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The Exquisite Corpse site has four basic sections:

Gallery
Faculty site
Student site
Administrative site (Not Detailed Here)

Terms:

A Cemetery is a named term that designates a series of work complete over a four week-period, containing a series of Crypts, which contain a series of Corpses.

A Crypt is a group of four to five students, arranged in a "magi square" within a Cemetery. Thus if 50 total student are participating in the Exquisite Corpse project from three colleges, they are split into small groups called Crypts, which arrange the students so that there is representative distribution from each class. Think of the Crypt as the housing for a group of students, who contribute in permutated arrangements to the Corpses housed within the Crypt.

Corpses (one through five) are the series of collaborative aesthetic works created inside each Crypt, all created by this same group of students, but with the order of participation varying for each of the five Corpses.

Each Corpse is composed of Limbs, the individual contributions to the Corpse, which are then de-realized by the computer interface.

1. Gallery

The "Gallery" is a display of completed student projects (Cemeteries and Corpses) and is open to the public (non-affiliated users). Visitors can view original work, details about this work, and can also upload commentary.

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The link Archive in the top left corner will take the user to the archived Cemeteries. The "Archive" has a somewhat different appearance than, but uses the same organizational logic as, the "Gallery." Underneath the link Archive is a list of completed Cemeteries containing their names and duration. Clicking on a Cemetery’s name (here "Physics", "Classics") will display its map. Each row in the Cemetery map starts with the Crypt name followed by a list of students that define that Crypt and list of Corpses they created.

Cemetery Map

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From the Cemetery map, visitors can view student information by clicking on a student’s name, her original work (links Corpse1, Corpse2, etc.) and details of her work (link details). On the "Corpse Display" page, or "Corpse Details Display" page, visitors can submit comments for that Corpse. They can also read comments made by other visitors and faculty on this particular Corpse.

Corpse Display page

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Corpse Details Display page

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2. Faculty site

To access this site, faculty/staff will log in by e-mail address (as user name) and password. After log in, faculty will view a map of Cemetery in progress or the map of most recently completed Cemetery (example below) if no Cemetery is in progress. Faculty will be able to determine which files are submitted and if any are late, and will also be able to browse through every submitted file and view its details.

Faculty page

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From this page faculty can:

Submit a comment for the Cemetery as a whole. When submitting a comment after log in, the first and last name will be attached to the comment and other faculty/staff will be able to view the comment. Once the Cemetery is complete and viewable in the Gallery, all users will be able to read the comment. This is not true for comments linked specifically to a Limb of a particular Corpse, which are meant as student-specific evaluations.
See submitted comments for the Cemetery (here named "Classics").
View "Student Info" by clicking on student name, and correct any errors as necessary.
View the map of a specific Crypt by clicking on its name (white links on Faculty page: Beethowen, Chopin etc.)

Crypt Map page

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The rows in this Crypt table represent Corpses one through five. Here, we see that Corpse #1 is defined as the following sequence of students: Glisic Ranko, Novakovic Mila, Novakovic Una and Hanson Bob. Thus, the file that Ranko submits during Week #1 of the Cemetery "Classics" becomes the first Limb (first file in sequence) of Corpse #1. When Mila logs in sometime during Week #2, she will see the de-realized version of Ranko’s file (assuming Ranko submitted a file).
The file that Mila submits at this time will become the second file in the sequence for Corpse #1 and so on.

Details for a certain file (file type and date/time stamp), as well as the file itself can be viewed through the Limb link beneath that student’s name. If the student did not submit a file "N/A" appears in a box beneath that student’s name.

Limb Display page

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On the Limb Display page, faculty/staff can view the original file, the de-realized version of the file, and its details: type, date/time stamp, the question prompt and the student response.

To submit a comment or to view previous comments on this Limb, follow the links in the box on the "Crypt Map" page beneath the student name or follow similar links on the "Limb Display" page. The comment can be e-mailed automatically to the student, by checking a box: "send this comment to student?". Note: Limb specific comments are private to the faculty member, nobody else can see them.

From the "Crypt Map" page: click on one of the links Corpse1, Corpse2 etc. to view all the files (with details) submitted as part of the Corpse until that moment.

To comment on Corpse #1 as a whole, click on the Add Corpse1 Comment link. [Also, comments can be uploaded by clicking the Add Comment link in the box beneath Corpse1 (on the "Crypt Map" page). Use the same two methods to view the view submitted comments.]

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3. Student site

When a new Cemetery is created, every participating student is assigned a password, which is automatically e-mailed to the student. Students will use this password to log in for the first time. In order to proceed, students need to complete a short form asking about their personal information (this request occurs only on the first visit). Students can also change their password at this point, and students can edit their personal information during any subsequent log in.

Once a student has correctly filled out her information, she proceeds to the "Corpse Upload" page. This page is the student’s guide for the duration of a Cemetery. The student will find out which Crypt she is assigned, and will view a map of this Crypt (with only her location visible). This map makes it clear when the student needs to submit her file, and to which Corpse (one through five) the Limb will be attached.

Corpse Upload page

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If the student is not the first student in the Corpse sequence, she will be asked to submit a Limb as a reaction to a de-realized version of the previous Limb. This Limb will also be displayed on the "Corpse Upload" page.

Corpse Upload page

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After browsing for a file and clicking submit, student will see the file he chose to upload. If displayed file is the right one student should click YES. If she does not see the file (text, image etc) she has chosen, she should click NO which will return to the Corpse Upload page where she can upload the file again.

Student's file

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After the student submits a file (by clicking YES when his file is displayed), he will be able to view the de-realized version of his work. Once the Limb is de-realized, the student cannot re-submit the Limb. To complete the upload process, the student needs to answer the question she will be prompted with at the time. Without a submission of the uploaded answer, the Limb submission will fail. If student does not have the answer ready he can login again anytime during same submission week to complete the process (like submitting his answer).

When the student completes her upload for certain week, she can still log in to view her file or change her personal information, but she cannot submit any more Limbs until the next submission week. Late submissions are not accepted. A late student is simply skipped.

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Exquisite Corpse Project—A collaboration on the creation of multimedia works of art among undergraduate students from Colorado College, DePauw University, Kenyon College, Lake Forest College, Monmouth College, and Oberlin College

Sponsored by the Midwest Instructional Technology Center, with the support of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

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