book project

The week after thanksgiving break will be devoted to working on your six-page sequence, so come prepared with whatever raw materials you need (images, ideas) to use the time profitably. A portion of your grade will be for an initial proposal for the sequence, which is due at the beginning of Tuesday's class – you need to have at least a basic sketch (drawn out on paper, or cobbled together in Photoshop) of your general idea for the sequence, or a one-paragraph write-up of your idea (printed out).

Here are the specs for the images in your "sequence" project -- the one we're printing up as a book through blurb.com. You should have the images you need at the start of the class, so you can just jump into it when class starts.

Dimensions for Blurb book project
You will have 6 pages to fill in an art book we're publishing through blurb.com.

The dimensions at which you should create the work are:

Final page size will be 6.875" x 6.875" at 300 dpi (that's 2063px by 2063px). The pages need a 1/8" bleed all the way around, so the outer eighth of an inch of your image will be trimmed off on all four sides.

Keep in mind, as you're designing the sequence, that you will have three "two page spreads," where the image on the lefthand page will be facing the image on the righthand page. Think about how the images on those facing pages will affect each other, in terms of content, color, composition, and so on.

If you're still chewing through what a "sequence" is, remember that a potential starting place could be:

1. Time changes through a fixed location. What is a single place, that goes through changes as time passes, and how are those changes made visible? Think of R. Crumb's "History of America."

2. Spatial changes with a fixed subject. Is there a character, or object, that travels through different spaces?

3. Transformations of a character or object. Think of Klinger's "glove" etching. Is there a common image that goes through a variety of changes of scale, of stature, of meaning? Is there an object that can pull the images together along the thread of a visual theme?

4. Different aspects of a single thing. Think Hokusai's Mount Fuji series. Is there a thing, a person or a place that can be looked at through a variety of lenses -- the lens of history, of myth, of geology, etc?

5. Formal variation and rhythm. Remember that abstracts images can function in sequence, riffing on common formal elements throughout the multiple images.

6. Storytelling. Any sequence tells a story of some sort. Is there some sort of narrative that could occur through the five images? Think of Hogarth's "Harlot's Progess," or the comics examples I showed.

And you should "own" your artwork in this project -- you can shoot your own images, or draw your own images. You can use stock images (free or purchased). Or manipulate/transform your source images so that you feel you'd be well over the acceptable line of fair use.

Link to Meiasha pics

They are here:

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/zsscnq35j384pfu/AABCUNjeOP-TKDvwPWmalGaEa?dl=0

Course evaluation survey link

It's here:

https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/lanier-80012-dart-230-201780

Fair use project

For Thursday's class, have your fair use image completed. You need to use something that's copyrighted – an image, a photo, a logo, a tagline, a story, a song lyric, whatever it may be – and you need to change it enough that you think you'd have a "fair use" case for your use of the copyrighted material.

Obviously we're creating this project for class, but I want you to imagine your fair use project being used in some other venue. The intended venue of the work could have a strong bearing on whether your work is "protected" or not -- so please imagine the artwork is intended to be shown on a T-Shirt, in a gallery, on a billboard, or what have you. For Thursday, you'll have to have a written defense of your work on fair use grounds (bring a printed copy) - we'll put you "on trial" and see if you get thrown in copyright jail or not.

If you want to refresh yourself on some copyright info, there are free digital versions of a Duke Copyright Fair Use comic here:

http://www.law.duke.edu/cspd/comics/digital.php

Again, fair use can be invoked for the following reasons:

To report on news
To make a parody
To copy for class
To criticize
To quote for scholarly purposes
For research

For the purposes of this project, you'll be leaning on either the "parody" or "criticism" angle.

There are also the "four guidelines" for fair use:

1. The Transformative Factor: The Purpose and Character of Your Use

2. The Nature of the Copyrighted Work

3. The Amount and Substantiality of the Portion Taken

4. The Effect of the Use Upon the Potential Market

More detailed info here:
http://fairuse.stanford.edu/Copyright_and_Fair_Use_Overview/chapter9/9-b.html

Ultimately, you will be referring to those four guidelines to defend your "fair use"position.