Here’s the poster… feel free to print out and post around campus!

First with your line performance next Monday at 7:30… and then with the amazingly fun and dynamic Tableau Vivant that you will all be a part of soon! For inspiration check out the Performa event site for links to a number of current performance artists or take a moment to check out the Harp + Silver site, two artists who visited Alfred last year.

http://performa-arts.org/blog/performa-09/artists/

http://harpsilver.com/

Also you might enjoy this music video (especially for the group who is making pop-culture references!)

Remember:

• Your presentation should incorporate some aspect of each persons research.
• The presentation is still in reference to The Line.
• The presentation should be time-based (i.e.  performance, video, sound, presentation, combination of some or all of those,  etc.)
• The presentation should be 5-10 minutes in length.
• If you are in need of lighting or any other technical assistance,  make sure you come to class with definite ideas about what you want and when you want it so that we can arrange all of this on Monday.

IN ADDITION:  You should create a post on your blog titled “group”  which briefly describes your group’s theme and membership, and reflections on how you think your individual research relates to the group presentation.

You will then create an informative structure (presentation, maps, installations, objects, animations, video, sounds, images, book, etc, etc,) that shares your research with an audience.

Keep in Mind:

• You are still dealing with The Line
• Focus on an aspect or avenue to research that is exciting to you.
• Consider methods for your informative structure that are interesting and creative.  How can you make your work interesting and engaging? How do you get your audience to need/want to spend time with it?
• Consider how your informative structure depicts your research without you there to explain it.  What bits of information are most essential to understand,  is there something for the audience to question and explore?
• Consider your choice of method/ process/ material.  What is necessary?  What is appropriate?  (For example: Remember that even your choice of paper or font has an effect on the information that you present.)
• This project is the culmination of 4 weeks of research.  Does what you are doing live-up to that?  Is it appropriately involved and ambitious?

****Let Michelle and Brett know by Sunday at noon if you need any technological resources (beside a video projector) for the presentation of your work.  If  you are presenting video or sound work please bring it on a thumb drive or DVD/ CD,  so that we can install all media work on one computer.

Several things to remember:

1. Collect a wide variety of information (objects, images, sounds, descriptions, interviews, written impressions, poems, stories, ideas, videos, etc., etc.)
2. Use a variety of tools/methods/ perspectives
3. Information is your material.  The more information you have the more you have to work with.
4. The information is on/in the line, you need to continue to explore it.
5. Consider a number of different interpretations of your word.
6. Don’t stick to the obvious or the immediate;  use your imagination, be creative.
7. Be excited.  If the information you are collecting is not interesting to you then it won’t be interesting to others.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NG1LKJ_ZRrk&feature=channel

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The ITS Equipment Lending Department includes laptops (Mac and PC), projectors, digital cameras, and a digital camcorder.

What are the requirements ?

• You must be a current Student at Alfred University
• Owe no late or damage fees
• Agree to the Student Equipment Lending Policy

To register for equipment borrowing, Perlman Hall, 3rd floor, and complete a registration form. Bring your student ID with you for identification.

NOTE: As of this afternoon, ITS did not have an operating digital camcorder. If you would like to borrow one from foundations they are on a first come first serve basis and students are permitted to check them out for 5-6  days. We also have several audio recorders to lend as well. (See Michelle Wednesday after advising if you need one)

Keep in mind: Respect your surroundings and community. When exploring the forest area, please do not go alone, do not go near dusk, and please take some water!

Also:  Remember The Line is a space not a plane, be aware of your perspective, change your perspective, and be thorough.

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Below is a list of steps for your homework assignment (remember to click on “read more”)

Richard Long- Old Year New Year

Fieldwork: Personal Territory

You should select a territory that is outside of the art building, but within 10-15 minute walk.

1. Stake a claim to your Personal Territory.

2. Establish the boundaries of the Personal Territory.

Take a photo or draw an image to establish the context. What is the size or scale of your territory?

3. Write or record at least 50 things about your chosen site.

Document through writing, drawing, photographing, or any other form. Get beyond those first things, and find out as much as you can about your territory.

4. Select 2-3 explorations from the book. Adapt (if needed) and use them as new perspectives to gathering information to your territory.

5. Go back to the studio. Lay out all your documentation and things that you collected.

6. Organize, prioritize, edit. Ask yourself, “What is most interesting thing I found out about my territory? What is unique? What do I want to share?  Develop a point of view.

7. Create an informative structure that will guide a visitor through the site from your particular perspective. Tour needs to be on a physical shareable format (on paper). (i.e. map, tour, diagram, chart, text, list… think about some of the examples.)

8. Post the following on your blog, under Personal Territory:

a)     (1) Image of Personal Territory boundaries

b)     50 things

c)     Several examples from 2-3 explorations inspired by the book.

d)     (1) image of your ‘informative structure’.

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