The Learning Screen

» 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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• Hamlet (Facebook News Feed Edition) by Sarah Schmelling (2008)

• (high concept relay?)
  Ophelia Joined the Group Maidens Who Don’t Float: Classic Lit Signs on to Facebook by Schmelling (2009)

• related: “Facebook Fails of Iconic Fictional Characters” Cracked.com PhotoPlasty Contest | 01 Sep 2010

 

» “In conduction the inference path moves from material thing to another thing, from signifier to signifier, without recourse to the abstractions of rules and cases. — Ulmer p.156
» “the decision among many postmodern artists to stop opposing the mass media, and instead to appropriate the icons arising within commercial media as a new discourse, marks a new phase in the invention of electracy.” — Ulmer p.167

• related? “If Every Website Got A Dramatic Movie Adaptation | Cracked.com PhotoPlasty Contest 13 Oct 2010

 

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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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