Posts with Tag ‘MediaArchaeology’

» 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