InstructionsProcure a camera. I recommend a good quality, $3,000 DSLR—but, in lieu of that, anything that will take pictures :) You can check out decent cameras through ITS, use a cell phone camara, a disposable model, or a simple point-and-shoot. Now create a single-page, photographic "self-portrait" and/or tell a photographic story of "a day of my life in a visual culture." Create this portrait or story by identifying everything "visual" in your daily path or actions: from the moment you wake until the moment you go to sleep, make a note of what, in your environment, is meant to be seen or relies on sight.
YOU WANT TO CREATE a work of graphic art which records the visible world as it appears to you every day, every hour, every minute. TRY TO MAKE EVIDENT, implicitly or explicity, a thesis about your material—some central, over-arching point about the experience. PUT IT ALL TOGETHER as a .pdf, Word, Photoshop, Power Point, or other document. DESIGN IS FLEXIBLE; be imaginative while also observing the basic principles of visual design. Your piece can be linear, spacial, collaged, or other. MAKE THIS PIECE VERBAL-VISUAL. That is, it should include both writing and images: aprx. 30% writing, 80% images. POST A DRAFT AND A FINAL VERSION in our Bb Drop Box. Draft due: Jan. 19/20. Finish version due: Jan. 26/27
To get prepped for this project:
Your aim is to
AudienceThis is for yourself as well as for anyone interested art, visual media, and self-portraiture. Imagine that your final product will be on display in the NDSU Union Gallery, or the Plains Art Museum downtown, or The Spectrum, or The High Plains Reader, or Nichole's (a great pastry shop in Fargo which displays local art), and so on. Your audience is intellectually curious, well-read, and well-aquainted with the fine arts. They may also have some background in media studies or rhetoric, and are very curious about the world generally. You'll need to create something original, illuminating, rich and moving to impress this audience.Purpose of the Assignment
|
||