Project 2

 
Group Project: Net­work Curat­ing of Visual Cul­ture

Col­lab­o­ra­tion: Main­tain site (through week 10) post­ing dig­i­tal exam­ples of visual culture—medium/form selected as group

  • Plat­form options: PearTrees, Tum­blr, Pin­ter­est, Storify, Word­Press; social net­work account (decide as group)
    Observe & dis­cuss new prac­tices & cul­tural forms across Inter­net plat­forms, art activities/events, artist Web pres­ence
    Use Storify to doc­u­ment your posts (on blog)
    * Anno­tate reflec­tion with “screen­caps” and/or videos
    Audi­ence: pub­lic and spe­cial­ized read­ers in field (dis­course com­mu­nity); class­mates plus out­side class (social networks)

Objec­tives

    1. In con­text of net­work media and dig­i­tal cul­ture, exam­ine new/current forms of art works and dis­course (dis­cus­sion).
    Start by select­ing one visual-culture form as a group for focus (e.g. film/video, museum/gallery, photography)

    2. Doc­u­ment recent and emer­gent exam­ples of inter­est, with per­spec­tive con­nect­ing art and media/technology
    —observ­ing forms, prac­tices, audi­ences, recep­tion, responses, and “institutions”(?)

 

 

Com­po­nents

indi­vid­ual work — pages on per­sonal site

 

  • Anno­ta­tions of posts
      10 points; due 20-Mar; thought­ful dis­cus­sion (2−3 sen­tences) of your 8 posts
      — can be added to Par­tic­i­pa­tion Log, posted as new page, or pre­sented as video

     

  • Rhetor­i­cal Analy­sis: Web-based Pub­li­ca­tion (Pro­fes­sional or Scholarly)
    • 10 points; 500–700 words; due S 14-Mar
    • Assign­ment Page (instruc­tions)

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  • Reflec­tion
      due S 21-Mar; 5 points; 300–500 words or video

     
    » Dis­cuss insights from your expe­ri­ence as author for cura­tory site, both indi­vid­u­ally and as part of team (Edi­to­r­ial Col­lec­tive; vision/statement?). Spe­cific points should be pre­sented thought­fully and pur­pose­fully, dis­cussing con­cisely and pre­cisely — in terms of net­work rhetoric, audi­ence, dis­c­pli­nary con­ven­tions, and/or dis­course communities.

      *note: you might cre­ate a video (screen-recording with voiceover) dis­cussing your reflection

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  • Pro­posal
      due S 21-Mar; 5 points; 300–500 words

     
    From your expe­ri­ence (both posts and reflec­tion) — cura­tion as “arts-based inquiry” (research) — pro­pose idea(s) for art praxis: appli­ca­tion for art prac­tices? (exam­ple: see Par­rika on “circuit-bending”) impli­ca­tions for dis­course com­mu­ni­ties? innovation/update of field con­ven­tions? Dis­cuss any/all these ques­tions and other ideas — par­tic­u­larly, research and dis­course (field con­ven­tions) “native” and suit­able to dig­i­tal media.
    (i.e. Your dis­ci­pline, in aca­d­e­mic and/or pro­fes­sional con­texts, in 21st century?)