Components:
Essay = 1200-1500 words
Presentation = 25-35 min. exploration of your programming example
WHAT COULD INNOVATIVE or ORIGINAL ARTS PROGRAMMING LOOK/SOUND/FEEL LIKE IN THE 21st CENTURY? AND WHAT PLACE MIGHT AESTHETICS HAVE IN SUCH PROGRAMMING?
Your group should address the above question by taking the perspective of arts and culture workers pursuing creative and recombinant arts programming. In order to focus your discussion, choose a “box” to start with—museum exhibition, performing arts season, community arts event, festival, etc. These are suggestions, and established options, so feel free to move beyond them. However, I want you to be able to definitively articulate the “box” that you’ll be thinking from/within/without. Your group shoud then generate an aesthetic framework or set of principles that guide the look/sound/feel (or some combination) of your programming; this should be a short list(think bullet points), with brief descriptions. Finally, design and describe the programming (at a reaonsable scale or granularity), explicitly drawing on the aesthetic framework you’ve developed.
The essay is brief, so make sure you hit the following:
A. explain the “box” or orientation for you programming; be brief, as this is primarily background information.
B. articulate an “aesthetic framework,” consisting of a set of principles (no firm number) that will guide the look/sound/feel of your programming.
C. design and describe a specific example of innovative/original arts programming that stems from both the “box” and the aesthetic framework you’ve created.
Feel free to draw on writings and other resources that we have examined in class in order to contextualize and illustrate your comments. There is no set number of sources you should reference, and since this is an essay it should demonstrate a logical argument toward a goal that represents your group’s collective thinking; it needn’t be laden with outside citations, but should address relevant ones as needed.
RUBRIC:
* clearly identify/describe the “box” = 5pts
* articulate an aesthetic framework = 5pts
*design/describe an example of programming (original/innovative)= 7.5pts
* correct spelling/grammar/editing= 2.5pts
