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PROJECT #1: Re-Visualizing Umass
Explore Umass Boston, in depth, with a journal or sketchbook. Find a space that needs attention. Spend 1 - 2 hours observing this space and how people interact with it. Write down your observations. Digitize sketches or photographs of this space. Really observe—for example you could make texture rubbings that you scan into the computer, pick up found objects from the space, examine dust patterns, jot down passing conversations. Imagine an art piece that could occupy that space. You will make two finished files for print. file/print #1: Your art piece (or series of pieces if applicable) on it's own. file/print #2: Your art piece placed digitally into the actual space
you observed Grading Criteria:
Process: time spent at site, journal/sketches, discussion in class about observations Visual Presentation: Photoshop techniques, attention to composition - balance, contrast, color, lighting. Creative Concept - originality, response to site
PROJECT #2: Digital Transformation Series
Map out your daily paths for 3 days—what spaces do you cross? What
communities do you interact with? As an artist, is there some way you
could alter people’s ideas about the places in your community? Would
it be a contemplative piece? Could you highlight aspects of motion, light,
color or sound? Could you bring something from the history of the place
to the present? Could you focus on sociopolitical issues of that place?
Who could you interview about the place? Where could you research? Design
an art piece for the space that can be represented as a series of 3 images
with a 4th showing the space before virtually including your finished
series. Grading Criteria:
Process: time spent at site, journal/sketches, research efforts—both with people & written materials/libraries. Visual Presentation: Photoshop techniques, attention to composition - balance, contrast, color, lighting. Creative Concept - Consideration of audience impact & how piece affects/responds to surroundings.
PROJECT #3: Online Art Project
Digital art has a history of long distance, participatory art projects.
Participate in an online art project - document this experience even if
your participation is not published online. How does that experience compare
to say, showing your work in the school gallery or directly to friends? Grading Criteria:
Effort/Follow through - documenting the process - save all written communications & images.
PROJECT #4: Virtual Art: Web Sites
Create an artist web site based on the Re-Visualizing Umass and/or Digital
Transformation series. You may incorporate other personal art work into
your site. You can expand upon a detail from either of the first two projects
or present each in their entirety. Think about how the digital medium
could alter some of the ideas presented in the two dimensional pieces.
Could you set up a way to incorporate audience response into your site?
Grading Criteria:
Process: organization of materials, written wireframe before starting production Visual Presentation: how choices of colors, type, images reinforce ideas Technique:.All parts function together effectively, works on Mac & PC. Creative Concept - Originality of ideas, something that reflects your unique approach to the world & these projects
PROJECT #5: Artist Report
Brief presentation on a digital artist of your choice. Go online and
find an interesting artist who works primarily with digital technologies.
Feel free to email them and tell them they are your homework. Discuss
the aspects of their work you like best and what you think could be improved. Grading Criteria:
Clarity of information, enthusiasm for artist, organized presentations
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