Posts with Tag ‘praxis’

Post-Internet Art

Act III   Post-Internet Art
Project: Praxis Proposal

 
 
M 13-Apr Work­shop led by Groups 1 & 2 (see below)

  • activ­ity: Project Brain­storm (Praxis Pro­posal to artists)
    — using prepa­ra­tion response; plus, ideas from Exer­cise 3, Group­Site curat­ing, other classes/experience, field knowl­edge (dis­ci­pli­nary con­ven­tions, trends, innovations)
  • focus: art tech­niques in and for con­tem­po­rary con­di­tions (Post-Internet, Post-Digital, UbiComp)
  • going for­ward: refin­ing (narrow/expand) & devel­op­ing idea for mul­ti­me­dia illus­tra­tion web­site (for audi­ence = artists)…

 
 

W 15-Apr Work­shop led by Groups 3 & 4 (see below)

  • Work­shop activ­ity: Develop/refine topic & approach
    — offer ideas & feed­back about project com­pos­ing (topic & design)
     
  • focus: mul­ti­modal com­pos­ing for audi­ence & pur­pose
    — using Word­Press Pages; or Wix.com (rec­om­mended), Wee­bly, or another web­site
     
  • going for­ward: con­tinue devel­op­ing & start com­pos­ing project

 
» Blog Entry: Project Prospectus

  • treat­ment” (con­cise, 2–3 sen­tences): idea for innovate/update + strategy/approach for mul­ti­modal com­pos­ing (pur­pose = illus­trate, sim­u­late, demon­strate pro­posed praxis)
  • class­mate com­ment: reply to idea (con­struc­tive feed­back) and/or sug­gest design/media ideas, appli­ca­tion, approach (recommended)

 
 
» Check­point Work-in-Progress Fri­day (request feedback)

Project Devel­op­ment (Wed-Sun) — see guide/notes here

  • Dis­cuss ideas, feed­back, sug­ges­tions in com­ment thread
  •  
    look­ing ahaed: Project 3 due 4/27 (start of class) for Pre­sen­ta­tions (informal)

 
 
 
Con­tinue Read­ing ‘Post-Internet Art’

UbiComp

Act III   Post-Internet Art
Project: Praxis Proposal

 
 
M 13-Apr Hybrid Activ­ity: Read & dis­cuss Fibrecul­ture issue 19 (2011)

  • choose 1 arti­cle (of 8: Thom­sen & Bech through Fritsch)
    — iden­tify selec­tion & post notes in shared doc
     
  • dis­cuss: “ubiq­ui­tous com­put­ing” → impli­ca­tions & prospects for art praxis?

 
 

W 15-Apr               Dis­cuss: Fibrecul­ture arti­cles (con­tin­ued)
+ Amerika, “Post­pro­duc­tion Art and The­ory” from remix­the­book

  • Focus: con­tem­po­rary con­di­tions for art — “Dis­trib­uted Aes­thet­ics” + “Ubi­Comp” → Post-Digital / “Post-Internet” Art?
  • activ­ity: Project ideas (warm-up for Exer­cise 3 and Project 3)
    — from “art schol­ar­ship” (dis­course) to aes­thetic production/innovation (pro­posal for artists)

 
 

Hybrid Activ­ity (Wed-Fri): optional dis­cus­sion thread — Exer­cise 3 & Project ideas

 
Due (S 19-Apr): Exer­cise 3 (Pro­posal: Art­Praxis Update)

    look­ing ahead: Work­shops led by groups (4/20 & 4/22)
    — brain­storm & communicate/comment (coor­di­nate?) over week­end, using Exer­cise 3 as warm-up

 
 

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Con­tinue Read­ing ‘UbiComp’

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)