Posts Tagged ‘community’

Heuretics

Schedule / Update, Theory / Method | Posted by Gary Hink
Apr 18 2010

 
 
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)

     
     
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    Narrative Quilt

    Schedule / Update | Posted by Gary Hink
    Mar 21 2010
         » Group Prep.  (for presentations): Discussion on blogs, over weekend.

     
     
    M 22-Mar          Jeremy Bushnell, The Imaginary Year (2004)

        Presentation: Group 3

     
     
    W 24-Mar          Jason Nelson, Dreamaphage note: might require Flash update

        Presentation: Group 2

         
        Note: Weekly Blog Entry: optional (for e.c.)
         

    R 26-Mar         “Studio”: Workshop (praxis, “tech-support”) — Project 2

        ♦ Prep.: in addition to  reviewing  assignment and online discussion (groups’ + my Qs):
         
                 — post tech/design Qs to “troubleshoot” (partic. e.c. for “tech support” to classmates!)
                 —  prepare text  (“rough draft”) to work with in “Studio”
                » to re-organize into collage, non-linear threads, hypertext layout, multimedia assemblage (electracy)

     
     
    F 27-Mar        Workshop / Studio (independent design time)

     
     » update «        Project 2 — Due: S 27-Mar (deadline: 11pm)

          Note: 8pm email deadline to guarantee response in time
          (still send “emergency” notes after, if necess.)
          FYI: several replies to Qs in comments below.

     
     

    FicellEvents

    Schedule / Update | Posted by Gary Hink
    Mar 20 2010

    Week of 22-27 March

      • e.c. opportunities for attendance and participation (blog entry) credit

     
     
    Mon 22 March, 7:30 pm, Pugh Hall Room 170

    • J. Hillis Miller (UC Irvine)
      “Critical Climate Change: Why Is There a Crisis in the Humanities?” Info
    •  

     
    Fri 26 March, 12pm, Pugh Hall Rm 210 — one-hour colloquium

     
    Fri-Sat 26-27 March, Smathers (Library East) Room 1A

      2010 UF Conference on Comics
      “ImageNext: Visions Past and Future”
       

    • Guest Speakers: David Kunzle (UCLA), Corey Creekmur (Iowa),
      John Porcellino (King Cat Comics), Molly Kiely (Diary of a Dominatrix)
    •  

     
    Thur-Sat 25-27 March, Dauer Hall Room 219

      “The Global South.” The 12th Annual Conference of the Marxist Reading Group

      Panel presentations & roundtable discussions 9am-5pm. Program
       

    • F 26-Mar 7pm, Dauer 215
      Film Screening: Immokalee, U.S.A. (2008, 78min).
      Dir. Georg Koszulinski (UF Film & Media Studies Grad Student)
    •  

    • S 27-Mar 3:30pm, Ustler Hall Atrium
      Keynote speaker: Hazel V. Carby (Yale), “Bristol Dreams Jamaica”
    •  

    Communal Style

    Schedule / Update | Posted by Gary Hink
    Feb 27 2010
         » Note:  revised schedule (as announced 25-Feb).

       
       
      M 01-Mar         Internet Invention Chapter 7 (180-209): “History (School)”

           » key topics: 
          Narrative, “Donor,” Sender, Receiver, focalization; “Value,” “interpellation” (190);
          “Ficelle,” “quilting,” conductive inference/logic, Syncretism, fragment;
          secondary encounter” (“untimeliness”), retroaction, insight/attunement/endocept, Stimmung (& Voice)
           
          → closely read: Office, “On the Premises” (191), & all “Comment” sub-sections.

           
          Discuss: Project Two Part II “Community Discourse” (review: pp.191-2)

         
         
        W 03-Mar         Clips: Dave Chappelle’s Block Party (Dir. Gondry, 2006)

                Weekly Blog Entry: optional (due Friday, for e.c.)
                — suggest Exercise (p. 191) or prompt from last week.

               
              Due: Inventory Update (weeks 7 & 8; 5 new items)


              R 04-Mar         Due: Exercise 3 (“High Concept” p. 198) — Guide/Tips below .

              F 05-Mar         Spring Break (no class, away at conference)

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