The following items are due next week, for your final project. From now on, your only assignment is to work on your final project. You will be expected to show progress each week. There’s not much time left! Less than 4 weeks!
- YOUR IDEA. Write at least three paragraphs, not more than a page and a half, on the idea or concept you want to express. This should be clear and concise. Remember to clearly define your terms, and any assumptions you’re making– for example, if you want to make a piece about the “destruction” of data, what do you mean by “destruction”— do you mean altering, erasing, corrupting, transforming, decaying, deleting, etc? How are each of these different? I want to know your core idea and WHY it interests you.
- YOUR DATA SOURCE. Where will you get the data you’re working with? Will you collect it, pull it from the internet, get it from a static data file on a government site? How much data do you have access to? How was this data initially collected, and by whom, for what purpose? What are potential problems with the data?
- REFERENCES, of other projects that have inspired you. Look back at the lectures, do some web searching to find artworks that deal with some of the ideas you’re interested in. Check blogs like infoaesthetics.com and visualcomplexity.com. I would like you to look for inspiration/references both for content/ideas and for visual aesthetics.
- WORKPLAN an outline of how you’ll proceed, with due dates for yourself. For example, if you know you have a part of the program that takes in data and processes it, you might want to finish that first, before you start writing your class to display data. Or if you plan to manipulate data in processing and then use those datapoints to create an real-life object (a sculpture or a map) or interaction (a dance), then you need to be done with the processing part of the project early on, so you have plenty of time to work on your object. The goal of this exercise is to avoid you starting to write that critical object class or creating your object the night before it’s due! Think strategically about the project requirements and be sure that your plan is realistic!