Digital Arts & Animation
Digital Art & Animation
Get creative this summer! Learn about creating digital art and animation. In this week long program, work with WPI faculty and cutting edge programs in the field of digital arts. During a typical day in this program, participants will create 3D models in Maya, digitally paint them or wrap photographs around them. Images would be customized and mixed in Photoshop to create photorealistic models. Throughout the week, participants will learn how to animate these models to create a short movie.
At the conclusion of the program, a reception will be held to showcase the work of the participants and screen the short animated films. Parents and friends are welcome to attend. Refreshments will be served.
Program dates: August 1-5, 2011
Audience: High school grades 10-12
Cost: $495
Meet the Faculty:
Joseph Farbrook
Assistant Professor
Joseph Farbrook grew up in New York City and Santa Fe, raised by his father, a concrete poet, and his mother a painter. Farbrook attended the University of Colorado focusing on performance and narrative, where he wrote electronic music, poetry, and fiction. Becoming interested in a more immersive approach to narrative, he began using computers and the Internet as creative media. Subsequently discovered by the art department, he was offered a fellowship to pursue an MFA in digital art. Working in a visual arts environment, Farbrook began creating electronic installations, interactive video, and virtual reality narratives. He also experimented with media-reflexive live performances mixed with interactive screen projections. Farbrook's latest work explores the intersections between video, video games, and sculpture.
Farbrook exhibits both nationally and internationally. Recent venues include the Museum of Contemporary Art in Denver, La Fabrica Arte Contemporaneo in Guatemala, The International Center of Bethlehem in Palestine, as well as venues in Mexico, Chile, Korea, and the USA. Farbrook is presently an assistant professor of interactive media and game development at the Worcester Polytechnic Institute.
He holds a B.A., University of Colorado at Boulder, 2001 and an M.F.A., University of Colorado at Boulder, 2004
Research
Professor Farbrook specializes in alternative uses for video game technology, virtual installation art, video, sound, and live performance hybrids. Working from a strong literary background, he uses virtual space as a means of creating new forms of narrative. Thematically his work explores the relationships between media influences and cultural mythology as well as the overall construction of perception, often creating a continuous play between material and intellectual spaces. His artwork has been exhibited nationally and internationally, frequently merging physical and virtual space by including network components to gallery and museum installations.
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