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Webtext

Act I Art in Media Ecol­ogy
— Project: Ana­lytic Webtext

  • Project Instruc­tions page
  • con­tinue research through­out week
    — any mate­ri­als still sought/needed, par­tic­u­larly visual media and con­tem­po­rary references
  • Final Web­text due 21-Feb

 
 
week 5

M 16-Feb   work­shop Peer Review of Draft

  • Draft Essay pre­pared
    — share Google Doc before/by class-time (draft due/required for workshop)
  • Focus: dis­course com­mu­nity / audi­ence, spe­cial­ized top­ics & terms; syn­the­sis of topics/areas
  • Review (and peer feed­back): effec­tive com­pos­ing tech­niques for project
     
    → Work­shop instruc­tions: see below

    •  
    * next: devel­op­ing the­sis, revis­ing, (re)arranging sec­tions for web­text, com­plet­ing research (pop­u­lar sources? visual media for support?)

 
 
W 18-Feb   work­shop Dig­i­tal Rhetoric: Web­text Arrangement

  • Activ­ity: Word­Press Lay­out (pages, links, text + media)
    — see Design Guide instruc­tions page
  • Dis­cuss: Peer feed­back (orga­ni­za­tion) & Troubleshooting
  • Also review: MLA Style (cita­tions & works cited); Revi­sion; The­sis & Conclusion

 

» Blog post (Wednes­day night): optional / extra credit

  • Dis­cuss com­pos­ing process, par­tic­u­larly devel­op­ing the­sis and using research materials

 
 
F 13-Feb   Due (by class time): Project work in progress (dis­cuss ideas/strategies & trou­bleshoot in com­ments below)
 

Due (S 21-Feb): Ana­lytic Web­text (final­ized)
 
 
 

Continuing Research — Essay Develop

week 5

 
M 09-Feb    Due: Anno­tated Bibliography

  • 5 points; due class time; post doc in D2L
  • Instruc­tions here; anno­tate 5 Schol­arly Sources (aca­d­e­mic jour­nal arti­cles or book chapters)

 
→ progress toward Project 1 (Instruc­tions page); dis­cuss M 09-Feb
 
 
con­tinue research­ing! (addi­tional com­po­nents, ele­ments, resources needed for project)

 

W 11-Feb    Activ­ity: Essay preparation—organization/sections (cre­ate draft out­line)

— use excerpts from Short Guide to Writ­ing About Art (Bar­net) PDFs:

 
Blog post (due Thurs PM):

    briefly state (1–2 sen­tences)
    1. cur­rent topic? (tech­nol­ogy + aes­thet­ics, spec­i­fied)
    2. present/future research? (what find­ing / still needing?)

 
 
F 13-Feb hybrid activity:

    1. reply (com­ment) to a classmate’s blog post (by 1pm)
    2. show progress on research & project (by 3pm):
    — update Log Doc (since Annot. Bib.; just topics/terms & cita­tions, no anno­ta­tions)
    — update/develop Out­line Doc
    (since Wednes­day: research mate­ri­als to use & to find? poten­tial topics/sections? ten­ta­tively connect/group top­ics?)

 
 
look­ing ahead:

    M 16-Feb   work­shop Peer Review — Draft Essay prepared

 
 

Research

 

    con­tin­u­ing research from Wednes­day tuto­r­ial, start­ing toward project 1

 
F 06-Feb    Research Log (cre­ate, share, update)

  • Share Google Doc (use copy of tem­plate) — by 3pm
  • Counts as blog entry / hybrid par­tic­i­pa­tion activity
  • Search sev­eral data­bases for project com­po­nents
    via CULi­brary: Art Full Text, ART­bib­li­ogra­phies Mod­ern, Pro­quest Art His­tory, Inter­na­tional bib­li­og­ra­phy of the­atre & dance, Inter­na­tional index to the per­form­ing arts, Film and tele­vi­sion lit­er­a­ture index; Oxford Art Online (“Includes the Grove Dic­tio­nary of Art, the best source for ency­clo­pe­dia entries on artists, styles, peri­ods, mate­ri­als or tech­niques.” + Ency­clo­pe­dia of Aes­thet­ics + The Oxford Com­pan­ion to West­ern Art)

 
» Research man­age­ment: use Google Docs (for Log) plus Zotero (or another app like Mede­ley or Ever­note; oth­ers?)

 
Ini­tial Research (focused search & browse) areas/categories:

    — art­form, medium, tech­nol­ogy (hard­ware + software/process); his­tor­i­cal con­text;
    artist (exam­ple), spe­cific art­works, aes­thetic movement/trends

 

M 09-Feb    Due: Anno­tated Bibliography

  • 5 Schol­arly Sources (aca­d­e­mic jour­nal arti­cles or book chapters)
  • 5 points; due class time; post doc in D2L
  • Instruc­tions below

 
→ progress toward Project 1 (Instruc­tions page); dis­cuss M 09-Feb

 
Con­tinue Read­ing ‘Research’

Beginning Research

  • reminder: Group­Site Edi­to­r­ial State­ment, setup, begin post­ing (schedule?)

 

M 02-Feb                Dis­cuss: Intro to Media Archae­ol­ogy by Huh­tamo & Parikka (2011)

*(PDF shared in Drive; or read online)

  • Quotes from Huh­tamo & Parikka chap­ter — Doc shared & below
  • images for activity/discussion: “Met­ro­pol­i­tan Museum of Art Releases 400,000 Images Online”  Colos­sal
  • Intro/Overview: Project 1 (Tech­nol­ogy & Art)

 

W 04-Feb               CU Library Research Info. Ses­sion (meet in Nor­lin E260A)

  •  Prepa­ra­tion: con­sider art medium/form to begin researching
    • project 1: tech­nol­ogy impact, pro­duc­tion, aes­thet­ics, artist(s), reception

 

Begin­ning Research: log = required; for Fri­day, counts as blog entry

  • Cre­ate & Share Research Log

 

“pro­duc­tive browsing”

 

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Act I                Art in Media Ecol­ogy
— Project: Analy­sis Webtext

 

M 26-Jan                Dis­cuss: Owens: “Glitch­ing Files for Under­stand­ing” The Sig­nal: Dig­i­tal Preser­va­tion (2012)
+ Emer­son: “Glitch Aes­thet­ics” (2014), entry in The Johns Hop­kins Guide to Dig­i­tal Media

  • Watch for dis­cus­sion: PBS Dig­i­tal Stu­dios — “The Art of Glitch” video
  • View more images at Glitch Safari

 

* Ideas for group topic/focus — post/discuss below

 

W 28-Jan                Dis­cuss: Con­nor, “What’s Postin­ter­net Got to do with Net Art?“ (2013) Rhizomes.org

Focus: Art & Tech­nol­ogy relationship—new gen­res, medi­a­tion, audi­ence
(con­sid­er­a­tions for group site, work­ing toward cura­tory vision)

  • Activ­ity: Final­ize groups (for cura­tion project / group-author site)
  • Groups (ten­ta­tive) listed here
    • con­tact GH ASAP to change groups

 
Blog entry (due 10pm): ideas/draft for group cura­tion (to share with group for collaboration)

  • class­mate com­ment (by Thurs­day): respond to group member’s entry

 
F 30-Jan                  (hybrid par­tic­i­pa­tion — col­lab­o­ra­tive)
Draft Group­Site “cura­tory vision” (com­pose & share GoogleDoc)

* Begin net­work curat­ing (post­ing to group site)

 

Artist Statement / Bio Sketch

 
Week 2

M 19-Jan                 No Class—Martin Luther King, Jr. Day

 
Due (post by Tues­day): Blog entry 1 (100–200 words)

  • prompt 1: artist state­ment draft — your approach to medium, form, praxis, per­for­mance, etc. to-date
    –or–
  • prompt 2: recall an art project recent or past; reflect and describe the role of tech­nol­ogy in your cre­at­ing (in terms of hardware/device, soft­ware, plat­form, etc. be specific!)

 
 
W 21-Jan                Dis­cuss: Artists Papers from Women, Art, and Tech­nol­ogy (2003) — PDF shared in Drive

  • Choose one Artist Paper to read & dis­cuss
    (for exam­ple Barry, “Reflec­tions on Some Instal­la­tion Projects”; Hegedu, “My Auto­bi­o­graph­i­cal Media His­tory”; Rapa­port, “Process(ing) Inter­ac­tive Art”)
    — feel free to select based on your inter­est, medium, field!
  • Class activ­ity: Using Artist­Pa­per & Blog Entry for “Bio.Sketch” warm-up

    • * Look­ing ahead: groups focus & sites

 
 
F 23-Jan                   Due: Exer­cise 1 — Artist BioS­ketch (Instruc­tions below)
 
 

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Con­tinue Read­ing ‘Artist State­ment / Bio Sketch’

First Hybrid Activity

 
» For Fri­day 16-Jan

  1. Read Droit­cour, “Why I Hate Post-Internet Art” (2014) blog entry

      (also check out the com­ments respond­ing to the entry)

    2.  

  2. By end of class time Fri­day, post com­ment below

    (brief, 1–2 sen­tences; respond­ing to read­ing and/or dis­cussing with classmates)

    — dis­cus­sion prompts, respond­ing to read­ing and each other; any (not all!) of these top­ics, along with other points of inter­est for you:

    • Droit­cour’s main argu­ment? dis­cus­sion about art itself or the dis­course (the way it is described/talked-about)?
    • any spe­cific art-discipline writ­ing? most thought-provoking point or sen­tence? how dis­tin­guished as a “blog entry” vs. a “schol­arly arti­cle”? (and does this matter?)
    • what does the post do or accom­plish or gen­er­ate? (check out the com­ments; what are respon­ders react­ing to?) does this get you think­ing (newly) about art + tech­nol­ogy con­nec­tion? (if so: impli­ca­tions? if not: is this debate rel­e­vant to artists?)
    Bonus / Optional check out Droitcour’s arti­cle “The Per­ils of Post-Internet Art” in Art in Amer­ica mag­a­zine (30-Oct 2014)

  • Not to compare/contrast, but we read a blog entry by Droit­cour (a cura­tor and critic) — which he cites in his arti­cle. what do you think of the dis­tinct writ­ings in terms of pub­li­ca­tion, purpose/message, audi­ence, impact (note the com­ments on the mag­a­zine arti­cle ver­sus blog!)…?

 
 
 
Reminder:

 
 
 

Blog Setup

 

    We will setup our blogs Wednes­day 14-Jan in class; instruc­tions below.
    — feel to mod­ify and update yours as much as you’d like!

 

Once you cre­ate your blog, please post your link in a com­ment below.
*This is impor­tant so I have your URL! (to update the blogroll)

    Note if you’d pre­fer your blog to be pri­vate,
    fol­low these instruc­tions — be sure to give me (and class­mates?) access

  • Rec­om­mended: you can set indi­vid­ual posts and pages to pri­vate using Vis­i­bil­ity set­tings

 

In your first entry (a “post,” not a com­ment), briefly intro­duce your­self: flex­i­ble para­me­ters for this, but please include your major and grade level, as well as any other writ­ing courses you’ve taken; your cur­rent art classes (and any extra-curricular work/projects/interests);
your idea (“work­ing def­i­n­i­tion”) of your art field/medium in the 21st cen­tury,
given impact of tech­nol­ogy (dig­i­tal media, net­work­ing, con­sumer elec­tron­ics, apps, etc);
plus, any other inter­est­ing infor­ma­tion or media you’d like to share
(e.g. maybe an exam­ple of net­work art for your medium/field?
or a favorite image or video, meme from past or present? favorite or most-used “social media” platform?)

 

 

 Reg­is­ter @ WordPress
WP Sup­port site

 
 

Tech­ni­cal Instruc­tions for Blog Setup:

Click → Con­tinue Read­ing ‘Blog Setup’

Semester Start

 
Wel­come, Writ­ing in the Visual Arts stu­dents!
 

This is our course site, which I will update reg­u­larly (blog func­tion); be sure to check frequently—especially for posts supplementing/amending our class sched­ule.
 

There sev­eral ways to stay up-to-date with class using this blog (our course website):

      book­mark the main page; sub­scribe to the RSS feed (reader required); view course con­tent on your mobile or tablet (site opti­mized for lat­est mobile/touchscreen plat­forms); Sub­scribe (via your Word­Press account)

 

» Wednes­day class:

 

» Look­ing ahead:

    • Overview and detailed expla­na­tion about blog­ging indi­vid­u­ally (var­i­ous tasks & ben­e­fits), hybrid online activ­ity, and group work.
        Con­tin­u­ing brief overview from class, instruc­tions for group work and research, con­cern­ing visual cul­ture across dig­i­tal media plat­forms
        — with sug­ges­tions / guid­ance for groups by topic.