assignment two: 

With your working group play two Surrealist-style games of collective authorship: one to produce a text, a second to produce an image.  

text game: Pick one person to start the game.  The chosen person will write a sentence that can be followed by the phrase "and then..." For example, this sentence would work: "She began her day as she always did: shower, dress, breakfast, a quick drive to work and then..." After writing the initial sentence, the first person sends the message (via email) to the second person on the list.  The second person writes a second sentence and sends it (i.e., the second sentence, only the second sentence and not the first sentence) on to the next person.  Continue playing until each person has contributed at least 10 sentences.  At the end of play, assemble all of the sentences together as one text (containing all 30+ sentences joined by "and then" phrases).

image game: Pick one person to start the game.  The first person will use Photoshop to either (1) draw an image of size 400 pixel by 400 pixels; or size a found image (e.g., something from the web) to a size of 400 pixels by 400 pixels.  All subsequent contributions should also be of this same size.  The game proceeds like the text game with the following difference: after the first person has created an image, s/he does not send the image on to the next person; rather, the next person receives a message containing three things: (1) one of the following phrases: "connect your image to the left of mine", "connect your image to the right of mine", "connect your image below mine", or "connect your image above mine" to indicate how the next person's image will connect to the first person's image; (2) two numbers indicating the length or width in pixels of the connection between the two images; and, (3) a one word description to indicate to the next person what their image should show.  Thus, for instance, if the first person drew a head, the message to the next person might read as follows: "connect your image below mine, 200, neck." Such a message might mean that the first person would like the second person to draw a neck 200 pixels wide that will connect to a head positioned above the neck.  At the end of play assemble all of the images together to form one image.  In each game each person should contribute at least two images.  Play at least three games of this.

When you are finished with the games, assemble the texts and images, upload them to a webpage, and send the URL of that webpage to the professor (as described in the "upload" page of the course website).  Finally, each member of the team must send the professor an email in which the other team members are evaluated (as described in the "requirements" page of the course website).