“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 05-Apr Internet Invention Chp. 10 (278-98): “The Ideal of Value”
» key topics: Wide Image / emblem, EmerAgency,
“native” state of mind (// wabi-sabi), default moods; encounter; paideia, sage;
Nietzsche, Genealogy of Morals; “which one?” (283-4); ressentiment; sage & ascetic ideal;
“no telling without living” (288) — aphorism/thought & anecdote/life;
The Wall (“le mur“); disaster of duty; “whirling square” (geometry & art)
* Office (296-8): ideal / value; paradox; attunement.
W 07-Apr Coverly, Accounts of the Glass Sky (2001) & Morrissey, The Jew’s Daughter (2000)
Weekly Blog Entry — optional (e.c.)
— more “web fiction” by M.D. Coverley here; cf. “Fingerprints on Digital Glass” series
— more electronic lit. by Judd Morrisey here. cf. The Last Performance
R 08-Apr No Class (away at conference)
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 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
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» Note: Group Presentations Page (for weekend preparation)
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Bordando el Manto Terrestre by Remedios Varo (1961)
(“Embroidering the Earth’s Mantle,” center of triptych here)
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Note: “Inventory” Page created and updated (notes through week 3 for each item)
M 01-Feb Internet Invention Chapter 4 (96-122): “Cosmogram”
» reading tip: closely review “Comment,” “Remake,” & “Office” sections.
W 03-Feb Read: Like Stars in a Clear Night Sky (Sharif Ezzat) & The Cape (J.R. Carpenter)
Also view (before class): Sigur Rós Heima (U.K.) & Hvarf-Heim (U.S.) — Relay?
» blogging tip: Prompts — “Cosmogram” (109), “Mapping Home” (110), “Vernacular Genres” (113)
R 04-Feb Screening:
My Winnipeg (Dir. Maddin, 2007; 80 mins.) & Sigur Ros—Heima (Dir. DeBlois, 2007) (clips)
F 05-Feb Due: Exercise 2 (“Memory Glimpse” & “Mapping Popcycle”) Notes & Design Tips below.
Note: work independently (not meeting)
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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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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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