The Learning Screen

M 06-Dec    Studio Workshop — Concept Remake (electracy); Poetics + Praxis

» Due:   Studio Preparation (entry); see prompt below.

» Studio Tuning / Warm-up (checkpoint):

• emblem: selections finalized (one’s “ingredients” for “recipe”)
• tentative topic for project — Career (or Community?) discourse
• Praxis: review of Chapters 9-11, plus
  Chp. 1-2 {“General Project,” “Attunement,” “Stimmung”}; “The Learning Screen”
• examples below.
• Poetics: Contemporary Cultural Forms (Relays; review?)

» Workshop (period E1): online discussion (blog comments & Sakai chat)

→ 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?

 
 
F 10-Dec    » Due: Project 3 — Description Page

 
 

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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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» Due: “Fakebook” Update (21-Nov) — Inventory
• reminder: opportunity for extra credit (blog, discussion/comments, Exercise—respectively)

M 22-Nov      Discuss: Emblem (invention+discovery) — Final Project Part I

• Review: Chp. 9 & Chp. 10
  — especially Office sections (pp. 276/96) & Assignment (p. 246-7)
• » review: Ulmer’s pages about Emblem (all links)
   
• Relays (review / discuss): Synecdoche, New York & in the white darkness

  » Additional Media to view (this week): online short videos
   

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

F 26-Nov No Class—Thanksgiving

• Weekly Blog Entry: optional / extra credit

» Suggested Reading: Ulmer (2009) “The Learning Screen” (required for M 29-Nov)
 

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“The story of my parent’s divorce, told from the perspectives of the house,
furniture and objects that we used to own.”      — by Sean Christensen

“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).

» updated: links about Emblem (from Ulmer)

M 15-Nov Internet Invention Chp. 10: “The Ideal of Value” — online discussion (see below)

» View: Logorama (2009)

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

W 17-Nov Internet Invention Chp 10 & Synechdoche, New York (Relay)

F 19-Nov Mark Amerika: FILMTEXT 2.0   &   Strasser & Coverly, in the white darkness (2004)

Due: “Fakebook” Update (21-Nov) — Inventory

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M 08-Nov   Due: Project 2 Assignment — finalized online by 10pm

Part III Emblem toward Concept Remake

W 10-Nov Internet Invention Chp 9 (246-61): “Emblem” — Discuss: “WideScope”

 » key topics:  Wide Image, haiku reason, “themata,” emblem;
“cultural literacy,” readymade, “appropriation,” (Modernist / Pop Art);
— Remake: Ad form, VALS, conduction
“the irreparable” gap (Agamben); void; “feeling of our being” (mood/disposition?)
 
→ closely read: Assignment & all four Comment sub-sections.

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

 » key topics:  wabi-sabi, nostalgia, Haiku poetics (mood → aesthetics; expression)
Tarkovsky: cinema-poetry, punctum images, emblems; chora(l) directing (auteur);
— Template: Material & Spiritual Registers (p. 267-8); “condition of singularity”;
Ulmer’s Emblem (271-5) & Mystory: Noon Star
 
→ closely read: Office & all four Comment sub-sections.

» Due: Weekly Blog Entry
        — Prompt: Exercise “Patterning” (p. 248); cf. Office #1 (p.276)

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Part Four “Community Database”

M 18-Oct Internet Invention Chp. 7 “History (School)” Online Discussion (see below)

» key topics: 
 
Riddles of Sense & High Concept; “Ficelle,” quilting, conductive logic, syncretism;
Narrative & History {“Donor,” Sender, Receiver, focalization} Value, “interpellation”;
“secondary encounter” (recognition); “cognitive map”; attunement, Stimmung ; “extimacy”
 
→ closely read: Office, “On the Premises” (191), & all “Comment” sub-sections.
» review Project Two Part II “Community Discourse” (pp.191-2)

• Due: Exercise 3 Assignment (“High Concept” p. 198)
   
• Screening: Be Kind Rewind (Dir. Gondry, 2008)

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

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

Due: Weekly Blog Entry

 
21-22 Oct   » English Graduate Organization Annual Conference:

“Allusion, Adaptation, and Appropriation” — Schedule (PDF)
• attendance/participation extra credit (contact for details)
• Keynote speaker (Thurs 6pm) Douglas Lainer,
  author of Shakespeare & Modern Popular Culture (Oxford UP, 2002)

 

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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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M 13-Sep   Due: Exercise 1 (Prompt)

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

W 15-Sep Internet Invention Chp. 3 (72-95): “Home and Family” — Part II “Family Discourse”

Discuss: Popcycle, Mystory, “endocept”; Project (2^nd Component)
» form/style; narrative, anecdote, snapshot, “memory glimpse”
» read/review: “Office” section (pp. 94-5)

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

Discuss: “memory glimpse” & “endocept” (relays: Friedrich & Jackson)
» Wed 15-Sep Class Notes link

• Relay: “A lovingly crafted fan video for my lovelies @Twin Sister. Made entirely of one clip from the Center for Home Movies called “Decomposed Carnival” found on Archive.org.
  I thought this footage reminded me a lot of this song, so I thought, ‘why not?’ — vyvynl”
  Twin Sister – “All Around & Away We Go” fan video @youtube

» Supplemental Pages (Internet Invention site):

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