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 Fate of the University Lies in the Bus Schedule – Commentary – The Chronicle of Higher Education
by Marco Steinberg. November 4, 2010

How do we know that we aren’t just building more swimming pools, when we should really be improving the bus schedules? That dilemma cuts across all of the major issues afflicting us, and is precisely the kind of new knowledge that universities ought to be pursuing.

 
file under: for later (endlessly deferred?)
 

“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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“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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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 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)

View: Sigur Rós Heima (U.K.) & Hvarf-Heim (U.S.)

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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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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