Project 3 — Part 2

  • Poet­ics section/document: 5 points; due 12/07; 400–500 words
  • Reflec­tion section/document: 5 points; due 12/07; 500 words (min­i­mum)
    • Post both on Project 3 page on your blog (or in D2L)

 

Poetics section/document

  • 400–500 words; aca­d­e­mic dis­course (ratio­nal, “crit­i­cal think­ing”; direct account, not multimodal)
  • optional for­mat: this can also/instead be com­posed as a screen­cast (video of your site with commentary)
     
    → Screen­cast tools & instruc­tions here

Dis­cuss con­cisely & thought­fully your design attempts and ratio­nale: how address­ing key aims and using media forms pur­pose­fully. Describe the ratio­nale for your com­pos­ing, explic­itly stat­ing your choices/strategies & rea­son­ing (dig­i­tal rhetoric). While you need not explain every part of your project, you should men­tion spe­cific aspects and how they present seg­ments of your dig­i­tal iden­tity in mul­ti­ple modes — your Screen-Self-Portrait, result of work­ing in Elec­tracy to con­vey expe­ri­ence in aesthetic-affective mode.

 
 

 
 

Reflec­tion section/document

  • 500 words (min­i­mum; 700 words max); thought­ful and effi­cient composition

Dis­cuss your “Self-reflexive” knowl­edge, result of com­pos­ing and viewing/browsing your project. First (most impor­tant) present spe­cific insights, about your dig­i­tal iden­tity and medi­ated expe­ri­ence; rather than describe aspects of the project (as in Poet­ics), state your insights, real­iza­tions, reflec­tions, con­nec­tions from your com­pos­ite self-portrait — espe­cially con­sid­er­ing various/diverse aspects of iden­tity expe­ri­ence (visible/invisible, public/private, singular/networked) in networked-mediated conditions.
Addi­tion­ally, dis­cuss any insights about our broader top­ics: “Expe­ri­ence Par­a­digm,” Appa­ra­tus The­ory; composing/communicating expe­ri­ence (“par­a­digm rhetoric”); aes­thetic mode & affec­tive expres­sion (mul­ti­modal com­pos­ing, cre­ative tech­niques, aes­thet­ics and embod­i­ment — per­haps vs. quantification/Dataism); —any/all con­sid­er­a­tions about emerg­ing con­di­tions of Elec­tracy (Insti­tu­tion, Iden­tity Expe­ri­ence, Tech­nol­ogy & Socio-Cultural conventions).
While this can be spec­u­la­tion (instead of argument/conclusion), try propos­ing new/consequent ideas at the end of the course and with this project—par­tic­u­larly con­nec­tions, effects, impli­ca­tions (e.g. medi­ated iden­tity expe­ri­ence, dis­tinct forms of knowl­edge in this paradigm). 


 
 

 
 
 
» Struc­tural Por­trait — Medi­ated Identity
— play/perform avatar (cre­ate by chor­ag­ra­phy)
 
“Liq­uid Archi­tec­ture” (2014)
 

Liq­uid Archi­tec­ture (draft) from Gary Hink on Vimeo

 
 
 

Lorca places “duende” in the fam­ily of terms for the bit­ter­sweet feel­ing of eros, in all the ver­sions that spread through the Black Atlantic, the cre­ole cul­tures that invented the musics of tango, samba, jazz — each with its own mood (mufarse, saudade, blues). A key ele­ment in the descrip­tion is that duende may be invited, but it comes and goes on its own terms…
[…]
Mar­cus Novak brings all these threads together in his dis­cus­sion of liq­uid archi­tec­ture when he sug­gests that cyber­space may be con­structed in accord with the old dreams of magic. Duende is the mood of dwelling in infor­ma­tion, and poetry is its logic (Novak, 228).
— Gre­gory Ulmer 2009