulation of the mainly photographic environment. Embodied Landscapes Tobias Klein Autumn Term This course seeks to cross voxel-based software (used for Magnetic Resonance Imaging) with representational meshbased 3d packages. In particular we will use Osirix and 3dmax to manipulate voxel body data and create/render hybrid embodied landscape models. Voxel Cathedrals – Contoured Embodiment Tobias Klein Spring Term A continuation of the investigation into the realms of voxel-based medical data geometries and traditional poly-modelling/mesh geometries. In the spring term the focus will shift to the manufacturing of manipulated data sets fusing sheet material technologies (eg, CNC,laser-cutting) and 3D-printing volumetric techniques.
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