Posts by ‘GHink’

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”)
 

 
» 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

 
 

 
 
Con­tinue Read­ing ‘Art Praxis’

Project Composing Guide

Act III   Post-Internet Art
Project: Praxis Proposal
  • Upcom­ing: Project 3 due M 4/27
     
  • Dis­cuss ideas through­out work­shops week in com­ments
    prepa­ra­tion: please review inven­tio activ­ity & coor­di­nate (post topic/idea you will dis­cuss dur­ing class)

Project Devel­op­ment (Wed-Sun) — see guide/notes below

 

 
» Project 3 due 4/27 (start of class) for Pre­sen­ta­tions (informal)

  • Illus­trated Pro­posal (website/pages) due 4/27 (20 points); post link on your blog
  • Poet­ics (5 points, 400–500 words; due 28-Apr; post on your blog)
  • Reflec­tion (5 points, 400–500 words; due 28-Apr; post on your blog)

 
look­ing ahead:

  • Exer­cise 4: CraftScreen (artist web­site) due 5/2
  • Optional Exer­cise (Extra Credit points): due 5/3
    — Rhetor­i­cal Analy­sis (Genre & Audi­ence) of Class Writ­ing (3 Projects)

 
 
Con­tinue Read­ing ‘Project Com­pos­ing Guide’

Post-Internet Art

Act III   Post-Internet Art
Project: Praxis Proposal

 
 
M 13-Apr Work­shop led by Groups 1 & 2 (see below)

  • activ­ity: Project Brain­storm (Praxis Pro­posal to artists)
    — using prepa­ra­tion response; plus, ideas from Exer­cise 3, Group­Site curat­ing, other classes/experience, field knowl­edge (dis­ci­pli­nary con­ven­tions, trends, innovations)
  • focus: art tech­niques in and for con­tem­po­rary con­di­tions (Post-Internet, Post-Digital, UbiComp)
  • going for­ward: refin­ing (narrow/expand) & devel­op­ing idea for mul­ti­me­dia illus­tra­tion web­site (for audi­ence = artists)…

 
 

W 15-Apr Work­shop led by Groups 3 & 4 (see below)

  • Work­shop activ­ity: Develop/refine topic & approach
    — offer ideas & feed­back about project com­pos­ing (topic & design)
     
  • focus: mul­ti­modal com­pos­ing for audi­ence & pur­pose
    — using Word­Press Pages; or Wix.com (rec­om­mended), Wee­bly, or another web­site
     
  • going for­ward: con­tinue devel­op­ing & start com­pos­ing project

 
» Blog Entry: Project Prospectus

  • treat­ment” (con­cise, 2–3 sen­tences): idea for innovate/update + strategy/approach for mul­ti­modal com­pos­ing (pur­pose = illus­trate, sim­u­late, demon­strate pro­posed praxis)
  • class­mate com­ment: reply to idea (con­struc­tive feed­back) and/or sug­gest design/media ideas, appli­ca­tion, approach (recommended)

 
 
» Check­point Work-in-Progress Fri­day (request feedback)

Project Devel­op­ment (Wed-Sun) — see guide/notes here

  • Dis­cuss ideas, feed­back, sug­ges­tions in com­ment thread
  •  
    look­ing ahaed: Project 3 due 4/27 (start of class) for Pre­sen­ta­tions (informal)

 
 
 
Con­tinue Read­ing ‘Post-Internet Art’

UbiComp

Act III   Post-Internet Art
Project: Praxis Proposal

 
 
M 13-Apr Hybrid Activ­ity: Read & dis­cuss Fibrecul­ture issue 19 (2011)

  • choose 1 arti­cle (of 8: Thom­sen & Bech through Fritsch)
    — iden­tify selec­tion & post notes in shared doc
     
  • dis­cuss: “ubiq­ui­tous com­put­ing” → impli­ca­tions & prospects for art praxis?

 
 

W 15-Apr               Dis­cuss: Fibrecul­ture arti­cles (con­tin­ued)
+ Amerika, “Post­pro­duc­tion Art and The­ory” from remix­the­book

  • Focus: con­tem­po­rary con­di­tions for art — “Dis­trib­uted Aes­thet­ics” + “Ubi­Comp” → Post-Digital / “Post-Internet” Art?
  • activ­ity: Project ideas (warm-up for Exer­cise 3 and Project 3)
    — from “art schol­ar­ship” (dis­course) to aes­thetic production/innovation (pro­posal for artists)

 
 

Hybrid Activ­ity (Wed-Fri): optional dis­cus­sion thread — Exer­cise 3 & Project ideas

 
Due (S 19-Apr): Exer­cise 3 (Pro­posal: Art­Praxis Update)

    look­ing ahead: Work­shops led by groups (4/20 & 4/22)
    — brain­storm & communicate/comment (coor­di­nate?) over week­end, using Exer­cise 3 as warm-up

 
 

http://www.mteww.com/nad.html

Con­tinue Read­ing ‘UbiComp’

Aesthetics Distributed

Act III   Post-Internet Art
Project: Praxis Proposal

 
 
M 06-Apr Read/discuss: Fibrecul­ture issue 7 *choose 1 article

  • see list of 9 under “Arti­cles”: Tofts, Mun­ster, et al through Arm­strong
    → please post your selec­ted article

  • dis­cuss: inno­vat­ing dis­ci­pli­nary con­ven­tions + art dis­course
    — for Exer­cises 2–3 & Project 3

 
 

W 08-Apr               Dis­cuss: Fibrecul­ture arti­cles (cont’d)
+ “Net Art 2.0” from remixthebook.com

  • Activity/Focus: “Dis­trib­uted Aes­thet­ics” (cont’d) and
    → new con­sid­er­a­tions for review? (art event)

 
 
» Blog Entry & Response: optional / extra credit (toward par­tic­i­pa­tion)
 
 
 
Due (S 4/11): Art Event Review (Exer­cise 2) — Instruc­tions Below
 
 
 
 
via Colos­sal:


Pixel — extraits from Adrien M / Claire B on Vimeo


 

Con­tinue Read­ing ‘Aes­thet­ics Distributed’

Arts Inquiry

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



     
     

GroupSite WrapUp

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 pagesee 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)

 
 
 

Rhetorical Situation

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’

Network Curators

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

 
 

AtlasMarch
 

 
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:

  • dis­cuss one of 12 essays — Hyper­Al­ler­gic “Tum­blr Art Sym­po­sium” in terms of lessons for Cura­tory GroupSite

 

 
 


Lake Dis­trict Walk I : Aug­mented Video Real­ity from glitch­mu­seum on Vimeo.


 
 

Con­tinue Read­ing ‘Net­work Curators’

Transition Material

 

    » reminder: Ana­lytic Web­text Due (finalized)

 

Act II                “Data­base Aes­thet­ics“
Project: Group-Curating Wrap-Up

 

M 23-Feb Activity/Focus: Group­Site Work (resume/increase)

  • Dis­cuss: “Data­base Aes­thet­ics” (using Project ideas)
    Mini-lecture: Tech­no­log­i­cal Media & Art
     
  • Group Activity/Tasks: find/generate audi­ence (share pages, social net­works?)
    — iden­tify mod­els (sites, blogs, groups) to follow

  • Refine/update approach (and/or cura­tory state­ment?)
    → new direction/focus for Group­Site Curat­ing?
     
  • site progress/update (group coor­di­na­tion): resume post­ing sched­ule!

 
 
 
W 25-Feb Dis­cuss: Parikka, “Cir­cuit Bend­ing Media Archae­ol­ogy into an Art Method” Leonardo (2012)

  • Activity/Focus: Research + Prospec­tive Art Praxis (appli­ca­tion, inno­va­tion, inven­tion?)
    — exam­ple (from Parikka): “zom­bie media” (arch. research) & “circuit-bending” art

 
Blog entry (due Wed PM): Project 1 Reflection

    » from com­pos­ing essay/project: insights about field (schol­ar­ship = dis­course com­mu­nity) and your own artis­tic prac­tice?
    — spec­u­late poten­tial praxis (applied the­ory) or innovation?

 

 
 
F 27-Feb   Hybrid Activ­ity: group dis­cus­sion — curat­ing focus, audi­ence, materials/examples

  • In com­ments below, post updated/revised cura­tion focus and intended audi­ence of Group­Site — thought­ful com­ment (2–3 sen­tences), due by 1230pm (dis­cuss dur­ing class time)
  • Reply to group member(s) — brief yet pro­duc­tive response, due by 130pm. Sug­gested replies:
    revise Cura­tory Vision and/or Edi­to­r­ial State­ment? (how to indi­cate to read­ers, espe­cially about future posts?) Site/blog to model? (iden­tify con­ven­tions) Appeal to audi­ence from posts thus far? (imag­ine par­tic­u­lar read­ers in field, i.e. “dis­course com­mu­nity”) Poten­tial of cre­ative praxis (from research/curating to art-making?) to inter­est additional/specialized readers?

 
 
 
Optional Exer­cise (extra credit): Critique

  • Due (S 28-Feb); post on per­sonal blog

  • 250 words → 25 words / 140 char­ac­ters → image

 


PBS Dig­i­tal Stu­dios: “Will 3D Print­ing Change the World?” (2013)