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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.


     
     

    • Art Experience

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      **Impor­tant: com­plete urgent group tasks over week­end (see prior email)

     
     

    Stage I Art in Media Ecol­ogy — Project: Analy­sis Webtext

     

    M 09-Sep   View + Read for discussion:

      + See images @ Glitch Safari

      » Focus: Media Stud­ies per­spec­tive (art + tech)

     
     
     
    W 10-Sep   Read for discussion:  

      » Activ­ity: exam­in­ing read­ings toward per­sonal nar­ra­tive (Exer­cise 1 — prompt below)

     
    » Blog Entry (due 11pm)   draft your idea for group’s “cura­tory statement”

      — optional: link explic­itly your per­sonal experience/interest (artist state­ment?) with group’s edi­to­r­ial vision…?
      — reminder: class­mate (group mem­ber) com­ment due Thurs.

     
     
     
    F 12-Sep   Inde­pen­dent Activ­ity: draft­ing group’s “cura­tory vision” or “edi­to­r­ial statement”

      — sug­gest: cre­ate new Google Doc to collaborate

    • post your draft/contribution to Doc
    • read each member’s blog entry (Wed-Thur)
      — dis­cuss pro­duc­tively & respect­fully in Doc, toward over­all statement

     
     
    » Due (S 13-Sep): Exer­cise 1 — instruc­tions below
     
     
     




     
     
    Con­tinue read­ing →

    Prospective

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    week 2
     
    M 01-Sep    No Classes — Labor Day

      * Con­tinue post­ing ideas for group focus/issues
       
      — ini­tial list: here (needs update!)

    GUG
     

     
     
    W 03-Sep    Dis­cuss: artist state­ment (genre/form)

      * Bring/share mod­els (exam­ples of artist state­ment)
      — post below or on your blog
       

     

    Due (Wed. 10pm): Blog entry — artist state­ment draft

      Notes:

    • Sug­gest 250 words min­i­mum / 500 words max­i­mum
      — try writ­ing 250– and 25-word versions?

    • This is a first-draft, to revise and develop through­out the term
      — purpose/context: of your choos­ing (e.g. a class, imag­ined sub­mis­sion, per­sonal website)

    • Can be set to Pro­tected; just share Post pass­word with GH by email
       
    • * Class-generated list of cri­te­ria & con­ven­tions below
      — remem­ber, need not cover all aspects!

     
     

      Between Wed-Fri: Con­tinue post­ing ideas for group focus/issues

     
     

    F 05-Sep    Read: Droit­cour, “Why I Hate Post-Internet Art” (2014) blog entry

      » Activity/focus: Final­ize groups (by interest/focus) + setup sites (?)
      → objec­tive (time-permitting): begin draft­ing group-site “cura­tory vision”
       
      * Fol­low­ing class: Begin net­work curat­ing (post­ing to group site)

     
     
     
     

    Focal

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    Fri­day Class Activities

     

    1. In-class writing:
    • Reflec­tion: role of technology/media related to art for you as stu­dent (study­ing) and pro­ducer
      — fast­write: post on your blog (entry can be draft/saved and pri­vate if preferred)

     
     

    2. Ideas for Group-Curating Topics/Focus
    • Dis­cuss in class and post ideas pro­posed in com­ments here
      (ini­tial list, to add/modify over weekend)

     
     
     



      PBS Dig­i­tal Stu­dios: “The Art of Data Visu­al­iza­tion” video (2013)

        — note: see video descrip­tion for links to exam­ples shown