Posts with Tag ‘writing’

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’

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)

 
 
 

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)
 
 
 

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’

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’