Post-Digital Analysis

Act II Data­base Aes­thet­ics
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.


     
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