Teaching Portfolio — Noa Taylor

ART 116 Core Studio/3D Foundations

Cardboard Object-Synthesis sculptures, Soft sculptures, Pattern & Rhythm mold making

ARTO 250 Introduction to Photography

Digital photography

Obsession/Collection: Object Typology. Image 1.

Obsession/Collection: Object Typology. Image 2.

Obsessions/Collections. Time-based study. Image 1.

Obsessions/Collections. Time-based study. Image 2.

Obsessions/Collections. Time-based study. Image 3.

Directed Narrative: Narrative in a single image. Image 1.

Directed Narrative: Narrative in a single image. Image 2.

Directed Narrative: Narrative in an image sequence. Image 1.

Directed Narrative: Narrative in an image sequence. Image 2.

Directed Narrative: Narrative in an image sequence. Image 3.

ARTD 250 Digital Art and Print Media

Students were assigned an apocalyptic scenario for term-long investigation through icons/logos, boardgames, and single-page comics. Everything made Adobe Illustrator & Photoshop.

Zombie apocalypse icon.

AI apocalypse icon.

Lab rats gaining sentience apocalypse board game.

Lab rats gaining sentience apocalypse comic.

EDPX 2000 Imaging in Digital Practices

Students were assigned a term-long speculative band project. Output was merch for these bands made in Affinity Designer & Photo: t-shirts, posters, CDs

ARTD 251 Time-Based Digital Art & EDPX 2400 Time in Digital Practices

Stop Motion, Vector Animation, Experimental Short Film, & Performance for Video

“The Hunt”. ARTD 251 Time-Based Digital Art.                                    Stop Motion.

“Sleep”. EDPX 2400 Time in Digital Practices.                     Experimental Short Film.

“Synthetic Expression”. ARTD 251 Time-Based Digital Art.                 Stop Motion.

“Dragon of the Waters”. EDPX 2400 Time in Digital Practices.                 Vector Animation.

“A Duck Named Goose”. EDPX 2400 Time in Digital Practices.                 Vector Animation.

“TWO COMMUTES”. ARTD 251 Time-Based Digital Art.                 Experimental Short Film.

Untitled. ARTD 251 Time-Based Digital Art.                              Performance for Video.

“Star Eat Star World”. ARTD 251 Time-Based Digital Art.                 Stop Motion.

“Sanguine Distinction”. EDPX 2400 Time in Digital Practices.                 Experimental Short Film.

Washing Eternity. ARTD 251 Time-Based Digital Art.                              Performance for Video.

ARTD 252 Interactive Digital Art

Interactive art works written in Processing

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Upper Division Special Topics Courses

Many of the projects for these courses are more open-ended or conceptually driven. Class and details are included in the project captions.

“Dread Hymn”. EDPX 3/4700 Archive, Appropriation, Reference & Reenactment. Open mid-term project. Graduate student work. Student remixed and gradually degraded Christian religious hymns, taking cues from The Caretaker.

Untitled. ASCII File Conversions of Top 40 Reddit Images. EDPX 3/4700 Bad Taste & Digital Aesthetics. Assignment: Glitch/File Conversion

Untitled. Toy camera photographs. EDPX 3/4700 Bad Taste & Digital Aesthetics. Assignment: Poor Images.

“Duplicitous Blade of Grass”. Class-Wide Collaborative Photobook. EDPX 3/4800 Generative AI as Medium and Methodology. Students started with their own images and used various AI imaging platforms as augmentation tools.