Unit III: Experience – Affect – Electracy 

Project 3: Screen Self Portrait

» Due (09-Apr) Exer­cise 4: Sen­sory Expe­ri­ence Quan­ti­fied & Un­clas­si­fi­able

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
  op­tional: 2.07 | 4.08 | 4.09 | 5.04

• Sarah Ar­royo, “Grow­ing Up with Elec­tracy” (2015)

W 13-Apr hy­brid work :

• re­view Ul­mer in­ter­view and videos (see above)
   
• Watch Reid: “Vir­tual Com­mu­nity, Vir­tual Imma­nence, Vir­tual Expo­sure”
• Watch Ar­royo & Alaei: “The Danc­ing Floor” (2012)
  + Ar­royo, “Grow­ing Up with Elec­tracy”
   
• Dis­cuss: Reid & Ar­royo videos; inven­tion (dig­i­tal rhetoric), me­di­ated ex­pe­ri­ence, and ex­pres­sion

→ Com­ment and Re­ply in thread be­low (see prompts)

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

» Due: Blog en­try 5 — prompt be­low

• also be­low, in­struc­tions for op­tional blog en­try — for bonus par­tic­i­pa­tion credit
   

look­ing ahead:

• Project 3 Work­shops next week
   
• Op­tional Ex­er­cise for Ex­tra Credit

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