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==Projects and Assignments policies==
 
==Projects and Assignments policies==
  
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ONE LATE ASSIGNMENT FOR THE SEMESTER IS ACCEPTABLE - THIS DOES NOT INCLUDE THE MID TERM EXHIBIT OR THE FINAL PROJECT
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In order to be considered complete, each assignment must have an image and statement to accompany it posted to your website.
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ONE LATE ASSIGNMENT (of one week) FOR THE SEMESTER IS ACCEPTABLE - THIS DOES NOT INCLUDE THE VITRINE EXHIBIT OR THE FINAL AR PROJECT
  
 
OTHERWISE, ASSIGNMENTS MORE THAN ONE WEEK LATE WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED
 
OTHERWISE, ASSIGNMENTS MORE THAN ONE WEEK LATE WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED
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LATE ASSIGNMENTS WILL BE LOWERED ONE LETTER GRADE
 
LATE ASSIGNMENTS WILL BE LOWERED ONE LETTER GRADE
  
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IN ORDER TO BE CONSIDERED ON-TIME, ASSIGNMENTS AND PROJECTS MUST BE POSTED TO THE WEBSITE
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IN ORDER TO BE CONSIDERED ON-TIME, ASSIGNMENTS AND PROJECTS MUST BE POSTED TO YOUR WEBSITE
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Send me the link to your website by week 2 before class
  
 
==Assignment 1 ==
 
==Assignment 1 ==
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Due Feb. 5:  Mind map on what differentiates one space from another. (show the relationship and different levels of “sacredness” or “personalness” of the spaces you know/frequent)
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Due in class for presentation and discussion on 2/12, 2/26, 3/5, 3/12, 4/16, 4/23, 4/30, 5/7.
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Asn. 1 Google Map entries
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Each week (excepting the last 3 weeks), create a google map entry identifying a piece of public art, add it to the map, document and comment on it. 
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Categorize each work according to the following schema:
  
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==Assignment 2==
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*1. title, date
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Due Feb. 24: “Spatial forms are social structures”  Analyze some public or private space that you inhabit or pass through regularly with this phrase in mind.  How do you use this space?  How does its character (size, shape, architectural nature) influence what you do there, how you and other co-habitants relate?  Relate an incident in your own or someone else’s experience of the space to characterize how the space influences the actions and interactions of those who use it. Discuss size, shape, lighting, sound, materials (such as wood, metal, linoleum, etc.) 1 pg. and class presentation.
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*2.  objects placed in the environment
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**a. sponsored privately
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**b. sponsored publicly
  
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==Assignment 3==
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*3.  modifications to the environment
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Due March 17. Presentation: Choose by lottery one of the 13 ways of Thos. McEvilley’s essay about understanding art, and do a short presentation using a work of public art as an illustration/subject. Post one or more images to your class site and several explanatory bullet points, and do a 5-7 min. presentation in class. [[http://faculty.smcm.edu/lnscheer/mce.html]]
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**a. official, sanctioned, sponsored (by whom)
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**b. unofficial, renegade, guerilla
  
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==Assignment 4 ==
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*4. description
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Due April 21.  Choose two works of public art that illustrate one or more of the dichotomies suggested below (or some others that you may conceive), and do a 5-10 minute presentation using at least one (digital) image (and/or sound file) of each work.
 
  
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*Horizontal – vertical
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*5. relationship to the public
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*Representational – abstract
 
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*Commemorative –  conceptual
 
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*Corporate/Governmental – community
 
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*Self contained - interactive
 
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*Official – underground/renegade
 
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*Lasting - ephemeral
 
  
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Include a discussion of its historical, political, social, and physical context and siting.
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*6. its world view
  
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==Project 1 ==
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==Assignment 2==  
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Due Feb. 10: Design a billboard (and show it in context) that expresses an opinion and attempts to persuade on a subject of your choice such as: war, the environment, alternative energy, poverty, homelessness, AIDS, etc.
 
  
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==Project 2 ==
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due week 2 (2/5)
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Due March 10.
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Design a modification of existing monument, memorial or piece of public art.
  
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==Project 3 ==
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==Assignment 3==  
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Due May 12. Design a motif (could be text, high contrast image, continuous tone/color image) to be projected on the sidewalk in front of the 1000 building, keeping in mind the context: public space, space of passage, and perhaps completion of one journey and start of another.
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Due Feb. 19
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Equipment used will be found on this website:  [[http://www.razlight.com]]
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Project 1:  QR Mobile Tagging
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The technical specifications for the image are:
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Create three signs with a QR code that can be read by a mobile phone and references a URL or a text piece that you have created. Take a photo of the 3 locations. Please do not locate it permanently. Refer to Chgo. City ordinance on signage.  
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[[http://www.amlegal.com/nxt/gateway.dll/Illinois/chicago_il/title10streetspublicwaysparksairportsand/chapter10-24signsextendingoveranduponcer?f=templates$fn=altmain-nf.htm$3.0#JD_Ch.10-24]]
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CHAPTER 10-24 -SIGNS EXTENDING OVER AND UPON CERTAIN PUBLIC PROPERTY
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These should be in a public place (ie, not a private residence, school, or corporate building).
  
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We may also be able to use video projectors to project onto the sidewalk, and we should be able to incorporate sound.
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==Assignment 4 ==
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due April 2, installation on April 8th
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==Project 4 ==  
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Site-sensitive piece using rear-projected video for the windows of (across from 24 W. Randolph)
  
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Final exhibit, Facade of the Hyde Park Art Center, one evening April 13 - 24 (M-Th)
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==Assignment 5 ==
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Due 5/14
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Augmented Reality work – piece of public art, 
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Artist interventions in public space were formerly relegated to one of two strategies:  officially approved and funded work, and guerilla interventions. AR provides an opportunity for individual interpretations of public space to become available to a broad audience and makes it possible for alternative histories, political statements, and artistic mediations to be widely seen and heard.  With these ideas in mind, create a piece that “tags” one or more locations in Chicago’s loop. 
  
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Design and realize a work of public art for presentation on the facade system [[http://www.hydeparkart.org/Facade%20Production%20Manual.pdf]] of the Hyde Park Art Center.  This may be an individual or a collaborative work.
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==Assignment 6 ==
  
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due March 31:  statement describing its intention, why it should be considered public art, as well as a pre-visualization of the work.
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Public art proposal or grant proposal
  
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due April 7: Rough edit
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Write a proposal, including budget, for a public art project.  This should be a response to an actual opportunity or RFP. For example:
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*Propeller fund (threewalls gallery, deadline 8/31)[[http://www.propellerfund.org/]] 
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*Public art opportunity in Ann Arbor, MI, deadline 3/6, [[www.a2gov.org/aapac]] Statement of Qualifications to submit:
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[[http://www.a2gov.org/government/financeadminservices/procurement/Documents/Argo%20Cascades%20SOQ%20844.pdf]]
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* Public Art Opportunity:  Bay Ridge Saw, (Brooklyn NY) [[http://www.bayridgesaw.org/]]
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other opportunities: 
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* Las Vegas Arts Commission [[www.lvartscommission.com/artist-opportunities/]]
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* Chicago Artists Resource:  [[http://www.chicagoartistsresource.org]]
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* Call for Entry:  [[https://www.callforentry.org/]]
  
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due April 14:  Final piece, subject to further tweaking depending on date of the final screening, .
 
  
 
BACK TO PUBLIC ART MAIN PAGE [[http://imamp.colum.edu/mediawiki/index.php/Public_Art]]
 
BACK TO PUBLIC ART MAIN PAGE [[http://imamp.colum.edu/mediawiki/index.php/Public_Art]]
  
 
[[Category:IAM Classes]][[Category:Public Art]]
 
[[Category:IAM Classes]][[Category:Public Art]]

Latest revision as of 22:42, 28 January 2013

Projects and Assignments policies

In order to be considered complete, each assignment must have an image and statement to accompany it posted to your website.

ONE LATE ASSIGNMENT (of one week) FOR THE SEMESTER IS ACCEPTABLE - THIS DOES NOT INCLUDE THE VITRINE EXHIBIT OR THE FINAL AR PROJECT

OTHERWISE, ASSIGNMENTS MORE THAN ONE WEEK LATE WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED

LATE ASSIGNMENTS WILL BE LOWERED ONE LETTER GRADE

IN ORDER TO BE CONSIDERED ON-TIME, ASSIGNMENTS AND PROJECTS MUST BE POSTED TO YOUR WEBSITE

Send me the link to your website by week 2 before class

Assignment 1

Due in class for presentation and discussion on 2/12, 2/26, 3/5, 3/12, 4/16, 4/23, 4/30, 5/7. Asn. 1 Google Map entries Each week (excepting the last 3 weeks), create a google map entry identifying a piece of public art, add it to the map, document and comment on it. Categorize each work according to the following schema:

  • 1. title, date
  • 2. objects placed in the environment
    • a. sponsored privately
    • b. sponsored publicly
  • 3. modifications to the environment
    • a. official, sanctioned, sponsored (by whom)
    • b. unofficial, renegade, guerilla
  • 4. description
  • 5. relationship to the public
  • 6. its world view

Assignment 2

due week 2 (2/5) Design a modification of existing monument, memorial or piece of public art.

Assignment 3

Due Feb. 19 Project 1: QR Mobile Tagging Create three signs with a QR code that can be read by a mobile phone and references a URL or a text piece that you have created. Take a photo of the 3 locations. Please do not locate it permanently. Refer to Chgo. City ordinance on signage. [[1]] CHAPTER 10-24 -SIGNS EXTENDING OVER AND UPON CERTAIN PUBLIC PROPERTY These should be in a public place (ie, not a private residence, school, or corporate building).

Assignment 4

due April 2, installation on April 8th Site-sensitive piece using rear-projected video for the windows of (across from 24 W. Randolph)

Assignment 5

Due 5/14 Augmented Reality work – piece of public art, Artist interventions in public space were formerly relegated to one of two strategies: officially approved and funded work, and guerilla interventions. AR provides an opportunity for individual interpretations of public space to become available to a broad audience and makes it possible for alternative histories, political statements, and artistic mediations to be widely seen and heard. With these ideas in mind, create a piece that “tags” one or more locations in Chicago’s loop.

Assignment 6

Public art proposal or grant proposal

Write a proposal, including budget, for a public art project. This should be a response to an actual opportunity or RFP. For example:

  • Propeller fund (threewalls gallery, deadline 8/31)[[2]]
  • Public art opportunity in Ann Arbor, MI, deadline 3/6, www.a2gov.org/aapac Statement of Qualifications to submit:

[[3]]

  • Public Art Opportunity: Bay Ridge Saw, (Brooklyn NY) [[4]]

other opportunities:


BACK TO PUBLIC ART MAIN PAGE [[7]]

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