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• 1 2017-04-01T11:03:58-07:00 Group Project Proposals 13 A resource page for preparation and submission of materials plain 2017-04-03T06:42:46-07:00 Students in ARTS 227 and CSLC 134 / RUSN 334 combine in self-selected groups to author and design page contributions to a course artist book. As a preliminary step toward their hands-on production work, groups devise a collective artistic identity, including a group name and a theoretical platform, articulated as an invented "ism" within a manifesto. Supplementary materials are due Sunday, April 1, 11:59pm, and posted as media (a jpg image and a pdf, respectively) to the course Scalar site by any member of CSLC 134 / RUSN 334 (to facilitate review of materials, please leave at comment in the speech bubble at the bottom of this page with direct links to the two Scalar media objects).  Any group that does not have a member with a Scalar account should email the materials directly to cgilman@oxy.edu.
  
  For inspiration and guidance in the creation of your own statements, browse through examples from the early Russian Avant-garde in the activity sheet and in the pdf below. George Maciunas's "Fluxus Manifesto" written a half-century later and an ocean away retains many of the same qualities and sensibilities. As you review these historical documents, consider:
  
            What is the relationship between the gestures and ideas expressed in manifesti and the artwork they accompany?
  
  Manifesti should account for significant formal and stylistic decisions in your page designs, such as selection and distribution of letters, choice of print v. handwritten text, color, and graphics, as well as the text and subject matter (if discernable). They may be as brief as an extended paragraph and as long as a page, can be written in stylized fashion, and must somehow include the following elements:
  • A group name (e.g. World of Art, Union of Youth, Hylaea, Donkey’s Tail)
  • An “ism” (e.g. Rayism, Neo-Primitivism, Futurism, Cubo-Futurism, Ego-Futurism, Everythingism, Nothingism, Prism, Schism, etc.)
  • An articulation of the key theoretical principles, socio-political aspirations, and aesthetic qualities and devices at play in the book page, and in the “ism.”
  • Group members may devise pseudonyms for the PDF submission, but must indicate their real names elsewhere