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The class will be based around a semester long final project, with a final project proposal in week 5. The final project should be a creative project that is inspired by the concepts we've covered this semester. You should feel free to think non-traditionally, final projects can take any form. Think about how your work may be best communicated and most affecting? Possibilities include video, website, intervention, physical object, performance, essay, or anything else. You may work together. You are welcome to use any language or tool for your work.

Some possibilities include:

  • Create a visualization that reveals something unexpected.
  • Use data obtained via an API to create a false or misleading portrait of someone or something.
  • Subvert, misuse, or break an API in an interesting way.
  • Dive deep into quantified self and use the data to modify or influence yours or someone else's life.
  • Create a performance or intervention that makes us aware of some system or data you feel strongly about.
  • Visualize data using unexpected materials or medium.
  • Scrape or somehow obtain access to data you wouldn't normally be able to, and make it available to others via an API you create.
  • Design a custom API that allows others to control something else in the world, and invite others to use it.
  • Create a physical device or object that is controlled by data you obtain via an API.
  • Create a physical interface that lets people experience data obtained via an API.
  • Anything else of your choosing!

Final Project proposal (Due 2/25)

On 2/25 there will be final project proposals. Each person will have ~5 minutes for presentation and feedback. You should present (1) your idea, with accompanying sketches and (2) a small experiment creating some piece of your project, or a mockup of the idea. This could take the form of a video, a performative experiment, some design mockups, etc. Give us something to react to as a piece, not just an idea.

Final Project (Due 3/11)

The final project will be due on 3/11. We will have ~10 minutes per person for presentation and feedback.

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