Final Writing Assignment and Presentation

Final Writing Assignment and Presentation

Final Writing Assignment and Presentation

1) This is a two part final assignment.  You will be creating a 5 to 10 minute presentation for class and a 1500 word Illustrated Blog Post/Paper on the same subject matter.

2) Choose two artists (or artists groups/collaboratives) from the following websites featuring literally hundreds of artists for you to explore.  You are to choose artists we have not covered in class:
http://www.eyebeam.org/people/current (search through "fellows" and "residents" for hundreds of amazing artists, links to their websites will generally be on their profile pages)
http://userwww.sfsu.edu/~infoarts/links/wilson.artlinks2.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_art
http://rhizome.org/art/
http://www.gamescenes.org/

2) Research your chosen artists. Make sure to record citations of where to find the works, links, etc.

3) Choose ONE representative work from each of your artists for a total of two works to be considered in your paper and presentation - you may choose to include more works by these artists in your visual presentation to the class, but your main thesis will revolve around your ONE representative work from each  artist. 

4) Describe, analyze, interpret, compare and contrast the artist’s works, considering broadly their chosen formal and conceptual strategies, being careful to address genre (film, video, performance, interactive art, simulation, game art, etc) in your general analysis of the works. As part of your research, make an attempt to contact both of your artists to ask questions regarding the work. (If you don't hear back from them please note such in your paper). For the paper/blog post, make appropriate citations following standard academic paper guidelines (MLA or Chicago Manual Style)

Please limit your chosen artists/works to those created after 1980 - the only requirement is that the artists are somehow intrinsically involved in the creative use of digital technologies in their works.

The intent here is to give you the opportunity to critically engage in basic research and analysis of artists and artworks, while at the same time encouraging a greater depth of experience of various artists' creative production and contexts.

The paper is to be in the form of an extended blog post - include illustrations, videos where appropriate, etc.

Grading: 
Your presentation and writing will be graded according to the quality of your research, the originality of your analysis, the clarity of your writing, design and clarity of your presentation.

Due Dates: 

In Class Presentations 

3/31

Alicea,Jasmine

Badger,Megan

Booth,Joshua

Byers,Kelly

Cimorelli,Sidney

Cyr,Olivia

Graves,Brittney

Hossick,Kalie

Khoo,Caryn

Kohut,David

4/2

Lien,Jessie

Luna-Barajas,Christian

Morales,Joseph

Phillips,Ambur

Sezpkouski, Hayden

Ramirez,Shani

Sanchez,Leeza

Shane,Sienna

Thomassian,Marina

Toulouse,Flora

Paper as Illustrated Blog Post:
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