GROUP PROJECT
Proposal Due: Monday, April 7
"Draft" Due: Monday, April 14
Final version Due: Wednesday, April 23

THE PROPOSAL:
You should get together with your group as soon as possible (i.e. immediately) to discuss what approach you want to take towards your final project.

The web-page you design with your group should specifically deal with some angle of Art History that relates somehow to HIV/AIDS. As we have discussed in class, this can be a specific exhibit relating to AIDS, an organization that uses art to raise awareness or money for AIDS-related causes, an artist who has/had AIDS or is/was HIV+, or any number of other related topics. You should be more specific in your topic than "AIDS and painting" because this topic will rapidly get out of hand (basically, there's no way you can cover this topic with sufficient depth in a 5-6 page paper). As a group, decide on what topic you would like to do and write up a brief (one page) proposal, which you will present for constructively critical discussion to the class on Monday, April 7. This paper should state what your web-page will be dealing with and why your group believes this to be a worthwhile topic.

THE PAGE ITSELF:
The design of an effective web-page will be an important part of your grade for this assignment (I am not just having you do this for the heck of it, after all...). However, do not neglect the writing of the actual Art History paper in lieu of finding a lot of images to stick on your page and make it look pretty. As you produce the web-page, approach it as a different medium for presenting a paper (on computer rather than on a printed page) and try to utilize the variety that this form of presentation allows you for inclusion of images, format of text, layout variety, etc. Remember that you are presenting a scholarly paper on this page (keeping in mind the class debates we had about the tone and content of such discussions), but you are doing it in a medium which has different rules and standards for presentation than regular print. Look at some other professional and scholarly art pages and see how they use the computer environment to enhance the presentation of their ideas.

The actual text of your page should be at least 5 pages (printed) long, not including images, expanded captions, etc. This means,if you were to write out your text in a traditional format (1-inch margins, 12-point type, etc.) you would have at least 5 pages of material. How you choose to break these up is entirely up to you, but this is the core of the project and should be your main focus at first. This text should also utilize at least three (3) professional or academic sources (just as you would research an academic biology or sociology paper). You may include the Sontag and Baker books on reserve for the class among these sources. Be sure to include a bibliography and citations in your text (yes, they do that on the Web too...at least in properly done pages).

After this, the remainder of the page design is up to you. You should include at least three (3) images in your page, although they need not necessarily be of a particular piece of art. They should not, though, be randomly included. Any images you include should be used to help illustrate points you are making in your paper or provide a reference point for the reader/viewer. How you arrange them on the page is entirely up to your group, but refer to models again to determine what makes an effective presentation.