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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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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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                  Studio

                    By GHink • September 20, 2014

                   

                     
                     
                    M 22-Sep   Stu­dio (project work­shop): led by Groups 1 & 2 (list of groups here)

                    Due: Inven­tory of Notes (class prepa­ra­tion) — see below

                      » Focus: review/discuss dig­i­tal iden­tity & net­worked com­mu­nity?
                      — 4 “per­sonal data­bases” & com­pos­ite “self-portrait“
                      — Review/Discuss Assign­ment objec­tives + approach

                     

                      Dis­cuss notes + project ideas in com­ments below (before + after class)

                    » Due (late/updated): Notes (page on your blog)

                     
                     
                    W 24-Sep   Stu­dio (project work­shop): led by Groups 3 & 4 (list of groups here)

                    • prepa­ra­tion for “assem­blage por­trait” (lists, notes, sketch, out­line — using 4 data­bases)
                      — test site (Word­Press pages, Wix, etc) & soft­ware
                       
                      » Focus/Activity: dis­cuss + test dig­i­tal com­po­si­tion tech­niques
                      — Review/Discuss Com­pos­ing Guide & begin Web-work

                     
                    » Weekly Blog Entry: optional / extra credit

                     
                     
                    F 26-Sep   Project Work­shop (praxis):

                      » Activ­ity: “tech-support” + peer feed­back
                      (work-in-progress due)

                     
                     
                    » Due (S 27-Sep): Project 1

                      → update: Poet­ics sec­tion due S 9/28
                      (post on Project 1 page on your Word­Press site)

                     
                     
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                    Modes

                    Aside

                      By GHink • September 20, 2014
                        notes toward com­pos­ing poetics/praxis, Project 1



                       
                       

                        » task: “To extrap­o­late from lit­er­acy to elec­tracy, we need to find some pop­u­lar behav­ior in our medi­ated expe­ri­ence that is as famil­iar to us as hav­ing a con­ver­sa­tion was to peo­ple in an oral appa­ra­tus.”
                        — Ulmer, Inter­net Inven­tion p.143

                        → con­duc­tive logic? (infer­ence, “flash” of insight?)

                        “just as Plato invented the dia­logue as a hybrid with oral and lit­er­ate fea­tures,
                        so too now is our con­sul­tancy a hybrid selected from oral, lit­er­ate, and elec­trate ele­ments.”
                        — Ulmer, p.156

                       

                       

                      modes of information
                       
                      Nar­ra­tive
                       
                       
                      Argu­ment
                       
                       
                      Fig­ure
                       
                      		  
                      Game
                       

                       
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