Version 1: Artist or Collective Inspiration and Concept Proposal

Step 1: Select an artist or collective

Select one artist or collective from the completed Project 1 Webador profiles. Use the available excell spreadsheet to define your selection. Both links are available on Avenue to Learn.

The selection must meet the following conditions:

• None of the group members researched this artist or collective for Project 1.
• No other group has selected this artist or collective.

Record (on a collaborative word document):

• Group members
• Artist or collective name
• Link to the Webador profile
• Names of the Project 1 profile authors
• Title and brief summary of the existing research-creation proposal
• Why the group selected this profile

Credit the Project 1 profile authors when discussing or adapting their proposal. The Webador proposal is the starting point for this iteration, not a finished idea that must remain unchanged.

Step 2: Review the existing research-creation proposal

Read the complete Webador profile, including the artist profile, artworks, research focus, critical analysis, annotated bibliography, research-creation proposal, and poster.

Discuss:

• What question or issue guides the proposal?
• Which part of the artist’s practice shaped it?
• What artistic strategy, medium, method, or audience relationship does it use?
• What is already clear or promising?
• What remains general, unresolved, technically uncertain, or ethically difficult?
• What would your group need to change for the idea to reflect your own interests and skills?

Make notes on your collective document.

Step 3: Divide the artistic research

Each member must research one artwork or project by the selected artist or collective.

Across the group, research at least three artworks or projects (one per member):

• Include the two works discussed on the Webador page.
• Include one/two additional work not discussed on the Webador page.

For each assigned work, record:

Information	What to record
Identification	Complete title and year
Format	Medium, materials, technologies, duration, dimensions, or format
Context	Where, when, why, and for whom the work was produced, presented, performed, exhibited, or published
Audience experience	What the audience sees, hears, encounters, or does
Artistic approach	Important methods, techniques, materials, technologies, or decisions
Research connection	How the work may inform, challenge, or complicate the existing proposal
Documentation	Reliable images, video, audio, exhibition records, or other documentation
Research gaps	Missing information or questions requiring further research

Step 4: Divide the academic research

Each group member must select and read two different academic sources:

1. One academic source from the selected artist or collective’s Webador annotated bibliography.
2. One new source from the course reading list that is not included in the Webador annotated bibliography. Choose a reading that connects to the artist’s practice, themes, methods, or questions, or introduces an idea you would like to explore through your project.

All group members must select different sources. No two students in the same group should research the same reading.

Read both assigned sources in full and identify how their ideas could inform, question, or extend the group’s research-creation project.

For each source, record:

• Complete APA reference and working link
• Main argument
• Two or three concepts relevant to the project
• A useful passage, example, or quotation with page numbers or timestamps
• Connection to the selected artist, artwork, or proposal
• A question, limitation, disagreement, or missing perspective
• How the source may influence the concept, process, or ethical approach

Read each assigned source in full. Do not use generated summaries in place of reading, as they may omit important arguments, examples, context, or limitations.

Step 5: Prepare the individual research document

Each student must submit one individual PDF containing:

• Full name and student number
• Complete artistic research notes for the selected artwork or project
• Complete academic research notes for the selected academic readings
• APA references and working links for all three sources
• Reliable links to the artwork documentation
• Two or three possible connections between the research and the project direction

Name the file:

Lastname-Firstname_P2_Version1-Research-Notes.pdf

Before moving to Stage 2: Every member should have completed the artistic and academic research, recorded source details and links, and shared their notes with the group.

Step 1: Share the research

Each member must explain their assigned artwork and academic research to the group.

During the discussion:

1. Compare the artistic methods, materials, technologies, and audience relationships identified in the research.
2. Identify concepts, strategies, or concerns that appear across several sources or artworks.
3. Note disagreements, limitations, risks, or missing perspectives.
4. Identify what the research adds to or changes about the Project 1 proposal.
5. Decide which findings will guide the first P2 concept.

Make notes on your collective document.

Step 2: Prepare the iteration map

Treat the Project 1 research-creation proposal as Iteration 1 of the project. Decide what your group will retain, revise, remove, or add.

Use the following table:

Element	Decision	Reason informed by research
Central question or theme	Retain, revise, remove, or add	Explain the decision
Artistic strategy or method	Retain, revise, remove, or add	Explain the decision
Medium or format	Retain, revise, remove, or add	Explain the decision
Technology or technique	Retain, revise, remove, or add	Explain the decision
Audience or participation	Retain, revise, remove, or add	Explain the decision
Site or presentation context	Retain, revise, remove, or add	Explain the decision
Ethical or accessibility approach	Retain, revise, remove, or add	Explain the decision

The group may change the medium, technique, technology, audience, or form when the new direction is supported by the research.

Step 3: Complete a group skills audit

List the relevant skills, software, tools, techniques, and production experience already held by each member.

Member	Existing skills	Unfamiliar areas	Skills that may support the group
Full name	List relevant experience	List processes the member has not used	Explain possible contributions

Use the audit to distinguish the group’s existing knowledge from the new learning required for P2.

Step 4: Consider two unfamiliar technologies or techniques

Identify two possible techniques, software applications, tools, material processes, or technologies that none of the group members knows how to use.

Each option should:

• Connect to the selected artist’s media, methods, questions, or approach.
• Introduce a meaningful artistic possibility rather than being added only for novelty.
• Require research, experimentation, and skill development.
• Be reasonably accessible within the project timeline.
• Be safe, legal, and appropriate for the intended context.

Technology may include digital, electronic, physical, analogue, fabrication, performance, or hybrid processes. Examples include unfamiliar editing or animation software, projection mapping, spatial audio, motion capture, live coding, sensors, photogrammetry, 3D printing, textile processes, printmaking technique, bookbinding, or a new performance method.

Using familiar software for a new task does not automatically meet the requirement. Identify a process or capability that every group member genuinely needs to learn.

For each option, prepare brief notes:

Area	Option A	Option B
Technology or technique	Name the option	Name the option
Connection to the artist	Explain the relationship	Explain the relationship
Possible artistic use	Explain what it may contribute	Explain what it may contribute
New learning required	Identify what the group would need to learn	Identify what the group would need to learn
Access and feasibility	Note required resources, cost, availability, or limitations	Note required resources, cost, availability, or limitations
Accessibility, ethics, and safety	Identify initial concerns	Identify initial concerns
Available learning support	Confirm whether documentation or tutorials appear to be available	Confirm whether documentation or tutorials appear to be available

⚠ You do not need to select or complete specific tutorials for this Version 1 ⚠

Step 5: Select one technology or technique

Choose one of the two options as the group’s primary direction.

Briefly explain:

• Why it is more relevant to the revised proposal
• How it connects to the selected artist or collective
• What it may contribute to the artwork or audience experience
• Why it appears feasible within the available time and resources
• What the group needs to discover through the Technological Research

The selection is provisional. The group may revise its approach if experimentation reveals an important technical, artistic, ethical, accessibility, or logistical limitation.

Step 6: Prepare the group iteration and technology notes

Prepare one group document named:

P2_Version1-Iteration-Technology-Notes.pdf

Record the research and decisions completed in this stage. These are working notes and do not need to be written as polished paragraphs. Use tables, bullet points, links, diagrams, or screenshots where useful.

The document must include:

• Full names and student numbers of all group members
• Brief synthesis of the artistic and academic research shared by the group
• Completed iteration map
• Completed group skills audit
• Brief notes comparing two unfamiliar technologies or techniques
• The selected technology or technique
• Explanation of why the group selected it
• Required software, equipment, materials, accounts, or spaces
• Initial accessibility, ethical, safety, cost, and feasibility concerns
• The main question the group needs to investigate during the Technological Research

Before moving to Stage 3: The group should have agreed on the revised direction, completed the iteration map and skills audit, compared two unfamiliar options, and selected one primary technology or technique. Detailed testing belongs to the later Technological Research.

Step 1: Write the provisional concept proposal

Write a 250–350-word provisional concept proposal describing the group’s current direction. This proposal will establish the artistic purpose for the Technological Research (next week).

Explain:

• The main artistic question, experience, or EDI concern the group wants to explore
• How the project draws from, translates, questions, or extends specific strategies from the selected artist or collective
• The proposed form of the artwork, intended audience experience, and role of the unfamiliar technology or technique
• The most relevant ethical, accessibility, consent, representation, or accountability considerations

Write in your own words using clear and specific language. Avoid broad statements that could describe any artist or project.

This proposal records the project’s direction before technological experimentation. The concept and use of technology are expected to change according to what the group learns during the Technological Research.

Step 2: Create a working concept sketch

Create one annotated sketch or diagram showing how the proposed artwork might work.

It may take the form of:

• A concept sketch or storyboard
• A process or interaction diagram
• A spatial or installation plan
• A material, sound, movement, or interface plan
• A digital or physical collage

Use short annotations to identify:

• The main elements of the proposed artwork
• The intended role of the unfamiliar technology or technique
• What the audience may see, hear, do, or experience
• At least one element that the group needs to investigate through the Technological Research

The sketch does not need to be polished or technically accurate. Its purpose is to help the group identify what needs to be learned and tested.

Credit any image or media created outside the group.

Step 3: Complete your group’s Artistic Response page on Webador

After completing the provisional concept proposal and visual development page, open the new group’s page under Artistic Responses on the course Webador website.

Use the Webador login information provided on Avenue to Learn. Find your group’s page and complete the sections prepared for Project 2: Iteration 2.

Do not create a new page or modify the original Project 1 artist or collective profile.

Include:

• Full names of all group members
• Name of the selected artist or collective
• Names of the classmates who created the original Project 1 profile
• A 100-word explanation of how your group’s project builds on, responds to, or changes the existing Project 1 research and research-creation proposal
• One annotated visual development image
• The complete 250–350-word provisional concept proposal
• Credits for any images or media created outside the group

Save or publish the page only after all group members have reviewed it.

Before moving on: Your group should have one Artistic Responses page documenting Iteration 2. You will continue developing this page during later Project 2 stages.

Step 4: Pecha Kucha: Prepare the one-minute presentation

During the following lecture, each group will give a rapid one-minute presentation. Presentations will take place one after another, without questions or class feedback.

Prepare one slide in image format containing:

• Selected artist or collective
• Original Project 1 proposal in one sentence
• Provisional P2 concept in one or two sentences
• Artistic strategy being retained, translated, questioned, or extended
• Selected unfamiliar technology or technique
• One representative image or diagram
• One question the group needs to investigate during the Technological Research

Slide format and design

• Submit one .JPG or .PNG image.
• Use a 16:9 format. The recommended size is 1920 × 1080 px.
• Use large, readable text and strong contrast between text and background.
• Keep text brief.
• Do not place important text over a visually complex image.
• Make both selected artworks clearly visible.
• Include the title, year, and image credit for each artwork.

Name the file:

P2_V1-Iteration2-Slide.jpg

or

P2_V1-Iteration2-Slide.png

Choose one speaker who did not speak in Version 1. If presenting verbally creates an access barrier, contact the instructor in advance to arrange an accessible alternative that meets the same learning goals.