The Learning Screen

Schedule of Readings and Assignments

— updated: 03-Oct

» see Films page for Trailers of Screenings

 

• Part I: Career & Family Databases — Project: “Reflexive Mapping” (04-Oct)
• Part II: Entertainment & Community Databases — Project: “High Concept Mash-up” (08-Nov)
• Part III: Emblem toward Concept Remake — Project: “Culture Update” (10-Dec)

 

M 23-Aug First Class
W 25-Aug Technical Setup: WordPress Blogs
F 25-Aug Screening: Mad Men “The Grown Ups” (2009)
 
 

 

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Part I: Career & Family Databases

M 30-Aug Internet Invention Introduction (1-16)

Discuss: “Relay” Method (films & media), Project 1

E1-E3 Screening: Breathless (Dir. Godard, 1960)

W 01-Sep Internet Invention Chapter 1 (18-42): “Mystory”

Discuss: Part One “Career Discourse”

F 03-Sep read: Bobby Rabyd, Sunshine ’69 (1996). Discuss: New Media / Interface

 
 
M 06-Sep No Class—Labor Day Due: Blog Entry

W 08-Sep Internet Invention Chapter 2 (43-68): “Image”

Discuss: “Attunement,” Wabi-Sabi, “Illumination”

F 10-Sep Caitlin Fisher, These Waves of Girls (2001)

Due: “Fakebook” (inventory) Update (11-Sep)

 
 
M 13-Sep   Due: Exercise 1 Assignment “Obtuse Meanings” (p. 46) and/or “Illumination” (p. 63)

Screening: Hide and Seek (Dir. Friedrich, 1996)

W 15-Sep Internet Invention Chapter 3 (72-94): “Home and Family”

Discuss: Part Two “Family Discourse.” plus Project 1 (2^nd Component)

F 17-Sep Shelley Jackson: my body—a Wunderkammer (1997) & The Doll Games (2001)

 
 
M 20-Sep Internet Invention Chapter 4 (96-108).   Due: Exercise 2 “Memory Glimpse” (p. 90)

Discuss: Mapping Diegesis & “Popcycle”

Screening: Sigur Ros—Heima (Dir. DeBlois, 2007)

Also view: Sigur Rós Heima (U.K.) & Hvarf-Heim (U.S.)

W 22-Sep Internet Invention Chapter 4 (109-23) & Not Found by Christophe Bruchansky (2007)

Weekly Blog Entry: “Mapping Popcycle” (p. 114)

F 24-Sep Sharif Ezzat: Like Stars in a Clear Night Sky & J.R. Carpenter: The Cape

Due: “Fakebook” (inventory) Update (25-Sep)

 
 
M 27-Sep Studio: Bands 1 & 2   plus Online Discussion (before & after class presentation)

W 29-Sep Studio: Bands 3 & 4   plus Online Discussion (before & after class presentation)

F 01-Oct Studio:: Project Workshop (work in progress, to “troubleshoot” & revise in class)

• Weekly Blog Entry: optional / extra credit

 

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Part II Entertainment & Community Databases

 

 
M 04-Oct   Due: Project 1 Assignment

W 06-Oct Internet Invention Chapter 5 (126-53): “Interface Impressions”

Discuss: Part Three “Entertainment Database”

» Blog Entry: Film Character (avatar) & Video Game (interface)

F 08-Oct Strickland & Lawson: Slipping Glimpse & Vniverse

Due: Weekly Blog Entry: Project Reflection

 

 
M 11-Oct Internet Invention Chp. 6 (155-77): “Cyberpidgin”

Screening: Brick (Dir. Johnson, 2005)

W 13-Oct Internet Invention Chp. 6 & Bigelow: What They Said (2008)

F 15-Oct No Class—Homecoming    Saper: The Reading Machine

Due: Weekly Blog Entry

Due: “Fakebook” (inventory) Update (16-Oct)

 

 
M 18-Oct Internet Invention Chp. 7 (180-94): “History (School)” Discuss: Part Four “Community Database”

Due: Exercise 3 Assignment (“High Concept” p. 198)

• Screening: Be Kind Rewind (Dir. Gondry, 2008)

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• Screening: Dave Chappelle’s Block Party (Dir. Gondry, 2006)

W 20-Oct Internet Invention Chp 7 (180-209) & Jacqueline Goss: “Solstice” (2007)

F 22-Oct Jeremy Bushnell, The Imaginary Year (2004)

 

 

M 25-Oct Internet Invention Chapter 8 (210-26): “The Bar (Street)”

Discuss: Community Discourse (review Chp 7)

Screening: Pulp Fiction (Dir. Tarantino, 1994)

W 27-Oct Internet Invention Chapter 8 (227-43): “The Bar (Street)”

Discuss: Project 2 (2^nd component)

 
F 29-Oct Jason Nelson: Dreamaphage (2003-04)

Due: Exercise 4 Assignment (“Lyric” p. 223 & “Being Singular” p.241)
Due: “Fakebook” (inventory) Update (30-Oct)

 
 

M 01-Nov Studio: Band 3   Online Discussion (before & after class presentation)

W 03-Nov Studio: Band 2   Online Discussion (before & after class presentation)

Discuss: Relay Films for Project 2
(last 3 in class plus external / personal examples from “cultural database”).

F 05-Nov Studio: Project Workshop (work in progress, to “troubleshoot” & revise in class)

• Weekly Blog Entry: optional / extra credit

 

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Part III Emblem toward Concept Remake

 
 
M 08-Nov   Due: Project 2 Assignment

W 10-Nov Internet Invention Chapter 9 (246-61): “Emblem”

Discuss: Part Five “WideScope”

F 12-Nov Internet Invention Chp 9 (262-77): “Emblem” & Coverly, Accounts of the Glass Sky (2001)

Discuss: “Template” & Relay: Tarkovsky

 
 
M 15-Nov Internet Invention Chapter 10 (278-98): “Ideal/Value”

Screening: Synechdoche, New York (Dir. Kaufman, 2008)

W 17-Nov Internet Invention Chp 10; Strasser & Coverly, in the white darkness (2004)

F 19-Nov Mark Amerika: FILMTEXT 2.0   &   Jim Andrews: Nio (2001)

Due: “Fakebook” (inventory) Update (20-Nov, TBC)

 
 

M 22-Nov Logorama (2009)

Discuss: Final Project

Screening: Paris, je t’aime (2006; 20 Directors) TBD

W 24-Nov   Due: Exercise 5 Assignment (“Automatic Emblems” & “Default Moods”)

F 26-Nov No Class—Thanksgiving

 
 
M 29-Nov Internet Invention (299-324): “Culture Wars or Syncretism?” and “The Learning Screen.”

Due: Emblem (Project 3 Part I) Assignment

W 01-Dec Studio: Band 4   Online Discussion (before & after class presentation)

F 03-Dec Studio: Band 1   Online Discussion (before & after class presentation)

 
 
M 06-Dec Studio: Project Workshop (Praxis / Review)

W 08-Dec Studio: Project Workshop (last class)

F 10-Dec   Due: Final Project