Posts Tagged ‘electracy’

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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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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    Aporia

    Schedule / Update | Posted by Gary Hink
    Apr 12 2010

     
     
    M 12-Apr          Conclusion (299-324): “Culture Wars or Syncretism?” — A Consultation (postponed)

        Presentation: Group 4

     
    Example: aporia visualization (not WideSite) — myOptica (ghink, 2008)

     
     
    W 14-Apr          Strasser & Coverly, in the white darkness (2004)

        Presentation: Group 1

     
    Blog Entry — Workshop prep. (due by class-time Thurs.)

     
     
    R 15-Apr          “Studio”: Workshop (poetics & praxis)— Project 3 (part 1)

     
     
    F 16-Apr          Mark Amerika, FILMTEXT 2.0   &   Jim Andrews, Nio (2001)

     

    Avatar (GLU)

    Theory / Method | Posted by Gary Hink
    Mar 10 2010

     
    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.

     
     

    Digital Studies

    online writing | Posted by Gary Hink
    Feb 27 2010

     

    Highlights of electronic literature referenced / demonstrated
    during FDS Conference:

     
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    Electracy Rhetoric

    Schedule / Update | Posted by Gary Hink
    Feb 21 2010

     
     
    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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            Inventive Method

            Theory / Method, online writing | Posted by Gary Hink
            Feb 17 2010

            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.

             

            Praxis: Invention

            Schedule / Update | Posted by Gary Hink
            Feb 13 2010
              » 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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                  Apparatus Theory

                  Theory / Method | Posted by Gary Hink
                  Feb 02 2010

                  from Ulmer:


                  Ulmer's Apparatus Theory

                  Pre-electracy Problem (post-literate situation)

                  online writing | Posted by Gary Hink
                  Jan 31 2010

                   


                   

                    (recommended reading) Divided Attention. By David Glenn. The Chronicle Review 31 Jan 2010.

                  • Disciplinary / Institutional perceptions; highly relevant for our experiment.
                     
                  • Indeed eager to know your perspective; strongly encourage discussion (below) or a blog entry — participation / blogging e.c.
                    • 02-Feb: see imaginary exchange below for prompt

                   

                   
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