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.