Act II Database Aesthetics
—Project: Group-Curating (components)
- » Project Page (in-progress)
→ create & update Participation Log — template page
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
- Colossal (“art, design, and visual culture”)
- Hyperallergic (“Sensitive to Art & its Discontents”)
— sites shown in class:
W 22-Oct Activity: Rhetorical Analysis warm-up (Due S 25-Oct)
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» Read/Use: Excerpted/Compiled guides — PDF
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→ Additional questions for website analysis below
» Project component: prompt
like Colossal & Hyperallergic — post example suggestions in comments below (e.g. sources of curation content thus far?)
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.
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