#4. Final Project
Working from your own personal artistic interests, you will be expected to create a significant digital artwork, or series of works that are presented outside of the computer. The concept of your work should inform the way it is presented. It could be printed out using the ink-jet printers, printed by a company (such as Ezprints.com, Photographic Creations or Kinkos), made into a book, made into slides and projected, ironed onto fabric, incorporated into a web artwork, a QuickTime movie, etc. You will need to turn in a written proposal for this project. I will meet with each of you to help determine a directed program of study and techniques necessary for you to realize a significant work of digital art that you will be proud to display in the end of the quarter show. Your work must be shown in its completed form on the class critique date. That includes finished framing.
This final project will be submitted to the Art and Tech exhibition jury on the last wednesday of classes, (see schedule in Carmen). If selected, your work will be displayed in the quarterly Art and Technology exhibition which takes place in the Art Gallery and the Soundstage in Haskett Hall. Submitting your work to this exhibition is a requirement of the course.OPTION 1
Create a significant digital artwork, or series of works, that address a concept of your choosing.
OPTION 2
"Seed"
“Seed” could signify fertility, a new beginning, or perhaps a concern for the preservation, restoration, or improvement of the natural environment. Using digital tools we have covered this quarter, create an artwork that investigates the concept of "Seed". The finished product can take whatever form you deem appropriate. For example, you could create an installation that interacts with or becomes part of the environment, an experimental visual proposal that merges art with scientific research - or science fiction - or a work through which the public can participate and take an active role in the realization of the concepts you choose to address.
Related links for inspiration:
- An online museum that showcases environmental artwork:
http://www.greenmuseum.org/ - Agnes Denes, planting forests as artwork and making
drawings/visualizations of the potential outcome:
http://greenmuseum.org/content/artist_content/ct_id-198__artist_id-63.html - Archinode, architects idea to "grow" houses, notice
that all of the images are beautiful digital visualizations:
http://www.archinode.com/bienal.html - A website that displays the carbon dioxide emission
levels of every country in the world, as well as their birth and death
rates in real time:
http://www.breathingearth.net/ - An artist who uses media art in order to trigger more
ecologically responsible behavior:
http://www.tiffanyholmes.com/Projects/7000oakscounting/index.html - Farm Fountain, an experiment in growing edible fish and plants in an indoor, constructed ecosystem: http://www.farmfountain.com/
- Futurefarmers Project Site:
http://www.futurefarmers.com/survey/ - A short animation warning of a possible future for
the planet:
http://www.threeleggedlegs.com/repertoire/humans/ - “Blooming” Postage Stamps:
http://www.inhabitat.com/2007/06/04/blooming-stamps-from-the-dutch-postal-service/ - An article addressing how digital avatars in Second
Life use as much electricity as a real, average person in Brazil:
http://www.roughtype.com/archives/2006/12/avatars_consume.php - Very "green" in color, yet very unsustainable and
unecological,"quality
synthetic grass":
http://www.foreverlawninc.com/index.html
• IMPORTANT INFORMATION about turning in your final assignment in this class •
Even for this last assignment, you must upload your digital files to the appropriate assignment dropbox folder in Carmen. We will critique the actual, output work on our critique day, but I still want the digital documents for my records.If you used any source image files that are not your own, you must also upload a text file that explains where each came from and includes image permissions for images that are not explicitly copyright free. This is to ensure that you are not violating copyright law by misusing images that do not belong to you.
ASSIGNMENTS WILL BE EVALUATED BASED ON THE FOLLOWING CRITERIA:
• CONCEPT - idea, intention and meaning.
Does the artwork clearly communicate something to other viewers? 25%
• CREATIVITY - originality of thought and expression.
Does the artwork show innovation and uniqueness? Did the artist solve the given assignment problem in an expected or unexpected way? 25%• COMPOSITION - arrangement and organization of elements.Has the artist carefully considered elements such as balance, proportion, texture, color, shape, and positive/negative space? 25%
• CRAFTSMANSHIP - attention to detail.
Does the artist skillfully manipulate the images? Are all details carefully finished and/or intentional-looking? 25%