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posted by ryan griffis at 4:25 PM Wednesday, January 30, 2008

Mid-term Presentation Project

Each person will be responsible for a short, 5 minute presentation on an artist/group from a list provided below. These presentations will be delivered on March 5 and must be assembled as a slide presentation (as a compiled PDF, Powerpoint or Keynote) with at least 5-10 images. You should be able to give us the context for the artist's work and a description of some specific examples of their work.
THIS IS NOT A BIOGRAPHY OF THE ARTIST - context means what their work related to, what was going on around it, what kind of audience it had, etc. Put this in your own words, don't just cut/paste writing from somewhere else that you can't explain yourself.
There can be no repetition in the presentations, so everyone is to select their desired subject and make a comment to this post with your name and subject (such as: Ryan G. - Lygia Clark). If the one you wanted is already taken, you must pick another or negotiate with that person.
Your selection must be made by the end of this week - Friday Feb 1.
The list:
Lygia Clark, Critical Art Ensemble, Institute for Applied Autonomy, Lynn Hershman, Fluxus, Heath Bunting, Keith Piper, Natalie Jeremijenko, Natalie Bookchin, C5, Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, Antonio Muntadas, Knowbotic Research, RTmark, Mongrel (the British art collective, not the server technology), Jordan Crandall, Julia Scher, George Legrady, Situationist International, Laurie Anderson, Eve Andree Laramee, Krzysztof Wodiczko, Mel Chin, Carsten Holler, Andrea Zittel, Center for Tactical Magic, Keith and Mendi Obadike, Helio Oiticica, Adrian Piper, Futurefarmers, RepoHistory, Jennifer Allora/Guillermo Calzadilla

posted by ryan griffis at 9:16 AM Monday, January 28, 2008

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Where you should be now...

In case you're wondering where you should be in terms of progress on the first project and what we've been covering in class... as I said in class on Thursday, your web-based project is due February 4. With your concept map in hand and the 40 elements for each of your 3 systems, you should be ready to start planning and designing the web documents.
Here are some of things you should start doing, and what we'll discuss on Tuesday.
1. Designing a site map - this is literally a map or plan for your web site (a site is simply a series of web documents, or pages if you like, linked together). It shows how one "page" connects to others. Remember, you'll have a total of 40 pages, each containing 3 elements representing each of your 3 systems. (your pages will have to be recycled in the scheme of your map)
2. Sketches (digital or otherwise) for your 40 pages. This is page layout - what are your three elements and what will they look like on each page?
We'll continue with CSS/XHTML, and other techniques in order to realize your plan. Other techniques we'll cover that can be employed: custom pop-up windows, scrolling divs, hidden divs.

posted by ryan griffis at 8:49 PM Thursday, January 24, 2008

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Oh - and send me a link to your blog.

So I can post it to the class site.

posted by ryan griffis at 10:45 AM Wednesday, January 16, 2008

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First week and beyond

Wednesday Jan 16: Bring in your 3 interrelated systems that will be the subject for the project 1 hypertext
Monday Jan 21: ML King Jr. Holiday
Wednesday Jan 23: Project 1 concept map due (see requirements) + discuss Vannevar Bush's As We May Think (read and make a 100 or so word response to your blog before class)

posted by ryan griffis at 4:43 PM Monday, January 14, 2008

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This page has most of the skills you need for project 1

Mid-term Presentation Project

Where you should be now...

Oh - and send me a link to your blog.

First week and beyond

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