» Please select & view Online Videos in lieu of assigned feature-length screening.
- See list below; feel free to add suggestions in comments.
- Links to artists’ pages; encouraged to leave them feedback
(link to your blog; bonus participation points if you receive comments!
Also, discussion credit for replying to comments received; perhaps create a new entry & link on your social network, sharing the vids you view and receiving comments on your blog?)
- Mostly discovered via Vimeo Festival + Awards page & Best of Vimeo blog.
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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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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)
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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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
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