Archive for March, 2010

Emblematics

Schedule / Update | Posted by Gary Hink
Mar 28 2010

 
 
M 29-Mar          Internet Invention Chp. 9 (246-60). Discuss: Part Five “WideScope”

       » key topics:  Wide Image, haiku reason, “themata,” emblem;
      “cultural literacy,” readymade, “appropriation,” (Modernist / Pop Art);
      Remake: Ad form, VALS, conduction
      “the irreparable” gap (Agamben); “void”; “feeling of our being” (mood/disposition?)
       
      → closely read: Assignment & all four “Comment” sub-sections.

     
     
    W 31-Mar          Internet Invention Chp. 9 (261-77). Discuss: “Template”

         » key topics:  wabi-sabi, nostalgia, Haiku poetics (mood → aesthetics; expression)
        Tarkovsky: cinema-poetry, punctum images, emblems; chora(l) directing (auteur);
        Template: Material & Spiritual Registers (p. 267-8); “condition of singularity”;
        Ulmer’s Emblem (271-5) & Mystory: Noon Star
         
        → closely read: Office & all four “Comment” sub-sections.

       
      Due: Weekly Blog Entry (normal schedule) — Prompt: “Patterning” (p.248)

       
       
      R 01-Apr          Screening: Synechdoche, New York (Dir. Kauffman, 2008)

       
      F 02-Apr          Discuss: “cinema-poetry” Relays (Tarkovsky & Kaufmann)

          Due Sat 03-Apr: Exercise 4 (“Lyric” p.223 & “Being Singular” p.241)

         
         
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        Narrative Quilt

        Schedule / Update | Posted by Gary Hink
        Mar 21 2010
             » Group Prep.  (for presentations): Discussion on blogs, over weekend.

         
         
        M 22-Mar          Jeremy Bushnell, The Imaginary Year (2004)

            Presentation: Group 3

         
         
        W 24-Mar          Jason Nelson, Dreamaphage note: might require Flash update

            Presentation: Group 2

             
            Note: Weekly Blog Entry: optional (for e.c.)
             

        R 26-Mar         “Studio”: Workshop (praxis, “tech-support”) — Project 2

            ♦ Prep.: in addition to  reviewing  assignment and online discussion (groups’ + my Qs):
             
                     — post tech/design Qs to “troubleshoot” (partic. e.c. for “tech support” to classmates!)
                     —  prepare text  (“rough draft”) to work with in “Studio”
                    » to re-organize into collage, non-linear threads, hypertext layout, multimedia assemblage (electracy)

         
         
        F 27-Mar        Workshop / Studio (independent design time)

         
         » update «        Project 2 — Due: S 27-Mar (deadline: 11pm)

              Note: 8pm email deadline to guarantee response in time
              (still send “emergency” notes after, if necess.)
              FYI: several replies to Qs in comments below.

         
         

        FicellEvents

        Schedule / Update | Posted by Gary Hink
        Mar 20 2010

        Week of 22-27 March

          • e.c. opportunities for attendance and participation (blog entry) credit

         
         
        Mon 22 March, 7:30 pm, Pugh Hall Room 170

        • J. Hillis Miller (UC Irvine)
          “Critical Climate Change: Why Is There a Crisis in the Humanities?” Info
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        Fri 26 March, 12pm, Pugh Hall Rm 210 — one-hour colloquium

         
        Fri-Sat 26-27 March, Smathers (Library East) Room 1A

          2010 UF Conference on Comics
          “ImageNext: Visions Past and Future”
           

        • Guest Speakers: David Kunzle (UCLA), Corey Creekmur (Iowa),
          John Porcellino (King Cat Comics), Molly Kiely (Diary of a Dominatrix)
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        Thur-Sat 25-27 March, Dauer Hall Room 219

          “The Global South.” The 12th Annual Conference of the Marxist Reading Group

          Panel presentations & roundtable discussions 9am-5pm. Program
           

        • F 26-Mar 7pm, Dauer 215
          Film Screening: Immokalee, U.S.A. (2008, 78min).
          Dir. Georg Koszulinski (UF Film & Media Studies Grad Student)
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        • S 27-Mar 3:30pm, Ustler Hall Atrium
          Keynote speaker: Hazel V. Carby (Yale), “Bristol Dreams Jamaica”
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        CyberDuende

        Schedule / Update | Posted by Gary Hink
        Mar 10 2010
           » Update:  revised schedule — remainder of term here.
           
           » Note  additions from ELO Collection Vol. 1 (Inventory Items, each time we read)

         
         
         

        M 15-Mar         Internet Invention Chp 8 (210-26): “The Bar (Street)”

            plus  Chp 7 — review “Office” (208-9), “Comment” (sections), & key topics (listed below).

         
         
        The Hood Internet – Decalogue (The Hood Internet vs The 2000s) by hoodinternet

         
         
        W 17-Mar         Internet Invention Chp 8 (227-43) — plusDuende” (Ulmer’s blog).
         

                Due: Weekly Blog Entry (usual parameters, resume normal schedule.)

               
               
              R 18-Mar         Screening: Pulp Fiction (Dir. Tarantino, 1994)
               

               

               
               
               
              F 19-Mar         Jacqueline Goss, “Solstice” (2007)      Where is the past?

                              — Online Discussion: Films as Relays for Project. Prompt here. (Jump to comment.)
                       
                       
                              ? Discover short-film relay @ YouTube Screening Room
                       

                     

                        Inventory Update Due Sat. PM (3 new items: Chp. 8, class film, personal media example)

                       

                           » Group Prep.  (for presentations): Discussion on blogs, over weekend.

                         
                         
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                        Avatar (GLU)

                        Theory / Method | Posted by Gary Hink
                        Mar 10 2010

                         
                        Theory supplement” to Ulmer’s presentation on “daimon” & “measure” (limit) in electracy.
                         

                          from Heuretics blog; all entries strongly recommended:
                           

                        • Unheimlich (04-Mar)
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                        • Fate Web (20-Feb)
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                        • Avatar Emergency (16-Sep 2009)
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                          • reading tip: reverse chrono., then “Duende” (current chapter concept), then chrono. review of these three entries.