“Assemblage Expression” Final Project
» Due: Sat 24-Apr (11pm deadline)
» update: Reflection page can be posted on Sunday (if necessary; penalty-free)
“Resource Directory”
- Assignment Page (updated)
- Tech Support (layout guide)
- Blog Discussion (new comments, useful to review)
- Strongly suggest reviewing all instructions and criteria.
Deadline for email, to guarantee reply in time to revise/apply: Sat 24-Apr 6 pm.
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M 12-Apr Conclusion (299-324): “Culture Wars or Syncretism?” — A Consultation (postponed)
Example: aporia visualization (not WideSite) — myOptica (ghink, 2008)
W 14-Apr Strasser & Coverly, in the white darkness (2004)
Blog Entry — Workshop prep. (due by class-time Thurs.)
R 15-Apr “Studio”: Workshop (poetics & praxis)— Project 3 (part 1)
F 16-Apr Mark Amerika, FILMTEXT 2.0 & Jim Andrews, Nio (2001)
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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M 05-Apr Internet Invention Chp. 10 (278-98): “The Ideal of Value”
» key topics: Wide Image / emblem, EmerAgency,
“native” state of mind (// wabi-sabi), default moods; encounter; paideia, sage;
Nietzsche, Genealogy of Morals; “which one?” (283-4); ressentiment; sage & ascetic ideal;
“no telling without living” (288) — aphorism/thought & anecdote/life;
The Wall (“le mur“); disaster of duty; “whirling square” (geometry & art)
* Office (296-8): ideal / value; paradox; attunement.
W 07-Apr Coverly, Accounts of the Glass Sky (2001) & Morrissey, The Jew’s Daughter (2000)
Weekly Blog Entry — optional (e.c.)
— more “web fiction” by M.D. Coverley here; cf. “Fingerprints on Digital Glass” series
— more electronic lit. by Judd Morrisey here. cf. The Last Performance
R 08-Apr No Class (away at conference)
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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