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

 
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

 

 
Optional Exer­cise (extra credit): Cri­tique Rewrite
 

» the prompt for the optional exer­cise (for assign­ment points) is an activ­ity in “econ­o­miz­ing” and adapt­ing for Web audi­ences (prac­tice for the group’s site).

Essen­tially the activ­ity is: take a cri­tique, one you’ve writ­ten or received (or a student’s from another class?); revise/re-compose it to 250 words max (or fewer)
→ then, to 140 char­ac­ters (a tweet / text mes­sage) or 25 words
→ then, adapt the cri­tique to an image (one you cre­ate, find, edit/remix, etc.) con­vey­ing the con­tent
→ then, to a tag (like for the blog, for Tum­blr users to find; or a hashtag).

So, 4 brief parts, using the same cri­tique (which you need not include), for new/different read­ers.
This should be posted to your per­sonal site, any time before break.