“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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M 29-Mar Internet Invention Chp. 9 (246-60). Discuss: Part Five “WideScope”
» 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)
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» 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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M 11-Jan read (for class): Internet Invention Chp 1 (18-42): “Mystory”
Discuss: Part One “Career Discourse” (Popcycle, Humanities)
W 13-Jan read: Bobby Rabyd, Sunshine ’69 (1996) Discuss: New Media / Hypertext
* Note: I still need to see everyone’s introductions on their blogs — specifically: grade, major/minor, technical skills and web/creative experience, and enrollment rationale.
(I need this info in order to arrange groups. Please post ASAP.)
note: weekly blog entries normally due Wednesday evening;
suggest writing / posting first entry before Thurs class (when you have time).
R 14-Jan Screening:
Y tu mamá también (Dir. Cuarón, 2001; 105 min.)
F 15-Jan Discuss: all assigned material to date, including blog entries.
(quiz? Take notes while reading…)
Discuss: Method: Films & Project 1 (1st Component)
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