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Documentary Photography Today

This symposium will reflect on how and why we use the term “documentary” to
describe photography today. In what ways are artists, scholars, and curators thinking
about documentary photography? How are photographers dealing with the
evidentiary function of their pictures while notions of authenticity and truth are
broadly challenged by political conflicts and new media? How do those pictures shape
our understanding of contemporary human rights, and their violations, across the
globe? Might we also speak of documentary photography as a style unlinked to the
medium’s social functions? Participants will include photographer Nina Berman, Mary
Panzer (NYU), and Sharon Sliwinski (University of Western Ontario), with respondent
Diane Neumaier (Rutgers).

www.developingroom.com

Friday, December 7, 2012
10 a.m.–1 p.m.
Alexander Library
Teleconference Lecture Hall
169 College Avenue

The Beat by Social Media Department at Rutgers

The Beat uses Instagram pictures users added to their map, and combine them with the corresponding Google StreetView location to help explore topics in a new way. Try it!

This is a project of the Social Media Information Lab, at the School of Communications and Information at Rutgers University.

Feel free to explore your own beat by putting a new topic in the search box.
http://sm.rutgers.edu/thebeat/

How to 3D Print at Rutgers?

3D printing event at makerspace, last Thursday was fun and inspiring. This is a weekly event, you can always join Rick Anderson at 35 Berrue Circle Piscataway Township, Thursdays 8 pm.

The size of the printer is 6 in. x 8 in. x 6 in. so largest module of your design should not exceed these dimensions. Printer uses ABS, PVA or PLA. These filaments are available in limited colors and our makerspace is not carrying them all but you can take a look to all availbel colors from makerbot store.

Basically the printer reads from a software called MakerWare allowing to read from an .stl or .obj file. You should prepare your model in of these formats. Autodesk123D and Tinkercad  seem to be the most commonly used software for this purpose but as a designer I would also suggest using Rhinoceros or ZBrush. Rhinoceros has already started a RhinoFabLab.

One of the most popular and free 3D drawing software is SketchUp, actually it doesn’t really save or export .stl but here is a tutorial to convert from prepared by makerbot.

For inspiration and watching some modalities and limits you may spend some time on THINGIVERSE.

Undergraduate Annual exhibition – Open Call for Art Work 2012

Here is a message from Amee:

Undergraduate Annual exhibition – Open Call for Art Work 2012

You are invited to submit one work on the theme of “Systems”.
(You can find great examples for inspiration in the Zimmerli’s group show “Art=Text=Art” and the work of Ruth Vollmer, who used mathematics and the Fibonnacci series/sequence to produce her abstract sculpture.)

Both BA and BFA students are encouraged to submit one piece each; all are accepted.

The exhibition will be on view from Monday, October 29th  – Tuesday, November 13th, 2012.

The opening reception is Wednesday, October 31st, from 5-7pm.

The show will be curated and installed by the BFA Thesis class (Section 1) and participating students should bring their artwork to the Visual Arts office from Monday, October 15th – Thursday, October 18th between the hours of 10am-5pm.

SUBMITTING IS EASY:

  1. Fill out the two attached labels completely.
  2. Turn in one copy to a Supervising Graduate Student in the Visual Arts Dept. Office (CSB124) and attach the other to the artwork being submitted.
  3. After label has been submitted to the office, take art work up to the third-floor crit room where it will be stored until the exhibition is installed.

Let’s make a great show!

Amee Pollack
Undergraduate Program Coordinator, Visual Arts
Mason Gross School of the Arts

Makerspace on Rutgers Livingston Campus

A makerspace is growing inside Rutgers. It is located at 35 Berrue Circle
Piscataway Township. In the space they are running Make Your Makerspace events on Wednesday evening, and a 3D printing night Thursday after 8pm.

As design area faculty we are going to visit their October 18th, 3D printing event at 8pm. Please join us if you like.

To see what a makerspace is:

http://makerspace.com

http://makerspace.rutgers.edu/content/what-are-makerspaces

and its critiscm:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/06/us/worries-over-defense-dept-money-for-hackerspaces.html?_r=0

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