Project 3         Screen-Self-Portrait (mul­ti­modal web­pages)                                        

25 points; part 1 (15 points) due 12/6, part 2 (10 points) due 12/7

Objec­tive:              Use aes­thetic forms & tech­nol­ogy that medi­ate expe­ri­ence to express your dig­i­tal iden­tity (per­sonal & public)

Part I      Expres­sive web­pages: apply lessons and insights about aes­thetic mode and cul­ture forms. Com­pose mul­ti­me­dia expres­sion (“screen self-portrait”) of your expe­ri­enced iden­tity, public/private & quantified/qualitative, strictly for per­sonal reflec­tion. Omit­ting descrip­tion in favor of cre­ative logic, dis­cuss in Poet­ics the design attempts and rationale.

• This “self expres­sion” will include ele­ments in mul­ti­ple modes, beyond sim­ply illus­trat­ing; aes­thetic logic and net­work rhetoric; and mate­ri­als from your “per­sonal data­bases”: sto­ries and details from auto­bi­og­ra­phy, school, com­mu­nity, and enter­tain­ment (no research/sources). The mul­ti­me­dia used — audio, video, images of all sorts — will be com­bi­na­tion of found & original/created, dig­i­tally manip­u­lated (sam­ple, remix, mash-up). We will test and prac­tice using var­i­ous soft­ware dur­ing and out­side class; no prior expe­ri­ence with dig­i­tal author­ing is necessary!
   

  » see Design Guide

   

Part II (Page on your blog)

• Poet­ics (400−500 words, 5 points): dis­cuss how address­ing key aims and using media forms pur­pose­fully (dig­i­tal rhetoric)
   
• Reflec­tion (500−700 words, 5 points): insights from com­pos­ing, includ­ing aes­thetic mode and self-knowledge (most impor­tant)

 
» Instruc­tions page

 

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