Summer – Week 1 – Making a plan for the month
I have about a month to wrap up my thesis project and present. To help make sure I am using the time wisely, I took stock of where I am and where I’d like to be.
Goal 1: Connect to myself – Develop as an artist
Goal 1a: Move my digital sketch making outside Geometer’s sketchpad by starting to create a codebase I can use in my own making.
KPI – I am able to produce digital sketches using this codebase rather than Geometer’s Sketchpad moving forward.
Goal 1b: Build on my 50 days of making with Grasshopper and learn digital fabrication techniques by creating a sculpture based on the subdivision algorithm
KPI – I have fabricated a sculpture based on the Subdivisio algorithm
Goal 2: Share with others – Introduce others to algorithmic art
Goal 2a Create an interactive algorithmic art-making experience that would be widely accessible
KPI – Subdivisio is available on a website and has been user tested with a range of audience for usability
Goal 2b: Provide some explanation of how the algorithm works using visualizations and explanation
KPI – The website includes a section that provides an explanation of how the subdivision algorithm is working
Goal 2c: Situate generative art and this specific process relative to related artists or connected concepts
KPI – The website includes a small amount of exposition connecting ideas and highlighting doors and windows with resource links.
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Easy to do |
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Hard to do |
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‘Three Question Exercise’:
- My project will be a success if it…
- Helps me to continue to develop my own artwork using similar algorithms
- Makes me feel like I did a lot of good work and learned a lot
- Can be used for a mini-workshop or lesson in school next year
- Inspires other people to learn or create something
- One surprising way people could use or react to my project is…
- Ask interesting questions for inquiry
- Develop their own artwork based on the idea
- Take the images outputted and do something with them unexpected
- Ask me to do a workshop
- If my project fails, it will probably be because…
- I was trying to do too much before the deadline
- Didn’t do enough user testing to understand usability
Summer Plan | |
Class Benchmarks |
Personal Benchmarks
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June 10 – User testing |
June 10 – Low-fi prototype of explanatory feature
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June 17 – Draft of thesis archive materials |
June 14 – Basic website wireframe
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June 20 – Thesis archive materials submitted |
June 17 – Integrate 1 design dashboard element
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June 24 – Final presentation rehearsal |
June 20 – Finalize explanation feature and mock-up of exploratory page
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June 28/29 – Thesis presentation |
June 21 – Final plan for sculpture production
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June 25 – Final scultpure and exploratory page
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June 26 – Final website design
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