Project 4: Web Interventions
This project will require you to propose and execute an intervention into a digital space such as FaceBook, Twitter, Blogger, Flickr, Delicious, Firefox extensions, etc. The project can be a performance, ongoing intervention, or documentation of your project in action.
Due: November 30 / This project is worth 15% of your final grade.
Your mark for this project will be broken down into the following components:
- Technical Proficiency: 20
- Conceptual Engagement: 40
- Critique: 20
- Aesthetics: 20
Other notes: If you get your project featured on the front page of Wooster Collective, Rhizome, YouTube, Good, Networked_Performance, We-Make-Money-Not-Art, or PSFK you will receive at least a mark of A on this assignment. Also, if you build a Firefox plugin or create any other software that ties into the API of any of the social networking tools listed above and somehow critiques it or re-presents its contents in an novel way, you will also receive a mark of at least an A. This is, however, not to say that projects that do something other than either of those things will not receive an A.
*** As a note, the above posted idea of a good grade automatically being given to your project for being featured on a number of high-profile blogs was taken up as a topic of discussion on Twitter, where some really valid concerns were raised, which subsequently made me a bit nervous about the reading of this outside of the context of the class itself. My thinking behind this, originally, was that if your project was featured on one of those sites, that it would be an indicator of sorts of the successes or insights that your project achieved in a real-world context, and certainly I would like to hope that you are creating work that could potentially exist beyond the classroom. Of course, and as always, every project you hand in will be stringently evaluated and graded accordingly, regardless of where the project itself might be seen outside of the class. This idea was only meant to be a motivating factor and a way to introduce you to some other great content. My apologies for any confusion.
Using any digital tool of your choice, create a series of 3 infographics articulating your concerns (real or invented) about the University, the environment, and the economy (1 of each).
Your infographics can be presented as projected images, prints, or videos.
Please consider the implications of where and how you present your work (eg. Why might you want to project an infographic about the University on the side of Lambton Tower, or why might you want to send an infographic about the economy to your former employer?)
Due: November 16 / This project is worth 15% of your final grade.
Your mark for this project will be broken down into the following components:
- Technical Proficiency: 20
- Conceptual Engagement: 40
- Critique: 20
- Aesthetics: 20
Other notes: Look up Infographics on Google right now. Then, look it up on Good.is.
Using only YouTube, find a video with 1 minute of interesting material. This video can be of anything—a trailer for a movie, an old TV show, a teenager singing a pop song, etc.
This project will enable you to examine visual appropriation and the realities and implications of an open-source culture on our everyday media consumption.
You will then re-enact / redub 1 minute of that video and record and edit your re-enactment / redub in Final Cut Pro.
Due: October 19
This project is worth 15% of your final grade.
Your mark for this project will be broken down into the following components:
- Technical Proficiency: 20
- Conceptual Engagement: 40
- Critique: 20
- Aesthetics: 20
Other notes: You must give this project a title and we will work together to figure out the best way to present the final projects (it could be that we upload the videos to YouTube, embed those videos in a webpage side by side with the original, or burn the videos to a DVD and play them all as a loop, etc.)
Using Adobe Photoshop and/or Adobe Illustrator, you will create 3 digital files for print, manipulated from source photographs that you take or through illustrations and graphics that you create. You can use text, but it should be conceptually motivated.
Your final images should articulate your thoughts on public and private space. Examples of this binary could include space, healthcare, life, education, culture, etc.
Your files must be prepared at 300dpi and you will print your files at the Document Imaging Services on main campus (Chrysler Hall Tower, Lower Level Rooms 1 & 5). Alternatively, you can print these files at a Staples, FedEx, etc. You will also have the option to project these images in a public space.
Due: September 21
This project is worth 15% of your final grade.
Your mark for this project will be broken down into the following components:
- Technical Proficiency: 20
- Conceptual Engagement: 30
- Print Quality: 10
- Critique: 20
- Aesthetics: 20
Other notes: Please review some of the resources at the following link (http://www.pbs.org/art21/education/public/lesson3.html). The examples at this URL mostly involved discussions surrounding public vs. private spaces and artworks dealing with that intersection, but it may help you in understanding concerns around these ideas.
Japanese artist Yuri Suzuki creates very inspiring sculpture/installation based audio art. His piece titled Prepared Turntable 2008 is shown below. On Suzuki’s website he describes the work as
“A turntable that focuses on actively composing and playing music.
This record player has 5 tone arms, each of which can have its volume controlled by its own fader.
This is an analogue answer for the digitalized DJ.”
I found my interest in Suzuki’s work came in part from my recent interest in American and European modernist music, artists like: Philip Glass, Steve Reich, John Cage(Who greatly developed the “Prepared Piano“), Alban Berg…
It is within these artists that the idea of music that has a rhythm that is heavily based on cycles and patterns, which can be seen in a quite literal way in the body movements of the musicians in this link Philip Glass that shows a string quartet playing his music, the players sway in circles of varying length based on the rhythmic part they’re playing. The idea of cyclical based music seems to easily transfer to the medium of a turntable playing a record, a rotating disc with grooves of varying length around it. These grooves contain a loop that is the exact length of time that it’s placement on the record allows, since grooves closer to the centre are shorter and ones on the outer edge, longer. Therefore, based on the type of loops put on this custom made record, anyone can compose a rhythmic composition using the various “instruments” that exist within the records surface.
That being said, Yuri Suzuki has another project that works with the cyclical nature of records and their commonality. His piece Sound Chaser 2008 a Technical collaboration with Yaroslav Tencer is,
“A train-style record player. Users connect the chipped pieces of records together to make new tracks. The records pieces are from cheap records bought at jumble sales or used record shops. This record player revives forgotten, old records.“
The potentiality of Glass’s concepts are made manifest with this “train” cars on a track. I wonder if this piece could also be done by providing a large amount of extra track and the track itself could be elongated and adjusted by visitor to the gallery, causing many different length and shaped “tracks”.
Yuri Suzuki is also a DJ, so here are a few of his mixes:
You will be encouraged to make blog posts on the progress of your projects to practice not only writing and self-reflection, but also to help you and your classmates to understand your process.
Conversations
- kevin: thank you very much. hope everyone is having a grand break. happy holidays/break -kevin echlin
- taniapalcong: I love the craziness that is occurring for every image, most artist sometimes have the tendinitis to...
- taniapalcong: I wouldn’t say that it’s incomplete just because of not witnessing the effect. But i do...
- taniapalcong: This is really cool, I think reasons why people aren’t engaging to contemporary furniture is...
- taniapalcong: I kinda find this article funny in a way… I mean it’s the care bears.
- kristiner: wow this is really cool and so creative!
- kristiner: I remember seeing this one when I was looking for examples. This one was really good and easy to...
- kristiner: This really is an interesting infographic!
- mackenziedarrach: I agree with kristine, its bizarre not knowing whether or not its real or fictional, but definitely...
- kristiner: Wow, this is so fascinating! I agree with Christine I could see this technique being used a lot in the...
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