» 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.

 » 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)

Highlights of electronic literature referenced / demonstrated
during FDS Conference:

• The Reading Machine — Craig Saper
• My Google Body — Gerald Dalmon (2004)
• Anonymes.net (Fr.) — Benoit Blein, Sylvain Barra, & Laurent Padiou (2003-07)
• Tramway — Alexandra Saemmer (2009)
• The Dreamlife of Letters — Brian Kim Stefans (2000)
• What They Said — Alan Bigelow (2008)
   

• Gallery — Fox Harrell:
  Loss, Undersea (example video/clip);
  Generative Visual Renku (example video/clip);
  Abstract Avatar (demo, class project)

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)
 

• Required (for attendance/participation)

• 1st comment — Due: 2pm (feel free to post earlier!)
• 2nd comment (reply) — Due: 4pm (additional replies due 9pm)

 
In a comment below:

• first, post one specific lesson or instruction from Maus as a “relay”; include your rationale (required), considering Project 1 (both components).
  This item can appear in “Inventory” — lesson whether conceptual or stylistic (design and writing/composition).

 

• when posting a reply to a classmate’s comment: try to describe application of “lesson” for the project — concretely, with an example or technical idea for web design.
  Alternatively, feel free to discuss/debate the rationale — referring to textbook and notes when necessary, and always considering our “operating principle” — electracy is a new mode of thought and expression, to be invented through experiments and “relays” from artistic media. Remember, our concern is expression and experience, not judgment (right/wrong, true/false); review apparatus.
  Finally, comments must be productive and respectful in order to receive credit, just like last time.

 
 

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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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Pages on Ulmer’s supplementary site for Chapter 3:
• Family Album
• Memory Glimpse
• Anecdote
• Wabi-Sabi
• Snapshot

The Antlers – Shiva – A Take Away Show from La Blogotheque on Vimeo.

• Dashboard → “Pages” → “Add New”
• Title: (Inventory, Lessons, etc. — your choice)
• Body/Text Field:
• Heading & Section for Internet Invention
• If you’d like a solid line to separate, type “< h r >” without quotes or spaces.
• Heading & Section for “Relays”
• New Media: Sunshine ‘69, Waves/Girls, S.Jackson, etc.
• Films: Y tu mamá también, Virgin Suicides, Friedrich, etc.
• External/Personal Media/Culture (film, TV, books, music, visual art)
• Click Publish

 
Instructions for making Sub-Pages (for the “Relay” notes instead of sections on one page)

1. Dashboard → “Pages” → “Add New”
2. Title: (“Relay: New Media”)
3. Add Body Text
4. On Right sidebar → “Attributes” → “Parent” :
   Choose “Inventory” (or whatever you’ve named page)
5. Click Publish
6. Add Link(s) to your “Inventory” Page:
   • (click “Edit” page)

   • “Relay: New Media” (add hyperlink with the new page URL)
   • “Relay: Film”
   • “Relay: Personal”
   • (if created: “Lessons: Ulmer” for example)
7. Click Update

 
∴ Now you know how to create pages and sub-pages!
 
 
 
 
 

• Required (for attendance/participation)

• 1st comment — Due: 2pm (feel free to post earlier!
• 2nd comment (reply) — Due: 4pm (additional replies due 9pm)

 
In a comment below:

• first, post one specific lesson or instruction from any of this week’s material (Chp 3, S. Jackson’s sites, Hide and Seek; include your rationale, with consideration of Project 1 (both components). This item can/should be from your “Inventory” of instructions — whether conceptual or stylistic (web design and writing/composition).
  e.g. from The Virgin Suicides, include types of media & mediation; this shows historical context/period and reminds how experience and memory relate with media.

 

• later, post a reply to a classmate’s comment; try to articulate praxis for the project — concretely, with an example or technical idea for web design.
  For example, one might reply to my idea above with this advice: “include images of audio and video cassette tapes, of old technology like TV and typewriter, and of paper media like books/comics, journals, drawings.”

  Alternatively, feel free to discuss/debate the rationale — referring to textbook and notes when necessary, and always considering our “operating principle” — electracy is a new mode of thought and expression, to be invented through experiments and “relays.” In this case, comments must be productive and respectful in order to receive credit; remember that we are collaborating to invent the new expression this term!

 
 

• Note: Discussion Parameters
  • We need to derive instructions from all four items this week; if necessary, I will “close” discussion of items so that we cover all.
  • Once someone posts a specific lesson, this can not be posted for credit (which would be the same as repeating someone’s point in class!). Instead, if you’ve thought a lot about this lesson, reply to the initial comment and engage with the rationale in terms of praxis.
  • On this note, feel free to post follow-up comments to group members from Wednesday (e.g. elaborate, clarify, remind).
  • Additional replies (after first required one) will receive extra credit for participation; two maximum (for credit), due by 9pm.