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KSI Courses

CIS572 - Digital Art Workshop - This workshop provides an intensive training environment for students to engage in individual experiments on digital art and design applications utilizing various media, including images, sound and other sensory information. Prerequisite: CIS571. (3 credits)

ART391 - Introduction to Web Design - An introduction to the principles of design for the web. We begin with fundamental issues of drawing and composition and then introduce more advanced techniques of layout and image editing. The creative compositional and artistic visual aspects of web design as well as practical use of software is covered. (3 credits)

ART392 - Advanced Web Design - This course will build upon the basic principles of design and focus on more advanced techniques and artistic issues. Students will continue to develop the creative compositional and artistic visual aspects of web design as well as their use of design tools. Prerequisite: ART391. (3 credits)

Artist Related Links
www.thelosbox.com
www.patteren.com
www.proslogion.net

Faculty Biographical Information

Gabriel Smith is an artist in several media including painting & sculpture, film and website design. His work can be viewed on the website project patteren.com. Gabriel has bachelor degrees in music composition and economics. He worked as a banker on Wall Street for several years after graduating college. He was an assistant with the Zhou Brothers in Chicago for two years. As a designer he has designed and managed several websites including for KSI graduate school. He is currently working on an independent film the los box. This film is being shot in digital video and is currently in production in Vermont. Gabriel is also creating a multimedia piece entitled proslogion, which combines the disciplines of contemporary art, philosophy and digital media with a traditional sculpture garden.