I'm currently taking Advanced Webprojects at Scripps, it's basically a Flash class, and our final project assignment was to create an extended animation or an interactive website. I decided to persue the later, using my thesis as my focus.
Here's the result, please poke around, not time consuming, it will be a nice study break, I promise! (click on "ART 144" then "Final Animation)"
It's a work in progress and I intend to continue adding to it. I plan to use it in my thesis presentation, provided I get approval to persue an Honors thesis (fingers crossed).

So I'd really like feedback. On the interface, on the content, whatever comes to mind. I'd also love suggestions for other public artworks to include.

So after discussing my first revised thesis proposal with my girlfriend I came up with this second revision, and seeing as no one has commented on my first proposal post, I might as well put this up and hope you will give me some feedback on it. Come on guys, it's shorter than the first one!

Okay, so I just wrote up my revised proposal and I would appreciate whatever input people are in the mood to give me. On the thesis topic itself, on the proposal, suggestions for sources or interesting directions I could go. I was a little unsure of what the format for the proposal should be, are there things I should include that I didn't, things I did include and shouldn't? You know, the basic peer review. KF, your input would also be quite welcome.

Without further ado, my thesis proposal:

(Questions to the reader at the bottom, please read more and give me feedback, if you have the time)

As I mentioned in our opening class I'm planning to write my thesis on and in the attempt to re-theorize public art. As I have also mentioned, Banksy was part of my inspiration to do this. Spring before last, when he put his paintings up in NYC museums I was grabbed by his fanciful problematization of the museum system (and his concurrent anti-war messages). I decided to write my final paper for Media Theory on the political efficacy of public art, with a particular emphasis on what I dubbed "ephemeral public art" (i.e. Banksy, Guerilla Girls, ACT Up, Think Again, etc.) I very quickly discovered that while there was no end to critical debate on the relative virtues of Richard Serra's "Tilted Arc" and the questions that it brought to light (primarily what should public art be? does it have to be aesthetically accessible to everyone? should it be art for art's sake or something more? and so forth), there was very little, if any, critical attention given to the very forms of public art that I was most interested in. With a limited time line and a 20 page limit, I did the best I could to discuss ephemeral public art with the resources available; however, it left me wholly unsatisfied.