**Impor­tant: com­plete urgent group tasks over week­end (see prior email)

 
 

Stage I Art in Media Ecol­ogy — Project: Analy­sis Webtext

 

M 09-Sep   View + Read for discussion:

PBS Dig­i­tal Stu­dios: “The Art of Glitch” video (2012)

+ Trevor Owens: “Glitch­ing Files for Under­stand­ing” The Sig­nal: Dig­i­tal Preser­va­tion(2012)


+ See images @ Glitch Safari

» Focus: Media Stud­ies per­spec­tive (art + tech)

 
 
 
W 10-Sep   Read for discussion:  

Choose 1 Artists Papers (e.g.  “my auto­bi­o­graph­i­cal media his­tory”) from Women, Art, and Tech­nol­ogy(2003)
» Activ­ity: exam­in­ing read­ings toward per­sonal nar­ra­tive (Exer­cise 1 — prompt below)

 
» Blog Entry (due 11pm)   draft your idea for group’s “cura­tory statement”

— optional: link explic­itly your per­sonal experience/interest (artist state­ment?) with group’s edi­to­r­ial vision…?
— reminder: class­mate (group mem­ber) com­ment due Thurs.

 
 
 
F 12-Sep   Inde­pen­dent Activ­ity: draft­ing group’s “cura­tory vision” or “edi­to­r­ial statement”

— sug­gest: cre­ate new Google Doc to collaborate
• post your draft/contribution to Doc
• read each member’s blog entry (Wed-Thur)
  — dis­cuss pro­duc­tively & respect­fully in Doc, toward over­all statement

 
 
» Due (S 13-Sep): Exer­cise 1 — instruc­tions below
 
 
 

 
 

 
 
 

Exer­cise 1: Bio-Sketch (with media)

 

Due S 13-Sep (10pm); 10 points, 500 words (min­i­mum; 700 max.); media: 1 image min­i­mum

 

» Prompt:
Present a “Bio­graph­i­cal Sketch” of your­self as artist (presently),
dis­cussing suc­cinctly sev­eral aspects of life and work:
as an enhanced per­sonal nar­ra­tive, use a com­bi­na­tion of anecdotes/stories, ref­er­ences, spe­cial­ized terms, con­crete details, and media.
Addi­tion­ally, inte­grate into the dis­cus­sion your expe­ri­ence with and use of media and tech­nol­ogy in both per­sonal and professional/artistic realms.

 
» Objec­tive: present a “panoramic sketch,” well-rounded por­trait of your­self as an artist to-date
for an imag­ined audi­ence of prospec­tive view­ers of your work.

— tip: use a current/future (imag­ined) project — art­work, exhibit event —
in order to con­sider a con­crete rhetor­i­cal sit­u­a­tion (con­text, pur­pose, audience)

→ No con­clu­sion or explicit con­nec­tion is nec­es­sary; how­ever, you might end with a spec­u­la­tive or prospec­tive (forward-looking) proposal.

 

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Cri­te­ria from syl­labus:
Posted to per­sonal blog, these infor­mal com­po­si­tions illus­trate atten­tive read­ing of assigned texts, progress toward project, and engage­ment with class top­ics rel­a­tive to sched­ule.
Credit is assigned for (1) sub­mit­ting on-time; (2) demon­strat­ing atten­tion to class top­ics, con­tent knowl­edge, and crit­i­cal think­ing, par­tic­u­larly by describ­ing insights and con­nec­tions; (3) pro­vid­ing thought­ful and rel­e­vant responses to prompts, through spe­cial­ized dis­course; (4) with spe­cific exam­ples from per­sonal knowl­edge and/or respec­tive read­ings, (5) while extend­ing rhetor­i­cal knowl­edge and mas­tery of writ­ing con­ven­tions, prac­tic­ing effi­cient prose (i.e. min­i­miz­ing /avoiding sum­mary, rep­e­ti­tion, digres­sion, and unnec­es­sary discussion).

 
 

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» Guide / Notes:
 
Method: “sam­ple” from (draw upon) sev­eral — if not all — of your “per­sonal data­bases”:

1. auto­bi­og­ra­phy, fam­ily, child­hood; 2. dis­ci­pline, field (courses + prac­tice);
3. com­mu­nity (past/present) & social net­work; 4. enter­tain­ment, pop cul­ture, dig­i­tal media

 
→ Use spe­cific details from each data­base, with the respec­tive mode and spe­cial­ized dis­course (lan­guage, phrases, for­mal­ity, mood, con­cepts, etc).
To form your “com­pos­ite sketch,” incor­po­rate stories/anecdotes (brief), ref­er­ences, terms, objects, images
— selected from any/all of the 4 per­sonal data­bases.
 

» Form: although a “per­sonal nar­ra­tive,” this can (and prob­a­bly should) be frag­mented (non-linear).

— reminder: in any case, be sure to con­sider your orga­ni­za­tion and sequence prior to writ­ing
(in other words, not sim­ply pre­sent­ing a first-idea stream-of-consciousness draft).

 
Reminder: remem­ber to include media/images (1 minimum).

— these can com­ple­ment and sup­ple­ment your text, effi­ciently and effec­tively
(for instance, given the con­cise length and direct pre­sen­ta­tion, you might include media with­out nec­es­sar­ily dis­cussing in the paragraphs)

 

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