TIPS FOR ASSESSMENT 3
Continuing to work on the theme that your group chose for Assessment 2, devise a series of experiments and document your process on Tumblr. You donât need to continue with the same focus/approach etc that you took in Assessment 2, you just need to continue to work in response to the theme and follow your own interest as it is developing as and through your practice.
Considering the outcomes of the preliminary experiments, develop a final work or body of work(s). The work(s) can be in any medium or material.Â
The final project must be posted to Tumblr. Make sure, if your work is not digital, that you have good photo, audio or video documentation.
You must also upload a 300-word concept statement that contextualises your work. Consider your process and the curation of the final works. This is your chance to give an account of your practice and to situate your work in the context of historical and contemporary art/media/design. Donât just describe what you did, and donât just make overly general statements or claims about what the work âmeansâ. Keep to the specifics of the processes of experimentation, reflection and refinement. Talk about the materials you use and some of the impacts of the medium you chose to work in.
This is an individual assessment, but you should make use of your group from Assessment 2, with whom you will by now share ideas, approaches and intimacies. Ask each other for advice and feedback and pool your resources â references, materials, concepts, snacks, etc.
Make sure you think hard about how you âpresentâ the final work(s). Ask yourself: if I went online/into a gallery/into the streets, would I engage with this work? Would I be impressed/intrigued/pissed off? Remember, you are making ART, MEDIA, AND/OR DESIGN WORK! Donât get so bogged down in the theme that you forget this fact! The themes are there to provide a prompt/provocation. The onus is on you to take up the theme and to make work that furthers your practice in the context of contemporary work. Make something youâd like to see in the world.
Have fun! This final project is a chance to work on a sustained body of work â responding to what youâve learned in class and allowing you the flexibility and freedom to draw on a diverse set of skills. Use this assessment as a way to think through some of the possibilities youâve encountered during the semester, and as a way of allowing yourself the space to think about the future of your practice.









