Act III Post-Internet Art
Project: Praxis Proposal
M 30-Mar Recap/Review Acts I-II
Intro/Overview: Project 3 & Exercises 2 + 3 (Event Review + Post-Internet Update)
→ share/suggest events in comments!
- Art Events page (not updated)
W 01-Apr read/discuss: Garrett-Petts and Nash, “Re-Visioning the Visual: Making Artistic Inquiry Visible” Rhizomes 18
- Discuss: writing conventions / conventional writing (disciplinary discourse)
→ bring/use example from another class
» Blog entry (due Wed. night): discuss “Artistic Inquiry” in your field/discipline
F 03-Mar Hybrid Activity (Wed-Fri): respond to classmate’s blog entry (comment)
* and post (on your blog):
1. review (to model) & 2. finding online Art Event to attend for review
“Including You,” BFA/MFA thesis show, CU Boulder, January 16
Act II “Database Aesthetics“
Project: Group-Curating Wrap-Up
— Last 3 components due
reminders:
- Complete GroupSite curatory posting by Thursday!
— update your Participation Log (page) with annotations (Friday)
- As site will stay live, plan for posting schedule remainder of term…?
M 16-Mar workshop: Review Project Components
- Group Collaboration: using Rhet. Analysis toward presentation & wrap-up components
- Activity: create/update Participation Log page — see template
(this is where to annotate your posts)
» Blog Entry: optional / extra credit
- Suggested: Discuss curation site/project using term/concept from one class reading (or another course — re: arts discourse
— might use an idea from Rhetorical Analysis to discuss your/group’s activity (e.g. implicit/explicit messages, intended audience, visual arts disciplinary connection)
W 18-Mar Presentations
- collaborative talks: Groups discuss Curatory Site
— in terms of arts discourse, disciplinary rhetoric, editorial collective, etc.
- brainstorm & consider wrap-up components (due Fri-Sat)
Due (F 20-Mar): Annotations (of your 10 curation posts)
- update/finalize Activity Log with annotations — text, images, and/or video
Due (S 21-Mar): Relection (page) & Proposal (page)
Act II “Database Aesthetics“
Project: Group-Curating Wrap-Up
— First component: Rhetorical Analysis
reminders:
- Continue/increase GroupSite curatory posting!
— use social networking to attract readers (imagined/new audience?
- Review Group discussion Friday — rhetorical strategies/implications & audience(s)
M 09-Mar Discuss: Prada, “Web 2.0 as a new context for artistic practices” Fibreculture 14 (2009)
- issues/focus: new context (Web 2.0) for artists & public; discourse/rhetoric, institutional markers; creativity (“amateurization”? Web & artistry?)
- looking ahead: analyzing model site/publication considering these topics/aspects (rhetorical factors, activities, implications, consequences)
W 04-Mar Activity: Rhetorical Analysis warm-up
F 13-Mar Focus: Sites/publications — to analyze (for assignment) and to model for group curating
Due (S 14-Mar): Rhetorical Analysis (project 2 component)
- 10 points; 500–700 words (of analysis, omitting process); plus visual media
- assignment page
Continue Reading ‘Rhetorical Situation’
Act II “Database Aesthetics“
— Project: Group-Curating Wrap-Up
M 02-Mar read/discuss: Cramer, “Post-Digital Aesthetics” e-permanent (video lecture)
- focus/issue: Discourse Communities (scholarly/discipline; artists / “art world” / critics; public)
→ discuss/question: GroupSite audience(s)…? (as discussed Friday)
Blog entry (due Tues. night): share GroupSite with 2 different audience groups
- just identify to whom and note how you shared (brief post)
» reminder: Project Component (task/assignment): Activity Log (page) — create/update
W 04-Mar view/discuss: Amerika, “Museum of Glitch Aesthetics” (Review)
—note: can split among group, view/read 2 (of 6) sections each
- focus/issue: Institutions, Writing, and Network Curation/Archiving
» discuss: Amerika MoGA re: materials/examples & recent curating strategies regarding audience (imagined and real) — discussion part 1, continued Friday
F 06-Mar Hybrid Activity: discuss group curating materials/examples & rhetorical strategies
- Discuss below: post (brief comment) by 1230pm
— reply to group member (by 130pm)
*use/discuss one CFP (see page): “Collaboration in Technology and the Arts,” “ArtsIT,” “Strange New Worlds,” “Digital Embodiment,” “Visual Art and Materiality,” “Virtual Configurations in Contemporary Art and Museums”
- as a group, use one as relay to write collaborative a “Call for Submissions” to your site (matching your new Curatory Vision & Editorial Statement)
→ discuss, even if not producing CFW, rhetorical factors and strategies (considering your intended audience & purpose)
–or– imagine you were applying to present as “network curators”…? (at conference — and/unlike museum?)
» reminder: Optional Exercise (extra credit): Critique Rewrite
- use an existing critique you’ve written or received; re-compose for network audience(s):
250 words → 25 words / 140 characters → image
- Prompt elaborated here (instructions from class)
Optional Blog entry:
Lake District Walk I : Augmented Video Reality from glitchmuseum on Vimeo.
Continue Reading ‘Network Curators’