Final Project: The Archival Vessel: DESIGN

Help your partner by answering the following questions in writing:

1. What is their main idea? Do you see it throughout the book?

Do you understand this idea better after looking over their book?

2. What can they do to make their idea clearer and better represented in the book?

3. How can they make it more interesting?

What is the most interesting part of their work - how can they focus more on this?

4. Do you see the structure of their archive reflected in the book?

List 2 strengths and 2 weaknesses of the following aspects of their project. BE SPECIFIC.

1. Visual hierarchy

(does the book function on both a macro and micro level,

do they need more scale changes, is the hierarchy clear)

2. Structural complexity

(does the structure reflect the archive in an interesting way, not just as a gimmick)

3. Visual consistency

(are the fonts, colors and other visual elements consistent throughout)

4. Narrative consistency

(does their story have a beginning, middle and end)

You will be graded on the quality of your feedback. One copy to me and one to your partner.

parafiction/relational aesthetics

rhyzometer

un/monumental

landscape

ye olde photoshoppe

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/06/world/europe/in-russia-a-watch-vanishes-up-orthodox-leaders-sleeve.html?src=me&ref=general

Final Project: The Archival Vessel: CONTENT

Time to gather everything together and make some sense of it ...

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What you must include: (your will be graded on the following. does not need to be in this order. you choose the hierarchy)

1. Short description of each theory and how you chose to approach it - must be in your own words

2. One to three sentence summary of the main idea you have pursued to varying degrees throughout your work in this class (based on the ideas of your artist - your Project Statement). This idea may have developed as you progressed or may have been there all along.

3. Images of each project and your process (you can choose how to show your process - feel free to go back and recreate steps if you did not record them)

4. Final summary - can be in words or visual

5. Organizational structure based on the archive you researched

THE ABOVE CONTENT YOU MUST HAVE COMPLETED FOR NEXT WEEK

AND ORGANIZED INTO YOUR STRUCTURE/FORMAT. This rough draft is due next week.

Use today in class to gather all your information so that you can work on just the organization as hw

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You may also choose to include:

-diagrams, process notes, appendix of images you chose not to include, information about your artist and their projects

Other possibilities:

-information about other relevant artists who are pursuing the same idea

-other images or visual materials that you want to include, that you think would make your content more interesting