Assessment Assignment

You are required to prepare the following promotional package of visual materials and documentation to mediate a work or body of work you have exhibited or presented for assessment.

The aim of the package is to enable an interested third party to understand your work and your interests as an art practitioner, without seeing the actual body of work itself.

 
Submit a CD, which can be read either on PC or Mac, containing the following items:

1. A folder, named "documents", which contains four Word documents:
   • An artist’s statement of 250 words on the subject of the work or body of work you select as the subject matter for the assignment.
   • A summary of that statement, in bullet point form, of 50 words
   • An up-to-date artist's curriculum vitae
   • An image list, which lists the images submitted in 2 below and gives the title, dimensions, medium and date of the work in each image. Please also note here if an image is of a detail of the work.
      
2. A folder, named "high_res_images", which contains four (4) images in JPEG format of the work or body of work you select as the subject matter for the assignment, in JPG format, of size 2048 x 1536 pixels. One of these images should be of the work or body of work installed for exhibition or assessment*.
    
3. A folder, named "low_res_images", which contains lower-resolution versions in JPEG format of the four images in the "high_res_images" folder, of size 600 x 450 pixels.

 
Submit a CD, which can be read either on PC or Mac, containing the following items:

1. A folder, named "documents", which contains four Word documents:
   • An artist’s statement of 250 words on the subject of the work or body of work you select as the subject matter for the assignment
   • A summary of that statement, in bullet point form, of 50 words
   • An up-to-date artist's curriculum vitae
   • An image list, which lists the images submitted in 2 below and gives the title, dimensions, medium and date of the work in each image. Please also note here if an image is of a detail of the work.
      
2. A folder, named "high_res_image", which contains one image in JPEG format of the work or body of work you select as the subject matter for the assignment installed for exhibition or assessment*, of size 2048 x 1536 pixels.
    
3. 3. A folder, named "low_res_image", which contains a lower-resolution version in JPEG format of the image in the "high_res_image" folder, of size 600 x 450 pixels

PLUS

a CD (or 2 separate CDs, if necessary) which contain(s )

• a two-minute extract of the 4D work or body of work you select as the subject matter for the assignment, re-sized to 320 x 240 pixels resolution in MPEG4 format.
• a full-size, uncompressed version of the same two-minute extract in Quicktime format.

 
Guidelines

You must be selective about what you submit - it is better to submit a small amount of high-quality material rather than a large amount of lesser quality, irrelevant material. Submit only what is relevant and necessary.

You cannot assume that all of the assessors will know your work. Your submission may be assessed by people who do not know your work.

All supporting documentation must be correctly labelled and submitted in the prescribed formats.

Prescribed formats and requirements

CV

You must include a current artist CV. Your CV should include a comprehensive overview of your work as relevant (e.g., exhibitions, performances, recordings, etc.), reflecting the work that you have done and your expertise in this area. The CV should be in MS Word format.

The material we covered in our classes on CVs will be helpful to you here.

Artist statement

You are required to provide two statements about your body of work

• A 250-word statement.
• A 50-word summary.

Both statements should be in MS Word format. The statements should contain your name and contact details, as well as the name of the work to which it refers.

The material we covered in our class on artist statements will be helpful to you here.

Image list

The image list must contain the filenames of the images you are submitting, along with details of the title and date of the work, media and dimensions (of the work, not of the image). The numbering of the image list must correspond to the required viewing order of your images.

The image list should be in MS Word format. The image list should contain your name and contact details.

Image files

If you are making a submission in relation to 2D or 3D work:

You are required to submit four(4) image files to represent your body of work, and each image must be submitted in two sizes - a high-resolution version of size 2048 x 1536 pixels, and a low-resolution version of size 600 x 450 pixels. One of the images should be of the work installed for exhibition or assessment*.

Select images that represent your work clearly. All high-resolution images should be of printable quality without the need for further editing. All low-resolution images should be optimised for screen delivery.

All images should be in JPEG format. The four high-resolution images should be stored in a folder called "high_res_images" and the four low-resolution images should be stored in a folder called "low_res_images".

If you are making a submission in relation to 4D work:

You are required to submit one (1) image file to represent your work installed for exhibition or assessment*. The image must be submitted in two sizes - a high-resolution version of size 2048 x 1536 pixels, and a low-resolution version of size 600 x 450 pixels.

Select an image that represents your work clearly. The high-resolution image should be of printable quality without the need for further editing. The low-resolution image should be optimised for screen delivery.

The image should be in JPEG format. The high-resolution image should be stored in a folder called "high_res_image" and the low-resolution image should be stored in a folder called "low_res_image".

*If you select a work or body of work as the subject matter for this assignment for which you do not have images of the work installed for exhibition or assessment, it will be necessary to re-install the work in the studio or another suitable location and photograph it again.

Video files

If you are making a submission in relation to 4D work, you must provide a two-minute extract from your work in two formats:

• a version that has been re-sized to 320 x 240 pixels resolution in MPEG4 format.
• a full-size, uncompressed version of the same two-minute extract in Quicktime format.

All video files submitted must contain a title sequence containing the following information:

• your name
• your course and year
• the title of your work
• the name of the workshop for which the submission is being made
• the date of submission
• a copyright notice of the following form: © IADT 2008

CD ROM

All CDs should be readable on both a PC and a Mac. Only the following file formats are acceptable:

Image files: JPEG
Video files: QuickTime and MPEG4, as specified
Documents: MS Word

Other file formats are unacceptable.

On opening, the CD ROM containing your images and supporting documentation should have the following structure:

All CD ROMs should be labelled, either directly onto the surface with a permanent marker, or with a label designed specifically for CDs. The label should contain the following information:

• your name
• your course and year
• the title of your work
• the name of the workshop for which the submission is being made
• the date of submission
• a copyright notice of the following form: © IADT 2008
• if you are submitting more than one CD, indicate what material is contained on each one.

CD cases should contain a correctly-fitted insert with the same information as the label of the CD which they contain.

File names

File names should contain only lower-case alphanumeric characters, and the underscore character.

• No upper-case letters
• No spaces
• No hyphens, dashes, asterisks or other punctuation marks.

Date for submission of technical draft assessment:
Friday 11 January 2008