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ENG 1131-1801 Writing through Media Fall 2010

EQ: Mixing/Tuning

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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!

 

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Studio: Design

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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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Cyber Duende

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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: Sat 30-Oct: Fakebook Update — Inventory


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    Poetic Dwelling

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    “Marcus Novak brings all these threads together in his discussion of liquid architecture when he suggests that cyberspace may be constructed in accord with the old dreams of magic. Duende is the mood of dwelling in information, and poetry is its logic (Novak, 228).”
    — Ulmer, “Duende” (blog entry) 24 June 2009.

     

      F 29-Oct Due: Exercise 4 (“Lyric” p. 223 & “Being Singular” p.241) — prompts below.

     

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    Decalogue

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    The Hood Internet – Decalogue by hoodinternet
     

    • Relay technique: evoking specific time/season
    cover art

     

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    Interface

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    modes of information
     
    Narrative
     
     
    Argument
     
     
    Figure
     
     
    Game
     

     

    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

     


    soundtrack: memoryhouse

    click image
    for tracks


     


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    Relay: Arcade Fire

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    Wilderness Downtown
     

    • Relay The Wilderness Downtown — interactive video for “We Used to Wait” by Arcade Fire.

    • Created by Chris Milk (2010) — interview @ Pitchfork.com
      • “I still find myself remembering new things I forgot about what happened there, though. It’s really the ultimate loaded image. Everyone has a childhood. And for some reason, humans have this funny thing about where we came from– it always has far more emotional weight than where we are.”
    • Caveat 1: “This site was designed with Google Chrome in mind and is unable to render properly in your browser. For the best viewing experience, we recommend downloading Chrome and trying this site again.”

      Caveat 2: Might not work on all computers (requires high-functioning video card and processor; trying closing all other applications)

     

    » Relay?   ”young me / now me”   &   “Like Mom, Like Dad”    series @ zefrank.com

        “Write a letter to yourself in childhood…” ?

     

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    Cosmograms

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    M 20-Sep Due: Exercise 2 “Memory Glimpse” (p. 90)   Prompt & Tips here.

      » Independent Work on Exercise & Inventory;
              optional Online Discussion period 5 (particip. extra credit; see prompt below)

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

    The project is to learn to write with patterns that function
    more like music than like concepts
    .” (91)    — Ulmer, Heuretics

     
    Internet Invention Chapter 4: “Cosmogram” (pp. 96-123)

      Key Topics (focus): Chora, Cosmogram, “Mapping Diegesis” (popcycle)
      Stimmung,” “String Theory” (ficelle); “syncretism” & “interface metaphor”
      » review: “Office” section (pp. 122-3): Mystory, “Widesite”; conduction-inference

    W 22-Sep Internet Invention Chp. 4 (96-123) & Not Found by Christophe Bruchansky (2007)

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

      » Due: Weekly Blog Entry: “Mapping Popcycle” (p. 114)
      » Due: “Fakebook” (inventory) Update (25-Sep)

     

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