Art410-sp13: Assignment #2: Virtual Intervention

SP 2013 – San Francisco State University, Art Department

Art 410 Conceptual Strategies

Day/Time: Tuesday (Creative Arts Computer Lab, Creative arts Building, Rm 265)

Thursday (Fine Arts Room 538)

9:10-11:50 am)

Units/Hrs: 3 units/3 hours per week

Instructor: Paula Levine

Office/Phone: Fine Arts Rm. 537/ 415-337-0753

Email: plevine@sfsu.edu

Office hours: T/Th 12:15-1:45, and by appointment

Assignment 2 : Virtual Intervention Due: March 5

Background: Interventions are public actions that take place within public spaces and are designed to draw attention to particular issues or circumstances. They can be performances that address political issues, such as war, or they can be actions, such as handing out flyers, putting up billboards, posting pamphlets or posters. They can also be "virtual” using technologies such as GPS, augmented reality, Google Earth to virtually alter the space and one's experience in it. For this assignment you will be doing a virtual intervention.

Task: You will be working in collaboration with a partner assigned through chance and, through chance, you will both be assigned an area of the campus as your site. Your assignment is to design and carry out an intervention within that location using any of the mapping or related technologies we discuss in class (Google Earth, QR codes, GPS, AR). The focus on your intervention can be political, humorous or historical. For example, you can alter the site virtually, make an alternative tour of the area or add information about that location through QR codes and the web.

Use one or more of the technologies we discuss in class to carry out your virtual intervention. Your interventions should not destroy or permanently disfigure anything in the site.

Documenting your project: Use Google Earth to document your project and link the kmz files to your blog. (We will go over how to do this in class.) Your documentation can use photos, screen shots, sound, video, text. Write up a description of your project, and post your documentation and links on your blogs. Prepare this documentation to convey what you did and why, and show the evidence of your intervention.

GOOGLE EARTH

General tutorials

Making Panoramas

Miscellaneous tutorials:

This single tutorial includes everything you will need to get started including;

· Add placemarks

· Add paths

· Add polygons

· Organize your places with folders

· Embed images in your balloons

· Embed YouTube videos in your balloons

· Save your project and share with others