CATS+ Style Guide

This document is split in two parts.

1. A style guide supplement to assist CATS+ Artists putting together their post-residency Wiki articles.
2. Best practices and a style guide supplement for anyone staging CATS+ Artist articles on the CATS+ wiki.

Note: Please follow the Style Guide as your primary source of truth when drafting CATS+ Wiki content. Use this guide for CATS+ specific content.

How to Write "CATS+"

Full, Formal Title: The Collaborative Art + Technology Situation (CATS+)

• Casual Title: CATS+
  • Use “CATS+ (Collaborative Art + Technology Situation)” the first time listed in a document. The full name is an explanation of the program name, not the actual program name.
• NOT:
  • CATS
  • CATs
  • Cats Plus
  • CATS+ (Collaborative Art & Technology Situation)
  • CATS+ (Collaborative Art and Technology Situation)
  • CATS+: Collaborative Art + Technology Situation
  • Collaborative Art + Technology Situation (CATS+)
  • The Collaborative Art + Technology Situation
  • Collaborative Art + Technology Situation (CATS+)

Copied from the MoHA General Style Guide: 2/29/24.

For Artists

Article Structure

When putting together your article, there is no format you need to follow. However, if you are looking for some structure consider using the below, adapted to your needs & in your language:

1. Overview. Provide a brief overview of the project, the outcomes, and who worked on it.
2. Inspiration. Outline your central questions/interests and how you arrived there.
3. Process/Methodology. Outline the steps you took in investigation of your project.
4. Events. Did you lead a workshop or hold an event? Outline that process and experience here.
5. Conclusion. Where are you now, in your work and project, at the end of the residency?
6. Related links. Include links to your own website/work and other places folks might want to check out in relation to your work/collaboration.

Google Doc Formatting

Headings

Article Title: H1

Headings: H2

Subheadings: H3, H4…

Links

You can use the Comment function to indicate where you would like to link to other pages within the MoHA wiki. To link to websites outside of the MoHA wiki, use the link function.

Images/Media

Include all sorts of media in your article! We love images, video, gifs, etc! The following file types are supported by the wiki: png, gif, jpg, jpeg, tiff, bmp, doc, xls, ppt docx, xlsx, pptx, odt, ods, odp, odg, pdf, ps, flac, mkv, mov, mp3, mp4, oga, ogg, ogv, wav, webm. The maximum file size is: 50mb.

Use the following naming convention for your media files: MoHA_YYYYMMDD_CATScohort_LastName_ProjectName_0001.filetype

Example: MoHA_20220622_CATS1_Flores_Decruitment_0001.png

Example: MoHA_202412_CATSmas_Miller_0001.jpg

When placing media in your wiki article document:

1. Ensure that your media files are correctly sized and named.
2. Upload your media files to the proper Drive folder.
3. Don’t add your media files directly to the Google Doc. Instead, indicate where they go by writing the file name.
4. Include alt text (see the MoHA Style Guide for alt text conventions).

For Wiki Staging

Cohort Pages

Each residency is structured differently. There is no one-size-fits-all approach to setting up a Cohort Page, however there are some basic headings that should be used.

1. About. Always include the following introductory sentence: “This residency session was part of the CATS+ program and ran from [dates].” Include the number of residents, what their objective was, if they did a final showing. Include the resident and mentor names.
2. Projects or Residents. Depending on how the residency is structured include basic information about each project or resident with links to
3. Events.
   • Workshops
   • Exhibitions
4. Artist Bios.

Project Pages

Project pages are subsets of Cohort Pages. Not every CATS+ Residency will have individual project pages.

Use the following headings for project pages

1. Intro. Use this template: This project is part of the [CATS+ cohort name] program and ran from [Date].
2. About. Overview of the project, use artist provided text where possible
3. Artist Wiki. Link to artist wikis.
4. Events.
   • Workshops
   • Exhibitions
5. Artist Bios.

Artist Pages

Artist pages are Wiki articles provided by the artists at the end of their residency. These should be staged, where possible, as-is.

Include the following text, in italics, at the top of each artist page: This is an artist page by [Artist]. This page is part of the project: [project page] by [artists]. This project was part of the [date] [CATS+ cohort] cohort.

If the artist wiki doesn’t have a specific project page, you may exclude that sentence.

Each artist page should have a “Related links” section. If the artist doesn’t provide this, you can add them. Some links you can include:

• The artists’ website
• Collaborators websites
• Collaborators artist wiki’s
• Cohort page
• Other links provided in the body of the article

Attributes

What follows are some more nitty-gritty staging details to add.

ADD TO ALL CATS+ pages:
{{Styled category|CATS+}}
[[Category:CATScohort]]

ADD TO ARTIST WIKI:
[[Category:Article]]
[[Category:ProjectTitle]]

WHEN ADDING IMAGES: Default to the following attributes:

• 500px
• Thumb
• Center

Feel free to adjust as needed, but start here as a base

example:
[[File:MoHA_202312_CATSmas_Miller_0001.jpg|500px|thumb|center]]