Posts Tagged ‘concept’

Expressive Assemblage

Schedule / Update | Posted by Gary Hink
Apr 24 2010

 

      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.

 

 
 

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Frequency

Theory / Method | Posted by Gary Hink
Apr 23 2010

» Apparatus Theory:

 
Apparatus Tagxedo

 
 

 
 
 

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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    Measure

    Theory / Method | Posted by Gary Hink
    Apr 17 2010

     

    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.

     
     

    Wabi-Sabi

    Schedule / Update, online writing | Posted by Gary Hink
    Jan 17 2010

     
    M 18-Jan No Classes—Martin Luther King, Jr. Day

         
        W 20-Jan Internet Invention Chapter 2 (43-68): “Image”

               
              R 21-Jan (E1-E3) Discuss: Fisher; Wabi-Sabi, “Attunement,” “Illumination” (Ulmer)

                  Screening: The Virgin Suicides (Dir. Coppola, 1999; 97 min.)

                 
                F 22-Jan Due: Exercise 1 Assignment (“Obtuse Meanings” & “Illumination”) — prompt below
                 
                 
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