The final project for ART 407 requires that you produce a confection of the three prior projects. In other words you are to put all three projects together: non-linear narrative, ambient worlds, and affective memories. You will be given some data about the class - primarily everyone's name - as a starting point. This data will be the center of your project. How you "interpret" or address the data will be up to you. Likewise, how you use the key concepts - ideas you garnered from the other projects - is up to you. You may find it necessary, for instance, to produce something that emphasizes non-linearity over the aspects of affect or ambiance. Your project can take whatever form as long as it is mediated by a piece of digital technology. To explain, if you are going to produce a sculpture then a portion of it would have to been derived from some interaction with digital technologies. Technologies people have used in the past: scanner, digital camera, fax, laser cutter, digital tablet, digital projector, Photoshop, synthesizer.
To explain your choices, you will need to write about the direction you took for this project. The writing should have two parts:
• contextual statement (2 - 4 pages) - where does the project fit in the history and theories we've discussed. You might begin by asking yourself:
- What project or artwork did we see that I liked and why? What theories or principles of new media relate to this work?
- What theories did I appreciate the most?
- The key ideas of that theory are?
Once you've begun to answer these questions then you should have the basis of something which should subtly influence the final project.
• description and documentation (2 or more pages) - information about the project such as how you made it, what choices. You should also be able, now, to make the link between what you produced and what you talked about in terms of the theories and work that influenced you. Be thinking about:
- How did my final project relate to the work that I reference? Is it similar visually? Does it share similar underlying theoretical approaches?
- How do you describe your engagement with an idea or theory?
This second part will have to be written later in the term as you get closer to finishing your project.
The discussion we've had have addressed (but are not limited to) the following topics and ideas:
• Principles of New Media (as outlined by Manovich): numerical representation, modularity, automation, variability, transcoding,
• cinema as new media (Manovich) and the myths of New Media
• Sampling and Morphing as culturally embedded operations. Montage as a remnant of other representational technologies.
• Spatial representation as scopic regime. Cartesian perspectivalism as only one way of representing space.
• Time and Space as constructs (Heidegger and Bergson)
• Affect and emotional/visceral/corporeal interactions with technology
• Ludology
• Simulation and Simulacra
• The Cyberpunk Imaginary
Deadlines
ROUGH DRAFT OF PART 1 - CONTEXT STATEMENT
Wednesday November 11th, 2009
SECOND DRAFT OF PART 1
Wednesday December 2, 2009
ROUGH DRAFT OF PART 2 - PROJECT DESCRIPTION
Wednesday December 9, 2009
PROJECT 4 AND COMPLETED PAPER DUE DATE
Monday December 14, 2009 - 12:30
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