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
- 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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→ Additional questions for website analysis below
» Project component: prompt
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.
Rhetorical Analysis: Web-based Publication (Professional or Scholarly)
- 10 points; due S 25-Oct
- 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)
Goal: Extend rhetorical knowledge and generate insights about discourse communities, specifically a visual arts discipline evident and maintained through conventions of communication — like your practice of curating with the group’s “editorial vision” (scholarly and/or professional)
Task: Examine a Web-based “publication” professional and/or scholarly, considering the rhetorical aspects demonstrated, displayed, and suggested.
Present the results of your analysis using effective and efficient prose, with critical ideas supported by specific examples; avoid summary, description, and generalization in favor of presenting your insights.
The main question for this exercise concerns audience — imagined, constructed, suggested, actual — (“discourse communities”) and the connection to disciplinary conventions that you recognize.
You might also consider, connect, and address any aspects of the rhetorical situation traditionally defined:
— Context, Purpose, Timing, “Sender/Receiver,” Media, Delivery, Means/Methods (Style? Genre?), Message, Mode(s)
From your observations and insights about the publication analyzed, work with inductive reasoning toward a conclusion about conventions of the field evident and implied, as well as the relation to audience (imagined/envisioned) and/or communication of scholarly/professional discourse — particularly in networked media ecology. (The conclusion can be brief and speculative, and it should go beyond the rhetorical analysis — presenting what you’ve learned from this exercise.)
— Review guide/questions from “warm-up” class activities & prompts
Warm-up Activity: Mediated Communication Analysis
(Questions considering Rhetoric + Design)
- — Consider the following questions for generating ideas specific to the website/platform you choose for your Rhetorical Analysis
- Who uses this platform and for what purposes? (“official”/stated purpose? common uses?)
What other important factors surround the audience’s use of it? - What types of communication does the application enable, enhance, or limit?
- What enhancements or limitations result from the design or technical aspects, such as default settings and/or template? (What is possible or precluded by these settings?)
- What forms or genres of writing from previous historical eras appear in the communication? (Or, how do the present forms uniquely differ from previous types?)
What elements of composition does the application employ in order to facilitate this communication? - How does the application employ properties unique to digital media or to Website/Internet?
What functions / effects of these appear within communication exchange or participation?
(not to answer in your response):
http://netartnet.net/
Really interesting and relevant to our course!
http://www.awn.com/vfxworld
A professional Film industry site that gives a look at the going ons and happenings within the industry.
^ http://variety.com/ click my name for the link
Any film majors or those interested in film looking for a website to rhetorically analyze, here is a good article that I found that breaks down some good film crit. blogs, might help to narrow down a few picks. At the very least, it should get you started on your search.
http://www.filmcomment.com/article/the-top-film-criticism-sites-an-annotated-blog-roll
Doodlers Anonymous: This is a permanent home for spontaneous art. There’s a blog, interviews, themed-submissions and a lot of amusing thoughts on paper.
http://www.doodlersanonymous.com/
This is awesome. How did you find this?
I found this by searching for a list of the top art blogs and utilizing the list of
http://www.blogmetrics.org/art
I think this is what I might end up doing. It looks pretty professional? But I don’t know. Lemme know what you all think.
http://www.rogerebert.com/