“We should not be satisfied with either biography or bibliography;
we must reach a secret point where the anecdote of life and the aphorism of thought
amount to one and the same thing” (The Logic of Sense 128).

— Deleuze (citing Nietzsche’s method for invention).

 
M 05-Apr          Internet Invention Chp. 10 (278-98): “The Ideal of Value”

 » key topics:  Wide Image / emblem, EmerAgency,
“native” state of mind (// wabi-sabi), default moods; encounter; paideia, sage;
Nietzsche, Genealogy of Morals; “which one?” (283-4); ressentiment; sage & ascetic ideal;
“no telling without living” (288) — aphorism/thought & anecdote/life;
The Wall (“le mur“); disaster of duty; “whirling square” (geometry & art)
 
* Office (296-8): ideal / value; paradox; attunement.

 
 
W 07-Apr          Coverly, Accounts of the Glass Sky (2001)   &   Morrissey, The Jew’s Daughter (2000)

Weekly Blog Entry — optional (e.c.)
 
— more “web fiction” by M.D. Coverley here; cf. “Fingerprints on Digital Glass” series
 
— more electronic lit. by Judd Morrisey here. cf. The Last Performance

 
 
R 08-Apr          No Class     (away at conference)
 
 

 
 
M 15-Feb read: Strickland & Lawson: Slipping Glimpse

Presentations: Groups 1 & 2
— review Presentation Page
Collaborate online in advance, preparing specific points for class (required)
 
— review Project 1 page

 
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

» Due: (before class) Workshop Prep.

 
 
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.)

• preview/test image software (any of these free, web-based programs):
  Pixlr; Phoenix; or Photoshop (requires registration);
  optional (less dynamic):
  Picknik (collage); Wordle (text clouds; two key tricks here)

   

• review assignment (including updates after Wednesday class)
   

• Finish collaborating with group, online discussion (for continued participation/presentation credit) — especially about Relay lesson/rationale and pending questions.
   

• Post a new blog entry with
  • at least one question (conceptual or formal) — including request for specific technical instruction in Studio Workshop;

  • tentative topic for Part I, and whether “discovery” or “founding invention”; also, qualify how part of Career dimension, if necessary (e.g. related/general field, to which your career relates; this is flexible, but rationale is important);
    — with provisional idea for sources (both scholarly and otherwise).

   
   

• Update blog:
  • Create new Project page (with 3 sub-pages)
     

  • Fix blog layout/org. formatting, if necess.
    (e.g. Pages: Inventory, Project 1; Entry Categories: Weekly, Exercise, other, etc.)
     

  • Attempt any design techniques you’ve not tried thus far, in a test entry or page:
    • Embedding media: Image, Audio, Video (from Web)

    • Uploading from cpu. (to Media Library or Page/Post)
    • Formatting an entry, including text styles, links, Lists, and Blockquote
      (these have buttons in toolbar)
    • Making an image a hyperlink (“Insert” command);
       

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    • Formatting an entry in HTML view (cf. Webmonkey):
      e.g. < HR > (horizontal line, like ^that^);
      centering lines of text,
      embedding objects (like Google Map);
      creating a Table to arrange/display mixed media (see below).
      Webmonkey Table basics

     

  • » note: all of this constitutes attending Thursday’s class with adequate preparation (Att./Part. credit); I will gladly demonstrate how to design or fix something (within limits of assignment scope and free Wordpress account features), as long as you have attempted already (e.g. embedding and resizing images) and posted a question for “tech support.”

   

  Technical Instructions(from Wordpress):
  • Embedding Images

  • Video Instructions (for YouTube; cf. Google, Vimeo, etc. on page)
  • Adding Audio Instructions
  • Google Maps

   
   
   

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  a table layout allows better formatting of text and images…           without needing to make an image in photoshop, which you’d hav to edit everytime means editing & uploading for each change.
  	You’ve already seen several examples on this blog so far

  
   
   
  ]]> http://garyhink.net/course/S10/2010/02/praxis-invent/feed/ 7 http://garyhink.net/course/S10/2010/02/relay-maus/ http://garyhink.net/course/S10/2010/02/relay-maus/#comments Sat, 06 Feb 2010 16:38:11 +0000 Gary Hink http://garyhink.net/course/S10/?p=567   M 08-Feb Spiegelman: Maus I (“My Father Bleeds History,” 1986)
  Discuss: Narrative & Image
    W 10-Feb Maus I R 11-Feb Maus II (“And Here My Troubles Began,” 1991)
  Exercise: “Micro Scenes” (p.92)
    F 12-Feb Maus II Discuss: “Relay” (for Project)]]>

  M 08-Feb Spiegelman:                 Maus I    (“My Father Bleeds History” ) Discuss: Narrative & Image   » reading tip: goal is not to “race through” this “quick read” — rather, examine more attentively, like when viewing the New Media sites in prior weeks.     W 10-Feb       Maus I    Extract Lessons: Time/Frames & Design     R 11-Feb       Maus II    (“And Here My Troubles Began”) Exercise (in class): “Micro Scenes” (p.92)     F 12-Feb       Maus II    Online Discussion: “Relay” lessons (for Inventory & Project praxis) — Due (Fri PM): Inventory updated through week 5

  — (artist?)

   

    » Note:   Group Presentations Page (for weekend preparation)
   

   
  
   
   
   

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  Friday 12-Feb Maus Discussion
  • Required (for attendance/participation)

  • 1st comment — Due: 2pm (feel free to post earlier!)
  • 2nd comment (reply) — Due: 4pm (additional replies due 9pm)

   
  In a comment below:

  • first, post one specific lesson or instruction from Maus as a “relay”; include your rationale (required), considering Project 1 (both components).
    This item can appear in “Inventory” — lesson whether conceptual or stylistic (design and writing/composition).

   

  • when posting a reply to a classmate’s comment: try to describe application of “lesson” for the project — concretely, with an example or technical idea for web design.
    Alternatively, feel free to discuss/debate the rationale — referring to textbook and notes when necessary, and always considering our “operating principle” — electracy is a new mode of thought and expression, to be invented through experiments and “relays” from artistic media. Remember, our concern is expression and experience, not judgment (right/wrong, true/false); review apparatus.
    Finally, comments must be productive and respectful in order to receive credit, just like last time.

   
   

  ]]> http://garyhink.net/course/S10/2010/02/relay-maus/feed/ 51 http://garyhink.net/course/S10/2010/01/endocept/ http://garyhink.net/course/S10/2010/01/endocept/#comments Sat, 23 Jan 2010 19:22:22 +0000 Gary Hink http://garyhink.net/course/S10/?p=295  
  M 25-Jan Internet Invention Chapter 3 (72-94): “Home and Family”
  Discuss: Part Two “Family Discourse”

   
  W 27-Jan Shelley Jackson: my body—a Wunderkammer(1997) and The Doll Games (2001)

  → Instructions for “Inventory” page here.

   
  R 28-Jan Screening:Sink or Swim (Dir. Friedrich, 1990) & Hide and Seek (Dir. Friedrich, 1996)
   
  F 29-Jan Discuss: Mediating Family-Memory-Home Online Discussion (see below)

  Due: “Inventory” Page created and updated (notes through week 3 “in progress”)

   
  
   

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  Pages on Ulmer’s supplementary site for Chapter 3:
  • Family Album
  • Memory Glimpse
  • Anecdote
  • Wabi-Sabi
  • Snapshot

The Antlers – Shiva – A Take Away Show from La Blogotheque on Vimeo.

• Dashboard → “Pages” → “Add New”
• Title: (Inventory, Lessons, etc. — your choice)
• Body/Text Field:
• Heading & Section for Internet Invention
• If you’d like a solid line to separate, type “< h r >” without quotes or spaces.
• Heading & Section for “Relays”
• New Media: Sunshine ‘69, Waves/Girls, S.Jackson, etc.
• Films: Y tu mamá también, Virgin Suicides, Friedrich, etc.
• External/Personal Media/Culture (film, TV, books, music, visual art)
• Click Publish

 
Instructions for making Sub-Pages (for the “Relay” notes instead of sections on one page)

1. Dashboard → “Pages” → “Add New”
2. Title: (“Relay: New Media”)
3. Add Body Text
4. On Right sidebar → “Attributes” → “Parent” :
   Choose “Inventory” (or whatever you’ve named page)
5. Click Publish
6. Add Link(s) to your “Inventory” Page:
   • (click “Edit” page)

   • “Relay: New Media” (add hyperlink with the new page URL)
   • “Relay: Film”
   • “Relay: Personal”
   • (if created: “Lessons: Ulmer” for example)
7. Click Update

 
∴ Now you know how to create pages and sub-pages!
 
 
 
 
 

• Required (for attendance/participation)

• 1st comment — Due: 2pm (feel free to post earlier!
• 2nd comment (reply) — Due: 4pm (additional replies due 9pm)

 
In a comment below:

• first, post one specific lesson or instruction from any of this week’s material (Chp 3, S. Jackson’s sites, Hide and Seek; include your rationale, with consideration of Project 1 (both components). This item can/should be from your “Inventory” of instructions — whether conceptual or stylistic (web design and writing/composition).
  e.g. from The Virgin Suicides, include types of media & mediation; this shows historical context/period and reminds how experience and memory relate with media.

 

• later, post a reply to a classmate’s comment; try to articulate praxis for the project — concretely, with an example or technical idea for web design.
  For example, one might reply to my idea above with this advice: “include images of audio and video cassette tapes, of old technology like TV and typewriter, and of paper media like books/comics, journals, drawings.”

  Alternatively, feel free to discuss/debate the rationale — referring to textbook and notes when necessary, and always considering our “operating principle” — electracy is a new mode of thought and expression, to be invented through experiments and “relays.” In this case, comments must be productive and respectful in order to receive credit; remember that we are collaborating to invent the new expression this term!

 
 

• Note: Discussion Parameters
  • We need to derive instructions from all four items this week; if necessary, I will “close” discussion of items so that we cover all.
  • Once someone posts a specific lesson, this can not be posted for credit (which would be the same as repeating someone’s point in class!). Instead, if you’ve thought a lot about this lesson, reply to the initial comment and engage with the rationale in terms of praxis.
  • On this note, feel free to post follow-up comments to group members from Wednesday (e.g. elaborate, clarify, remind).
  • Additional replies (after first required one) will receive extra credit for participation; two maximum (for credit), due by 9pm.