ScreenSelfPortrait

Unit III: Experience – Affect – Electracy 

Project 3: Screen Self Portrait

» Part 1 (mul­ti­modal web­pages) due 24-Apr
Part 2 (Poet­ics & Reflec­tion) due 25-Apr (Mon­day night)


Week 15

M 18-Apr Work­shop: Project 3 In­tro & Overview

  • fo­cus: Screen­Self­Por­trait in­tro & overview (objec­tives & method)
    — aesthetic-affective par­a­digm, medi­ated expe­ri­ence, Elec­tracy
     
  • activ­ity: expe­ri­ence avatars & mul­ti­modal com­pos­ing with me­dia ready­made and cus­tom
    — “per­sonal data­base” sam­pling for discovery+invention (Blog en­try 5)
     
  • look­ing ahead: sketch/map project (out­line pages/segments)
    — be­gin com­pil­ing & cre­at­ing mate­ri­als for com­pos­ing
    → con­sider web­site to use for part 1: Wix​.com, Wee​bly​.com, Word­Press pages
    (oth­ers? Jimdo? Moon­fruit?)







W 20-Apr hy­brid work Work­shop: mul­ti­modal com­pos­ing, me­dia edit­ing, expres­sive page/segment de­sign (dig­i­tal rhetoric)

  • fo­cus: us­ing me­dia ready­made (sam­pled), edited, cre­ated
    → prepa­ra­tion = have com­piled, con­sider uses (sketch/map), be­gin editing/authoring
     
  • activ­ity: peer feed­back & assis­tance with key com­pos­ing tech­niques: 
  • discuss/review: select­ing site for com­pos­ing; arrangement/organization fo­cus
     
  • look­ing ahead: con­tinue sam­pling, edit­ing, cre­at­ing me­dia; be­gin cre­at­ing site…
     




F 22-Apr Work­shop: mul­ti­modal / expres­sive web pages

  • fo­cus: arrange­ment / orga­ni­za­tion; work­ing in Elec­tracy (aes­thetic mode)
    prepa­ra­tion = work-in-progress (web­site started)
     
  • activ­ity: peer feed­back & tech as­sis­tance
     
    — dig­i­tal rhetoric (pur­pose, style, modes, ap­proach, strate­gies, ra­tio­nale)
    → take notes dur­ing dis­cus­sion, for Poetics/Summary (part 2)
     
  • look­ing ahead: Part 1 (mul­ti­modal web­site) complete/finalized 04/24 — link from your blog (or in D2L)
    » Part 2 (Poet­ics & Reflec­tion) due 04/24 (Mon­day night) 



Electracy

Unit III: Experience – Affect – Electracy 

Project 3: Screen Self Portrait


Week 13

M 11-Apr read to dis­cuss: “The Geneal­ogy of Elec­tracy (An Inter­view with Gre­gory L. Ul­mer)” Recon­struc­tion 9.2 (2009) PDF op­tion

  • fo­cus: appa­ra­tus the­ory, invent­ing elec­tracy, affective-aesthetic par­a­digm… (Unit 3 in­quiry)
     
  • dis­cuss: ideas from Ex­er­cise 4 Part 2
    → im­pli­ca­tions for ex­pe­ri­ence & iden­tity; aes­thetic po­ten­tial in Elec­tracy
    (con­nect with Ret­tberg & Knight read­ings?)
     
  • help­ful re­view / re­watch: “Ul­mer Tapes” videos (2010) 2.04 | 2.05 | 2.06





W 13-Apr hy­brid work :




F 15-Apr ac­tiv­ity: “per­sonal data­base” sam­pling for in­ven­tion & mul­ti­modal com­pos­ing (warm-up to project 3)

» Due: Blog en­try 5prompt be­low



Filtered Reality

Unit III: Experience – Affect – Electracy 

Project 3: Screen Self Portrait


Week 11

M 28-Mar In­tro: Unit 3 “Ex­pe­ri­ence Par­a­digm” — Overview Video

  • Dis­cuss: Ret­tberg, See­ing Our­selves Through Tech­nol­ogy: How We Use Self­ies, Blogs and Wear­able De­vices to See and Shape Our­selves (2014) eBook

    Chap­ter 1 “Writ­ten, Vi­sual and Quan­ti­ta­tive Self-Representations”
     
    quotes doc be­low

  • Fo­cus (unit theme): rep­re­sent­ing ex­pe­ri­ence & iden­tity — aes­thetic or quan­ti­ta­tive…
     
    → ideas from Blog En­try 3 + Wieseltier­jan ar­ti­cle + Ul­mer videos (be­fore break)
     
    * “Ap­pa­ra­tus The­ory” chart: Oral­ity | Lit­er­acy | Elec­tracy
     



W 30-Mar hy­brid work: on­line dis­cus­sion be­low



F 01-Apr Quan­ti­fied Dig­i­tal Iden­tity

  • read & dis­cuss: Ret­tberg Chap­ter 5, “Quan­ti­fied Selves”
    fo­cus: “Quan­ti­fied self-representation” (dis­tinct an­gle of medi­ated expe­ri­ence & dig­i­tal iden­tity)
    » key top­ics: “dataism,” tech-cultural fil­ters, capta, “ma­chine vi­sion”; “dig­i­tal traces” & curated/logged iden­tity
    quotes doc be­low
     
  • also watch Idea Chan­nel: “How Pow­er­ful are Algo­rithms?” (2014)
     
  • Ac­tiv­ity: start “snap­shot of Ma­chine Vi­sion” (data­base iden­ti­ties) for blog en­try
     
    » look­ing ahead: Exer­cise 4 and Project 3
    Tu­to­r­ial Video for Ex­er­cise (watch by/on Mon­day)



» Blog En­try 4: ma­chine vi­sion of “me” — Data­Self Snap­shot 

    — start dur­ing class; due Sat­ur­day
  • use 2 concepts/terms, at least one quote/passage from chap­ters; plus 2 me­dia in­stances (min­i­mum), em­bed­ded in en­try
  • com­pose snap­shot “data por­trait” of [your] dig­i­tal traces/footprints, quan­ti­fied iden­tity collected/measured across net­works & data­bases (2448 hours)
    — use me­dia not as exam­ple (vi­sual) but to com­pose this snap­shot por­trait