Novel Experience & Expression

 
M 07-Dec    Due: Final Project — “Resonance Assemblage” (checkpoint)

Workshop / “Studio” class

“Stage 1″ Checkpoint instructions here.

 
 
W 09-Dec    (no class)

Due: Final Project — (9pm finalized / online)

Overall guidelines here

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“Stage 1″ Project Checkpoint due M 07-Dec (class time) — required
 

Note: must be online, “in progress,” by class time to avoid penalty
(late / point deduction from final project).

 
Content: 6-8 entries (”posts”) minimum (of 16-20 total).
        — reminder: entries are fragments (100-200 words); see below for more.

 
“Research” is complete; definite/revised topic/issue; sources and “materials” selected.

 
List sources on “Materials” page:

Literary: 2 from Part II novels; (4 req’d total)*
Scholarly: 1 min. from research; (2 required total)
Culture: 2 min. (distinct from “Literary” sources; 4 min. total)
Multimedia: 2 min. (10 total, including 1 non-image e.g. video, audio, animation, etc.)
 
— * Note: any material from a novel is sufficient: quote, phrase, description, figure/image, character, setting, references/allusions, style/”voice” (?), narration technique (?)….

— Prospective materials: list any sources not used yet but anticipate including in entries; also might list any items seeking but not found thus far.

 
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Layout : Blog reformatted (see instructions below — click here).

1. Static home page created.
2. “Entries” page created.
3. Required Pages created (see below; content incomplete)
4. New title (creative / applicable, re: “critical expressionism” of your project)
5. New “theme” (blog template)
6. Categories and Tags (create, relative to topic)
7. All old entries categorized (and tagged? optional);
   e.g. “research,” “response,” “reading journal”
8. Widgets: “Categories” and “Tag Cloud” (minimum / req’d)

 
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Required Pages:

Home
About
Entries (or “Posts”)
Materials
Poetics
Reflection

 
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Multimedia

— Be sure to embed at least one image and/or audio/video clip (even if you change/delete them later).
— Use from Web or your own (upload to Wordpress)

Instructions:
Embedding Images
Video Instructions (for YouTube; cf. Google, Vimeo, etc. on page)
Adding Audio Instructions
Google Maps

Note: We’ll want to troubleshoot practical issues about this during Monday’s workshop; please attend/arrive with specific technical questions/issues.

 
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Content

6-8 entries (”posts”) minimum.

          — reminder: entries are fragments (100-200 words).

 
Flexible / hybrid poetics: might be single topic/vignette (for emphasis); or, juxtaposition of diverse elements, e.g. text and image from different paradigm levels.

Note: strongly discourage using images for “representation” (illustration, depiction, etc), as this is not expressive (but logical). Instead, use expressive images guided by intuition (associative and affective logic), without “obvious” (explicit, rational) connection…

 
 
Paradigm (one example from each dimension, for Monday):

Personal
Disciplinary (historical / scientific)
Cultural
Original Narrative

 
 
Interface: one example (from any of three paradigm dimensions)

 
Expressive Figure: one example (from any of three paradigm dimensions)

 
 
Manipulated image : one example

“Ready-made” or “Bricolage” Method of using images: “re-fashion” / “re-purpose” visually, by using any image program like Photoshop; including free software online:

Pixlr
Phoenix
Picnik
Wordle (?)

 
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Blog Format / Layout Instructions

 
Creating Pages


1) Dashboard -> Pages -> Add New
2) “Add New Page” -> Title / compose -> Publish


*3) Create a new page that will become your home/front page.
*4) Create a new page titled “Entries” or “Posts”

 
A) Convert blog to static home page.


 
 
1) Dashboard -> Settings -> Reading.
2) Front page displays -> choose “A static page.”
3) Select Front page (from drop-down menu).
4) Select Posts page (from drop-down menu).

 
 
B) New Theme & Title

Change Theme to one expressive of experience/affect.

1) Dashboard –> Appearance –> Themes

Change title: re-name your blog with an apt title for your project.

1) Dashboard -> Settings -> Blog Title & Tagline

 
 
C) Enable “Tag cloud” & “Categories” widget

1) Dashboard –> Appearance–> Widgets

 
* To tag and categorize entries

1) Dashboard -> Posts -> Edit Posts
2) Select post to Edit -> Add/type tags (right column) -> Click “Add” Button.
3) “Categories” -> Choose/create (right column)
*4) Click “Update” (right column) to save (not updated, otherwise).

 
 

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