This Weeks’ Notes!

Hi class!

How was Show-A-Thing?! I hope helpful, insightful, and energizing!

Just a few notes for this week:

• Please post a reflection about Show-A-Thing! It will help you consolidate your ideas (and it will help me know where you’re at as a result!). Specifically think through: did anything change about your project by going through this process?

• If you haven’t already: IMA Low Res Thesis: Final Dates + Check in, by Friday please!

• Keep up the momentum! Our next all-together meeting is April 18. In the meantime, you should be meeting with your peer-group + resident, each other, your mentor.

• I’ve posted a few new appointments for coming weeks on my OH calendar – but remember you can always email me if you want to meet and no listed times work.

Also – this may not be relevant for all of you, but if you find yourself wondering “Is my project IMA enough?” I’ve written something about that in the Project Guidelines – which I’ll also paste below.

Warmly,

Sarah

Is My Project “IMA” Enough?

Some of you might find that you’ve landed on a project that doesn’t really seem to involve much technology at all – and of course the last thing you want to do is “add technology” just for its own sake. That said, this is an “Interactive Media” program, so in order for your thesis to be appropriate for this context and reflect what you’re learning here, you may want to think through what ways you might involve… interactive media! There are more ways to do that than adding a technology for its own sake, so consider contextualizing this as an IMA project through …

• Research / Input (for instance, using a novel method to gather data to inform your work)

• Process (for instance, using a new tool to create, or creating a new tool)

• Interactivity in the project itself (any combo of input, process, and output)

• Topic – is your work informed by, commenting on, or otherwise connected to our contemporary media landscape (does this work address something about emerging technology?)

• Documentation – (can you capture this work in a way that leverages emerging media? for instance 3d scanning…?)

• Distribution (how does the work get out there? for instance, through a novel use of social media?)

And, if all else fails, ask yourself: what gave you the idea to do this work right now? Are you connecting with some approach you learned at IMA? Is it something in response to the present-day state of technology? Lean into those questions, and you may find the answer was there all along – you just needed to emphasize it!