Project 01: Mapping and Meaning

You will create an experimental Web essay concerning mapping and meaning in light of our readings, class discussions, and personal experience/reflections. While the possibilities are quite open, something about the essay should be self-reflexively “about” the act of mapping, uses of maps, maps as technologies of vision, or the ideological implications of mapping. You are encouraged to mix personal anecdote, narrative, argument, implication, puns, and/or documentation in your piece, and you are discouraged from being tendentious or didactic. You project may include photos, audio, video, animation, text, voiceover, etc.

Project 02: De-Tours

Using the visual culture and modes of presentation, display, and experience developed by tourism, create a project that contradicts or complicates ordinary directions, assumptions, ideologies and economics of tourist travel. Your project must deal with an actual place or places and include at least two distinct media forms, such as signage with a guided tour, audio tour and map, guided tour and website, etc.

Mini Projects

MCMA 516, Fall 2006 / Thursdays, 2-4:50 PM, COMM 9E / Recommended Lab: Thursday, 6-8 PM, COMM 9E
Prof. Sarah Kanouse / Office: Comm 1121K / Tues 1-3 PM; Wed 3-5 PM; Thu 8:30-9:30 AM, 1-2 PM / kanouse@siu.edu