The Learning Screen

 
 
M 29-Nov    »”The Learning Screen” (Ulmer 2009)

and    » Conclusion “Culture Wars or Syncretism?” (299-324)
        — A Consultation (postponed); analogy: “MEmorial“

 » 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, discuss Ulmer 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, discuss Ulmer Entries & Relays:
    — Synecdoche, NY, Logorama, & online videos (selections)

» Weekly Blog Entry: optional / extra credit
     (sketch / plans: Emblem → WideSite)

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» Logorama from Marc Altshuler – Human Music on Vimeo

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.

“Warm-up” week (review + invention) for Project 2 (due M 08-Nov)

M 01-Nov Studio: review led by Band 3   Online Discussion (before & after class) — see below & comment

» Key Q. Interface, cultural form for expression? (composing project)
 

W 03-Nov Studio: review led by Band 2   Online Discussion (before & after class) — see below & comment

» Key Q. How to express Community’s “mood of thought” in Electracy? (apparatus theory)
Discourse of Community’s value? (not your own; see “interpellation” & “extimacy”)
 

F 05-Nov Studio: Project Workshop

(work in progress, required; to “troubleshoot” & revise in class

• Weekly Blog Entry: optional / extra credit

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» Websites & Software potentially to use for Project 2 — experiment with during Studio week.
 

• Note: design time/work/difficulty varies by software; strongly suggest trying sooner than later.
   
• Initial efforts displayed / linked on blog good approach, to show “Work-in-Progress” for Friday’s class (required).
   
• Contact me to arrange how multimedia work will count toward Project requirements and how to document (e.g., XtraNormal video: post “script,” count toward required words)
   

 

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“The point for electracy is not the music as such, or does not stop with the music. Rather, as our analogy shows, the electrate dimension is not the music but the mood it supports and evokes.” (Ulmer p. 220)

 
M 25-Oct Internet Invention Chp. 8 “The Bar (Street)”   Online Discussion (see below)

key topics:  Atmosphere; “Liminality,” bar / street, performance;
» Music genres & moods   {Blues, Jazz, “Funk synthesis (syncretism),” Samba, Tango}
» Inference, conduction, “choral word”; “interbody,” “liquid architecture” (cyberspace);
»Theorist — Agamben: whatever, spectacle / image; singularity, stanza, Irreparable
 
→ closely read: all “Comment” sub-sections & Office #2-5 (p.242)

Screening: Pulp Fiction (Dir. Tarantino, 1994)

W 27-Oct Internet Invention Chp. 8 “The Bar (Street)”

Due: Weekly Blog Entry — Music Video / Song (embed); see prompt (#2)

 
F 29-Oct Jason Nelson: Dreamaphage Link 2 (2003-04) & Between Treacherous Objects (2006)

Due: Exercise 4 Assignment (“Lyric” p. 223 & “Being Singular” p.241) — prompt here

Due: Sat 30-Oct: Fakebook Update — Inventory

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F 15-Oct No Class—Homecoming    » read two e-lit works (see list), for Fakebook Inventory

» suggested: discuss online (in Bands?) — either in Comments or on blogs; participation extra credit
 

• Due: “Fakebook” (inventory) Update (16-Oct)
   
• Suggested: Software & Media for Project 2 (experiment in Exercise 3)

 
 
Exercise 3
» Due: 18-Oct (posted by 720pm); 500 words + 1 media form (minimum); 10 points

Exercise: High Concept
Select one person or character who appears in the documents for each discourse and [present] their relationship in the style of high concept. (p. 198)

 
— Prompt & Guide below…

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Experiment Part II — Entertainment Database

“In music, events are much closer to our reality. One should be able to write the way one sings.”
— Hélène Cixous, Readings (1982-3)

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

» Key topics: “structural portrait” style, gest/ure, “interface metaphor,” dialogue (from Plato to Web).
— focused reading: {pp.126-37; 139-143; 150-4}
Discuss: Part Three “Entertainment” (Assignment 2 p. 127)

» Blog Images:: Film Character (avatar) & Video Game (interface) — for Fakebook

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

Due: Weekly Blog Entry: Project Reflection. Prompt below.

soundtrack: memoryhouse —click image for tracks—

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