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Overview

Following on from Project 1, each student will seek out a practicing designer, artist, and/or technologist whose work relating to the subject of their earlier research, or someone who is involved in the community around your topic. In addition to complicating your view on your subject, consider the connection you are creating by conducting your interview. Yourself <β€”> interviewee, CCA <β€”> their organization, your practice <β€”> your interviewee's practice, etc. What are the implications of such connections, and what natural questions do they pose? What is your goal in creating this connection? What network do these fields of connections (personal, class-level, and institutional) create?

The final outcome of this assignment will be a microsite documenting this interview in a manner appropriate to the subject manner, and to the content of the interview, as a website or other interactive experience.

Interview

Prepare for your interview by preparing questions for your subject you think that this person might have thoughts on, research them if needed prior to the interview to understand what is unique about their perspective on this topic and how you might best get them to speak to it. When you interview take good notes and record audio if your interviewee is willing.

You will be responsible for contacting your interview subject, arranging the time and medium for your interview (audio, textual, video, graphic?), and transcribing the interview so it can be uploaded to your class website.

Further, once you have completed your interview, you will submit a written transcript or your notes to me.

Document and Share

Think about how you might best share this interview with others. Would it best be experienced as a print-on-demand object? A *.zip file composed of a collection of images / sounds / movies? A mobile webpage that requires a specific reading orientation? A series of text messages one receives via WeChat? Consider how the β€˜content’ of your interview can be in meaningful dialog with its graphic and technological expression. Think about how much of the interviewee is present, do you include clips of the interviewees audio, or create new content framing the interviewee's point of view? Is your site presenting a dialog, or a monologue? Do you agree with your interviewee's point of view?

Learning Outcomes

  • Increased visibility into the art/design/technology field online
  • Enhanced understanding of expression of personal voice in a digital space

Requirements

  • Minimum 5 Question Interview recorded and transcribed, or otherwise documented.
  • Microsite documenting the interview.

Calendar

WEEK 7
Monday October 10
    Begin brainstorming who to interview, and how to approach them. You should consider a few candidates in the event your first choice isn't able or willing to participate.

WEEK 9
Monday October 24
    Interview scheduled, questions prepared (Step 1 Due)

WEEK 11
Monday November 7
    Interview Complete and transcripts delivered (Step 2 Due)
    Begin Designs for Project 3

Thursday November 10
    Workday

Week 12
Monday November 14
    Design Review (Step 3 Due)

Thursday November 17
    Workday

WEEK 13
Monday November 21
    50% Check in

WEEK 14
Monday November 28
    Workday

Thursday December 1
    Workday

Week 15
Monday December 5
    Final crit Project 3

Project

Step 1, Due Monday October 24

Brainstorm who to interview about your topic. Think about who might have interesting insights or responses to the topic? Maybe a person who is working in that space you could interview for an insiders perspective, or you might interview a person who isn't aware about the topic and get their unfiltered responses to it. Think about who to interview and contact them to schedule an interview. Once they agree, research them if necessary and come up with 5 questions for the interview, and a plan for how you will interview them, via email, on zoom, or by some other means (video game voice comms? twitch chat? facebook messenger?)

Step 2, Due Monday November 7

Perform your interview by this date and with the participants permission, record the interview if possible. Send Will any materials generated from the interview by this date, your notes, or if you were able to record it, a transcript.

Step 3, Due Monday November 14

Design a site for sharing this interview. Think about what parts of the interview are most important, what particularly insightful things came up during the conversation. Will you include audio, or just transcripts or impressions. Do you agree with your interviewee? Do you present the interview as a monologue by the interviewee, or a conversation between the two of you?

Design two distinct directions, and we'll choose one of them to move forward with.

Step 4, Due Monday December 5

Final Crit on Project 3

References

Past Examples