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Toward MemeMorial

  By GHink • November 29, 2014

 

      » Reminder/Update: com­pose optional exer­cise for extra credit
      (choose either prompt 4/5 or optional prompt) — due 12/6
       
      » Due (S 07-Dec) Project 3 Prep Notes Inven­tory (see list below)

     
     
    Stage III   Assem­blage Tes­ti­mony
    Project: “MemeMo­r­ial” → part 1: witness/testimonial (assem­blage)
     
     
    M 01-Dec   Read/discuss: E.M. Chp. 7. “Jus­tice Miranda (A Conceit)”

          Activity/Discuss: toward tes­ti­mo­nial — project focus & method

         
         
         
        W 19-Nov   Read/discuss: E.M. Chp. 8 “Soft Wish­ing Y (A Col­lab­o­ra­tion)” & Con­clu­sion “The Web of Changes”

           
           
          » Blog Entry [optional if already com­posed 10]

            — tes­ti­mo­nial assem­blage process (dis­cuss, toward project); or dis­cuss Papa­gian­nis/Gure­vitch optional article

            — net­work wit­ness final update (sug­gested: disaster/event; chor­ag­ra­phy, “sam­pling” [from] pop­cy­cle databases)

           
           
           
          F 05-Dec   Read/Discuss: Carter & Arroyo (2011), “Par­tic­i­pa­tory Ped­a­gogy and YouTubeU in 2020” (PDF in D2L)
          + Dig­i­tal media relays (stu­dent examples)

                  optional read­ing (relays toward Periph­eral ideas): Papa­gian­nis: “Work­ing towards Defin­ing an Aes­thet­ics of Aug­mented Real­ity” or Gure­vitch: “Google Warm­ing: Google Earth as Eco-Machinima” Con­ver­gence 2014 (PDFs avail­able in D2L)

                   
                   
                  » Due (S 07-Dec) Project Notes Inven­tory (see list below)

                    → prepa­ra­tion for Stu­dio work­shops final week, led by groups

                   
                   
                  » Update! new dead­line: pro­pose by 12-Dec to present at PWR Diver­sity Con­fer­ence
                  — Group Emer­A­gency Net-Work (project 2) would make for great presentation/panel (indi­vid­u­ally or as group)!
                  “Pro­pos­als can be from any dis­ci­pline and in any genre – nar­ra­tive, analy­sis, mul­ti­me­dia, etc.
                  *Pref­er­ence will be given to pro­pos­als that involve dig­i­tal tech­nol­ogy* 100 word abstracts”

                   
                   
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                  Disaster (Categorical)

                    By GHink • November 16, 2014

                   

                    • Reminder: update “net­work wit­ness” with revised issue/focus & tasks (blog­ging)
                    • Exer­cise due F 11/21 (choose prompt 4 or prompt 5)

                   
                   
                  Stage III   Assem­blage Tes­ti­mony
                  Project: “MemeMo­r­ial”

                   
                  M 17-Nov   Read/discuss: E.M. Chp. 5 “Form­less Emblems (Testimonial)”

                      Activity/Discuss: toward MemeMo­r­ial tes­ti­mo­nial — project focus & dis­as­ter (method)

                   
                   
                   
                  W 19-Nov   Read/discuss: E.M. Chp. 6 “The Agency of the Image (Upsilon Alarm)”

                    Focus/Discuss: assem­blage tes­ti­mony (chor­ag­ra­phy) — event-disaster as fig­ure (image category)

                   
                   
                  » Blog Entry: dis­cuss project focus + spe­cific con­cept (con­nect key point) — use/reference net­work wit­ness update

                    • class­mate com­ment optional; sug­gest — respond to classmate’s entry in terms of praxis (applied the­ory),
                      MEmo­r­ial tes­ti­mo­nial (assem­blage), regard­ing key point from chp 5 and/or 6 (also could dis­cuss her/his idea in con­text: Emer­A­gency con­sult­ing, col­lec­tive unconscious/blindspot, disaster-event as fig­ure, “chor­ag­ra­phy” [think-write par­a­digm], etc.)

                   

                      Reminder: pro­pose by 21-Nov to present at PWR Diver­sity Con­fer­ence
                      — Group Emer­A­gency Net-Work (project 2) would make for great presentation/panel!
                      “Pro­pos­als can be from any dis­ci­pline and in any genre – nar­ra­tive, analy­sis, mul­ti­me­dia, etc.
                      *Pref­er­ence will be given to pro­pos­als that involve dig­i­tal tech­nol­ogy* 100 word abstracts“

                   
                   
                   
                  F 21-Nov   » Due Exer­cise (prompt 4 or prompt 5)

                  Apply by 11/21 to present!


                   
                   
                   
                   
                  Fall Break   No Class (Mon 24-Nov – Fri 28-Nov)

                      » Reminder: com­pose optional exer­cise for extra credit over break
                      (choose either ex 4/5 or optional prompt)

                   
                   

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                  Reasoneon // Make it New(s)

                    By GHink • November 8, 2014

                   

                      » Reminder: start “net­work wit­ness” focus (indi­vid­ual con­cern — social prob­lem) & tasks (blog­ging)

                   
                   
                  Stage III   Assem­blage Tes­ti­mony
                  Project: “MemeMo­r­ial”

                   
                  M 10-Nov   Read/discuss: E.M.   Chp 3 “The Call (Abject Mon­u­ments)” (pp. 57–81)

                   

                      Focus/topics: “Rea­so­neon” (logic) in MemeMo­r­ial — tes­ti­mo­nial
                      » Discuss/Activity: “Inter­net as liv­ing mon­u­ment”; medi­ated wit­ness & tes­ti­mony

                   
                   
                   
                  W 12-Nov   Read/discuss: E.M.   Chp 4. “Trans­ver­sal (Into Cyber­space)” (pp. 83–111)

                   

                    • Key top­ics: Assem­blage → Fig­ure (relays)
                      » Dis­cuss: “cog­ni­tive map­ping” (re: Exer­cise 4 & MEmo­r­ial?)
                      — “expe­ri­ence of image iden­tity” indi­vid­ual and col­lec­tive
                      // “the opti­cal unconscious”

                    • toward project:   emblem, “impresa,” “con­cetto”   (expe­ri­enced image testimony)

                   
                   
                   
                  » Weekly Blog Work:   “net­work wit­ness”   update (page or post/category)

                   
                   
                   
                  F 14-Nov   Inde­pen­dent Project Work (see email):

                    topic (refine); net­work wit­ness (update); class­mate comment

                   
                   
                  Due S 15-Nov (see email)   Exer­cise 4: “Cog­ni­tive Map­ping” (rela­tion to issue/topic) — Instruc­tions Page
                   
                   
                   
                  » PSA: CU Alter­na­tive Breaks Appli­ca­tion (due 18-Nov)
                   
                   

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                  Witness

                    By GHink • November 8, 2014

                   

                  Win­dow / Glass / Screen (monitor/monitoring)

                   

                   

                    » (Method) in MEmo­r­ial: imag­ing “fore­grounds the need for a poet­ics of using the vis­i­ble to write the invis­i­ble” (111)
                    cf. “the opti­cal uncon­scious” (103−05)
                    & “image cat­e­gory” of mate­r­ial sig­ni­fiers (in “wreck­work”); exam­ples (52−3)
                    → “The goal of Traf­fic Sphere” [prototype/proposal] “is to make high­way fatal­i­ties per­cep­ti­ble, think­able, rec­og­nizble as sac­ri­fice—
                    to shift them from the pri­vate sphere of one-at-a-time indi­vid­ual, per­sonal loss to the pub­lic sphere of col­lec­tive val­ues.” (43)

                   
                   
                   
                  » Net­work Wit­ness (blog tasks):
                   

                  • “Mon­i­tor the daily news” — and social network(s)? — to “find a report or story that trou­bles you or stings you in some way.
                    Doc­u­ment the story and do some research on the back­ground of the prob­lem and the pol­icy issues related to it.” (65)

                    • “gather details” — mate­r­ial sig­ni­fiers (as dis­cussed from Chp 2)

                    • “The feel­ing aroused by this story con­sti­tutes the call to a con­sul­ta­tion on behalf of the Emer­A­gency” (Prob­lems B Us)

                   
                   

                  • “start an archive of pic­tures and text [and other media] found on the Inter­net that could serve as a vocab­u­lary of stock rep­re­sen­ta­tions of your news event as a scene.” (71)

                    • “the Inter­net is a col­lage engine.“
                      “a sub­sti­tute image (pic­ture or text) works just as well as the actual one, since the point is gen­er­a­tive, to trig­ger or cue the atmos­phere or mood, not the empir­i­cal repro­duc­tion of a past real­ity.” (71)

                   
                   
                   
                   

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                  Touring (Theoria)

                    By GHink • November 2, 2014

                   

                    » Reminder — Project 2 tasks due : Rhet. Analy­sis, Reflec­tion, Proposal

                   
                   

                  Stage III   Assem­blage Tes­ti­mony
                  Project: “MemeMo­r­ial”

                   
                  M 03-Nov   Dis­cuss Elec­tronic Mon­u­ments   Pref­ace + “Intro­duc­tion: The EmerAgency”

                  • Re-read/review for overview   (PDF in D2L)
                  • New focus + method (Project 3) introduced

                   
                   
                   
                  W 05-Nov   Read/discuss: Elec­tronic Mon­u­ments   Chp 1 “Metaphoric Rocks (Found­ing Tourists)”

                    Focus: Emer­A­gency; “tar­get” (project) — MemeMo­r­ial
                    — Method for inven­tion: “CATTt” (from Intro­duc­tion))
                     

                  • Dis­cus­sion lead­ers:
                    • 028: Tyler & Meagan
                    • 034: Zach & Kenneth

                   
                  → for blog­ging, shift “net­work wit­ness” focus   (from group to indi­vid­ual con­cern, social problem)

                   
                   
                   
                   
                  F 07-Nov   Read/discuss: E.M.   Chp. 2 “The Traf­fic Sphere (A MEmo­r­ial Prototype)”

                   
                  » Due: Blog entry — begin “net­work wit­ness” (com­ment optional)
                   
                   
                   
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