COP3: Tutorial

Technology

Is the invention of graphic art software a threat to the illustration industry?

To what extent has the invention of graphic art software merged the roles of

designer and illustrator?

Lacking human quality?

Status of the technology – impression that technology has made things easier.

To what extent does the media matter what is the status of digital software

within the practice of illustration?

How does the medium relate to the message. Technology of production.

Perceptual hierarchy of techniques – handmade versus digital.

Hockney

Shrigley

How those skills relate to product and making a living in the current climate?

Student Action

Handmade is a selling point

Digital is associated with mass production less human – cheaper methods

Design process

Loss of skills

Ludites – industrial revolution – machine smashing – fear of technology

Accessible to hobbyists – amateurs – public taste. (vernacular)

To do:

Walter Benjamin – the work of art in the mechanical age / Berger - ways of

seeing – mechanical reproduction and the status reproduced images.

Does using digital technology compromise your standards / ethics to make a

living. Naomi Klein – No logo chap consumerism vs citizenship

1. Focus the question further

2. Identify foru theorists

3. Collect contemporary articles examples – illustrators – kyle Webster.

4. Practical – commercial / digital – status / value of images / reproduction

5. Fill in practical proposal

6. Chapter structure

7. 1000 words of first chap

Some really good ideas came up in my tutorial that I think have much more of a focus. I'm really interested in the idea of how the roles of creatives are being merged by advances in technology.  

http://theaoi.com/varoom-mag/article/varoomlab-visionaries-a-new-breed/

http://www.itsnicethat.com/articles/should-illustrators-be-treated-like-designers-opinion

Alan Fletcher 

Leanne Shapton

Rachel Lillie