Student sourced assignment ideas:

·       .5 mile radium home assignment

·       park as exhibition space

·       reinventing still life

·       sound as a medium

·       class collaboration (using iphone?)

·       water as medium/art

·       video project where editing creates the art

·       dreaming as medium

·       physically manipulate (own) photos

·       restaurants are the platform

·       quick services as art maker (shoe shine / tailor / salonstress / fast food(driveThru art) /

·       everyone teach each other a dance move / class choreography

·       games as parameter

·       food/recipes as parameter

·       songs/music as parameter

·       redo / leverage critique comments or make other significant changes/improvements

·       use new saic resource

·       favorite band/music genre

·       use a color/distinct color palette as a parameter

·       using a physical state change as the art activating

·       proposal for oval office site specific piece (or enacted somehow)

·       respond to a book of your choice

·       using a sport as a generator

·       air as medium

·       mountain as medium

·       make art for your own house (house as site specific vessel)

·       self portrait

·       doing something only once for your whole life

·       make an illusion

·       rubbish art

·       temporary art (meant to dissolve/expire/disintegrate/melt)

·       non site specific installation

·       travel as class, make art there

·       crits of MFA show one pos/one neg

3 Ideas for Assignment

1. Temporary art:  We could, free range, create art of some sort that is meant to exist temporarily, anywhere.  It could be temporary because we know someone will take it, because the weather will destroy it, because it will get torn down or painted over, maybe because it will melt or dissolve... you get it.  Here you can find 10 awesome examples

2. Installation art:  I'm sure many of us have already done this on the previous projects, and many things can be considered installation, so I'm not sure if this is too large for a project, but there are many approaches to be taken when it comes to installation art.

3. On-site found object art:  I guess this is probably a mixture of both my previous ideas, pretty self-explanatory, we'd pick a certain location and create art there with [mostly] only materials we find at that particular location, and document it somehow.

3 Ideas for Dead Drop

1.  Whatever files we choose to put on the dead drop I think should be "locked" so that nobody can remove it, however it should have the option for others to openly add content to it.

2.  Anonymous dirty secrets might be good.  Even just things we have done that we are not proud of, or ashamed of, a way to get something out that may have been kept inside and with the act, symbolically let go of it.  This could possibly be a way to cleanse the self, forgive the self of past actions, etc.  Also would be interesting to see what people say ;)

3.  So that it is less obvious and does not stick out too much (also to risk getting damaged as easily) we could possibly find a mini or micro USB female port, because most people have a micro USB cord that plugs into their computer.  This, obviously, doesn't have to do with the content on it, just the construction.  For extra protection from weather we could also make some sort of flap that goes over it and either put instructions on it, or some sort of logo/design...

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