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Course
Objectives:
IMDA Senior Projects is a hybrid of independent and seminar studies
directed toward the development of your professional practices,
and a mature artwork. Students will engage in advanced verbal
analysis and criticism, and apply skills related to the creation
of a resume, documentation, a portfolio or video "reel"
and proposals. Assignments, critiques, and demonstrations will
stress a formal and critical approach to art making and perception.
Students will refine their vocabulary for the analysis and understanding
of visual art in 2-dimensional, 3-dimensional and time-based
forms. Students may employ both "traditional" studio
tools and computers in ART 489.
Course Requirements:
Two assignments will build professional skills: a curriculum
vitae (resume) and portfolio, and a proposal directed to a screening,
exhibition or graduate school program. Students will be required
to compose a printed matter and digital media CV, and a one-page
critical artist's statements addressing their call for entry
work and their final project. The final project should be executed
in the medium and format that most fully realizes a student's
concepts. You should begin conceptualizing your final project
in the first weeks of class. The final is only constrained by
a student's personal resources and the time limits imposed by
a semester long development cycle. A typeset 500-word printed
matter proposal must be submitted framing the final project.
Work in progress
must be discussed with the faculty during three assigned one-on-one
meetings at week 5, week 12, and prior to the delivery of the
final project. The completed work will be due during Exam Week,
and will be presented to the gathered class.
Considerable
autonomy is allowed to students in IMDA Senior Projects, and
it is the student's responsibility to actively seek out and schedule
meetings with the faculty. Do not work in isolation. Do not use
your autonomy to procrastinate. Do work that will make you proud
and competitive in the "real world.
IMDA
Senior Projects requires a mature and responsible commitment
from each student. Work is independent for much of the semester,
and with that degree of autonomy students must (perhaps for the
first time) work without the structure and guidance of faculty
directed topics. This means that the student works both with
great freedom and great responsibility. Students who are not
accustomed to self-directed creative work may find this course
to be very difficult.
Attendance:
IMDA Senior Projects is a demanding course. Handouts, critiques,
and demonstrations will contribute to each student's formal technical
and critical growth. Interaction and collaboration with your
peers and with the faculty will play an important role in the
learning process. Please note that three or more unexcused absences
from mandatory class meetings or one-on-one sessions will result
in failure of IMDA Senior Projects. During mandatory class meetings
the instructor will call attendance at the start of every class.
Please do not arrive late or depart early from class meetings.
Absence from a class is not an excuse for skipping a tutorial,
reading assignment, or project. You are fully responsible for
completing work.
Grading:
Work must be completed on time and in full satisfaction of each
project goal. Late work (assignments handed in after the start
of in-class critique sessions) will be automatically downgraded
by one letter grade unless the faculty has been directly consulted
in person, by email or by telephone contact. An Incomplete can
only be assigned to students with a passing record unable to
complete work due to some unforeseeable serious illness or personal
tragedy. Non-allowable excuses include foreseeable job assignments
or work from other courses. Students must assume responsibility
for preparing all necessary incomplete status paperwork for faculty
signature and for submission to the department.
| A |
Well
above the expectations of the course. Outstanding participation,
attendance, and mastery of formal and conceptual skills. |
| B |
Above
average assignments and mastery over tools, materials and conceptual
facility. |
| C |
Average
execution of assignments, participation and attendance. |
| D |
Well
below average work, attendance and participation in critiques |
| F |
Unsatisfactory
work, attendance and participation in critiques |
| Assignment
1: Printed Matter and Hypermedia CV/Portfolio |
20 % |
| Assignment
2: Installation Proposal |
30 % |
| Response
to Assigned Texts & Participation |
10
% |
| Final
Project |
40% |
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Suggested Text:
The Practical Handbook for the Emerging Artist, 2nd ed., Margaret R. Lazzari,
Harcourt College Publishers, ISBN 0-15-506202-6
Assignment
1: Portfolio and Curriculum Vitae: Due Wednesday, February 27
Compose a curriculum vitae in the form of: printed matter, and,
a World Wide Web site or interactive CD-ROM. Students will be
required to produce a comprehensive CV that outlines academic,
work, extracurricular and art experience. Documentation of artwork
in one or more forms -- slides, VHS or DV tape, and digital media
is required. Examples of artists' CVs will be provided as source
material. Students must proactively seek resources available
on campus at the A. O. Kuhn Library and through the Writing Center
to realize this assignment. A photo copystand and filmrecorder
demo will be offered to produce analog slide documentation. On-location
documentation techniques will be demonstrated.
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Week 5 One-on-One
Meetings: Monday, March 4 & Wednesday, March 6
Go
to One on One Meeting Schedule
Spring Break:
March 25 - 31
Assignment
2: Graduate School, Exhibition or Screening Application:
Due Wednesday, April 3
Apply to graduate school in the visual or media arts or submit
to a call for entry to School 33 Art Center, SIGGRAPH, or other
suitable venues for your work. This "real world" assignment
allows the student to build upon experience acquired in Assignment
1. The materials developed for Assignment 1 may be adapted, revised
and refined for this proposal. Video, slide, WWW, and CD-ROM
portfolio revisions are strongly encouraged. Students will be
required to create concise and descriptive one-page installation
proposals and artist's statements to fulfill the requirements.
MFA Program Links
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Work In Progress
Meetings: Monday, April 8 & Wednesday, April 10
Site Visit: School 33 Art Center Field Trip
and Meeting with Peter Dubeau, Wednesday, April 24th, 1427 Light
Street in Federal Hill, South Baltimore.
Final
Project: Artwork: Due Monday, May 20 & Wednesday, May 22
The final project for ART 489 will allow for a long development
cycle, and students should begin conceptual work at the very
start of the semester. The piece may be executed in any appropriate
medium: digital media, animation, WWW, sound works, projection,
printed matter, performance, etc. The work must be conceived
realistically within the scope of a student's ability to complete
the piece in one semester while balancing other UMBC course work.
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