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My Last 2 Classes – May/June 2021 Online

File consists of records relating primarily to two OCAD U courses taught online by Astman in 2021, Experimental Processes and Camera Art. Includes course overviews, teaching notes, and related documents regarding curriculum and communications for the course. Also includes a USB drive related to Astman’s teaching records, titled "ASTMAN," which contains records relating to Astman’s courses at OCAD from approximately 2012-2021, primarily Camera Art, Experimental Processes, and Historical Processes. The USB contains ca. 798 files, with the majority of files being PowerPoint presentation files (pptx) relating to Asman’s presentation slides and student presentation slides. The remaining files are a mix of textual records and image files relating to Astman’s academic career.

Freezer Paper for Digital Printing

File consists of instructional teaching documents regarding transferring images onto fabric using freezer paper, four prints of image on fabric pieces, and samples of freezer paper. Also includes one colour print on tissue paper.

Camera Art: Combining Media - B. Astman

File consists of slides of various artists’ work, such as Arthur Siegel, Andy Warhol, and Jan Dibbets, produced by OCAD and used in Astman’s teaching, especially related to a lecture for the course Camera Art: Combining Media. Includes 80 photographic slides, originally housed in a Kodak Carousel slide tray for projection, and a list of the titles and artists of the photographs. Also includes an instructional document for operating the slide carousel.

HIST. EXP. Ph. [sic] - Antiquarian Avante Garde

File consists of slides of various artists' works, such as Anna Atkins, Robert Schaefer and Sally Larsen, used by Astman during lectures about historical experimental photography. Includes 69 photographic slides, originally housed in a Kodak Carousel slide tray for projection. The slides are labeled with the artists' names and types of photography demonstrated, such as cyanotype, daguerreotype, tintype and others.

2020/21 Retirement

File consists of correspondence, notes, and related documents regarding Astman's voluntary retirement from OCAD U.

Glass - Handmade Nagative - Using High Contrast Film[…]

File consists of an experimental collage made of pieces of negative transparencies that have been cut into various shapes and pressed between two pieces of glass, used as a sample in Astman's teaching. Astman sourced the materials for this sample by taking discarded pieces of large-format negatives from students' work, shaping them and placing them together between glass to create a collage. This piece was shown to students as an example of a work that can be created using materials that might otherwise have been discarded.

Top Etched Glass Samples Plus Etched Glass Of An Image Of My Sister Carol

File consists of two samples of sandblasting etchings on glass, featuring an image of a spiral with "S O" on the back in pen and an image of Astman's sister, sourced from Xerox material. Also includes a sticker sheet of the letters of the alphabet and a note describing the process creating the etching. The glass etching that is partically covered in tape shows a middle step in the process Astman sometimes used to create sand-blasting etchings, which used tape as one of the materials to create resistance to the sandblasting, preventing the glass underneath from becoming frosted. The etching featuring an image of Astman's sister was created used "liquid etch" or "etch in a bottle," which can be used to create detailed etchings.

[Xerox Donation - Solid Ink Technology]

File consists of correspondence with Chris Wagner (Xerox Research Centre), Darren Cerkownyk (OCAD), and Esther Choi (OCAD) and related documents regarding a donation of specialty solid ink printers from the Xerox Research Centre of Canada to the OCAD Photography Department. Also includes details regarding a related Visiting Scientist agreement with Xerox and samples of colour images printed on a variety of materials, including paper, fabric and aluminized paper, created using the Xerox Solid Ink printer.

Camera Art

File consists of a list of safety guidelines for working with different elements of photographic processes, such as developing baths and other chemicals, instructional documents regarding photocopy lift transfers, alternative photographic emulsions, and laser-cutting/etching. Also includes two transparency prints of an image of a face.

[OCAD Spring/Summer Courses]

File consists of correspondence with OCAD Registrar Services and related documents regarding Astman's OCAD courses for the 2021 Spring And Summer terms.

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