Artist Initiative

I created a fully functional, interactive, animated eBook for iPad with High Definition videos which I then loaded onto several iPads for demonstration purposes at the public component event. Utilizing the calendar program on my computer I was able to schedule my time down to fifteen minute intervals. This allowed me to track the progress of the project which is critical in maintaining motivation. Motivation is all about momentum and as book two took shape momentum increased. I had regular meetings with parents and their children, fellows in the arts and visitors to stage door at the Guthrie theater showing updates to my grant project work. Through their reactions and comments I was able to best steer the project. 2: I was able to create a highly entertaining and effective piece of New Media which captivated audiences of all ages and varied demography. Multiple websites along with multiple e-mailings put the download link in front of many persons and families. By creating time to meet with children and parents in my projects demography I was able to see first-hand which animations elicited intensely positive responses and which ones were less successful. By watching children play with the eBook on an iPad, noting how long they stayed on each page, I was able to decide how successful the individual pages and animations actually were. If the child was enlivened by the animation I felt it was successful. If the child moved on to the next page quickly I made a note to revisit that page and reconsider its composition. In this way I was able to effective evaluate the work I was doing.