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From January 14 to April 21, 2020, this site served as the online portal for Void, Archive, Network for 14 students at Yale School of Art.

Note: these summaries are written at the end of each semester by Mindy Seu. The structure of this course is based on expansion and contraction of four multi-week projects and one group project. (1) Begin with a void. (2) Expand this into a trail. (3) Condense this into a packet. (4) Expand this into a site. Each project builds by one or more weeks, with Void running one week and Site lasting five weeks. P4: Site was intended to be a digital overlay on a physical site (the Atrium), but this was modified to become Site for a Future Event, due to the pandemic. (5) Kiosks were interactive, informative structures created in groups of two or three. These were intended to be one week projects and were presented every week by a different group.

P1: Void

Anna, annassag.github.io/yale-spring-20/index-void.html

Tuan, tuanquocpham.github.io/yale-spring-20/void.html

Mengyi, mengyi-qian.github.io/yale-spring-20/void/void.html

P2: Trail

Mengyi, mengyi-qian.github.io/yale-spring-20/trail/trail.html

Mianwei, vimeo.com/391884821

Minhwan, minhwan-kim.github.io/yale-spring-20/Life/index.html

Tuan, tuanquocpham.github.io/yale-spring-20/trail.html

P3: Packet

Anna, annassag.github.io/yale-spring-20/packet-anna.pdf

Jun, junkijung.github.io/yale-spring-20/packet.html

Luiza, daleluiza.github.io/yale-spring-20/assets/packet-1.pdf

Nick, bookmark-toolbox.us

Tuan, tuanquocpham.github.io/yale-spring-20/assets/packet.pdf

P4: Site

Luiza, luizadale.com/sixgarments

P5: Kiosk

Nick, Harin, Anezka, whataboutthis.us

Anna, Mengyi, Minhwan, mengyi-qian.github.io/yale-spring-20/kiosk/kiosk.html

Luiza, Mianwei, Milo, l-o-b-o.github.io/yale-spring-20/05.html

Mianwei, Tuan gd-ko.com

Portfolio Sites

Tuan, tuanquocpham.github.io/yale-spring-20

Anezka, anezkaminarikova.github.io/yale-spring-20

Milo, mmiilloo.github.io/yale-spring-20

Exercises & Workshops

The class began with a take-home Github assignment. We later had a Print CSS Workshop using the "print" media query, so students could print their websites.

Anezka

Herdimas

Two joint workshops were held for Rosa McElheny's and this course. (1) Tim Ripper led an on-site, two-day JavaScript workshop and (2) Eric Li held an online alternative CMS workshop to introduce Are.na and Kirby.

Visiting Critics

For P3: Packet, James Goggin joined as an on-site guest critic, having conceived of the original project for his RISD course. For P4: Site, Salome Asega joined as a guest critic on Zoom, accompanied by an appearance by Sheila Levrant de Bretteville.

Personal Note

When the class began, we had 21 students (shopping week). Most of the second years dropped by the fourth week (understandably), and we whittled down to 14. For a future semester, 8–12 seems like the perfect number so critiques are not tight on time. We had to adapt midway to a purely virtual format, so some projects needed to be reformatted. However, most students seemed open to the challenge; even those that were down still used the time to make a meditative website...

A sampling of our class can be seen in an attendance screenshot.

Patsy retired!