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MemeMorial

  By GHink • December 12, 2014

Stage III   Assem­blage Tes­ti­mony
Project: “MemeMo­r­ial”
Par­tic­i­pa­tory Assem­blage — Net­work Ora­cle
 
 
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
     

      e.g. Pixlr for emblem col­lage & edit­ing images (in tes­ti­mo­nial)
      — other media uses? (audio/video?) * cus­tom GIFs: appli­ca­tions
       
  • Brainstorm/Discuss: remain­ing com­po­nents (emblem, periph­eral, ora­cle inter­face); par­tic­i­pa­tory poet­ics for MemeMor­ial (“pub­lic ped­a­gogy”?) & net­work rhetoric
    — on-going dis­cus­sion: Q&A before/during/after class in com­ments

 
 
» Due (S 13-Dec) Project 3

  • Sec­tions: Emblem, Tes­ti­mo­nial, Periph­eral, Mate­ri­als (page)

— Poet­ics & Reflec­tion pages due S 14-Dec (see prompts)

 
 

     
    “The MEmo­r­ial shows us not our fate, but our sit­u­a­tion. The Inter­net is a liv­ing mon­u­ment. The Emer­A­gency offers a prac­tice for a vir­tual civic sphere that does for the imag­i­na­tion what sta­tis­tics does for the intel­lect.” (Ulmer p.176)
     
    “A goal of elec­tracy”: “to do for the com­mu­nity as a whole what lit­er­acy did for the indi­vid­u­als within the com­mu­nity. Could a com­mu­nity go to school col­lec­tively? […] The Inter­net is the place of this scene of instruc­tion,
    and the Emer­A­gency pro­vides the ped­a­gogy for group sub­jects.” (Elec­tronic Mon­u­ments xxvi)

 
peripheral campus

 

    “A mon­u­ment does not com­mem­o­rate or cel­e­brate some­thing that hap­pened but con­fides
    to the ear of the future the per­sis­tent sen­sa­tions that embody the event:
    the con­stantly renewed suf­fer­ing of men & women, their re-created protes­ta­tions, their con­stantly resumed strug­gle.”
    — Deleuze & Guat­tari, What is Phi­los­o­phy? (p. 176)

 
 
 

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Invention — Workshops

  By GHink • December 7, 2014

 

 
 
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

 

 
 
 
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)?

 
 

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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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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)
 
 
 
Con­tinue reading

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Network Consulting

  By GHink • October 27, 2014

 

Stage II   Net­work Engage­ment — Project Week 5
    • Reminder: con­clude posts Thurs­day; Anno­ta­tions due Friday

 
 
M 27-Oct   Stu­dio   Group Col­lab­o­ra­tion: cre­ate emblem for cir­cu­la­tion — prompt

    • Review: Project Com­po­nents
       
    • Con­tinue post­ing + update/start anno­ta­tions — Tem­plate
        *note: you might cre­ate a video (screen-recording with voiceover) dis­cussing posts — apps here

       

    • Start Rhetor­i­cal Analy­sis of Case Study (campaign/organization)

 
 
 
W 29-Oct   Inde­pen­dent Work Project Com­po­nents:

    • Write Anno­ta­tions (update/create Par­tic­i­pa­tion Log page) — due Friday

    • Com­pile notes (key terms for anno­ta­tions, analy­sis, reflection)
    • Work on Rhet. Analy­sis (case study)
    • optional: remix Group Emblem for social-network cir­cu­la­tion
      (for 1 anno­ta­tion or for optional blog entry)

 

 

 

        » Call for stu­dent sub­mis­sions (writ­ing + art­work): Jour­nal 2020 (10/31 deadline)

 

     
    » Reminder: last (10th) post to group site! (due 10/30)
             → update par­tic­i­pa­tion log / anno­ta­tions page

 

 
 
F 31-Oct   Project Wrap-up

 
 

    Due :

      » Rhetor­i­cal Analy­sis (S 01-Nov)
      » Reflec­tion & Pro­posal (S 02-Nov)