Art 511 Art & Telecommunications 
Assignment 6: Final Project: A topic based Web event

Many artists are now beginning to work with information as their focus. They are assembling unusual kinds of information or presenting common information with new perspectives and frameworks. They are using visual communication to induce viewers to think about the topics in new ways.

For this assignment, you are asked to create a Web site focused on one particular topic. This topic should be specific, not general - for example, tuba music instead of music in general. Your site must show strong idiosyncratic perspectives on the topic chosen. It must be composed in a way that would be unlikely to be executed by a practitioner in the field you picked. Remember, part of what artists can do is create unexpected links among various subjects.

Project information requirements:

• Become an expert in the topic you pick. Undertake specific research to acquire information you don't know already. The research can be library and/or field research (for example, conducting interviews).
• Your site must present both original information (not available on the Internet) and Internet based information (at least 10 links to other sites)
• Use search engines to identify ftp and usenet "newsgroup" resources
• Use spider and topical index Web search sites to locate relevant Web information.
• Plan for how your site will fit among other nominally related sites. (What will it mean when someone doing a "serious" research on the topic finds your site among the other related sites?)

Project technical requirements:

• The site must be composed of at least 3 interlinked Web pages.
• Make extensive use of images. (at least 6 images, at least 1 external, and 1 transparent)
• Use stylesheets to control layout
• Use an embedded media element such as sound and/or video
  
• Present a coherent category and navigation system
• Use  Javascript