Posts Tagged ‘relay’

Measure

Theory / Method | Posted by Gary Hink
Apr 17 2010

 

The Crisis of Credit Visualized from Jonathan Jarvis on Vimeo.

 
 
» Same designer (Jarvis), different project — with intriguing parallel that he notes:

 

OverPowered – Presentation from Jonathan Jarvis on Vimeo.

 
 

Aporia

Schedule / Update | Posted by Gary Hink
Apr 12 2010

 
 
M 12-Apr          Conclusion (299-324): “Culture Wars or Syncretism?” — A Consultation (postponed)

      Presentation: Group 4

 
Example: aporia visualization (not WideSite) — myOptica (ghink, 2008)

 
 
W 14-Apr          Strasser & Coverly, in the white darkness (2004)

      Presentation: Group 1

 
Blog Entry — Workshop prep. (due by class-time Thurs.)

 
 
R 15-Apr          “Studio”: Workshop (poetics & praxis)— Project 3 (part 1)

 
 
F 16-Apr          Mark Amerika, FILMTEXT 2.0   &   Jim Andrews, Nio (2001)

 

Pattern of Mood-Thought

Schedule / Update, online writing | Posted by Gary Hink
Apr 08 2010
      » Apparatus Theory:

     
     
    R 08-Apr          No Class     (away at conferencereporting “assemblage expression” developments)
     

     » Groups 4 & 1:      Prep. for presentations; blog discussion, over weekend. — Assignments

     
    F 09-Apr         No Class     (away at conferencelinking aesthetics & ethics)
     

        » re-view elec. lit. by Coverley & Morrisey for Inventory — discuss online? (particpt. credit)
         
        — suggested Relay reading for Inventory (scheduled for next Fri.):

       
       
      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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        Logorama

        Uncategorized | Posted by Gary Hink
        Apr 06 2010

         

        Logorama from Marc Altshuler – Human Music on Vimeo.

         

              This is a short film that was directed by the French animation collective H5, François Alaux, Hervé de Crécy + Ludovic Houplain. It was presented at the Cannes Film Festival 2009. It opened the 2010 Sundance Film Festival and won a 2010 academy award under the category of animated short.

         

        Emblematics

        Schedule / Update | Posted by Gary Hink
        Mar 28 2010

         
         
        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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              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.

               
               

              FicellEvents

              Schedule / Update | Posted by Gary Hink
              Mar 20 2010

              Week of 22-27 March

                • e.c. opportunities for attendance and participation (blog entry) credit

               
               
              Mon 22 March, 7:30 pm, Pugh Hall Room 170

              • J. Hillis Miller (UC Irvine)
                “Critical Climate Change: Why Is There a Crisis in the Humanities?” Info
              •  

               
              Fri 26 March, 12pm, Pugh Hall Rm 210 — one-hour colloquium

               
              Fri-Sat 26-27 March, Smathers (Library East) Room 1A

                2010 UF Conference on Comics
                “ImageNext: Visions Past and Future”
                 

              • Guest Speakers: David Kunzle (UCLA), Corey Creekmur (Iowa),
                John Porcellino (King Cat Comics), Molly Kiely (Diary of a Dominatrix)
              •  

               
              Thur-Sat 25-27 March, Dauer Hall Room 219

                “The Global South.” The 12th Annual Conference of the Marxist Reading Group

                Panel presentations & roundtable discussions 9am-5pm. Program
                 

              • F 26-Mar 7pm, Dauer 215
                Film Screening: Immokalee, U.S.A. (2008, 78min).
                Dir. Georg Koszulinski (UF Film & Media Studies Grad Student)
              •  

              • S 27-Mar 3:30pm, Ustler Hall Atrium
                Keynote speaker: Hazel V. Carby (Yale), “Bristol Dreams Jamaica”
              •  

              CyberDuende

              Schedule / Update | Posted by Gary Hink
              Mar 10 2010
                 » Update:  revised schedule — remainder of term here.
                 
                 » Note  additions from ELO Collection Vol. 1 (Inventory Items, each time we read)

               
               
               

              M 15-Mar         Internet Invention Chp 8 (210-26): “The Bar (Street)”

                  plus  Chp 7 — review “Office” (208-9), “Comment” (sections), & key topics (listed below).

               
               
              The Hood Internet – Decalogue (The Hood Internet vs The 2000s) by hoodinternet

               
               
              W 17-Mar         Internet Invention Chp 8 (227-43) — plusDuende” (Ulmer’s blog).
               

                      Due: Weekly Blog Entry (usual parameters, resume normal schedule.)

                     
                     
                    R 18-Mar         Screening: Pulp Fiction (Dir. Tarantino, 1994)
                     

                     

                     
                     
                     
                    F 19-Mar         Jacqueline Goss, “Solstice” (2007)      Where is the past?

                                    — Online Discussion: Films as Relays for Project. Prompt here. (Jump to comment.)
                             
                             
                                    ? Discover short-film relay @ YouTube Screening Room
                             

                           

                              Inventory Update Due Sat. PM (3 new items: Chp. 8, class film, personal media example)

                             

                                 » Group Prep.  (for presentations): Discussion on blogs, over weekend.

                               
                               
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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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                              Inventive Method

                              Theory / Method, online writing | Posted by Gary Hink
                              Feb 17 2010

                              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.)

                               


                               

                                  » suggested reading:
                                  “25 QUOTES TO HELP YOU STEAL LIKE AN ARTIST.”
                                  — Austin Kleon, 10-Feb. Link.