In short, composing an assemblage involves thinking and writing with your entire “three-dimensional” or “360°” perspective: personal / autobio.; career/discipline; community; entertainment / culture. (prompt: Try specifying and noticing which dimension emerges most prominent in your thinking and writing at first, through your entries.)

— “Praxis” (10-Jan entry)

 
 
“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.

 
 
Vaka (live)
 
 

• Ulmer

• ghink (pdf)

 » note:       via Tagxedo

Dictionary.com

Word of the Day

Friday, April 23, 2010

moil

Moil? no, be cool.

EQ of (4) Databases

“Frequencies”   Narrative     Rational     Lyric   Modes   Creative     Critical     Expressive

(Relay)
 

(Motto)
 
        I’ve got four databases and a blog to mix.

» 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)

 
 
 »  “What Happens When MONUMENTALITY becomes electrate?”

• from “Consultation (postponed)” → MEmorial (Electronic Monuments, 2005)
  • Example: Death Penalty—Personal Best
• MEmorials (page)
• “Florida Rushmore” — the MYSEUM

 
 
 »  What if historiography had been invented in the 20th century
—like avant-garde art—rather than in the 19th century? (Teletheory, 1989) → Mystory

• MYSTORIOGRAPHY
• Noon Star (Ulmer’s mystory)

• My Own Private Oklahoma (student’s mystory)

 

• Contrast (“how not to compose a mystory”)

 
 
Graduate Seminars
 

 
 
 
ghink: Novel Experience/Expression course (AML 2410-8974, Fall 2009)

• Task:
  Develop a new mode of academic discourse (thought + expression) to express the lived affect of someone else’s specific historical experience — as we imagine or intuit it, without judgment, while taking responsibility as producers (not passive consumers) of knowledge.

 
 » Problem  (for humanities “research” or “experiment”):

“People do not understand each other. The incomprehensible part of each of us makes up the entire basis of life.
Perhaps by reading these texts, we can work toward an effort of mediation on the incomprehensible. I do not say that we are going to understand the incomprehensible, but we have to accept it” (131).
— Hélène Cixous, “Poetry, Passion, and History” (1985)