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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“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.
Highlights of electronic literature referenced / demonstrated
during FDS Conference:
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M 22-Feb Internet Invention Chp 5: “Interface Impressions”
» focused reading: {pp.126-37; 140, 143, 150-4} — Key topics:
“structural portrait” (Barthes); style, gest/ure, “interface metaphor,” dialogue (from Plato to Web).
Discuss: Part Three “Entertainment” (Assignment 2 p. 127)
W 24-Feb Internet Invention Chp 6 (155-77): “Cyberpidgin”
» focused reading: {pp.155-60; 166-9, 173-8}
— Key topics: “conductive logic” (pattern);
“cultural discourse” (Entertainment = language for globalization); “syncretism,” “cyberpidgin”;
“readymade”; “emblem”; “Alice” = “inventio”; “paleologic” (joke work)
R 25-Feb Screening: Brick (Dir. Johnson, 2005; 110 min.)
F 26-Feb Attend UF Digital Assembly Conference: “Futures of Digital Studies”
Meet in 282 Reitz (1:55-3:10pm panel)
For preview Prof. Ulmer’s talk, see article: “The Learning Screen.”
» Note: If you can not attend entire panel due to subsequent class,
choose another from the conf. schedule (Thurs/Fri). (Contact me about arrangements.)
— E.C. opportunities:
attend an additional panel (Att/Part.); blog about one presenter (blog/Part.);
write a 500-word response to one presentation (Assign. credit).
Due: Weekly Blog Entry (Friday PM)
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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.
» note: “Inventory” pages fully updated (late / “overdue”) — required for group work.
» over weekend, collaborate with group (online).
M 15-Feb read: Strickland & Lawson: Slipping Glimpse
Presentations: Groups 1 & 2
W 17-Feb read: Strickland & Lawson: Vniverse
Presentations: Groups 3 & 4
Weekly Blog Entry: optional / extra credit
» suggest: entry about Strickland (as relay); or Exercise: “Micro Scenes” (p.92)
R 18-Feb “Studio”: Workshop (praxis, “tech-support”)—Project 1
F 19-Feb “Studio”: Composition Work (independent)
Note: necessary to show progress (“in progress”) this afternoon,
in place of today’s class (otherwise, no Att/Part. credit).
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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