Investigation Workbook REQUIREMENTS
IB Digital Visual Arts – INVESTIGATION WORKBOOKS
The Research Workbook (IWB) should be a working journal of your experience throughout this course. It is not a scrapbook, nor a mere sketchbook. It is meant to document your personal growth, a commentary on your personal journey, and a record of your personal growth. Students should spend little time on complicated lay-outs; rather they should focus on investigation and personal reflection on their place in the world of art and design.
REQUIREMENTS:
• Date and number your pages. Not only is it required, but it also makes it easier to refer back to a previous idea or thought.
• Don’t skip pages thinking that you need to finish something before beginning another. This course lends itself to one idea filtering into others, so progress in your book as your mind works. Jumping from one idea and back again is not a bad thing!
• NEVER TEAR OUT OR REMOVE PAGES!!!!
• Explore an idea or material multiple times. Force yourself to do something again in a new way, and then to analyze the evolution.
• Use the IWB to comment on your own attitudes about life, social, cultural, and political concerns.
• The emphasis in your IWB should be the process and progression of your ideas. Document everything, from the artist you researched to the Discovery Channel special that inspired you.
• Include reviews, newspaper articles, gallery clippings, and other sources that are relevant to your personally artistic journey. (Be careful not to scrapbook)
• Fill each page leaving no gaps or white space. (Don’t write in 36 point font though either)
• Write legibly, preferably in black or dark ink.
• The purpose of the IWB is to show your personal growth, therefore editing to hide flaws is not only unnecessary, but detrimental to the overall IWB. This is not meant to be a finished and perfect art object, free of flaws or uncertainties.
• Work in your IWB everyday! Yes, EVERYDAY.
ACCEPTABLE:
• Photographs/images related to ideas or products being pursued.
• Images should not take up over 2/3 of the page.
• Relevant materials from other disciplines (Math, TOK, Literature)
• Material documenting a museum/gallery experience.
• Typed responses to artists, materials, techniques etc.
• Material experimentation and documentation.
• Unanswered questions, thoughts and ideas.
UNACCEPTABLE:
• Lengthy biographies or printed information without student interaction.
• Photographs/images that are irrelevant to ideas or products.
• Class handouts.
• Editing pages (blacking out, tearing out etc.)
• Skipping pages.
• Not using citations.
• Writing in large print simply to “fill space”.
• Blank pages or space in pages.
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