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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’

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’

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)


 

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.

 

 

Audience

 
 
 

» “Which ulti­mately does more good—an arti­cle or mono­graph that is read by 20 or 30 peo­ple in a very nar­row field, or a blog post on a topic of inter­est to many (such as grad­ing stan­dards or tenure require­ments) that is read by 200,000?

What if the post spurs hun­dreds of com­ments, is debated pub­licly in fac­ulty lounges and class­rooms, and gets picked up by news­pa­pers and Web sites across the country—in other words, it helps to shape the national debate over some hot-button issue? What is it worth then?”

What’s a Blog Post Worth?” By Rob Jenk­ins
August 8, 2013, 1:47 pm
The Chron­i­cle of Higher Education