Posts Tagged ‘narrative’

Narrative Quilt

Schedule / Update | Posted by Gary Hink
Mar 21 2010
       » Group Prep.  (for presentations): Discussion on blogs, over weekend.

 
 
M 22-Mar          Jeremy Bushnell, The Imaginary Year (2004)

      Presentation: Group 3

 
 
W 24-Mar          Jason Nelson, Dreamaphage — note: might require Flash update

      Presentation: Group 2

       
      Note: Weekly Blog Entry: optional (for e.c.)
       

R 26-Mar         “Studio”: Workshop (praxis, “tech-support”) — Project 2

      ♦ Prep.: in addition to  reviewing  assignment and online discussion (groups’ + my Qs):
       
               — post tech/design Qs to “troubleshoot” (partic. e.c. for “tech support” to classmates!)
               —  prepare text  (“rough draft”) to work with in “Studio”
              » to re-organize into collage, non-linear threads, hypertext layout, multimedia assemblage (electracy)

 
 
F 27-Mar        Workshop / Studio (independent design time)

 
 » update «        Project 2 — Due: S 27-Mar (deadline: 11pm)

        — Note: 8pm email deadline to guarantee response in time
        (still send “emergency” notes after, if necess.)
        FYI: several replies to Qs in comments below.

 
 

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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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            Digital Studies

            online writing | Posted by Gary Hink
            Feb 27 2010

             

            Highlights of electronic literature referenced / demonstrated
            during FDS Conference:

             
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            Relay: Maus (Career+Family)

            Schedule / Update | Posted by Gary Hink
            Feb 06 2010

             
            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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                    Endocept

                    Schedule / Update, online writing | Posted by Gary Hink
                    Jan 23 2010

                     
                    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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