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Database Aesthetics

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Act III   Post-Internet Art
Project: Praxis Pro­posal
 
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M 01-Dec   Overview: Project 3

  • Discuss/Activity: Pro­posal Exer­cise (ideas), field trends, dis­ci­pli­nary con­ven­tions & innovations

 
 
 
W 03-Dec   Work­shop project devel­op­ment activ­ity — led by Groups 1 & 2

  • Prepa­ra­tion for every­one: items (4 brief notes) listed below
  • For assigned groups: dou­ble par­tic­i­pa­tion credit — post ideas before/after class for project devel­op­ment
    → Coör­di­nate in com­ments below what you will dis­cuss in work­shop (re: objec­tives, gen­er­at­ing ideas, approach, etc.)

 
 
 
» Blog entry: project prospec­tus

    — class­mate com­ment: respond to “treat­ment” (con­cept);
    or, sug­gest design/media ideas, appli­ca­tion, approach (rec­om­mended)

 
 
 
F 05-Dec   Work­shop (Project devel­op­ment) led by Groups 3 & 4

    • Dou­ble par­tic­i­pa­tion credit: post before/after class
    • Addi­tional focus: Mul­ti­modal com­pos­ing + Web design (Wix, Wee­bly, other)
      — review & expand design tech­niques & soft­ware from project 1
    • Gen­eral project devel­op­ment notes/suggestions (for Fri-Mon) below — add spe­cific ideas or questions/responses in com­ments

     
     
    » Project 3 (Illus­trated Pro­posal) due W 10-Dec
     
     
     

      Poe­me­dia 2.0: Free and open to the pub­lic.
      7–9 p.m. Fri­day & Sat­ur­day, Dec. 5 & 6, ATLAS Black Box

     
     
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    Distributed Aesthetics

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      Act III   Post-Internet Art
      Project: Praxis Proposal

       
      M 10-Nov                Read/discuss: Fibrecul­ture issue 7   *choose 1 arti­cle
      (see list of 9 under “Arti­cles”: Tofts, Mun­ster, et al through Arm­strong)
      — please post your selec­tion below

        Dis­cuss: inno­vat­ing dis­ci­pli­nary con­ven­tions + art dis­course
        — also Project 3 Introduction

       
       

      W 12-Nov     Con­tinue using Fibrecul­ture issue 7  arti­cle                     

        » Focus: “Dis­trib­uted Aesthetics”

       
                          
      Due: Blog entry (+ class­mate com­ment Thurs.)

        — Dis­cuss term/concept from cho­sen arti­cle + con­nect to your major/field

       
       
       
      F 14-Nov   Inde­pen­dent Work: ArtEvent Review (Exercise)

      • Post what event attend­ing to review.
      • Post exam­ple review (read for mod­el­ing — dis­ci­pline spe­cific conventions)

       
       
      » Due (S 15-Nov) Art Event Review (Exer­cise 2) — Prompt/Instructions below

       
       
       

      MFA 2014 Fall The­sis Exhi­bi­tion
      CU Art Museum

       

       

       

      Lim­i­nal

      Novem­ber 14 - Uni­ver­sity Theatre

      In their shared MFA the­sis show, chore­o­g­ra­phers Kris­ten Dema­ree and Sara Roy­bal explore cul­ture and self-identification with fresh new pieces that uti­lize and upend clas­si­cal bal­let and folk­loric dance.

       
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      Post-Digital Analysis

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      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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        Database Aesthetics?

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        Act II Data­base Aes­thet­ics — Project: Group-Curating (components)

         
         
        M 13-Oct   Focus/Issue: Dis­course Com­mu­ni­ties (Art-Praxis-Scholarship)

          » Activity/discuss CFPs (page): “Dig­i­tal Embod­i­ment,” “Visual Art and Mate­ri­al­ity,” “Vir­tual Con­fig­u­ra­tions in Con­tem­po­rary Art and Museums”

         

          plus con­tinue dis­cussing rhetor­i­cal strate­gies for groups (espe­cially re: audience)

         
         
        W 15-Oct    Inde­pen­dent Work (see email for instruc­tions)
              
                                            
        Due (10pm): Weekly blog entry

          — class­mate com­ment: read + reply to group member’s entry

         
         
        F 17-Oct    View/Discuss: Amerika, “Museum of Glitch Aes­thet­ics”   (Review)

            — note: can split among group, view/read 2 (of 6) sec­tions each
          » Focus/Activity: Net­work Cura­tion & Archiving
      • Dis­cuss: materials/examples & recent curat­ing strate­gies regard­ing audi­ence (imag­ined and real)

         
         
        » Project Com­po­nent (task/assignment): Par­tic­i­pa­tion Log (page) — create/update
         
         


        Lake Dis­trict Walk I : Aug­mented Video Real­ity from glitch­mu­seum on Vimeo.


         
         

        • Material Transitions

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        Act II Data­base Aes­thet­ics — Project: Group-Curating (components)

         
         
        M 06-Oct   Activity/Focus: Group Work (resume/increase)

          • Group Activity/Tasks: find/generate audi­ence (share pages, social net­works?)
            — iden­tify mod­els (sites, blogs, groups) to follow

          • Refine/update approach (and/or cura­tory statement?)
          » Mini-lecture: “Tech­no­log­i­cal (Media-focused)” Art”?
          — Discuss/focus: “Data­base Aesthetics”

         

         
        W 08-Oct   Read/Discuss: Parikka, “Cir­cuit Bend­ing Media Archae­ol­ogy into an Art Method” Leonardo (2012)

          » Dis­cuss: Research + Prospec­tive Art Praxis (appli­ca­tion, inno­va­tion, inven­tion?)
          — exam­ple (from Parikka): “zom­bie media” (arch. research) & “circuit-bending” art


        » PBS Dig­i­tal Stu­dios: “Will 3D Print­ing Change the World?” (2013)


         

         
         
        F 10-Oct   Focus: Group curat­ing — view sites & dis­cuss materials/examples

        • Dis­cuss “cura­tion” & cri­tique (bring exam­ples of form)

                                      
         
        Blog entry: project reflection:

          » insights about field (schol­ar­ship = dis­course com­mu­nity) and your own artis­tic prac­tice, from com­pos­ing essay
          — spec­u­late poten­tial praxis (applied the­ory) or innovation?

         
         
        » Optional Exer­cise — extra credit (Due S 10/12): Cri­tique

          Net­work econ­omy skills: 250 words → 25 words → 140 char­ac­ters → image