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Praxis

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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!)

 
 
 
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):

 
 
 
 
F 12-Dec   Dig­i­tal Media & Net­work Rhetoric review (“writ­ing in the visual arts in 21st 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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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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    Ubicomp + Art ?

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      Act III   Post-Internet Art
      Project: Praxis Proposal

       
      M 17-Nov   Read/discuss: Fibrecul­ture issue 19
      *Read intro­duc­tion + choose 1 arti­cle (of 8: Thom­sen & Bech through Fritsch)
      — post selec­tion below

        Dis­cuss: “ubiq­ui­tous com­put­ing” + implications/prospects for art praxis

       
       
       

      W 12-Nov   Dis­cuss: Fibrecul­ture issue 19 arti­cle + Read/Activity: “An Exer­cise in Net Art 2.0” from remixthebook

        » Focus: “Dis­trib­uted Aes­thet­ics” + Ubi­Comp → Post-Digital / “Post-Internet” Art?
        — as Praxis-based Crit­i­cal Discourse?

       

      Due: Blog entry (200−300 words + media)

      • Use one term from read­ing (arti­cle selected Mon­day or another from FCJ-19) to dis­cuss your art medium/major/field in terms of appli­ca­tion, inno­va­tion, lim­i­ta­tions, etc.
        — Optional arti­cle to discuss/use: Prada, “Web 2.0 as a new con­text for artis­tic prac­tices” Fibrecul­ture 14 (2009)
      • Or, try com­pos­ing one of the remix­the­book Exer­cises
        — note, good prompts for an optional blog entry over break week

       
       
       

      F 21-Nov   Read/Activity: Read/Activity: “Exer­cise in Post­pro­duc­tion Art and The­ory”
      from remix­the­book (warm-up toward exercise3 + project)

       
      » Due (S 22-Nov): Proposal/Update: ArtEvent in Net­worked Ecol­ogy (Exer­cise 3)
       
       
       

      http://www.mteww.com/nad.html


       
       
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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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        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.


         
         

        • Mediated Research

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        * note updated schedule

          * reminder: begin “net­work curat­ing” (group posts)
          — share group site/s & begin seek­ing audience

         
         
        M 15-Sep     Intro­duc­tion to Media Archae­ol­ogy by Huh­tamo & Parikka (2011)

        Parikka

          » Focus/Discuss: his­tor­i­cal con­text, media, and research method(s)
          — notes/quotes from Huh­tamo & Parikka here (below)
           

            optional: Parikka & Hertz, “Archae­olo­gies of Media Art” CTheory.net (2010)

         
         

        W 17-Sep     Library Ses­sion: Nor­lin E260B

        • Focus/Activity: Infor­ma­tion Lit­er­acy, Skills, Begin­ning Research

         
        » Blog Entry due (11pm); plus class­mate com­ment (due Thurs.)

         
         
        F 19-Sep   Con­nor, “What’s Postin­ter­net Got to do with Net Art?“ (2013) Rhizomes.org

          Discuss/Activity: Research (toward Annot. Bib)
          Using Library Resources—espe­cially Oxford Art Online

            “Met­ro­pol­i­tan Museum of Art Releases 400,000 Images Online”
            Colos­sal