🔵Week 09 Nov 5

IN CLASS

DUE: ALL PARTS OF ASSIGNMENT 08, READING/VIEWING 08, POST 08

CLASS VISIT (visiting expert)

✨ Zander Reyna, Creative Director in experience design, games and VR and Artist, Idealist, Tinkerer, Hacker and Doer ✨

About Zander

I’ve been told by my closest friends that I’ve got a fair amount of idealism in me. It’s this alternative way of seeing the world, a fearless “what if”, that drives me to make something new. Traveling with ambiguity and wandering in the woods long enough to come back with a morsel of creative goodness is what I’m built to do. There’s moments of doubt balanced by over-confident gusto and unbridled optimism, but taking this journey with incredibly talented friends is what it’s all about. I’ve always been an artist, a tinkerer, a hacker and a doer. I spent over a decade teaching undergraduate and graduate courses at some of the best colleges in the United States. I spent two decades building a studio art practice, showing at galleries and museums around the world. I’ve spent the bulk of my life experimenting ideas into reality. But, before everything else I was an artist. Pen, paper, line, color, and shape. The basics. I’m the architect of some of the most interesting creative explorations at Major League Baseball and I’ve been lucky to work with incredible colleagues to bring things to life. Together we’ve built award winning, innovative experiences that span everything from broadcast to video games to never before seen products on new platforms. Ideas are the easy part, and I’ve got a bunch. Knowing how to build is always the hardest part.

ASSIGNMENTS FOR THE WEEK

ASSIGNMENT 09: (1) REVISITING your teams' COLLABVRATION Iteration 01 project from Classes 04 and 05, based on what you’ve learned from Zander’s visit today and your midterm analysis of your personal project, analyze as a team the project you proposed in Class 05. Iterate a new version of the piece. See: COLLABVRATION Iteration 02. Be prepared to SUBMIT your Iteration 02, a video-recorded presentation uploaded to Vimeo or youtube on WEEK 11

(1) INSTEAD see BELOW. WORK 💯 on your MACRO PROJECT **PLUS** meet in grounded reality or virtually this week with your cohort group (EXTRA CREDIT if you meet in social VR, VR Chat, etc... to discuss your project)

READING/VIEWING 09: (1) READ & VIEW the website of Leah Roh (follow links to her projects) http://www.leahroh.com/work (2) PREPARE questions to ask Leah about her work next week.

POST 09: WRITE your responses to the class visit from Zander Reyna.

MACRO PROJECT PHASE BETA: (1) WEEKS 08-11: Analysis and Iteration - You will now analyze and review the results from your in class surveys. Use a Google doc or spreadsheet to document your analysis. Revisit your schedule and make necessary task and milestone updates. Make sure to schedule small changes (one or two at a time) and then schedule testing. ALL links to your analysis and revised schedule should be POSTED to your process blog each week. (2) WEEKS 09-12: Integrating Art Assets - Finishing and integrating into your project all assets you have been compiling.

*You have ⏳five more weeks to complete this project.