My army of Traceys

By traceymeloche on December 5th, 2009, 10:31 pm 0 Comments

Hooray! My blog is up and marching with 25 posts in 24 hours. I am using 4 different google alerts that use my name in some form or another. The blog is called it’s weird…being Tracey and the link is http://itsweirdbeingtracey.blogspot.com/

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“Street Wars” – SpY Interventions

By miriam on November 30th, 2009, 12:55 am 4 Comments

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Hello Everyone!

So for this week’s blog post, I wanted to do something that pertained to the project. These pictures were taken by a Madrid artist. He first appeared in the 80′s and was known nationally for being a graffiti artist. His art started to transform and take a bit of a different route in the 90′s when he was experimenting with art interventions that were related to the urban environment.

I looked at all of his artwork on his web page and they have a very playful, comical, creative and sometimes serious aspect to his interventions. As he says in the about section on his website, his interventions are “Full of both irony and a positive sense of humor, they appear to inspire a smile, a thought, a conscience to help a little bit more lucid.”

He is a very talented and experienced artist that I really enjoyed looking at all his pieces and interventions of art. Out of all of his art pieces, I chose this one because it just stuck out to me. It is so creative and funny. At first I thought it was those lines for the road, but then I saw the “space ship” and the glow sticks to be it’s ammo. I recommend everyone look at some of his pieces of art and maybe that can spark an interest or thought?

Good luck everyone on the last and final project. I can’t wait to see what everyone comes up with!

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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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