Posts with Tag ‘Art Discourse’

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’

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 page — see 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’

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

 
 

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: