Monthly Archives: October 2014

“Arts-based Inquiry”?

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Act II Data­base Aes­thet­ics —Project: Group-Curating (components)
    reminders:

 
 
 

M 27-Oct   Read/Discuss: Garrett-Petts & Nash, “Re-Visioning the Visual: Mak­ing Artis­tic Inquiry Vis­i­ble” Rhi­zomes 18 

  • Dis­cuss: con­nect­ing media & rhetoric (from analy­ses)
    → toward “arts-based inquiry” (Garrett-Petts & Nash) Pt 1 Notes here
     
  • Con­tin­ued: group focus/adjustments re: audi­ence & dis­course communities

 
 

W 29-Oct      Focus/Activity: con­nect­ing to field/major/course

  • Prepa­ra­tion: bring/share assign­ment and/or project
    (post here or on your blog for class discussion/activity)
  • Con­tinue dis­cus­sion of “arts-based research” + writ­ing (Rhi­zomes article)

      
 
» Due: Blog entry (and class­mate com­ment, Thurs. PM)
      
 

 

      » Call for stu­dent sub­mis­sions (writ­ing + art­work): Jour­nal 2020 (10÷31 deadline)


 
 
 
F 31-Oct   Activ­ity (con­tin­ued) rhetor­i­cal aware­ness & writ­ing skills — field/major/course

    Also dis­cuss: Group curat­ing materials/examples
    — re: art dis­ci­pline & dis­course communities

 
 
 
 
» Optional Exer­cise prompts — assign­ment extra credit:
 
1. Cri­tique Remix: Net­work econ­omy skills: 250 words → 25 words → 140 char­ac­ters → image

2. Poster Response (200 words): instruc­tions below
 
 
 

Post-Digital Analysis

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—Project: Group-Curating (components)

     

    M 20-Oct                Read/Discuss: Cramer, “Post-Digital Aes­thet­ics” e-permanent   
      — also see video lec­ture below

      » Focus/Discuss (con­tin­ued top­ics):   dis­ci­pli­nary con­ven­tions, dis­course com­mu­ni­ties, rhetor­i­cal aware­ness
       
      — sites shown in class:

    • Colos­sal (“art, design, and visual culture”)
    • Hyper­al­ler­gic (“Sen­si­tive to Art & its Discontents”)

     
     
    W 22-Oct                Activ­ity: Rhetor­i­cal Analy­sis warm-up (Due S 25-Oct)

     

  • Prepa­ra­tion: choose & view/examine a visual arts web­site (pro­fes­sional pub­li­ca­tion)
    like Colos­sal & Hyper­al­ler­gic — post exam­ple sug­ges­tions in com­ments below (e.g. sources of cura­tion con­tent thus far?)

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    excerpts from Short Guide to Writ­ing About Art (Bar­net)

     
    » Blog Entry: Rhet. Analy­sis warm-up (first-take: notes on 2–3 categories/aspects)
     

     
    F 24-Oct                  Focus: Group curat­ing materials/examples

    • Con­tin­ued dis­cus­sion: Net­work Rhetoric, new con­ven­tions, analysis

     
     
    Due (S 25-Oct) Rhetor­i­cal Analy­sis (Assign­ment Prompt)

    • 10 points; 500–700 words (of analy­sis ideas, omit­ting process)
    • optional: include media, for instance screen-capture image
      (rec­om­mended for any unique design ele­ment, or fea­ture that might be inef­fi­cient to describe in text)

     
     


    Art­Fo­rum– Flo­rian Cramer Post Dig­i­tal Aes­thet­ics from Nancy Mauro-Flude on Vimeo.


     
    Con­tinue read­ing →

    Database Aesthetics?

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    M 13-Oct   Focus/Issue: Dis­course Com­mu­ni­ties (Art-Praxis-Scholarship)

      » Activity/discuss CFPs (page): “Dig­i­tal Embod­i­ment,” “Visual Art and Mate­ri­al­ity,” “Vir­tual Con­fig­u­ra­tions in Con­tem­po­rary Art and Museums”

     

      plus con­tinue dis­cussing rhetor­i­cal strate­gies for groups (espe­cially re: audience)

     
     
    W 15-Oct    Inde­pen­dent Work (see email for instruc­tions)
          
                                        
    Due (10pm): Weekly blog entry

      — class­mate com­ment: read + reply to group member’s entry

     
     
    F 17-Oct    View/Discuss: Amerika, “Museum of Glitch Aes­thet­ics”   (Review)

        — note: can split among group, view/read 2 (of 6) sec­tions each
      » Focus/Activity: Net­work Cura­tion & Archiving
  • Dis­cuss: materials/examples & recent curat­ing strate­gies regard­ing audi­ence (imag­ined and real)

     
     
    » Project Com­po­nent (task/assignment): Par­tic­i­pa­tion Log (page) — create/update
     
     


    Lake Dis­trict Walk I : Aug­mented Video Real­ity from glitch­mu­seum on Vimeo.


     
     

    • Material Transitions

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    Act II Data­base Aes­thet­ics — Project: Group-Curating (components)

     
     
    M 06-Oct   Activity/Focus: Group Work (resume/increase)

      • Group Activity/Tasks: find/generate audi­ence (share pages, social net­works?)
        — iden­tify mod­els (sites, blogs, groups) to follow

      • Refine/update approach (and/or cura­tory statement?)
      » Mini-lecture: “Tech­no­log­i­cal (Media-focused)” Art”?
      — Discuss/focus: “Data­base Aesthetics”

     

     
    W 08-Oct   Read/Discuss: Parikka, “Cir­cuit Bend­ing Media Archae­ol­ogy into an Art Method” Leonardo (2012)

      » Dis­cuss: Research + Prospec­tive Art Praxis (appli­ca­tion, inno­va­tion, inven­tion?)
      — exam­ple (from Parikka): “zom­bie media” (arch. research) & “circuit-bending” art


    » PBS Dig­i­tal Stu­dios: “Will 3D Print­ing Change the World?” (2013)


     

     
     
    F 10-Oct   Focus: Group curat­ing — view sites & dis­cuss materials/examples

    • Dis­cuss “cura­tion” & cri­tique (bring exam­ples of form)

                                  
     
    Blog entry: project reflection:

      » insights about field (schol­ar­ship = dis­course com­mu­nity) and your own artis­tic prac­tice, from com­pos­ing essay
      — spec­u­late poten­tial praxis (applied the­ory) or innovation?

     
     
    » Optional Exer­cise — extra credit (Due S 10/12): Cri­tique

      Net­work econ­omy skills: 250 words → 25 words → 140 char­ac­ters → image