Homework: The Focus (Work)

Your task this week is to analyze, edit, and organize your research to date  and focus on a particular aspect of your word to research further and IN DEPTH.  What are you most interested in,  what are you most excited about, what do you want to communicate?

You will then create an informative structure (performances, interviews, presentations, maps, installations, objects, animations, video, sounds, images, books, etc, etc,) that communicates your research focus to an audience.

Keep in Mind:

• You are still dealing with The Line
• Focus on an aspect or avenue to research that is exciting to you.
• Consider methods for your informative structure that are interesting and creative.  How can you make your work interesting and engaging? How do you get your audience to need/want to spend time with it?
• Consider how your informative structure depicts your research without you there to explain it.  What bits of information are most essential to understand,  is there something for the audience to question and explore?
• Consider your choice of method/ process/ material. Each choice you make affects the outcome of your project.  What is necessary?  What is appropriate?  (For example: Remember that even your choice of paper or font has an effect on the information that you present. i.e. don’t use copy paper and markers unless these are absolutely necessary for your project.)
• This project is the culmination of 4 weeks of research and will reflect 2 weeks worth of work.  Does what you are doing live-up to that?  Is it appropriately involved and ambitious?

You should complete 75% of your project for Thursday November 17th at which point you will have an in-process critique.  The  finished projects will then be due Thursday December 1st.

****Let us know if you need any technological resources (beside a video projector) for the presentation of your work.  If  you are presenting video or sound work please bring it on a thumb drive or DVD/ CD,  so that we can install all media work on one computer.

****If your piece is site-specific (i.e. on the line)  you will need to document it thoroughly and show that documentation during the crit on the 1st.