Praxis

 
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

 
Act III   Post-Internet Art
Project: Praxis Pro­posal
 
AZArt
 
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 ?

       
      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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