EXPERIMENT TWO: aLIFE
DUE: FRIDAY APRIL 18 BY 10.30AM.
ASSESSMENT WEIGHTING: 20% (marking schedule)
EXPERIMENT OUTLINE
TIMETABLE: WEEKS 3 - 5
ARCHITECTURAL CHALLENGE: To Document how the site lives through Montage and Texture.
REFERENCE TEXT: http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/49
PRECEDENTS: ARCH7201_RS EXP 2 Introductory Lecture on Montage
SOFTWARE: Photoshop, Web 2.0
TECHNIQUES: Blogging, Montage, Photostitch, Tagging, UVW mapping/unwrapping, Normal Mapping
OUTPUTS: 3 x 1920x1080 digital images with links to 36 x UT3 engine compatible textures.
PREMISE: A site can be described as temporal, dynamic, alive; words not usually associated with the still image. Recent web technologies offer opportunities to Document how a site lives through montage, texture, tags and notes.
PROCEDURE
In your own time visit the site at various times of the day and night. Keep to the publicly accessible areas adjacent to the site and be especially careful of your personal saftey. Take a range of digital images and compose them into 3 x 1920x1080px digital montages. Include short captions, dimensions, statitistics, and other relevant notation as textual elements within your images. Upload them to your Flickr account and include them in a set called "site_montages". Use "notes" in Flickr to link these three images to 36 x UT3 engine compatible textures that are held in appropriate sets. Provide a link to your Flickr account from your blog.
ASSESSMENT CRITERIA
In addition to the overall course assessment criteria students will be assessed on the level and extent to which they engage with the criteria listed below:
THE THREE IMAGES_ do each of the three images communicate a distinctive and significant approach the student has taken with respect to the life, or lives, of the site?
REPRESENTATION_ do each of the three images extend the idea of the "Montage" in significant and distinctive ways?
THE 36 TEXTURES_ do the 36 textures demonstrate attention to conceptual detail at a range of scales.
THE TEXTUAL INFORMATION_ does the textual information supplement both the pragmatic and conceptual strands in the students images.