Daily Archives: October 5, 2014

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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