Posts Tagged ‘institution’

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.

     
     

    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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              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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