Tag Archives: PostDigital

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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    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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