Communal Style

Schedule / Update | Posted by Gary Hink
Feb 27 2010
       » Note:  revised schedule (as announced 25-Feb).

     
     
    M 01-Mar         Internet Invention Chapter 7 (180-209): “History (School)”

         » key topics: 
        Narrative, “Donor,” Sender, Receiver, focalization; “Value,” “interpellation” (190);
        “Ficelle,” “quilting,” conductive inference/logic, Syncretism, fragment;
        secondary encounter” (“untimeliness”), retroaction, insight/attunement/endocept, Stimmung (& Voice)
         
        → closely read: Office, “On the Premises” (191), & all “Comment” sub-sections.

         
        Discuss: Project Two Part II “Community Discourse” (review: pp.191-2)

       
       
      W 03-Mar         Clips: Dave Chappelle’s Block Party (Dir. Gondry, 2006)

              Weekly Blog Entry: optional (due Friday, for e.c.)
              — suggest Exercise (p. 191) or prompt from last week.

             
            Due: Inventory Update (weeks 7 & 8; 5 new items)


            R 04-Mar         Due: Exercise 3 (“High Concept” p. 198) — Guide/Tips below .

            F 05-Mar         Spring Break (no class, away at conference)

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            Digital Studies

            online writing | Posted by Gary Hink
            Feb 27 2010

             

            Highlights of electronic literature referenced / demonstrated
            during FDS Conference:

             
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            Electracy Rhetoric

            Schedule / Update | Posted by Gary Hink
            Feb 21 2010

             
             
            M 22-Feb Internet Invention Chp 5: “Interface Impressions”

                » focused reading: {pp.126-37; 140, 143, 150-4} — Key topics:
                “structural portrait” (Barthes); style, gest/ure, “interface metaphor,” dialogue (from Plato to Web).
                 
                Discuss: Part Three “Entertainment” (Assignment 2 p. 127)

               
               
              W 24-Feb Internet Invention Chp 6 (155-77): “Cyberpidgin”

                  » focused reading: {pp.155-60; 166-9, 173-8}
                  — Key topics: “conductive logic” (pattern);
                  “cultural discourse” (Entertainment = language for globalization); “syncretism,” “cyberpidgin”;
                  “readymade”; “emblem”; “Alice” = “inventio”; “paleologic” (joke work)

                 
                 
                R 25-Feb Screening:        Brick (Dir. Johnson, 2005; 110 min.)
                 
                 
                F 26-Feb Attend UF Digital Assembly Conference: Futures of Digital Studies

                    Meet in 282 Reitz (1:55-3:10pm panel)

                        For preview Prof. Ulmer’s talk, see article: “The Learning Screen.”
                         
                        » Note: If you can not attend entire panel due to subsequent class,
                        choose another from the conf. schedule (Thurs/Fri). (Contact me about arrangements.)

                       
                      E.C. opportunities:

                        attend an additional panel (Att/Part.); blog about one presenter (blog/Part.);
                        write a 500-word response to one presentation (Assign. credit).

                     
                    Due: Weekly Blog Entry (Friday PM)

                     
                     
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                    Inventive Method

                    Theory / Method, online writing | Posted by Gary Hink
                    Feb 17 2010

                    S 20-Feb          » Due:  Project 1

                      update: (posted by/on “Saturday night” — no deadline time now,
                      but I will check pages on Sunday morning.)
                       

                        — deadline for email to guarantee reply: 8pm
                        (I will certainly read and try to reply afterward;
                        definitely send any “emergency notifications” regardless.)

                     


                     

                        » suggested reading:
                        “25 QUOTES TO HELP YOU STEAL LIKE AN ARTIST.”
                        — Austin Kleon, 10-Feb. Link.

                     

                    Praxis: Invention

                    Schedule / Update | Posted by Gary Hink
                    Feb 13 2010
                      » note: “Inventory” pages fully updated (late / “overdue”) — required for group work.
                       
                      » over weekend, collaborate with group (online).

                     
                     
                    M 15-Feb read: Strickland & Lawson: Slipping Glimpse

                        Presentations: Groups 1 & 2

                       
                      W 17-Feb read: Strickland & Lawson: Vniverse

                          Presentations: Groups 3 & 4
                           
                          Weekly Blog Entry: optional / extra credit
                          » suggest: entry about Strickland (as relay); or Exercise: “Micro Scenes” (p.92)

                         
                         
                        R 18-Feb “Studio”: Workshop (praxis, “tech-support”)—Project 1

                         
                         
                        F 19-Feb “Studio”: Composition Work (independent)

                            Note: necessary to show progress (“in progress”) this afternoon,
                            in place of today’s class (otherwise, no Att/Part. credit).

                           

                          S 20-Feb          » Due:  Project 1

                            update: (posted by/on “Saturday night” — no deadline time now,
                            but I will check pages on Sunday morning.)
                             
                            — deadline for email to guarantee reply: 8pm
                            (I will certainly read and try to reply afterward;
                            definitely send any “emergency notifications” regardless.)

                           
                           
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                          Relay: Maus (Career+Family)

                          Schedule / Update | Posted by Gary Hink
                          Feb 06 2010

                           
                          M 08-Feb Spiegelman:
                                          Maus I    (“My Father Bleeds History” )
                              Discuss: Narrative & Image
                               
                              » reading tip: goal is not to “race through” this “quick read” — rather, examine more attentively, like when viewing the New Media sites in prior weeks.

                             
                             
                            W 10-Feb       Maus I   

                                Extract Lessons: Time/Frames & Design

                               
                               
                              R 11-Feb       Maus II    (“And Here My Troubles Began”)

                                  Exercise (in class): “Micro Scenes” (p.92)

                                 
                                 
                                F 12-Feb       Maus II   

                                    Online Discussion: “Relay” lessons
                                    (for Inventory & Project praxis)

                                    Due (Fri PM): Inventory updated through week 5

                                   


                                   
                                  (artist?)
                                   

                                   

                                    » Note:   Group Presentations Page (for weekend preparation)
                                   

                                   
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                                  Apparatus Theory

                                  Theory / Method | Posted by Gary Hink
                                  Feb 02 2010

                                  from Ulmer:


                                  Ulmer's Apparatus Theory

                                  ThreadWork

                                  Theory / Method | Posted by Gary Hink
                                  Feb 01 2010

                                   

                                   
                                  Bordando el Manto Terrestre by Remedios Varo (1961)
                                  (“Embroidering the Earth’s Mantle,” center of triptych here)

                                   
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                                  Chora

                                  Schedule / Update | Posted by Gary Hink
                                  Jan 31 2010
                                      Note: “Inventory” Page created and updated (notes through week 3 for each item)

                                     
                                    M 01-Feb Internet Invention Chapter 4 (96-122): “Cosmogram”
                                    » reading tip: closely review “Comment,” “Remake,” & “Office” sections.

                                      Digital Ulmer? (new media relays) optional — view time permitting

                                    • Relay (Chora-mapping p.114):     Not Found by Christophe Bruchansky
                                    • “Remake” (p.115):                     Cruising by Ankerson and Sapnar
                                    • Relay (ficelle p.119):                   Strings by Dan Waber
                                    • Synthesis relay?                   — Career mem(e)blem? (p. 104)

                                     
                                     
                                    W 03-Feb Read: Like Stars in a Clear Night Sky (Sharif Ezzat) & The Cape (J.R. Carpenter)

                                      Also view (before class): Sigur Rós Heima (U.K.) & Hvarf-Heim (U.S.)     — Relay?

                                       
                                      » blogging tip: Prompts — “Cosmogram” (109), “Mapping Home” (110), “Vernacular Genres” (113)

                                     

                                       
                                      R 04-Feb Screening:

                                          My Winnipeg (Dir. Maddin, 2007; 80 mins.) & Sigur Ros—Heima (Dir. DeBlois, 2007) (clips)

                                         
                                         
                                        F 05-Feb Due: Exercise 2 (“Memory Glimpse” & “Mapping Popcycle”) Notes & Design Tips below.

                                            Note: work independently (not meeting)

                                           
                                           
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                                          Stimmung

                                          Theory / Method | Posted by Gary Hink
                                          Jan 31 2010

                                           

                                          The project is to learn to write with patterns that function
                                          more like music than like concepts
                                          .” (91)    — Ulmer, Heuretics

                                           

                                          •   Stimmung   = “mood,” “atmosphere,” tone or “tuning”
                                                of “chora(l) category” (Internet Invention p.101).
                                                See below, including “Micro-Guest-Relay Lecture”….

                                             

                                            •    key lesson:    modality of method and (eventual) poetics of project

                                             
                                             
                                            Karlheinz StockhausenStimmung for Six Vocalists:      (Relay?)



                                             
                                             
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