Act III   Post-Internet Art
Project: Praxis Pro­posal
 
 
M 08-Dec   Project Workshop

• Activ­ity: Peer Feed­back on Work-in-Progress Project
  — dig­i­tal rhetoric: mul­ti­modal com­pos­ing & media effects (e.g. illus­trate, sim­u­late, convey)

• Dis­cuss: design ideas + tech sup­port (Wix, Wee­bly, Word­Press, other)
  — design & media appli­ca­tions (post sug­ges­tions in comments!)

• Impor­tant prepa­ra­tion: progress draft­ing & devel­op­ing project

 
 
 
W 10-Dec   Due: Project 3 (Illus­trated Pro­posal for ArtPraxis)

• Activ­ity: Stu­dent Pre­sen­ta­tions (show & dis­cuss projects)

• Note: only pro­posal illus­tra­tion (mul­ti­me­dia assem­blage) is due at class-time
  → Poet­ics due Wed pm; Reflec­tion due Thurs

→ see prompts below

 
 

 
 
» Blog Entry optional (extra credit / make-up):

• dis­cuss imple­men­ta­tion / appli­ca­tion of your pro­posal or classmate’s, in terms of discipline/field conventions

• addi­tional option: dis­cuss Art Dept Instal­la­tion (Taste of Dig­i­tal or Tun­nel Instal­la­tion)
  or ATLAS Event “time ÷ space = per­for­mance + instal­la­tion” (Wed) / Expo Fall 2014 (Thur)
  — write review as optional blog entry or exer­cise?

 
 
 
 
F 12-Dec   Dig­i­tal Media & Net­work Rhetoric review (“writ­ing in the visual arts in 21^st century”)

• Review lessons of semes­ter + projects

• Activ­ity: exam­in­ing fea­tures & sites (Wee­bly, Word­Press, etc.) for pro­fes­sional artist site
  → CraftScreen (Exer­cise 4)
  — dis­cuss ideas for com­po­nents, from exam­ples observed, in com­ments

 
» CraftScreen due S 14-Dec — Instruc­tions Page
 
* Optional com­po­si­tion: Writ­ing Reflec­tion (due finals week)
 
 
 

per­for­mance and instal­la­tion of 12 mul­ti­me­dia artists.
Free and open to the pub­lic. 7 p.m. Wednes­day, Dec. 10, Black Box theater

 

site-specific instal­la­tion, Tun­nel (by Megan Gafford)
Sat­ur­day, Dec. 13 12pm (free food!)

 
 
 

 

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Project 3: Praxis Pro­posal — Post-Internet Art
 

Poet­ics

• Due Wed 10-Dec 11PM
• 5 points; 400–500 words

» Describe your com­pos­ing process, includ­ing design deci­sions and ratio­nale for hybrid (crit­i­cal + cre­ative) project: how address­ing key objec­tives, plus affor­dances of com­pos­ing mul­ti­modal pre­sen­ta­tion of ideas using dig­i­tal media. Be sure to dis­cuss spe­cific tech­niques and aspects of project, espe­cially any creative/aesthetic approaches less obvi­ous — sim­u­late, per­form, con­vey, express — that illus­trate your pro­posal ideas (left implicit; explain here).

 

Reflec­tion

• Due Thurs 11-Dec 11PM
• 5 points; 500–600 words

» Dis­cuss your insights, what you have learned from project (and/as last class unit on art in post-Internet media ecol­ogy; or cul­mi­na­tion of semes­ter?)
While the main ques­tion is the over­all results of praxis-based learn­ing process, be sure to address two key areas/focus of insights, lessons, real­iza­tions, ideas:
— about “writ­ing in the visual arts,” con­cern­ing arts-based research, Infor­ma­tion Lit­er­acy, mul­ti­modal com­pos­ing, net­work rhetoric, and/or hybrid com­mu­ni­ca­tion. (insights, real­iza­tions, lim­i­ta­tions, advan­tages, poten­tial appli­ca­tion?)
— about your art medium/form/major, in terms of dis­ci­pli­nary con­ven­tions and spe­cial­ized dis­course of field; espe­cially con­sid­er­ing net­worked media ecol­ogy, rela­tion­ship of tech­nol­ogy and aes­thet­ics, con­tem­po­rary devel­op­ments
(i.e. how your projects answers ques­tion, “direc­tion or inno­va­tions for your art field, given chang­ing & emerg­ing media con­di­tions?”)
Option­ally you might dis­cuss appli­ca­tions for addi­tional areas/roles not addressed by project: for instance art edu­ca­tion, art-making (process, creator/Artist role, etc), criticism/review, schol­arly dis­course, recep­tion, market/career, audience/participation, insti­tu­tions (like gallery, museum, uni­ver­sity, hybrid/cross-organization, etc)
 
Be sure to con­clude by dis­cussing sig­nif­i­cance, con­se­quence, impli­ca­tions (for either/both of these two areas) with your new per­spec­tive, at end of course.