Assessment 1: Proposal

You are required to submit a digital art proposal for the work you intend on creating over the semester (you will eventually hand in 4 finished artworks from those created during class time). Your proposal is to be up to 1 typed A4 page (approximately 500 words). Your proposal is to be in essay form. Use the following points to structure your proposal:

TOPIC

What topic are you addressing with your artwork?
Choose from one of the follow:

·       The Loss of the Aura ("The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction" Walter Benjamin, 1936)

·       Appropriation: Appropriately appropriate

·       Lost and Found

·       Is This Me? Self Portrait Project

·       What Is Gender Now?

Why are you addressing this issue/topic? Does it have some significance to you, contemporary society, art, etc.?

How do you feel about this issue/topic?

How does this issue/topic affect society or the individual?

ARTWORK

What will your artwork be? What is the subject matter of your artwork?

What will your artwork look like?

INFLUENCE

What is an artwork and artist that will influence your artwork? Include at least 3 images, the name of the artist, the titles, medium and year of the works.

Is there anything else that will influence your artwork? For example, a book, a movie, a song?

Why are you influenced by these?

How will you use this influence in the creation of your artwork?

** REMEMBER TO CORRECTLY CITE YOUR REFERENCES**

Assessment Criteria:

A satisfactory completion of assignment requires:

• A typed proposal addressing the above points, of approximately 500 words, submitted on the due date.

• Your proposal to be comprehensive and well written.

• Your proposal to be descriptive, imaginative and ambitious yet achievable.

Relevant resources (including images) correctly referenced using the Harvard referencing system, including a bibliography.

Due: Week 5

500 words

Presented on your blog.