Art 450 & 496 Project Proposal

Reubens did it, so can you!

Your first task is to create a project proposal. You will present the project proposal to the class on Tuesday, April 5, at 1:30. Your Project Proposal must contain:

1. A working title for your project.
2. A one-sentence description of your project.
3. A one-paragraph description of your project.
4. A one-page description of your project.
5. A description of your products of study—what you're going to actually produce during the course of your project.
6. Visual and/or written research for your project—other people’s work
7. Treatment visuals for your project—your own work
8. A written description of specific technical and research issues you will need to address during the course of your project.
9. A timeline of your project. When you will be doing all of this good stuff. You must include specific deadlines (for example: "May 17th", not "some time in May."
10. A blog containing all of the above. You must document your progress and process on the blog by updating it weekly.

Critique schedule is as follows.

Tuesday, April 5, 1:30 - 3:00
Thursday, April 14, 12:00 - 1:30
Thursday, April 28, 12:00 - 1:30
Thursday, May 12, 12:00 - 1:30
Thursday, May 26, 12:00-1:30

Final Critique Monday, June 6, 3:30-5:30

Capstone Paper Guidelines

Before receiving a final grade you must present your final project in a capstone paper. The paper should be a 5-10 page reflective essay and include images and a bibliography. Images may be incorporated into the body of the paper or attached as an appendix. The paper is due 3:30, Monday, June 6 at the final critique.

1. Think of the paper as a presentation of your project to an audience of complete strangers. Use your project proposal to help you articulate your project and your process to this audience.

2. What were you trying to achieve with the project? Did you have a clear goal or purpose in mind? Were some aspects of the project more experimental? Discuss influences on the project, and include images and a bibliography.

3. Reflect on your process and give a post-mortem of the project. What went right? What went wrong? Did the project change as you went along? Did obstacles arise? Were they expected or unexpected? How did you overcome these obstacles? What advise would you give others undertaking similar projects?

For 3/7

*correction* 3/4: no 2PM presentation Monday... instead:

Digital Art & Emerging Media Candidate, Nick Lally
March 7, AB 101
4:45 PM

No meeting on Monday. Make sure your final project / self-assessment fulfills the criteria of the 2/28 post (below), and use the 'comments' section on the student blogs to offer final critiques to your creative peers.

Stop by to see Prof. A anytime between 9-5 from Tuesday, March 8 to Friday, March 11 for your final evaluation. Here's the evaluation form we'll be using:

For 2/28: Term Project Final Presentations

Digital Projects students must make a final presentation, either online or in class, on 2/28. Even if your project is not finished, you must provide a presentation of work completed during winter in order to receive your final grade for the term. If you wish to present work online only, your blog post should feature representative samples of your progress (visual, audio-visual, storyboard, script, etc.) as well as a self-assessment essay as described below. If you plan to present your project in class on 2/28, your blog post should contain a narrative self-assessment that addresses relevant aspects of the following essay prompt:

What kind of project did you make? Was the final product digital, real-space, or a combination? How did you create original content? What tools (software, materials, media) and techniques (skills, production scheduling, creative processes) did you employ? Did you work with any partners in the college or the community? Try to articulate what you learned and/or struggled with around the technology involved in your process. What did you think about the studio format of critiquing ideas and works-in-progress with a 'creative team'? Finally, please look back on your proposal from the beginning of the term and offer an honest self-assessment of your project in the light of the goals you had set for yourself.

Thank you!

For 2/21

From noon-1PM we will critique work-in-progress by Suzanne, Oneal, and TBA. At 1PM visiting film/media-studies candidate Araz Ozgun will offer a presentation: "Political Economy of Contemporary Cultural Production."

Please plan ahead for next week: all Digital Projects students must make a final presentation, either online or in class, on 2/28. Even if your project is not finished, you must provide a presentation next week of work completed during winter in order to receive your final grade for the term.

For 2/14

Please post your latest project material by Sunday night. Review work-in-progress and critique Jake, Mando, & JJ.

For 2/7 mid-term evaluation

Three parts to project progress this week: read, write, and critique.

Last things first -- on Monday we will critique works in progress by Kyle, Oneal, Jesse Dewyer, and collaborators Mando & JJ, with additional peeks at work by Patrick Byrd and Jesse Boutin.

If you are not planning on an in-class discussion of your work, you should write an honest self-evaluation of your production progress (timeline adjustments are still possible) and post to your blog no later than Sunday night, 2/6. This will form the basis for your mid-term evaluation grade.

Finally, please read this Wikipedia article on interactive art:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interactive_art

... and check out links to info about interactive controllers on Austin's and Tawnee's blogs, plus watch this short video on interactive shadow-puppetry created with 360-Kinect for the X-box:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nqo8AMoTe-A&feature=player_embedded

For 1/31

Review and be ready to critique works in progress by Tawnee, Suzanne, Maxine, and Jesse Dewyer.

This Tuesday night, 2/25, stop by the SUB to see Projects in Digital Media creative team member Patrick Byrd perform with The Woolly Moon!

For 1/24

Watch this space for updates, but so far the basic plan for class on Monday is to discuss work-in-progress by Dominic Luciano, Lonny Bevill, and (in the 2nd half) Jared Hail. (Suzanne Cabral will be rescheduled to next week). All of these have updates on their blog links at right.

There are still a few projects without timelines -- if yours is one of them, please put something together by Sunday night.

And check out classmates Jake Fery and J Smiles at Thursday night's (1/20) Video Game Extravaganza (talk show, 'game-off', and more) in RVTV at 8PM! (Will be broadcast that same night at 11PM on Channel 9.)

For Wednesday, 1/12

If you haven't already, please add a production timeline to your blog (see Lonny, Lindsay and Karen for examples) and suggest a Monday before mid-February that you think you would be ready for a preliminary critique.

Remember, no class on Monday, 1/17, MLK Day. But check back here by next Wednesday, 1/19 for project updates that relate to our meeting on 1/24.

Digital Media Project Proposal

1. Create your blog and link in a comment to this post.

2. Post a Digital Media Project Proposal letter to your blog by 11:59 PM on Sunday 1/9:

This is your opportunity to come up with your own idea for a digital project (the term’s Big Product), pitch it to the artistic director (your profs), workshop the idea with a creative team (your peers, lab aides, instructors, etc.) and apply their insights to your production schedule (the next 9 weeks of drafts, discussions, and revisions) until the project launch (final due 2/28).

You have a lot of latitude with creative content. And with great freedom comes great responsibility. Here are some questions to consider for fulfilling this week’s responsibilities:

What kind of project will you create? Is the final product digital, real-space, or a combination? Is it a website, an app, a movie (animation or live-action), an audio piece, an installation….? How will you be creating original content? Photographs or Photoshop? Mostly images or mostly text? What is the genre: creative, abstract, or nonfiction? Will you be working with any partners in the college or the community?
Include any notes on possible aesthetic influences. Articulate what you don’t yet know about technology, skills, or techniques that may be involved in the process. This week it’s up to you to pitch your idea in a brief proposal letter to our creative team. Please post your proposal by Sunday January 9.

For Wednesday, 1/5

Find a digital media project that you like and link to it (or, if it's not online, describe it and post whatever references to it you can) in a comment to this post. Also compose a brief paragraph or two of research and analysis on what kind of design skills, media software, computer programming, development, and pre-production you think were involved in creating the project. Finally, reflect on what you like about the project -- and what you would like to borrow or steal from the creators for your own work.

Here's some digital media projects we looked at in the first class on Monday...

Animation:

david harvey vs rsa animate:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qOP2V_np2c0

Jotham Porzio (SOU student)

http://vimeo.com/17541307

Trisha Zimmerman (SOU grad)

http://vimeo.com/8039725

Literature:

Electronic Literature Showcase

http://www.eliterature.org/showcase-index

Jason Nelson digital poetry

http://heliozoa.com/

Graphic lit by SOU student / prof:

http://armsandether.com/bpdxianjan02/

http://armsandether.com/bpdxevcolorjan022011/

http://armsandether.com/bpdxstoryboards/index.htm#23

Game:

Lea Gillette (SOU grad)

http://kitrun.blogspot.com/

PDF on character development for “Bioshock”:

http://avaxhome.ws/ebooks/artbook/B00131USA2.html

App:

Ashland App developer wins prize (see under 'Art Authority')!

http://justanotheripadblog.com/ipad-apps/best-ipad-apps-of-2010/

Billion$ for ‘virtual hot chocolate’ app?

http://www.news.com.au/technology/hot-chocolate-legal-battle-over-virtual-milk-apps/story-e6frfro0-1225922021288

Web/ concept / NetArt, etc.:

http://aen.walkerart.org/mediatheque/

http://markamerika.com/

Installation (exhibition, performance, etc.):

http://jennyholzer.com/

Building Projection at Frank Gehry HQ:

http://vimeo.com/15887314?