Next class we will meet in Callicott. Later in class, we will divide the group so that we use Studios 1, 2, and 3. Please be prepared to pin your image play juxtapositions on the wall at that time. However, do not pin anything up until we tell you to do so.
Don't freak out:) This is a long post with a bunch of stuff in it. The assignments are not all due next class, but some are. We try to give you as much time as possible to think about things, which is why Virtual Project Exercise is assigned now.
The first logbook check will be Tuesday, February 5th at the beginning of class.
Also, if you have not already, please make sure that you have completed the syllabus quiz. The link is to the right.
Thank you,
Team IPC
Assignment 1 – Dictionary and Thesaurus Research
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Due: Thursday, January 31st
Format: In your logbook and recorded in the logbook index by 1:00pm
From your Thought Mapping clusters select five or more words of interest. Use the dictionary strategy described in lecture to continue to develop your investigation through these words. Read for comprehension and to build a list of related objects, images, contexts, materials, etc based on the words you select. Continue your search beyond the dictionary by looking up at least three words in a thesaurus. Add to your lists the new words you discover from the thesaurus research. Be sure to paste the photocopies/prints of the dictionary and thesaurus definitions in your book and mark them up so we can see to what and how you are responding.
Assignment 2 – Avenues of Inquiry
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Due: Thursday, January 31st
Format: Come up with 6 questions, type and affix it into your logbook (and index it) before class Tuesday. [Thursday]
As a way to potentially guide your continuing search for influence or to determine an idea direction, develop avenues of inquiry (questions) that address specific aspects of your greater theme. Perhaps your Image Play, Word Play, or thought mapping suggested other questions for investigation.
Try to develop more open-ended questions that invite conversation and a greater investigation of your own unknown. Try to avoid simple closed-ended questions that have yes/no or simple answer structures. Initiate dialog and imagination with your questions. Playfully interrogate your subject. For instance, if in your Word Play, you created a word combination you are unfamiliar with, the unfamiliarity will hopefully imply some kind of question. If your search, so far, has failed to inspire you, pick another point of departure from your brainstorming and thought mapping.
Generate at least 6 different questions that could potentially guide you into new ideas and information potentially relating to your theme. Type these up. Put one copy in your logbook and index it. Hand the other copy in at the beginning of class. [Just include one copy and put it in your logbook]
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Due: Thursday, January 31st
Format: Come up with 6 questions, type and affix it into your logbook (and index it) before class Tuesday. [Thursday]
As a way to potentially guide your continuing search for influence or to determine an idea direction, develop avenues of inquiry (questions) that address specific aspects of your greater theme. Perhaps your Image Play, Word Play, or thought mapping suggested other questions for investigation.
Try to develop more open-ended questions that invite conversation and a greater investigation of your own unknown. Try to avoid simple closed-ended questions that have yes/no or simple answer structures. Initiate dialog and imagination with your questions. Playfully interrogate your subject. For instance, if in your Word Play, you created a word combination you are unfamiliar with, the unfamiliarity will hopefully imply some kind of question. If your search, so far, has failed to inspire you, pick another point of departure from your brainstorming and thought mapping.
Generate at least 6 different questions that could potentially guide you into new ideas and information potentially relating to your theme. Type these up. Put one copy in your logbook and index it. Hand the other copy in at the beginning of class. [Just include one copy and put it in your logbook]
Assignment 3 – Database Research Articles
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Due: Tuesday, February 5th
Format: In your logbook and recorded in the logbook index by 1:00pm
Reference the library handouts you received in class (also in order to log in and search JSTOR and other academic research sources therein. Look for, printout, and read at least 5 articles (one from JSTOR and the others from other databases [see library handout] that relate to your topic of interest. Affix all of these items into your logbook and leave space around each so that you can add your written comments and analysis at a later date. Please note that you need to be at school to gain access to some of these digital resources (check for details with the librarians).
Assignment 4 - Database Research Articles Close Reading
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Due: Tuesday, February 5th
Format: In the pages of your logbook in the spaces around the articles from assignment 1 - Database Research Articles, c05_a3
In Assignment 1 – Database Research, c05_a3, we asked you to collect and read articles from Jstor and other academic databases. In addition, you should have already read these, put them into the pages of your logbook, and save space around them for writing your analysis and comments in regard to them. In class today, we covered Strategies for Discovering influence for Articles. Please dissect each item according to the Strategies for Discovering Influence handout in the surrounding space.
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Due: Tuesday, February 5th
Format: In the pages of your logbook in the spaces around the articles from assignment 1 - Database Research Articles, c05_a3
In Assignment 1 – Database Research, c05_a3, we asked you to collect and read articles from Jstor and other academic databases. In addition, you should have already read these, put them into the pages of your logbook, and save space around them for writing your analysis and comments in regard to them. In class today, we covered Strategies for Discovering influence for Articles. Please dissect each item according to the Strategies for Discovering Influence handout in the surrounding space.
Virtual Project Exercise
Description/Preamble
Note: It’s a long one so skip to the bottom and read the section “Virtual Project Exercise: Final Format” then return and read to the bottom from here.
Creation of artistic content comes from combining and contrasting differing points of interest in your knowledge base. The unusual juxtaposition of parts (ideas, as well as images) in your work helps viewers stop to contemplate what your communication intentions might be. In IPC, building informed ideas makes it easier to establish communication goals, which, in turn, should make it easier for you to direct the outcome of the final art product. In this exercise we will ask you to allow informed content to lead you to the appropriate materials and forms that will eventually structure your visual artwork.
To begin this project use points found in articles to develop a message related to your topic. These points could be divergent and/or complimentary as long as they are taken from articles (from credible research sources) collected and read for homework.
Specifically, we ask that you creatively integrate your opinion into the researched argument points (evidence) you find interesting and relevant. You can blend points together or go an entirely different way, but your conceptual message should be individualized and tempered with your opinion. The word play, image play, and brainstorming you have done thus far should help you find a particular form and context for expressing what you want to communicate. Remember Professor Daugherty's lecture: sound visual arguments are made when the artist uses opinion and evidence.
This project combines the research phase of the Sequential Creative Process with the goal setting phase. Your job is to develop and propose, in writing, an artwork you would like to make, based, in part, on the research articles you have dissected for homework in your logbook, and any additional information you have generated using the “Strategies for Discovering Influence” handouts, or other strategies and brainstorming. It is important to realize that the most integral ingredient in this work will be the way you pair outside research with your own personal research. In other words, informed opinion should be readily apparent in whatever you develop. Your unsupported opinion alone will not suffice.
To inspire the virtual piece, go through at least four pieces of article research. You should have already identified specific, identified points, analyzed in writing using the “Strategies for Discovering Influence” handouts. Refer to points, counter points, and questions that capture your interest. Can one or more of these be combined with your perspective to develop an artwork that expresses your opinion on the topic as a statement or a question? For instance, if one article point inspires you to create a 'what if' question, could that question be expressed as an art object, painting, or video that communicates the way you are thinking? What you choose to develop should be an extension of research and opinion. We are asking you to draw your audience in by making work that asks them to reconsider what culture accepts about the topic. Art separates itself from the mundane aspects of our world through the friction it creates.
This project is referred to as virtual because it is built in the reader’s mind through the words of your proposal, rather than through the actual building and viewing of physical tangible work product. For this reason, your intentions need to be written clearly and concisely. Carefully consider and research (just as you would do with a physical project) so that you can convincingly tell us why what you propose is compelling. At the same time, make your idea and description compelling in language. Explain how your idea and its content are interesting and important, based on what you have discovered through research. Explain how the content can be derived from the physical form of the work. Wrap it all together with an engaging writing style. Think of this project as being analogous to a movie pitch or proposal; you are describing everything about the project including the final form. Remember, the reader or audience only sees what you are able to put into writing and not the image that is in your head. Sketches will not accompany your description, so be thorough in your written work.
In preparation for clarity, try writing out instructions that someone could follow to make your project; a step-by-step sequence may help you understand the way in which others will envision what you are developing more easily. Another strategy might involve trying to explain your project conversationally to a friend to see what areas need further clarification. Is everything coming through? Is there a specific written order to follow that will make your project concise in the reader’s mind? Are there details to adjust, delete, or add? Your message does not have to be the same one used in the student selects project nor do you have to use any visual components from that project. Creating a visual sketch may help you clarify your written work.
As far as what you propose goes, assume the following: unlimited budget, unlimited time, and unlimited skill. Choose the form, techniques, and materials based on what you are thinking conceptually. Ask yourself what materials, images and objects would lead your audience to make associations that connect with your content.
At the beginning of your proposal include a compelling summary and concise description detailing what your project is. Think of this as the ‘hook’ for your audience. Try to make this hook in only a few sentences. Remember, your goal is to create the product clearly in the mind of the reader, so they see the final work as it would exist in real space and time. Your finished written proposal needs to be in paragraph form, not a list. Be sure to cover these components in the order of your choice:
1. The title of the project
2. Summary or abstract of what you would make including:
3. Research point(s) and your opinion(s) as they pertain to what you propose
4. The project’s significance
5. The project’s physical description
6. The materials used to make the project
7. The project’s location or context
8. The importance of the projects location or context
9. The project’s function if an audience can interact with parts or all of it
Virtual Project Exercise: Points of Influence Summary
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Due: Thursday, February 7th
Format: Completed and recorded in the Logbook and Indexed
Make a list of any external images and points of influence (this list should include article research too) that you’ve discovered while conducting research and using the “Strategies for Discovering Influence” handout in regard to your topic. Summarize the ways in which these, along with any questions you proposed, lead you to develop the virtual project. If you like, you may photocopy sections of your logbook that include this information and to organize them together on one page instead of transferring the information by hand. Be sure to write a thorough summary and include it with what you photocopy or transfer. The final summary can be a list instead of a paragraph if that makes it easier to convey the magnitude and variety of your sources. This summary will help you write the part of your virtual project, which describes how and from where your project ideas developed. This developmental context will help readers understand your ideas in a way that goes beyond simple physical description, as you are elaborating on the history of the idea.
Virtual Project Exercise: Description Development
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Due: Thursday, February 7th
Format: Completed and recorded in the Logbook and Indexed
Take the list above of nine points you must include in the development of your Virtual Project and address each in detail as a list. Write this list within the pages of your logbook in preparation for your final written virtual project.
Virtual Project Exercise: Final Format
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Due: Tuesday, February 12th
Format: Typed and printed; 2 copies. Handwritten work will not be accepted.
ARCHIVE this assignment (digitally on your drive) to turn in at the end of the semester. Name file with the naming convention in the syllabus.
In not more than 750 words, create a virtual art piece, based on your theme and the research you have collected and written about in your logbook using the steps of the “Strategies for Discovering Influence” handout. Your written description should be such that it develops a clear mental picture in the mind of the reader. In other words, the final project should be envisioned mentally as it would exist in real space and time. Your virtual project may be any material, process, or medium you desire regardless of whether or not you can afford or execute the before-mentioned things. Be descriptive and compelling. A physical description is only part of the larger whole. Be sure to include a context or setting for your proposed piece along with your explanation of what you intend to communicate. See the list at the end of the Virtual Project Description above to make sure you write about all the aspects we require.
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