Find a web-based or mobile game to analyze. You can analyze a recent (aka, modern) game title OR you can go back and look at a game from the past. Take at least an hour to thoroughly play the game. Analyze the game using the “Design/Play/Experience” framework discussed in class. Also think about why the … Read more
I attached the draft below and here are some corrections needed: 1. Canaletto’s painting is from the Art of the Enlightenment (not Rococo). 2. Because we covered several categories of Baroque art in class, you should specify that Lorraine’s painting is an example of French Baroque art. Follow the format:Introduction and ThesisIntroduce the artwork titles, … Read more
Narrative in the Digital AgeFinal PaperDr. Shawn [email protected] Choose one of the following topics, and write an essay of 5-7 pages. You must use at least one secondary source that isnt on our syllabus. Download and play Divination (see Moodle page for instructions), and try to follow different paths/sets of choices. Answer the following questions:Describe … Read more
Over the course of the last few weeks, you have encountered an extraordinary number of artists, many of whom you no doubt had no idea existed prior to this course and many that worked in ways that you probably did not imagine were even possible or struggled to appreciate. 1) Of all the new artists … Read more
This week we have focused on the early recording history of the United States. Both the pop music and world music culture industries developed in accordance with shifting notions of whiteness/blackness, masculinity/femininity, and modernity/tradition. Sound therefore has world-making power- the ability to make difference sensible without direct reference to a body or the visual register. … Read more
OverviewPlease write a 4-page analytic essay on 1 of the 2 topics listed below. Be sure to state yourthesis in the opening paragraph.1. Night and Fog and Waltz with Bashir address the topic of atrocities committed duringwar at different moments in history and very different technologies available to thefilmmaker. Evaluate each film according to their … Read more
Part1: Compare and contrast Manet’s Realist Le Dejuner sur l’herbe and Bouguereau’s Academic Nymphs and Satyr.What stylistic characteristics make Manet’s painting an example of Realism? Why do you think Manet’s painting was considered “immoral” and “amateurish” while the critics praised Bouguereau’s painting? Who are the nude women in each painting?What are the differences between the … Read more
ou will summarize and reflect upon an excerpt from Max Loehrs The Great Painters of China (Oxford: Phaidon, 1980), pp. 9-12, 24-26. Loehr discusses the development of Chinese painting, which you have all been studying this week. This excerpt focuses more closely on visual analysis and less so on engaging with other scholarship. I will … Read more
ScenarioYou are an independent contractor who has been hired by a multinational technology company to increase productivity at one branch office. The location in question is failing miserably and your contract with this company is a last ditch effort to bring this locations productivity up, or else it will be shut down. The designers havent … Read more
Here is another of those odd weeks that strays away from our text and films, and requries that you post sources for your next paper, and possibly turn in your Online Presentation. (I say “possibly” because there are two possible due dates for this project.) The Online Presentation is where you report on one of … Read more