Posts with Tag ‘research’

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



     
     

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

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    * 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

 
 

Beginning Research

  • reminder: Group­Site Edi­to­r­ial State­ment, setup, begin post­ing (schedule?)

 

M 02-Feb                Dis­cuss: Intro to Media Archae­ol­ogy by Huh­tamo & Parikka (2011)

*(PDF shared in Drive; or read online)

  • Quotes from Huh­tamo & Parikka chap­ter — Doc shared & below
  • images for activity/discussion: “Met­ro­pol­i­tan Museum of Art Releases 400,000 Images Online”  Colos­sal
  • Intro/Overview: Project 1 (Tech­nol­ogy & Art)

 

W 04-Feb               CU Library Research Info. Ses­sion (meet in Nor­lin E260A)

  •  Prepa­ra­tion: con­sider art medium/form to begin researching
    • project 1: tech­nol­ogy impact, pro­duc­tion, aes­thet­ics, artist(s), reception

 

Begin­ning Research: log = required; for Fri­day, counts as blog entry

  • Cre­ate & Share Research Log

 

“pro­duc­tive browsing”