Go to a Museum and spend time with at least one work of art. The Carnegie Museum of Art is free to CMU students and open every day except Tuesday: see http://www.cmoa.org/visit/ Pick one realist...more

Create a simple perspective drawing of a tiled plaza using Alberti's Construction method.

Select a photographer you like, try and emulate this style. Present at least 5 photographs that you have taken in the style of this photographer and document what you found interesting/challenging ...more

Create a composed experience which is replayed in physical space that helps participants actively explore (and learn about) the concepts and aesthetics of generative/emegent forms. Read more at...more

Create a composed experience that helps participants actively explore (and learn about) the concepts and aesthetics of chance, indeterminacy, randomness/entropy/uncertainty. See More (and comme...more

Find a cultural phenomenon/activity of your everyday life that you believe can be improved by some form of representational and or interpretative information display. Choose something that is perso...more

Observe and document action in a space on campus (e.g. a hallway, the library, a classroom). Consider the kind of actions present and interactivities between individuals. Design an intervention...more

Considering both ‘The Computer as a Mode of Mediation’, Sonic Imaginations, and in-class discussion of mediated representation create a composition or a composition story-board that tells a story (...more