“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.6 pm .
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R 08-Apr No Class (away at conference — reporting “assemblage expression” developments )
» Groups 4 & 1: Prep. for presentations; blog discussion, over weekend. — Assignments
F 09-Apr No Class (away at conference — linking aesthetics & ethics )
» re-view elec. lit. by Coverley & Morrisey for Inventory — discuss online? (particpt. credit)
Sat 10-Apr Due : Inventory Update
[ 6 new items, including media selection from personal database. ] Sun 11-Apr Due: Exercise 5 (“Automatic Emblems” & “Default Moods”) — Prompt
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M 29-Mar Internet Invention Chp. 9 (246-60). Discuss: Part Five “WideScope”
» key topics: Wide Image, haiku reason, “themata,” emblem ;readymade , “appropriation,” (Modernist / Pop Art);Remake : Ad form, VALS, conduction 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)auteur );Template : Material & Spiritual Registers (p. 267-8); “condition of singularity”;Noon Star Office & all four “Comment ” sub-sections.
Prompt : “Patterning” (p.248)
R 01-Apr Screening , New York (Dir. Kauffman, 2008)
F 02-Apr Discuss: “cinema-poetry” Relays (Tarkovsky & Kaufmann)
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Note “Inventory” Page created and updated (notes through week 3 for each item) Internet Invention Chapter 4 (96-122): “Cosmogram”» reading tip: closely review “Comment ,” “Remake ,” & “Office ” sections.
Read: Like Stars in a Clear Night Sky & The Cape
Also view (before class ): Sigur Rós Heima & Hvarf-Heim Relay? » blogging tip: Prompts — “Cosmogram” (109), “Mapping Home” (110), “Vernacular Genres” (113)
Screening
My Winnipeg (Dir. Maddin, 2007; 80 mins.) & Sigur Ros—Heima Due: Exercise 2 (“Memory Glimpse” & “Mapping Popcycle”) Notes & Design Tips below
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“The project is to learn to write with patterns that functionmusic than like concepts .” (91) — Ulmer, Heuretics
Stimmung = “mood,” “atmosphere,” tone or “tuning”
— of “chora(l) category” (Internet Invention p.101 ).See below
→ key lesson: modality of method and (eventual) poetics of project
Karlheinz Stockhausen — Stimmung for Six Vocalists : (Relay?)
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Internet Invention Chapter 3 (72-94): “Home and Family”
Discuss: Part Two “Family Discourse”
my body—a Wunderkammer and The Doll Games
→ Instructions for “Inventory” page here Screening Sink or Swim (Dir. Friedrich, 1990) & Hide and Seek (Dir. Friedrich, 1996) Discuss: Mediating Family-Memory-Home Online Discussion (see below
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No Classes—Martin Luther King, Jr. Day
Internet Invention Chapter 2 (43-68): “Image”
E1-E3 ) Discuss: Fisher; Wabi-Sabi , “Attunement,” “Illumination” (Ulmer)
Screening The Virgin Suicides (Dir. Coppola, 1999; 97 min.) Due: Exercise 1 Assignment (“Obtuse Meanings” & “Illumination”) — prompt below Read the rest of this entry »
