→ 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?
» Discuss: WideImage (Emblem); “Heuretics” (method) & Apparatus Theory (update);
Aporia, ATH, Remake (disciplinary target) — Final Project
» Due: Emblem (draft) 7pm
Project 3 Part I — see textbook & links:
“Design an emblem that evokes the look and feel of your mystory.” (p. 246)
» Workshop (period E1): online (Sakai chat room)
W 01-Dec Studio: Emblem (progress) & WideSite
“Design a website version of your image of wide scope (a ‘widesite’).” (p. 19)
Band 4 Online Discussion (before & after class) — see prompt below.
Rest of class, discussUlmer Entries & Relays:
— Synecdoche, NY, Logorama, & online videos (selections)
F 03-Dec Studio: Concept Remake (Assemblage Site)
Part II Using your emblem as a guide for decision (intuition), take responsibility for “re-inventing” or “updating” a topic from Career Field or a specific aspect of 20th-century culture: avoiding judgment & blindness (ATH) in favor of expressing the affect (lived dimension) of experience.
Band 1 Online Discussion (before & after class) — see prompt below.
Rest of class, discussUlmer Entries & Relays:
— Synecdoche, NY, Logorama, & online videos (selections)
» Weekly Blog Entry: optional / extra credit
(sketch / plans: Emblem → WideSite)
» Please select & view Online Videos in lieu of assigned feature-length screening.
See list below; feel free to add suggestions in comments.
Links to artists’ pages; encouraged to leave them feedback
(link to your blog; bonus participation points if you receive comments!
Also, discussion credit for replying to comments received; perhaps create a new entry & link on your social network, sharing the vids you view and receiving comments on your blog?)
How do we know that we aren’t just building more swimming pools, when we should really be improving the bus schedules? That dilemma cuts across all of the major issues afflicting us, and is precisely the kind of new knowledge that universities ought to be pursuing.
This is a short film that was directed by the French animation collective H5, François Alaux, Hervé de Crécy + Ludovic Houplain. It was presented at the Cannes Film Festival 2009. It opened the 2010 Sundance Film Festival and won a 2010 academy award under the category of animated short.
“We should not be satisfied with either biography or bibliography; we must reach a secret point where the anecdote of life and the aphorism of thought
amount to one and the same thing” (The Logic of Sense 128).
— Deleuze (citing Nietzsche’s method for invention).
