Month: November 2015

Screen Self Portrait

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Unit III: Experience – Affect – Electracy 

Project 3: Screen Self Portrait

» Part 1 (mul­ti­modal web­pages) due 06-Dec
— Part 2 (Poet­ics & Reflec­tion) due 07-Dec (Mon­day night)

 
Week 15

M 11/30   Work­shop: Project 3

  • focus: Screen­Self­Por­trait intro & overview (objec­tives & method)
    — aesthetic-affective par­a­digm, medi­ated expe­ri­ence, Electracy
     
  • activ­ity: expe­ri­ence avatars & mul­ti­modal com­pos­ing with media ready­made and custom
    — “per­sonal data­base” sam­pling (Blog entry 5)
     
  • look­ing ahead: sketch/map (out­line) project…
    — begin com­pil­ing & cre­at­ing mate­ri­als for composing
    → con­sider web­site to use for part 1: Wix​.com, Wee​bly​.com, Word­Press pages
    (oth­ers? Jimdo? Moon­fruit?)

 
 




 
 

W 12/02   Work­shop: mul­ti­modal com­pos­ing, media edit­ing, expres­sive pages

  • focus: using media ready­made (sam­pled), edited, created
    → prepa­ra­tion = have com­piled, con­sider uses (sketch/map), begin editing/authoring
     
  • activ­ity: peer feed­back & assis­tance with key com­pos­ing techniques: 

    •  

  • discuss/review: select­ing site for composing
     
    → past stu­dents’ projects, exam­ples of sev­eral sites
  • look­ing ahead: con­tinue sam­pling, edit­ing, cre­at­ing media; begin cre­at­ing site 

    •  

 
» Anony­mous Sur­vey / Feed­back Form
 

 
 
F 12/04   Work­shop: mul­ti­modal / expres­sive web pages

  • focus: arrange­ment / orga­ni­za­tion; work­ing in Electracy
    → prepa­ra­tion = work-in-progress (website)
     
  • activ­ity: peer feed­back & assistance
     
    — dig­i­tal rhetoric (pur­pose, style, modes, approach, strate­gies, rationale)
    → take notes dur­ing dis­cus­sion, for Poetics/Summary (part 2)
     
  • look­ing ahead: Part 1 (mul­ti­modal web­site) complete/finalized 12/06 — link from your blog (or in D2L)
    » Part 2 (Poet­ics & Reflec­tion) due 12/07 (Mon­day night) 

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Duende

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Unit III: Experience – Affect – Electracy 

Project 3: Screen Self Portrait

 

F a l l B r e a k (21−29 Nov.)

 

» Optional Exercise (bonus points)

Par­a­digm Rhetoric — Another Worldview

 

Duende is the mood of dwelling in infor­ma­tion, and poetry is its logic.
[…] con­cept avatar is a thought of feel­ing as a dimen­sion of civ­i­liza­tion” (107)
— Gre­gory Ulmer, Avatar Emer­gency (2012)

 

» Optional Blog Entry (participation credit)

    * reminder optional prompt from 20-Nov
     
  • 200 words (min/max); post by 29-Nov 
  • Prompt reflect upon Blog 5 (“per­sonal data­base” sam­pling activ­ity): think­ing about dig­i­tal iden­tity and medi­ated expe­ri­ence, while look­ing ahead to project 3 (Screen­Self­Por­trait), dis­cuss any new ideas or prospects about com­pos­ing in the affective-aesthetic par­a­digm — work­ing “in” elec­tracy as a dis­tinct appa­ra­tus (sep­a­rate from Orality-Belief and Literacy-Argument paradigms).
     
  • Use any help­ful ideas from the optional read­ing, “The Learn­ing Screen” (Net­worked 2009)
    — along with any videos from “The Ulmer Tapes”
  • Con­sult, ref­er­ence, dis­cuss Arroyo’s video Grow­ing Up with Elec­tracy” (2015)
     
    — and/or per­haps Ulmer’s talk “Elec­tracy: Writ­ing to Avatar” (2009)

 


Ulmer — “ELECTRACY: Writ­ing to Avatar” from DWRL on Vimeo

(Ulmer talk begins @ 5:30)


 
 

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Electracy

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Unit III: Experience – Affect – Electracy 

Project 3: Screen Self Portrait

 
Week 13

M 11/16   dis­cuss: “The Geneal­ogy of Elec­tracy (An Inter­view with Gre­gory L. Ulmer)” Recon­struc­tion 9.2 (2009)

 

 
 

W 11/18   hybrid work :

 
» Indi­vid­ual Con­fer­ences → sched­ule using this form

 
 
 
F 11/20   Due: Blog entry 5: “per­sonal data­base” sam­pling (warm-up to project 3) — prompt below

  • also instruc­tions for optional addi­tional entry — for bonus blog credit (post Fri-Sat)

 

    » Optional Exer­cise — com­pose over Fall Break (prompt com­ing soon)

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Sensory Experience

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Unit III: Experience – Affect – Electracy 

Project 3: Screen Self Portrait

 
Week 12

M 11/09   Dis­cuss: Aimée Knight, “Reclaim­ing Expe­ri­ence: The Aes­thetic and Mul­ti­modal Com­po­si­tion” (2013) PDF in D2L

    focus: expe­ri­ence, ais­thetikos, empir­i­cal, media
    — intro: Exer­cise 4 (Instruc­tions page)

senses
 
 
» The CU-Boulder 21st Diver­sity and Inclu­sion Sum­mit (Novem­ber 10–11)
Detailed Sched­ule
→ optional: attend ses­sion & com­pose blog entry for bonus par­tic­i­pa­tion credit

 
 
W 11/11   hybrid work :

  • Exer­cise 4 Overview Video
  • Dis­cuss Knight arti­cle plus Vaid­hyanathan chap­ter: “The Googliza­tion of Mem­ory: Infor­ma­tion Over­load, Fil­ters, and the Frac­tur­ing of Knowl­edge” PDF in D2L
    → focus: expe­ri­ence quan­ti­fied into information/data…?
     
  • par­tic­i­pa­tion: Com­ment & Reply

 
 
F 11/13   Dis­cuss: Expe­ri­ence Quan­ti­fied & Sen­sory (Knight & Vaid­hyan­than readings)

    activity/focus: Exer­cise 4 composition

 
 
» Exer­cise 4 (due 11/14): Sen­sory Expe­ri­ence Quan­ti­fied & Unclas­si­fi­able (10 points)