Art Praxis
Act III Post-Internet Art
Project: Praxis Proposal
» Project 3 due 4/27 (start of class)
M 27-Apr Presentations (informal) — Illustrated Proposal
- Illustrated Proposal (website/pages) due 4/27 (20 points); post link on your blog
- Poetics (5 points, 500 words; due 28-Apr; post on your blog)
- Reflection (5 points, 500 words; due 28-Apr; post on your blog)
→ see instructions below
W 29-Apr Digital Media & Network Rhetoric review (“writing in the visual arts in 21st century”)
- workshop: Exercise 4 — CraftScreen (artist website) due 5/2
- resource: “Designs of Meaning” (Knight & Starin 2015)
» Blog Entry (optional / make-up):
- discuss implementation / application of your proposal or classmate’s — in terms of discipline/field conventions and contemporary conditions
- or: attend ATLAS Technology Expo Spring 2015; discuss further ideas for new/updated art praxis in network media ecology
F 01-May (Meet 12pm) Workshop: CraftScreen Publishing (Exercise 4, due 5/2)
- ** Preparation: Work-in-progress for feedback/critique & tech/design support
» Optional Exercise (Extra Credit points): due 5/3
— Rhetorical Analysis (Genre & Audience) of Class Writing (3 Projects)
- also, reminder: if revising Project 1, contact about posting during finals week
Project 3 Components
1. Illustrated Proposal (due 4/27 class-time)
2. Poetics
- Due Tues 28-Apr 11PM
- 5 points; 400–500 words
— add to Project 3 page on your blog (or as sub-page)
» Discuss your composing approach & process (digital rhetoric), including design decisions and rationale (most important) for hybrid (critical + creative) project: how addressing key objectives, new purpose & intended audience (specify); particularly/uniquely by composing multimodal presentation of ideas using digital media.
Be sure to discuss specific aims, techniques, and aspects of project; especially any creative/aesthetic approaches less obvious — simulate, perform, convey, express — that illustrate your proposal ideas
(left implicit on pages; explain here).
Reflection
- Due Tues 28-Apr 11PM
- 5 points; 500–600 words
— add to Project 3 page on your blog (or as sub-page)
» Discuss your insights, what you have learned from project (and/as last class unit on art in post-Internet media ecology; or culmination of semester?)
While the main question is the overall results of praxis-based learning process, be sure to address two key areas/focus of insights, lessons, realizations, ideas:
— about “writing in the visual arts,” concerning arts-based research, Information Literacy, multimodal composing, network rhetoric, and/or hybrid communication. (insights, realizations, limitations, advantages, potential application?)
— about your art medium/form/major, in terms of disciplinary conventions and specialized discourse of field; especially considering networked media ecology, relationship of technology and aesthetics, contemporary developments
(i.e. how your projects answers question, “direction or innovations for your art field, given changing & emerging media conditions?”)
Optionally you might discuss applications for additional areas/roles not addressed by project: for instance art education, art-making (process, creator/Artist role, etc), criticism/review, scholarly discourse, reception, market/career, audience/participation, institutions (like gallery, museum, university, hybrid/cross-organization, etc)
Be sure to conclude by discussing significance, consequence, implications (for either/both of these two areas) with your new perspective, at end of course.