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Historical Remix: Project 3 (for Thursday 10/25)

Below are the steps for Project 3, the first of which you should have completed. Step 2, the exchange of your results from step 1 should be done at the beginning of class on Thursday, or before. There are no restrictions on who you exchange with.
Step 3 you will start in class on Thursday, so you need to make sure that you have your materials to exchange, or the materials you have already exchanged with someone. Depending on individual needs, class time will be spent doing digital research, photoshop exercises, beginning production on the final image.

Step 1: Locate a historical narrative that exists in the social imaginary (i.e. something that we can assume has some level of cultural distribution beyond personal geographies) that has somehow had an effect on you that you can describe. These narratives should not be solely biographical or geographical in nature - no stories that are someone's "life story". They should be event-based, something having a more-or-less conventional beginning and end. Bring in 1) an image related to the event 2) an institutional account of the story (encyclopedia, newpaper) 3) a first-person account of the story 4) a description of how this event has impacted you.

Step 2: Exchange your chosen narrative and materials with someone in the class.

Step 3: Create a pictorial montage(as distinct from a collage or composite) that uses these 4 elements, supplemented by additional images and text. This picture should use the images and texts to tell the story of the relationship between the person whose information you received and the historical event.
Half of your text and image sources should be made up of primary sources and be gathered in non-electronic form to be scanned, copied or used otherwise. For information on primary sources - see the UIUC Library tutorial on the subject. The other half can be secondary sources and/or images/text chosen/created for aesthetic and narrative affect, etc.
Details: One 11x14 inkjet print. To be clear, you final work must be on paper and involve some digital image manipulation, but can involve physically manipulated materials (cut up printed matter, drawing, painting, etc) that were not processed digitally.
Due date will be Thursday Nov 1.

posted by ryan griffis at 2:38 PM Tuesday, October 23, 2007

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