Reminders for Assessment 2
As we’re edging our way towards Week 9 and things are gearing up for our presentations of assessment 2, it’s a good time to revisit the assessment brief in the course outline. Make sure you read it through with your group and identify what the criteria is so that you can be sure you are adhering to the requirements.
For now I wanted to point out a few things that people might be neglecting. Particularly these clear steps that have been outlined in the brief:
1. Choose an artwork or design featured in any weekly course concept resource on Moodle.
2. Reflect on how that work or design has engaged with the weekly course concept.
2. Develop a collaborative artwork or design in response to your chosen work. You may like to remake, refute, update, remix, extend, continue, deform, erase, or deconstruct the work.
So far, groups seemed to have developed a clear rationale about how they are responding to the weekly theme, but they haven’t done enough research about the work they are choosing to respond to. If you read the brief you will notice that the theme has little to no significance on the assessment. Some people can’t even remember the title of the work and the artist/designer who made it. Eek! It’s really important to developing an understanding about this work because you are “responding” to it. Take some responsibility for this. It might be worth doing some preliminary research on the work and the artist, just as when we present works to you in class, we give you details about its context.
Here’s a mental exercise: Imagine that the artist/designer responsible for the work you are responding to is coming to see your presentation. They might be surprised about the connections you make, but you wouldn’t want to appear ignorant or uncaring about those connections. It’s great to take agency here and make a critique or some kind of controversial or provocative gesture against the work, if you like, but you want to be doing that with full knowledge of why. Take creative agency here, but responsibly!
You might also like to look at my page here of content related to asssessment no. 2. http://piasadad.tumblr.com/tagged/assessment2