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M 19-Apr “Studio” Workshop — from emblem to refashioning concept (in electracy).
- » Tuning / Warm-up (checkpoint):
- emblem: selections finalized (one’s “ingredients” for “recipe”);
“sketches” in progress (online) and/or finalized. - tentative topic for project — Career or Community dimensions
- Praxis: more direct/explicit than last week, implicit in our review of Chapters 9-11.
cf. Chp. 1-2, “General Project,” “Attunement,” “Stimmung” etc.; plus “Mystory” (Chp 3). - examples below.
Due: Extra Credit Response (optional Exercise)
W 21-Apr (last class) “Studio” Praxis: poetics for final project (design)
- » Soundcheck (checkpoint):
- emblem revised (if necessary); final version online
- topic (“target” concept) revised / finalized (post in brief blog entry)
- “raw materials” (sources) selected; refine during/after class
- poetics / “blueprint” for assemblage; refine during/after class.
» Blog Entry (optional / e.c.):
- Spring term “Playlist” or “Mash-up” (multimedia suggested; perhaps also test Tagxedo?)
R 22-Apr No Class—Complete Project 3
F 23-Apr Due: Project 3 Progress checkpoint/update (website shows “work in progress” )
S 24-Apr Update: Due: Project 3 (11pm deadline)
The Crisis of Credit Visualized from Jonathan Jarvis on Vimeo.
» Same designer (Jarvis), different project — with intriguing parallel that he notes…:
OverPowered – Presentation from Jonathan Jarvis on Vimeo.
“Theory supplement” to Ulmer’s presentation on “daimon” & “measure” (limit) in electracy.
- from Heuretics blog; all entries strongly recommended:
- Unheimlich (04-Mar)
- Fate Web (20-Feb)
- Avatar Emergency (16-Sep 2009)
- reading tip: reverse chrono., then “Duende” (current chapter concept), then chrono. review of these three entries.
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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» suggested reading:
“25 QUOTES TO HELP YOU STEAL LIKE AN ARTIST.”
— Austin Kleon, 10-Feb. Link.
from Ulmer:
Bordando el Manto Terrestre by Remedios Varo (1961)
(“Embroidering the Earth’s Mantle,” center of triptych here)
“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 Stockhausen — Stimmung for Six Vocalists: (Relay?)
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