Archive for January 31st, 2010

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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            Pre-electracy Problem (post-literate situation)

            online writing | Posted by Gary Hink
            Jan 31 2010

             


             

              (recommended reading) Divided Attention. By David Glenn. The Chronicle Review 31 Jan 2010.

            • Disciplinary / Institutional perceptions; highly relevant for our experiment.
               
            • Indeed eager to know your perspective; strongly encourage discussion (below) or a blog entry — participation / blogging e.c.
              • 02-Feb: see imaginary exchange below for prompt

             

             
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