Computational Practices and Applications for Digital Art and Crafting

Computational Practices and Applications for Digital Art and Crafting
Author: Hai-Jew, Shalin
Publisher: IGI Global
Total Pages: 285
Release: 2024-07-17
Genre: Art
ISBN:

In the current technology age, individuals and organizations need to utilize digital tools and resources to foster innovation and effectively address challenges. However, the realm of digital art and crafting is complex, and it requires a deep understanding of the tools and techniques and the social and economic factors that influence these practices. Computational Practices and Applications for Digital Art and Crafting is a comprehensive guide that offers a roadmap for digital makers and educators to navigate this dynamic field. This book covers various topics, from standard digital art practices to generative AI in art making. It provides practical guidance for digital makers, teachers, and managers of maker spaces, helping them to enhance their skills and stay relevant in the ever-changing digital landscape.

Abstracting Craft

Abstracting Craft
Author: Malcolm McCullough
Publisher: MIT Press
Total Pages: 336
Release: 1998
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 9780262631891

In this investigation of the possibility of craft in the digital realm, the author discusses the emergence of computation as a medium, rather than just a set of tools, suggesting a growing correspondence between digital work and traditional craft.

Computational Drawing

Computational Drawing
Author: Carl Lostritto
Publisher: ORO Applied Research + Design
Total Pages: 292
Release: 2019-05
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 9781940743264

This book explores computation as a medium for drawing. Exercises, essays, algorithms, diagrams, and drawings are woven together to offer instruction, insight, and theories that are valuable to practicing architects, artists, and scholars.

The Arts and Crafts Computer

The Arts and Crafts Computer
Author: Janet Ashford
Publisher:
Total Pages: 156
Release: 2002
Genre: Art
ISBN:

The Arts and Crafts Computer shows you how to use your personal computer, scanner, digital camera and color printer as artist tools to create beautiful graphics and artful objects for your home, school and work. You'll learn how to: Understand the basics of digital image-editing, typesetting and graphic design. Gather the right tools, both digital and traditional. Use the new inkjet printing media including cloth, decals, stickers, magnets, transparencies and more. Work with art materials safely, avoid computer-related stress and find environmentally-friendly materials. Create unique greeting cards and envelopes, artist books, games, toys, home decorations and gifts. If you're a crafter looking for computer ideas or a designer or teacher looking for hands-on projects The Arts and Crafts Computer is for you!

Code as Creative Medium

Code as Creative Medium
Author: Golan Levin
Publisher: MIT Press
Total Pages: 289
Release: 2021-02-02
Genre: Education
ISBN: 0262542048

An essential guide for teaching and learning computational art and design: exercises, assignments, interviews, and more than 170 illustrations of creative work. This book is an essential resource for art educators and practitioners who want to explore code as a creative medium, and serves as a guide for computer scientists transitioning from STEM to STEAM in their syllabi or practice. It provides a collection of classic creative coding prompts and assignments, accompanied by annotated examples of both classic and contemporary projects, and more than 170 illustrations of creative work, and features a set of interviews with leading educators. Picking up where standard programming guides leave off, the authors highlight alternative programming pedagogies suitable for the art- and design-oriented classroom, including teaching approaches, resources, and community support structures.

British Qualifications 2017

British Qualifications 2017
Author: Kogan Page Editorial
Publisher: Kogan Page Publishers
Total Pages: 608
Release: 2016-12-03
Genre: Education
ISBN: 0749479507

Now in its 47th edition, British Qualifications 2017 is the definitive one-volume guide to every qualification on offer in the United Kingdom. With an equal focus on vocational studies, this essential guide has full details of all institutions and organizations involved in the provision of further and higher education and is an essential reference source for careers advisors, students and employers. It also includes a comprehensive and up-to-date description of the structure of further and higher education in the UK. The book includes information on awards provided by over 350 professional institutions and accrediting bodies, details of academic universities and colleges and a full description of the current framework of academic and vocational education. It is compiled and checked annually to ensure accuracy of information.

Computational Solutions for Knowledge, Art, and Entertainment: Information Exchange Beyond Text

Computational Solutions for Knowledge, Art, and Entertainment: Information Exchange Beyond Text
Author: Ursyn, Anna
Publisher: IGI Global
Total Pages: 539
Release: 2013-10-31
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 1466646284

As interactive application software such as apps, installations, and multimedia presentations have become pervasive in everyday life, more and more computer scientists, engineers, and technology experts acknowledge the influence that exists beyond visual explanations. Computational Solutions for Knowledge, Art, and Entertainment: Information Exchange Beyond Text focuses on the methods of depicting knowledge-based concepts in order to assert power beyond a visual explanation of scientific and computational notions. This book combines formal descriptions with graphical presentations and encourages readers to interact by creating visual solutions for science-related concepts and presenting data. This reference is essential for researchers, computer scientists, and academics focusing on the integration of science, technology, computing, art, and mathematics for visual problem solving.

Research Methods: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications

Research Methods: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications
Author: Management Association, Information Resources
Publisher: IGI Global
Total Pages: 2107
Release: 2015-01-31
Genre: Science
ISBN: 1466674571

Across a variety of disciplines, data and statistics form the backbone of knowledge. To ensure the reliability and validity of data, appropriate measures must be taken in conducting studies and reporting findings. Research Methods: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications compiles chapters on key considerations in the management, development, and distribution of data. With its focus on both fundamental concepts and advanced topics, this multi-volume reference work will be a valuable addition to researchers, scholars, and students of science, mathematics, and engineering.

The Handbook of Art and Design Librarianship

The Handbook of Art and Design Librarianship
Author: Paul Glassman
Publisher: Facet Publishing
Total Pages: 368
Release: 2017-10-24
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1783302003

The Handbook of Art and Design Librarianship integrates theory and practice to offer guidelines for information professionals working in art and design environments who need to support and anticipate the information needs of artists, designers, architects and the historians who study those disciplines. Since the first edition of this title, the world of art and design libraries has been transformed by rapid advances in technology, an explosion in social media and the release of new standards and guidelines. This new edition, offering mostly entirely new chapters, provides an accessible, fully updated, guide to the world of academic art and design libraries from a range of international experts who reflect current practice at a global level. Coverage includes: case studies and library profiles, providing benchmarks for developing facilitiesteaching and learning, including the ACRL Framework, teaching with specialcollections, meta-literacies, instructional design and cultural differencesdevelopments in institutional repositories, digital humanities and makerspacescontemporary library design, spaces for collaboration and sustainability. This book will be useful reading for students taking library and information science courses in art librarianship, special collections, and archives, as well as practising library and information professionals in art and design school libraries, art museum libraries and public libraries.