Posts Tagged ‘widesite’

Expressive Assemblage

Schedule / Update | Posted by Gary Hink
Apr 24 2010

 

      In short, composing an assemblage involves thinking and writing with your entire “three-dimensional” or “360°” perspective: personal / autobio.; career/discipline; community; entertainment / culture. (prompt: Try specifying and noticing which dimension emerges most prominent in your thinking and writing at first, through your entries.)

      — “Praxis” (10-Jan entry)

 
 
“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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Frequency

Theory / Method | Posted by Gary Hink
Apr 23 2010

» Apparatus Theory:

 
Apparatus Tagxedo

 
 

 
 
 

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Heuretics

Schedule / Update, Theory / Method | Posted by Gary Hink
Apr 18 2010

 
 
M 19-Apr          “Studio” Workshop — from emblem to refashioning concept (in electracy).

    » Tuning / Warm-up (checkpoint):

  • emblem: selections finalized (one’s “ingredients” for “recipe”);
    “sketches” in progress (online) and/or finalized.
  • tentative topic for project — Career or Community dimensions
  • Praxis: more direct/explicit than last week, implicit in our review of Chapters 9-11.
    cf. Chp. 1-2, “General Project,” “Attunement,” “Stimmung” etc.; plus “Mystory” (Chp 3).
  • examples below.

 
Due:          Extra Credit Response (optional Exercise)

 
 
W 21-Apr (last class)          “Studio” Praxis: poetics for final project (design)

    » Soundcheck (checkpoint):

  • emblem revised (if necessary); final version online
  • topic (“target” concept) revised / finalized (post in brief blog entry)
  • “raw materials” (sources) selected; refine during/after class
  • poetics / “blueprint” for assemblage; refine during/after class.

 
» Blog Entry (optional / e.c.):

      Spring term “Playlist” or “Mash-up” (multimedia suggested; perhaps also test Tagxedo?)

     
     
    R 22-Apr          No Class—Complete Project 3

     
    F 23-Apr          Due: Project 3 Progress checkpoint/update (website shows “work in progress” )

     
    S 24-Apr          Update:    Due: Project 3 (11pm deadline)

     
     
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    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.

           
           

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          ThreadWork

          Theory / Method | Posted by Gary Hink
          Feb 01 2010

           

           
          Bordando el Manto Terrestre by Remedios Varo (1961)
          (“Embroidering the Earth’s Mantle,” center of triptych here)

           
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