Term & year of course, followed by CRN of grad section of Art & Society
April 20 & 27 Comments should address: What are the politics of participation—in curating, collecting, critiquing,etc? How do power and social practice intersect? How do power and social practice intesect in transmedia environments? ∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞ Thelma Golden: How Art Gives Shape… Continue Reading
Today I got an email about this Kickstarter-like microfunding initiative: Microfundo. The effort is connected to Mondomix (formerly known as Calabash), an iTunes-ish site dedicated to “world music” that bills itself as distributing “fair trade” mp3s. I’m not sure that… Continue Reading
The two essays for this module are turned in and available for everyone to read now. Module 1 – Group 1 Module 1 – Group 2 Above are links to the PDFs; you can also access Group 2’s essay here… Continue Reading
Learning objectives for the course were due this past Tuesday (April 6). For those AAD students who posted them to your learning portfolio on a password-protected page, please provide us with the password so that we can access them. We… Continue Reading
Length: 1500 words Due: end of day, Monday, 4/12 (one group member should email it to John) Through class discussions and comments on the course site, we have established that participation takes on many forms within arts-based contexts (broadly defined).… Continue Reading
I made a quick Wordle from the comments submitted on the Module 1 questions so far. Clicking on the images should take you to a larger version of it, but here is a link to it in the Wordle public… Continue Reading
Links to Field Guides have been added under assignment resources. I’m reading A Field Guide to Getting Lost by Rebecca Solnit. Meno’s quote “How will you go about finding the nature of which is totally unknown to you?” guides her… Continue Reading
Last tuesday we were not able to talk about (Sustainability) in our course title. We will spend some time on this coming tuesday addressing the topic and its relationship to the course as well as art. The following four readings… Continue Reading
Just to recap, here are the group/module essay responsibilities: HEARTS= Module 1 (weeks 2 & 3) CLUBS= Module 2 (weeks 4 & 5) SPADES= Module 3 (weeks 6 & 7) DIAMONDS= Module 4 (weeks 8 & 9) If you are… Continue Reading
Comments on this post should address the initial/primary questions for Module 1: ∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞ What participatory practices and/or collective intelligences constitute ‘art’ or art worlds via transmedia contexts? Curating, collecting, critiquing, teaching, doing, etc.? ∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞ In your comment, include any subquestions/extensions/responses… Continue Reading