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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!

» 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.

 
 
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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Notes for High Concept & Project 2

• We are not composing analytical arguments, but ThreadWork:

  » “The logic of sense (conduction) opens up the linear dialectic of literacy to an entanglement of multiple threads
  (we are learning more about how a felt works).” (Ulmer 176)

   

• Theory for Praxis:

  “The mystory is a high concept meeting of discourse figures whose only connection is you.
  High concept is Hollywood haiku.” (Ulmer 197)

 

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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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