R 08-Apr No Class (away at conference — reporting “assemblage expression” developments)
» Groups 4 & 1: Prep. for presentations; blog discussion, over weekend. — Assignments
F 09-Apr No Class (away at conference — linking aesthetics & ethics)
» re-view elec. lit. by Coverley & Morrisey for Inventory — discuss online? (particpt. credit)
— suggested Relay reading for Inventory (scheduled for next Fri.):
Sat 10-Apr Due: Inventory Update
[ 6 new items, including media selection from personal database. ]
Sun 11-Apr Due: Exercise 5 (“Automatic Emblems” & “Default Moods”) — Prompt
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Highlights of electronic literature referenced / demonstrated
during FDS Conference:
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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.
(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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M 25-Jan Internet Invention Chapter 3 (72-94): “Home and Family”
Discuss: Part Two “Family Discourse”
W 27-Jan Shelley Jackson: my body—a Wunderkammer(1997) and The Doll Games (2001)
→ Instructions for “Inventory” page here.
R 28-Jan Screening:Sink or Swim (Dir. Friedrich, 1990) & Hide and Seek (Dir. Friedrich, 1996)
F 29-Jan Discuss: Mediating Family-Memory-Home Online Discussion (see below)
Due: “Inventory” Page created and updated (notes through week 3 “in progress”)
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M 18-Jan No Classes—Martin Luther King, Jr. Day
W 20-Jan Internet Invention Chapter 2 (43-68): “Image”
R 21-Jan (E1-E3) Discuss: Fisher; Wabi-Sabi, “Attunement,” “Illumination” (Ulmer)
Screening: The Virgin Suicides (Dir. Coppola, 1999; 97 min.)
F 22-Jan Due: Exercise 1 Assignment (“Obtuse Meanings” & “Illumination”) — prompt below
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praxis (— noun; plural: praxis or praxes)
- practice, as distinguished from theory; application or use, as of knowledge or skills.
- convention, habit, or custom.
- a set of examples for practice.
(from syllabus)
Blog Entries (10 minimum; 200 words. Credit/no credit assigned.)
Every student will create and maintain a blog throughout the semester, beginning week 2 and due each Wednesday except when noted (e.g. project weeks). Entries are informal and ungraded, except for credit. This is an on-going “Research Journal, ” testing ideas and compiling “materials” for the projects: associative links and media, questions and hypotheses; observations and insights—particularly connections between media within and outside of class.
Elaborating upon this, “orientation” and specific suggestions about blogging below.
(update) Additional tip from Monday’s class in comment.
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The Chronicle of Higher Education Wired Campus
Thoughts?
(more on this tomorrow)
