Class Projects
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Class Projects |
All assignments will be critiqued at the beginning of class. Be ready to show work on due dates when you come to class!
#1: Hybrid Bodies
DEADLINE: February 17
Using Photoshop and/or other techniques, generate an image with the following hybrid components:
1. your current physical status (an image of you)
2. your ideal physical status ( your body with new functionality related to actual or ideal needs)
3. the new bodily limitations implicated by #2
They can be any size and manipulations can be done at any point during the process.
#2: Project for a Glossary of the Twentieth Century
DEADLINE: March 10
Using McLuhan or Ballard as a model, create a simple web site. Decide on twenty terms that epitomize technology in the twentieth century and create your own definitions for what they are and what there impact might be. Include images that underline your point. Keep the design simple and focus on the concepts you are working with.
#3 Watching Me, Watching You
DEADLINE: April 14
This assignment deals with electronic recordings and the role of the artist as a collector, organizer, and presenter of information and statistics. Your goal is to make an art piece from data collected about another person or group of people. You may collect the data using combinations of audio, video, photography, and note taking. The presentation should be on video and can be presented as a tape or as part of a website. Alternatives to these options can include a photographic presentation, a sound piece, an installation, a performance or anything appropriate to the subject at hand.
#4 The World as Interface
DEADLINE: May 12
The work of Deleuze and Guattari show how our lives may be viewed as a composite of rigid structures(family, school, military service, office, marriage), supple structures (temporary alliances, transitory love affairs, loosely knit groups) and finally, "lines of flight", the bifurcations that could allow us to change our destinies as defined by those two types of structures. - Manuel Delanda "Non-Organic Life" Using multimedia, create a map of your life based on the structures illustrated above. Create symbols and an interface system that let us navigate through the map.