Class 12 - Homework - February 21st

Dear Students-
On Tuesday, we will meet in Callicott first. Also, we will be executing the one hour project during class. PLEASE do not start on your work until your professors have made arrangements to divide the class into three groups. If you do start working, you will most likely be asked to move.
We look forward to seeing your work.
Team IPC

Assignment 0 - Project Prescription

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Format: A handout that you can download on this page with items of what to do listed for you to follow when developing projects. Completing these lists in your logbook for each project will help you with fulfilling the logbook requirement for the course.

This is a checklist of sorts, with specific things to do each time you are assigned a project to develop. This listing of actions will also help you fill the pages of your logbook in such a way that you can receive credit and improve your logbook grades. Please use it often and complete each task thoroughly.

Assignment 1 – Metaphor Exercise

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Due: Thursday, February 28th, at the beginning of class

Format: Complete four worksheets (download by clicking on Metaphor Worksheet in the sidebar). On the first two worksheets focus on objects. For the other two worksheets focus on materials, as in raw materials that you can build something with. Every source you use should somehow connect to your overall idea and direction. Paste these completed worksheets into the pages of the logbook and index them correctly.

* pick two source objects and two source materials (raw materials): each should be central to an aspect of your theme (topic and direction)

* use the strategy for developing metaphors demonstrated in lecture to help you build potentially useful references for each of the three elements identified above

* fill out the worksheets. One source to each worksheet

Use the exercise demonstrated in class to discover additional object and material possibilities for current and future use (in making work about your topic/theme/direction). Do this exercise four times so that you end up with at least two metaphoric objects and at least two metaphoric materials in an effort to create interesting visual 'words' for your visual compositions. Remember that you are trying to create a metaphor in which A=B, meaning that B works as a credible and thought provoking stand in for A. This list of references can also be used as a guide for future research and as a reminder of useful visual language to use in compositions as a means for speaking to viewers.

Assignment 2 - Analogous and Metaphoric Image and Material Collection

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Due: Thursday, Februay 28th, at the beginning of class

Format: Completed and indexed in your Idea Logbook. At the very least, 16 different 2D images. Put these 2D images together in a baggie. Label said baggie and put it into the image collection envelope in the back of your logbook. Label this baggie with permanent marker as 'c12_a2'.

Now that you have at least four different lists of potential objects and materials based metaphoric references [assignment 1], collect 16 actual 2D images depicting these references, and or aspects of them.