Daily Archives: December 7, 2014

» Reminder Due (S 07-Dec) Project 3 Prep Notes Inven­tory (see list of items)
→ prepa­ra­tion for Stu­dio work­shops final week, led by groups
• Optional read­ing for prep. (work­shop e.c.): Saper, “The Felt of Mem­ory on YouTube” Encul­tur­a­tion 8 (2010)

 
 
Stage III   Assem­blage Tes­ti­mony
Project: “MemeMo­r­ial”
 
 
M 08-Dec   Project Work­shop — led by groups

• Review key instructions/method (from notes) & project com­po­nents + pro­pose spe­cific com­pos­ing ideas/techniques (dig­i­tal rhetoric)
• Main top­ics: Emer­A­gency, net­work wit­ness, assem­blage tes­ti­mo­nial, dis­as­ter (event), memo­r­ial con­sul­ta­tion (for future, decision)
• For groups lead­ing work­shop: dou­ble par­tic­i­pa­tion credit — com­ment before class what spe­cific com­po­nent reviewing/proposing
  (on-going dis­cus­sion: Q&A before/during/after class in com­ments)

“The term sociopo­etic describes heuretic texts that use social sit­u­a­tions or social net­works as a can­vas; inti­mate bureau­cra­cies being a type of sociopo­etic work. […] an aes­thetic approach that asks to shift the focus from for­mal issues or cul­tural con­texts or social sci­en­tific sur­veys, toward exam­in­ing how sit­u­a­tions func­tion poet­i­cally” — Saper

 
 
 
W 10-Dec   Project Work­shop — led by groups

• Review key instructions/method (from notes) & project com­po­nents
  + pro­pose spe­cific com­pos­ing ideas/techniques (dig­i­tal rhetoric) with exam­ples
• Main top­ics: Emblem (con­cetto), Periph­eral, Net­work Inter­face (ora­cle func­tion, indi­vid­ual + col­lec­tive), con­sul­ta­tion design for par­tic­i­pa­tory culture
• For groups lead­ing work­shop: dou­ble par­tic­i­pa­tion credit — com­mentbefore class what spe­cific com­po­nent reviewing/proposing
  → on-going dis­cus­sion: Q&A before/during/after class in com­ments
  — includ­ing replies to stu­dents’ email questions

Relays for Periph­eral (and Emblem? Oracle?):
• Free­man (MFA, CU-Boulder!): Oper­a­tion Green­run II & Rocky Flats Then and Now
  — School Shoot­ings eMo­r­ial & Bor­der Memorial

• Global For­est Watch (descrip­tion @ Open­Cul­ture)
• Inter­net Live Stats
• Ora­cle: Googlism  |  Mys­tery­Seeker  |  Tweet­Ping

 
 
 
F 12-Dec   Stu­dio Project Work­shop — Works-in-Progress

• Due project in-progress:
           site re-formatted; assem­blage tes­ti­monal com­posed (10–20 entries + tags); emblem draft (sketch or col­lage images)
   
• Activ­ity: peer feed­back (dig­i­tal rhetoric: arrangement/organization) & tech sup­port
  — dis­cuss: mul­ti­modal com­pos­ing (nar­ra­tive, infor­ma­tion, expres­sion) + effects; work­ing in Elec­tracy;
  design soft­ware + tech­niques
   
• Brain­storm: remain­ing com­po­nents (emblem, periph­eral, ora­cle inter­face); par­tic­i­pa­tory poet­ics (MemeMor­ial) & net­work rhetoric (on-going dis­cus­sion: Q&A before/during/after class in com­ments)

 
 
» Due (S 13-Dec) Project 3
— Poet­ics & Reflec­tion due S 14-Dec

John Craig Free­man: Oper­a­tion Green­run II Rocky Flats, Col­orado. Novem­ber, 1990

chor­ag­ra­phy (cog­ni­tive map­ping):
“The Berlin Wall fell in Novem­ber 1989, the same month Rocky Flats was shut down.“
— Free­man, “Rocky Flats Then & Now“
 
→ method: mate­r­ial link — across pop­cy­cle — via Rte 93 Bill­boards — mood of thought (attune­ment)?