VDMX Tutorial: Live Video Processing

Instructor

David Lublin

Location

Gallery

Dates

Thursday June 26

Registration Deadline

June 25

Times

7:00pm to 10:00pm

Member Price

$Free

Non-Member Price

$Free

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VDMX5 is a revolutionary environment which enables you to construct a custom video processing pipeline as well as an interface to control it. This workshop is ideal for any visualists who are looking to expand their horizons by creating the custom realtime video processing applications of their dreams.

Participants will gain a solid overview both of VDMX5's general workings as well as a walkthrough of the individual elements which may be used to build their own video instruments. The class will being with an introductory lecture covering several practical applications of VDMX, followed by an informal workshop and Q&A session. Topics will include interfacing with hardware controllers, working with multiple live video inputs, and using Quartz Composer to create interactive motion graphics and effects.

Students are encouraged to bring laptops, questions, and ideas. Pre-registration is strongly recommended. To register, click here or give us a call at 718.715.4961

Web Design with Dreamweaver

Instructor

Axel Murillo

Location

Digital Media Lab

Dates

Mondays and Wednesdays June 9, 11, 16, 18, 23, 25

Registration Deadline

June 6

Times

7pm-10pm

Member Price

$360

Non-Member Price

$450

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Learn how to create an attractive, well-organized, professional quality website in six weeks! This introductory class will teach you how to design a site that showcases your artwork, interests, or small business. You will learn the basics of web design using Dreamweaver: the industry standard software. Using your own content, you will conceive, develop, and design an elegant, clean website. Emphasis will be placed on building a site that is both easy to navigate and aesthetically pleasing.

In this class you will: gain a handle on basic Dreamweaver tools, make a mockup on paper, plan a multiple page web site, learn about information architecture, site structure and visual consistency, import and format text using logical character styles and paragraph formats, check for broken links and orphaned files, work with images for web, create hyperlinks between pages for navigation through your web site, create tables for aligning text and images, critique the sites of your peers, upload your site to a server, learn to recognize good design, and finally test, maintain, and publish your site.

No prior experience with web design is necessary, though Photoshop experience is strongly recommended. The class will be held in a Mac lab, but if you would like to bring your own PC laptop you may, provided Dreamweaver CS3 is installed. Despite the amount of technical material that will be covered, there will be plenty of personal instruction incorporated into class lab time.

Textile Design

Instructor

Joanne Sherrow

Location

Digital Media Lab

Dates

Saturdays June 21 and 28

Registration Deadline

June 19

Times

3:30pm to 6:30pm

Member Price

$120

Non-Member Price

$150

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Acquire a lucrative skill in this 6-hour intensive through learning the basics of textile design. Students will create original, digitally produced, production ready designs for printed fabrics marketable for women's, men's, and children's wear, home furnishings and paper products. Professional methods of designing patterns, repeats, and color combinations will be explored using Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop. Students will also gain knowledge of how to market themselves in the various industries where these skills are applicable.

Joanne Sherrow is a Textile and Graphic Designer based in Brooklyn, NY. Her clients include Victoria's Secret, Calvin Klein, Anthropologie, Seamen Schepps, and Liz Claiborne. Joanne teaches Adobe Illustrator for fashion design and digital archiving for artists and collectors at the Fashion Institute of Technology and fashion digital studio classes in Parsons School of Design's undergraduate fashion department. Joanne has also been involved in recording and performing experimental electronic music with the bands Confetti System and Tic-tac-oh. She has her BS from Pennsylvania State University and her AAS from the Fashion Institute of Technology. http://www.funkyjewels.com/

Introduction to Editing with Final Cut Pro

Instructor

Mark Read

Location

Digital Media Lab

Dates

Sundays June 15, 22, 29

Times

3:00p-6:00p

Registration Deadline

June 12

Member Price

$180

Non-Member Price

$225

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In this introductory class for Final Cut Pro, students will learn all the essentials necessary to enable them to begin editing their own work and further explore the world of digital video editing.

A full introduction to the FCP interface and basic tool kit will be followed by lessons in logging and capturing, basic media management and workflow, three point editing, importing audio files, basic transitions, and finally video filters. Students will learn how to take a project from start to finish in this class, from basic cuts all the way to color correction and audio tweaking. Students are STRONGLY encouraged to bring their own video footage to edit with on Mini-DV tape, but the instructor will provide raw material for those who need it.

Mark Read is a documentary filmmaker, television producer and editor, and NYU Media Studies adjunct professor. His sometimes controversial, and always political, documentary films have appeared in numerous festivals, including Tribeca, Human Rights Watch, Rooftop Films, and the Vermont Film Festival. His work has also been broadcast nationally on WorldLink TV and Freespeech TV. His most recent work, Dance of Death, appeared in the 2006 Whitney Biennial. Mark has been teaching video production at NYU for 8 years and he has Apple certification. He is also a passionate cycling advocate, and a frequent rider in Critical Mass. http://www.markwread.com/

Photoshop Intensive

Instructor

Aaron Smulktis

Location

Digital Media Lab

Dates

Saturday June 21 - FULL!

Times

1100a-200p

Registration Deadline

June 18

Member Price

$80

Non-Member Price

$100

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Whether you are a non-photographer, novice photographer, artist, non-artist, art director, designer, publisher, or writer you will know how to perform digital miracles on your photographss upon completing this 4-hour workshop on the basics concepts of the Photoshop environment. Even photographers leery of the digital realm can get their feet wet with this no-nonsense introduction to the best digital-darkroom in the industry.

Instruction will cover image manipulation, resolution, file size, bit depth, image adjustment, color correction, brush settings, cloning, healing, layers, type, filters, effects, the difference between raster and vector graphics, as well as creating and retouching images.

All sessions include hands-on practice on Mac computers. Participants may bring their own laptops, provided Adobe Photoshop CS3 is already installed. This class is an introductory class and is not appropriate for students at the intermediate and advanced levels.

Aaron Smulktis is currently a freelance graphic/web designer & a workshop trainer at the Apple Retail Store in the Meatpacking District. He was an art director and designer for 2 years at scenyc, inc., working with international clients like Henry Bendel, and Precision Valve Corporation. He has 6+ years of Adobe Photoshop/Illustrator/Flash. He also taught painting/drawing classes for youngsters at Repenning Fine Art in Audubon, NJ.

Illustrator Intensive

Instructor

Aaron Smulktis

Location

Digital Media Lab

Dates

Tuesday June 24

Times

7:00p-10:00p

Registration Deadline

June 20

Member Price

$80

Non-Member Price

$100

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Calling ALL PEOPLE interested in GRAPHIC DESIGN. Want to tighten up your drawn illustrations? Want to put together graphics for the web or high-resolution images for business cards, t-shirt designs, cd covers or posters? One of the core tools used to create and manipulate web or print graphics is Adobe Illustrator. This workshop will cover all the application's basic functions. Oh how your life will be changed by the power of scalable vector graphics, as well as some recipes & tricks of the trade!

In this Intensive, you will learn all of the basics of the application including the drawing and reshaping tools, combining objects, fill and stroke, applying color, and adding type. The class will also explore different ways to prepare files for printing and the difference between print and screen resolution, as well as converting bitmaps to vector artwork, which can be blown up without losing resolution.

We will go through a shared project together, or you can bring your own images and files to work with. The goal is to establish a comprehensive workflow within the application, starting from importing and converting graphics, to printing and exporting for web. However, we'll be hip-hopping around based on interests and needs.

Adobe Photoshop experience is a plus, but not a requirement.

Students are encouraged to bring files.

Aaron Smulktis is currently a freelance graphic/web designer & a workshop trainer at the Apple Retail Store in the Meatpacking District. He was an art director and designer for 2 years at scenyc, inc., working with international clients like Henry Bendel, and Precision Valve Corporation. He has 6+ years of Adobe Photoshop/Illustrator/Flash experience. He also taught painting/drawing classes for youngsters at Repenning Fine Art in Audubon, NJ.