Project 4: Web Interventions

By Justin on November 3rd, 2009, 9:30 pm 1 Comments

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:

1. Technical Proficiency: 20
2. Conceptual Engagement: 40
3. Critique: 20
4. 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.

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