The Learning Screen

 
 
“Assemblage Expression” Final Project

» Progress Checkpoint:   Friday 10-Dec

• Site shows progress toward Parts I & II

• Layout re-designed; see Tech Support page.
• Emblem (and WideSite fragments, 2 min.)
• Concept Remake (fragments, 2 min. — draft)

 
» Finalized               Sat 11-Dec (11pm deadline)

» update:         Reflection page can be posted on Sunday (if necessary; penalty-free)

 
 
Key Reminders

• Assignment Page
   

• Blog Discussion
   

• Strongly suggest reviewing all instructions and criteria.
  Deadline for email, to guarantee reply in time to revise/apply: Saturday 5 pm.

EQ of Databases (Popcycle)
“Frequencies”   Narrative     Rational     Expressive   Modes   Creative     Critical     Aesthetic

 
 
» Remember:   Key Resources for Praxis
     (in addition to image editing)

• “Found footage” @ Archive.org (extensive public-domain library) Video   &   Audio
• Audacity (audio editor; free, open-source, cross-platform)
• Create animated videos @ XtraNormal
• Other free & useful sites? Share/suggest in Comments!

M 06-Dec    Studio Workshop — Concept Remake (electracy); Poetics + Praxis

» Due:   Studio Preparation (entry); see prompt below.

» Studio Tuning / Warm-up (checkpoint):

• emblem: selections finalized (one’s “ingredients” for “recipe”)
• tentative topic for project — Career (or Community?) discourse
• Praxis: review of Chapters 9-11, plus
  Chp. 1-2 {“General Project,” “Attunement,” “Stimmung”}; “The Learning Screen”
• examples below.
• Poetics: Contemporary Cultural Forms (Relays; review?)

» Workshop (period E1): online discussion (blog comments & Sakai chat)

→ post question / idea about Part II (below) by start (required)
— Discussion e.c. for replies (e.g. answer Q, specifying guide/instruction; reference)

W 08-Dec (last class)    Studio Project Praxis (design)

» “Soundcheck” (checkpoint):

• emblem revised (if necessary); final version online
• topic (“target” concept) revised / finalized (post in brief blog entry)
• “materials” (sources) selected; refine during/after class
• poetics / “blueprint” for assemblage; refine during/after class.

 
» Blog Entry (optional / extra credit) prompts:

• Discuss how emblem (attunement) helping toward Concept Remake (via “virtual consulting”?).
  See “Testimony” Exercise (p. 300).
• Sketch a plan for Assemblage Concept (praxis/composing), heterogeneous elements (“frequencies”)
  to include as “remix DJ” (emphasis: syncretism, hybrid, multimodal).
• Fall term “Playlist” or “Montage” (multimedia highlights; perhaps also test Tagxedo?)
  — see “Mood Spectrum” Exercise (p.317) also?

 
 
F 10-Dec    » Due: Project 3 — Description Page

 
 

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