The Final: Making Connections

For your Take Home Final 
-Start with the quiz. Supplement the missing details from your memory with your notes from our presentations this semester and your CEC experiences.
-Organize your quiz answers into a Formal, Readable Format. Don't list out the answers. Instead, position them and add more, as needed, to make your argument.
-If you'd like to present a fact  (FACT! not opinion or someone's analysis) from a source other than your notes, cite it properly and include a bibliography.
-This should read like a 2-4 page paper.

SWOON
-Callie is a fine artist who mixes activist processes with traditional ones and balances gallery exhibitions with real action.

Your canvas: Stairs

Here is the template for our stair project. Each stair is divided into three segments marking out the average width of a piece of duct tape.  Each group will have one stair set.  Your 3-color designs are due next Monday. The following Thursday we'll install them.

The steps to produce your image for the steps:
1) design your campaign (clear, simple, 3-color image)
2) reduce your image to our scale: in Photoshop save a version of your image, go to image>size and change the height of the total number of pixels (it could be as small as 21px high or as large as 50px high (simpler images can be 50 px, more detailed should be 21 px- this prevents you from having to cut the tape into tiny bits on the bottom step)
3) open our template in photoshop
4) paste your scaled-down image over it, resize it, and make it partially transparent.  You should end up with something like this

Everyone should be finished with your color activism QR codes. Please send me a snapshot of your outdoor codes once they've been placed. Thursday we'll go on a 'QR TOUR'  so please reserve one copy of your QR codes to take on the tour.

The Color of Activism III

-Your PDF images will be on separate pages on this site.

-Next, create the QR code for your page. 

-Print and duplicate them

-"Laminate"

- Apply to appropriate locations

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For people looking to complete CECs or if you're interested...

-This Friday, April 20, 7:15pm in the D-Lot the automobile orchestra score "motor vehicle sundown" by fluxus artist George Becht will be performed. Everyone is welcome to watch (or if you have a car, you can also perform). To receive CEC credit, write about how performance could be used as a form of activism.

-Wasteland Screening, food and panel  APR 25
to receive CEC credit for this, attend and write about the panel (but please also enjoy the Brazilian food and the film) 

The Color of Activism II

You have a campaign, with an audience and a specific set of colors

Color, information, and detail are now important. Think of your content as a beautiful, detailed, full-color poster. It's time for an output that can support these aspects.

1) your content must be up on the web somewhere...  if you don't have web space, give me your project as a PDF and I will put it up on a page associated with this site

2) you must associate text, a map, or the URL of your content with a QR code by GENERATING ONE HERE:
or with another QR code generator.

3) your QR code can now be printed out, weather-proofed and placed at the right location.


Also, we need to plan out the rest of the semester. Options, below.

Anonymous, Hoboken

Swoon

Banksy

The Color of Activism

What to do with your color names and hex data:

Now it's time to have fun making connections.
What you have:
-an image of your color
-the name of your color
-the hex code for your color
-an issue of concern to you

What you need:
Step ONE
-who is your empathetic (local) audience
-who is your opposing audience (the people in power at the root of the issue)

Step TWO
-design messages for your audiences -they may be very similar or very different
keep your color and color name in mind. Use your color as part of the design of your message

Step THREE  (we'll work on this together in class but start thinking about it)
- imagine a possible connection between location or object and the message or audience
- is there a way to work your hex code data into your message presentation.
- what is the medium? It could be posters, labels, websites, txt messages, QR codes, performances, marches or something else? How could connections be made between your medium and location/object or hex code?

Electronic Art Activism

We just finished one of the oldest art activism methods- printmaking (woodcut-style)
Now let's jump ahead to some electronic art activism.
This is the process we will start today and then finish with the Obadikes 
Wednesday April 11th from 3-5pm BC142a   (CEC- required) see me if you have a conflict.

DATA MAPPING AS ACTIVISM
1) CAPTURING
go out and capture plant life with your camera. We're concentrating on color so the
image can be blurry. The color of the plant life should take up as much of the image
area as possible. Be inspired. Look for a variety.

2) EXTRACTING
one image may have 10 different plant-life colors in it, so choose a color family or plant
feature to concentrate on (ie blue or a flower petal)

3) CODING
when you're done extracting all the colors you can, use Photoshop's eye dropper to
sample one of your colors. In the color picker drop down menu (here)

We'll be doing part one of a data mapping/coding/connection-making exercise

(Another coding step you could use is to download a free camera utility for your smartphone that lets you capture the hex code of what you're viewing)


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Activist Apps for your smartphone?

Pocket Congress

Free2work


Obscuracam

Hacktivist Augmented Reality

the leak in your hometown

BP LAYAR app by Mark Skwarek

AR Flashmob
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HOMEWORK DUE MONDAY
Get the hex codes for your colors! (at least 10 codes)

HOMEWORK DUE THURSDAY
Please watch both of these and respond to both in one blog post.

What are the aspects of internet connectivity that Democracy could benefit from?
The potential for social media to assist Democracy

Is the isolation that comes with online filtering bad for Democracy?
Ted Talk

Activist Printmaking

Today we finish our activist linocut prints.
Everyone should have at least 3 originals.
Once they have dried, (dried all the way), xerox them to make 15-20 copies.
Place them creatively around campus, keeping your target audience in mind.

SAVE THE DATE: a very important workshop with activist artists Keith and Mendi Obadike
APRIL 11, Wed, 3pm BC142a- we'll be making electronic art together!

Homework due Monday, April 9
Look at Mendi & Keith's work,
pick a piece to write about- (not blackness for sale since we will have discussed that piece already)
write a paragraph describing how the work could fit the definition of activist art. Be sure to include what the message is, how it is conveyed, and who the audience is.