Class #9

Assignment deadlines:

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Due October 21: a web page or multiple web pages using as many of your ~~cheap fun tricks~~ technical skills as you can. Compose it as you would any other 2D art work. pay attention to surface, texture and movement. Make sure that your images and objects are called from a server and not locally. (I do not want an image folder) Testing your project to make sure it works is important in this process as well. This is worth 30% of your final mark
Have a good reason to use stuff. http://www.seecoy.com/matrYOshki.html

On-going until November 27: The group blog project. This is worth 20% of your mark, and don't try to slip in a bunch of blog posts on the last week. Participate, pay attention to what other people are doing. GET POSTING. Remember don't post huge image files, use HTML to size things up, its more interesting anyway, it's a pain to wait for a page like that to download.

Due November 27: a page or multiple pages representing a jpegs of a group show, with your own work included. This is worth 20% of your final mark This doesn't have to be your digital work, a jpeg of drawing, paintings, installations, performance whatever. Four or more artists will constitute a group show, including yourself. Give it a title, and remember when you are curating other artists into this web show their work has to be credited - name, title, medium and size (if the size info isn't available don't worry, since lots of artists get away with "mixed media" and "dimensions variable" if there are too many to list) It's a chance to think about what artists you admire, that you believe you can hold your own with. Also doesn't hurt to find out how hard curating a good show can be.

Due November 27: Collection project, minimum 25, max 50 items. Collect things that are invested with some interest and meaning for you. Must be compelling for you or it won’t be for me. Low brow or high brow as you want. I've shown you a lot of artists collection projects. One thing is that though the collection must be submitted on a HTML page, that doesn'ty mean you can't generate the images yourself, scan or photograph or video if you want. This is worth 30% of your final mark

When you look at this stuff, I want you to be more impressed by the decisions these people make as artists, not their tech skills. Trust me, programming is easy compared to making art.

http://www.losamigosdelaimagen.com/EV021/EV021.html, http://www.stevenread.com/node/541

http://www.bordamedia.com/proun/
http://www.newrafael.com/
http://www.messhof.com/
http://www.wimdelvoye.be/ opening page for an artist web site. I don't think this really works with what he has on the actual site.

Today we open Flash and learn a few of the paint tools and how to organize Flash assets so that you can easily animate or program actions for them (or eventually decide you hate programming but at least you can learn to prep files real nice for the programmer, whoever she may be.)

But first you get to play some games.

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