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

Parafiction/Relational Aesthetics

Rhizome

Relational Aesthetics

relational aesthetics

Final Project: The Archival Vessel

DUE NEXT WEEK:

Your final project will function as an archive/collection of all

of your experiments in this class + the theories we've explored.

Research and present 3 examples of archives or collections

that you could use as a model for your final project.

For ALL THREE examples you must present your analysis:

a. the different types of content found in the archive

b. the structure of the archive and how it is navigated

c. the purpose of the archive

d. the audience for the archive, how they are located

and how they are effected by the archive

Choose one of your examples and use it to

make a sketch of the structure of your final project

(storyboard, maquette, wireframes)

Your final project must exist as a video, book or

website and operate as a narrative

>>>>Your presentation is a slideshow that includes your analysis of the three archives

>>>>with supporting visuals, your sketch for your final project, and your Project Statement.

**Please consider what an archive is and how it is meant to operate.

Find archives that interest you - can a junk drawer or car trunk be an archive?

How can collections operate as records or archives?

What is the difference between a living archive and a dead one?

Enlighten the class with your findings in a formal presentation next week.

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TODAY IN CLASS:

You must answer the following questions and

turn in before the end of class in order to receive credit:

1. How can people learn from the ideas of your artist and

how you have chosen to express them in your collection of projects?

2. What is the thread or threads running through your work conceptually -

what do the different pieces you produced have in common aesthetically?

This is your Project Statement. Include your it in your presentation.

Relational Aesthetics. mikey

Terry Richardson @ OTIS

Terry Richardson visits Otis College of Art & Design on March 31, 2012...

Or does He?

But on a serious note... you can get a signed photograph if you show up between 11-12pm

RHIZOME

.jpq

an exhibition by Mikey Uphoff of every jpg image within his Mac book pro. The total amount of images totals over 9,000 images from stock imagery, screenshots, multiple different versions of past projects, and personal photographs, some that could be considered embarrassing.

Unmonumental/Monumental

I Like Recession and Recession Like Me
website displaying multiple animated gifs.
Each Gif is sampled from multiple perspectives with in one unique space. A community of young adults + a warehouse + a large black fabic + one grey kitten

Chaka Kahn! Events only tell the myth in which is told.

OR SEEN

unmonumental/monumental

new romantic landscapes

Parafiction

PARAFICTION

Parafiction