This assignment will have people develop their website for specific audience members and should involve the following:
Mechanics of the Website:
- Clear Intent
- Actionable Items (Develop items on the website in terms ease in which people navigate through the website but is still interesting and unique for them)
- Consider the written and visual language in relation to the technology and the overall layout of the website.
- This assignment is about showcasing people's work and their ideas as artists (and potentially as curators and art writers).
Demographics
(Audience) for Personal Artist Website:
Curators/Arts Administrators
Art Critics
Artists
Art Historians
Art Buyers
Art Appreciators (art educated and non art educated)
Addressing the above demographics is
mandatory but there is also the option of informing the following audience as art
appreciators:
Friends, Fans, Family and General
Public.
Website Menu Requirements:
Bio: Summary of artist CV and as
well integrate one or two sentence summary of work
Artist Statement: Once again it will be very import
that each person discusses the connections between the visual language in the work
and their themes/metaphors. Every choice in terms of creating visual form,
subject matter and the process has the potential to mean something. In many
ways the artist statement is about discussing the chosen visual languages and
process and how those choices of visual language and process specifically
communicate those themes/metaphors.
Some people have a large and diverse body of work which
may require an artist statement that discusses all their work in general and
then will require the use of separate texts that are shorter which address
specifics about different sub-categories of work listed in the website menu.
Those sub-categories of your work could be theme based or medium
based.
Work: Requires one or more of the
following: Stills, Video, Sculpture/3D Work, Installations, Commissions, etc.
Check other artist websites to get ideas how they organize their work and menu
on their homepage)
Images must demonstrate proper format, exposure and
resolution. There can be a rare exception to proper format, exposure and
resolution but intent must be clear and once again ideas should connect with
the visual language of the work.
For each work state: Title, medium(s), dimensions and date
For videos/animation: Title, play-time and date
Other arts related menu items could include: curating
projects, art writing or media coverage.
Copy Right
Issues:
If copy right is a concern people could add the description of each work with their name and the copyright symbol after each image.
Criteria for Evaluating Assignment:
Unique and Innovative
characteristics of website
Clear relationship between
texts (artist statement and bio) and work (images/video/time based work)
Clarity and over all professionalism
of website.
Deadline for Assignment:
Instructor must receive an email with link to website by Thursday Dec 6 at midnight
Email Instructions for Assignment:
Please email instructor at Derek.Brueckner@ad.umanitoba.ca
OR derek brueckner@gmail.com
In subject of email please put last name first, then first name then website assignment.
As usual assignment will be deducted a letter grade per day the assignment is late.
Deadline for Assignment:
Instructor must receive an email with link to website by Thursday Dec 6 at midnight
Email Instructions for Assignment:
Please email instructor at Derek.Brueckner@ad.umanitoba.ca
OR derek brueckner@gmail.com
In subject of email please put last name first, then first name then website assignment.
As usual assignment will be deducted a letter grade per day the assignment is late.
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