Expression

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R 8/7   Stu­dio Project Work­shop: Mul­ti­modal Composing

* Work-in-progress pre­pared for peer feed­back exchange

Also dis­cuss: design (assem­blage arrange/layout) & trou­bleshoot­ing; com­pos­ing software/sites (custom/edited media))

 
→ Before & After Class: Dis­cuss (Q&A) in Com­ments here (optional / par­tic­i­pa­tion credit)

 

» Devel­op­ing Project (from draft / in-progress)

    → Review Guide + mul­ti­modal com­pos­ing tech­niques (in Electracy)

 
 
 

F 7/25 Due: Project 2 — start of class

    Dis­cuss: design exper­i­ment / ratio­nale (for Poet­ics); Par­tic­i­pa­tory Cul­ture, assem­blage expres­sion, Electracy

 
 
 
» Poet­ics sec­tion — Due Fri­day night (9pm)

 
 
» optional / extra credit: Reflec­tion — Due Sat­ur­day 8/9

 
 
 


PIXELS by Patrick Jean from ONE MORE on Vimeo.

 
 

Multimodal

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Week 5

      * start developing/drafting Project 2

 

M 8/4    Focus/Discuss: Project 2 — mul­ti­modal com­pos­ing (the­ory & practice)

  • media forms & net­worked plat­forms for expres­sion of “dig­i­tal sub­ject expe­ri­ence”?
    → includ­ing ideas from Pro­posal & cul­ture obser­va­tions (inven­tion “relays”)
    — review of key ideas/terms toward new com­pos­ing (assem­blage expression)

  • Review Appa­ra­tus The­ory — Iden­tity expe­ri­ence in Electracy?

 

+ Kimoto video: “Rhi­zomatic Space” (2010)

 

    » Optional read­ing: Amerika, “Excerpts From‘Portrait Of The VJ’”  Fibrecul­ture 2005

      

 

T 8/5                     Hodg­son video: “A Post-Production Turn: New Media, New Prac­tice, New Ontol­ogy” (2014)

Activ­ity: Sam­pling “Per­sonal Data­base” Mate­ri­als (Exer­cise 3 & Project 2 warm-up)

      → Prepa­ra­tion: compile/collect media, text, “char­ac­ters,” scenes, details etc.
      for “Screen Self-Portrait” from all per­sonal data­bases:
      autobio/family, community/social, school/career field, entertainment/culture

    » in-class activ­ity instruc­tions G. Doc

     
     
    Due (11pm): Exer­cise 3   Instruc­tions Page

     
     


     
     

Modes

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» task: “To extrap­o­late from lit­er­acy to elec­tracy, we need to find some pop­u­lar behav­ior in our medi­ated expe­ri­ence that is as famil­iar to us as hav­ing a con­ver­sa­tion was to peo­ple in an oral appa­ra­tus.”
— Ulmer, Inter­net Inven­tion (p.143)

 

    → con­duc­tive logic? (asso­ci­a­tion, infer­ence, “flash” of insight?)

 
 

“just as Plato invented the dia­logue as a hybrid with oral and lit­er­ate fea­tures,
so too now is our con­sul­tancy a hybrid selected from oral, lit­er­ate, and elec­trate ele­ments.”
— Ulmer, p.156

 

modes of information
 
Nar­ra­tive
 
 
Argu­ment
 
 
Fig­ure
 
  
Game
 

 
» Review: Appa­ra­tus The­ory
 
 
 

Con­tinue read­ing →

Curation Invention

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      → Updated Instruc­tions for Group­Site Work (3 sec­tions): Page

 
 
» For Fri­day 8/1:  

 



 
 
 
» Optional (due Fri­day night)   Extra Credit Blog Entry

    — use idea/s from Arroyo & Carter, Mihai­lidis & Cohen, and/or Reid

 

    » Optional read­ing (for e.c. blog):
    Reid,     “Unlikely Com­mu­ni­ties of Dig­i­tal Schol­ar­ship, Video, and Social Net­works” Encul­tur­a­tion 8 (2010)

 
 
 

S 8/2    Due:    Final Anno­ta­tions of group-site posts (“Curat­ing Dig­i­tal Cul­ture” assign­ment)

 

S 8/3    Due:    Group-Site Recap Part 2 tasks—Reflec­tion & Pro­posal   (see prompts)

 
 
 

Videocy?

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R 7/31   Carter & Arroyo (2011): “Tub­ing the Future: Par­tic­i­pa­tory Ped­a­gogy and YouTubeU in 2020”   (PDF in D2L)

 



 

    Activ­ity/Focus : Elec­tracy + “Par­tic­i­pa­tory Com­po­si­tion” in school? (post-literacy institution?)