Project 3 Part 2

  • Poet­ics section/document: 5 points; due 4/25; 400–500 words
  • Reflec­tion section/document: 5 points; due 4/25; 500 words (min­i­mum)
    • Post both on Project 3 page on your blog (or in D2L)

Poetics section/document

  • 400–500 words; aca­d­e­mic dis­course (ratio­nal, “crit­i­cal think­ing”; di­rect ac­count, not mul­ti­modal)
  • op­tional for­mat: this can also/instead be com­posed as a screen­cast (video of your site with com­men­tary)
     

Dis­cuss con­cisely & thought­fully your de­sign at­tempts and ratio­nale: how address­ing key aims and us­ing me­dia forms pur­pose­fully. De­scribe the ratio­nale for your com­pos­ing, explic­itly stat­ing your choices/strategies & rea­son­ing (dig­i­tal rhetoric). While you need not ex­plain every part of your project, you should men­tion spe­cific as­pects and how they present seg­ments of your dig­i­tal iden­tity in mul­ti­ple modes — your Screen-Self-Portrait, re­sult of work­ing in Elec­tracy to con­vey expe­ri­ence in aesthetic-affective mode.



Reflec­tion section/document

  • 500 words (min­i­mum; 700 words max); thought­ful and effi­cient com­po­si­tion

Dis­cuss your “Self-reflexive” knowl­edge, re­sult of com­pos­ing and viewing/browsing your project. First (most impor­tant) present spe­cific in­sights, about your dig­i­tal iden­tity and medi­ated expe­ri­ence; rather than de­scribe as­pects of the project (as in Poet­ics), state your in­sights, real­iza­tions, reflec­tions, con­nec­tions from your com­pos­ite self-portrait — espe­cially con­sid­er­ing various/diverse as­pects of iden­tity expe­ri­ence (visible/invisible, public/private, singular/networked) in networked-mediated con­di­tions.
Addi­tion­ally, dis­cuss any in­sights about our broader top­ics: “Expe­ri­ence Par­a­digm,” Appa­ra­tus The­ory; composing/communicating expe­ri­ence (“par­a­digm rhetoric”); aes­thetic mode & affec­tive expres­sion (mul­ti­modal com­pos­ing, cre­ative tech­niques, aes­thet­ics and embod­i­ment — per­haps vs. quantification/Dataism); —any/all con­sid­er­a­tions about emerg­ing con­di­tions of Elec­tracy (Insti­tu­tion, Iden­tity Expe­ri­ence, Tech­nol­ogy & Socio-Cultural con­ven­tions).
While this can be spec­u­la­tion (in­stead of argument/conclusion), try propos­ing new/consequent ideas at the end of the course and with this project—par­tic­u­larly con­nec­tions, ef­fects, impli­ca­tions (e.g. medi­ated iden­tity expe­ri­ence, dis­tinct forms of knowl­edge in this par­a­digm). 

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» Struc­tural Por­trait — Medi­ated Iden­tity
— play/perform avatar (cre­ate by chor­ag­ra­phy)
 
“Liq­uid Archi­tec­ture” (2014)
 

Liq­uid Archi­tec­ture (draft) from Gary Hink on Vimeo




Lorca places “duende” in the fam­ily of terms for the bit­ter­sweet feel­ing of eros, in all the ver­sions that spread through the Black At­lantic, the cre­olé cul­tures that in­vented the mu­sics of tango, samba, jazz — each with its own mood (mu­farse, saudade, blues). A key ele­ment in the descrip­tion is that duende may be in­vited, but it comes and goes on its own terms…
[…]
Mar­cus No­vak brings all these threads to­gether in his dis­cus­sion of liq­uid archi­tec­ture when he sug­gests that cyber­space may be con­structed in ac­cord with the old dreams of magic. Duende is the mood of dwelling in infor­ma­tion, and po­etry is its logic (No­vak, 228).
— Gre­gory Ul­mer 2009