PROGRAMS AND OFFERINGS

Areas of Study • Art Adventure Weekends

2D/3D Fine Arts Portfolio Development
Animation
Art Online
Digital Filmmaking
Digital Photography
Fashion Design + Merchandising
Theatre

Art Online
This three-week course is modeled in large part on VCU’s Time Studio, a requirement for first year art majors. Art Online will teach students to use the power of the Internet to create, distribute, and market their work. The class will explore some of the most powerful online resources for. Projects will utilize live performance, digital photography and video and will be archived on the web. Students will be expected to maintain an online journal (also known as a blog), and explore topics of interest using web searches. This is not a class about making static homepages … instead it is about swimming in the ongoing currents of digital culture.

Before the first class, join and explore the following three sites:

http://www.flickr.com/
http://tumblr.com/
http://vimeo.com/

Course Requirements
Please bring a digital still camera and/or a digital video camera, as well as appropriate cables to connect them to a computer. Also bring a portable flash drive with at least 500 MB of storage space and at least 5 blank DVD-R discs.

Finally, purchase and peruse the wonderful textbook Rule the Web by Mark Frauenfelder. (Paperback: 393 pages) Published by St. Martin’s Griffen, (June 2007). ISBN: 0312363338.

Instructor Bio

Justin Lincoln, MFA, is a digital multimedia artist who has had recent work screened locally and globally. He received a BFA from Virginia Commonwealth University and his MFA from the California Institute of the Arts. He has taught at VCU since 2006, after returning from four years of independent research in Japan. His tumblr blog can be found at http://tba.tumblr.com/