» 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)

 
 
 »  “What Happens When MONUMENTALITY becomes electrate?”

• from “Consultation (postponed)” → MEmorial (Electronic Monuments, 2005)
  • Example: Death Penalty—Personal Best
• MEmorials (page)
• “Florida Rushmore” — the MYSEUM

 
 
 »  What if historiography had been invented in the 20th century
—like avant-garde art—rather than in the 19th century? (Teletheory, 1989) → Mystory

• MYSTORIOGRAPHY
• Noon Star (Ulmer’s mystory)

• My Own Private Oklahoma (student’s mystory)

 

• Contrast (“how not to compose a mystory”)

 
 
Graduate Seminars
 

 
 
 
ghink: Novel Experience/Expression course (AML 2410-8974, Fall 2009)

• Task:
  Develop a new mode of academic discourse (thought + expression) to express the lived affect of someone else’s specific historical experience — as we imagine or intuit it, without judgment, while taking responsibility as producers (not passive consumers) of knowledge.

 
 » Problem  (for humanities “research” or “experiment”):

“People do not understand each other. The incomprehensible part of each of us makes up the entire basis of life.
Perhaps by reading these texts, we can work toward an effort of mediation on the incomprehensible. I do not say that we are going to understand the incomprehensible, but we have to accept it” (131).
— Hélène Cixous, “Poetry, Passion, and History” (1985)

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.)

“Sketch” of emblem (wide image).    Tips / Notes
 
cf. Ulmer’s Emblem (pp. 271-5) & Noon Star (section of mystory)

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

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

 » key topics:  Wide Image, haiku reason, “themata,” emblem;
“cultural literacy,” readymade, “appropriation,” (Modernist / Pop Art);
— Remake: Ad form, VALS, conduction
“the irreparable” gap (Agamben); “void”; “feeling of our being” (mood/disposition?)
 
→ closely read: Assignment & all four “Comment” sub-sections.

 
 
W 31-Mar          Internet Invention Chp. 9 (261-77). Discuss: “Template”

 » key topics:  wabi-sabi, nostalgia, Haiku poetics (mood → aesthetics; expression)
Tarkovsky: cinema-poetry, punctum images, emblems; chora(l) directing (auteur);
— Template: Material & Spiritual Registers (p. 267-8); “condition of singularity”;
Ulmer’s Emblem (271-5) & Mystory: Noon Star
 
→ closely read: Office & all four “Comment” sub-sections.

 
Due: Weekly Blog Entry (normal schedule) — Prompt: “Patterning” (p.248)

 
 
R 01-Apr          Screening: Synechdoche, New York (Dir. Kauffman, 2008)

 
F 02-Apr          Discuss: “cinema-poetry” Relays (Tarkovsky & Kaufmann)

Due Sat 03-Apr: Exercise 4 (“Lyric” p.223 & “Being Singular” p.241)

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.