Collaboration+I

The first collaborative project will be an art swap. This project requires that you choose a partner to work with. You may ask a member of the group through the disscusions or we can assign you randomly.

When I first invisioned this project I concidered it to be a somewhat novel idea, however after I did a bit of reseach on the topic I found a good bit of work going on known as Photoshop Tennis. Here are some links to sites that feature some examples: [|PS Tennis at Innovative Learning Center at Tulane] [|Wikipedia's explanation of PS Tennis] [|The Power of Many- collaboration links] [|G4TV.com]

You and your partner will be working at a file size of 8 x 10 @ 150ppi
One artist will start by choosing a found image or a personal digital art creation that has been started. This unflattened photoshop flie (.PSD) should be uploaded to the media storage site [|MediaMax], the user name is **AlOhio** and the password is **collaborate** Create a folder on the site labled with your group names and place the file in the folder**.** The second artist then uploads the file and adds or alters the image in any way they want. This process will continue until the artists agree the image is finished. At each point in the editing the image should be archived to the blog site before being altered. This will be the responcibilty of the artist before the images is uploaded to MediaMax. This way the collaborating artist can just check the blog to see if the image is ready for their turn at editing. It will also allow the rest of the group to see the steps in the progression toward finished image. Artists and audience can comment on the blog posts and critique the edits made to the work.