Assignments

Due next week: April 10

Final Research Hyperessay

Key Work Selection: Each student will select and writeup in an OSS post a description of at least one key work of the artist you have selected. It is important to include any concepts, readings, and artworks that are relevant to the work you have selected. Use the Category “Process.” See Final Research Hyperessay for additional details.

Outline

Student Feedback

We will take the first 15 minutes of class for everyone to complete the student feedback forms. We will review the course objectives, assignments, topics, integration of OSS, independent research, instructor feedback, guest speakers (Chip Lord and Paul Sermon), and the Symposium as an opportunity to engage with an academic conference event.

Symposium Hyperessay

Each student will present for 10 minutes from their Symposium Hyperessay, with ample time for discussion about the Symposium speakers, performance, discussion, and online format. We will discuss the histories of telematic and experimental performance as discussed by Maria Chatzichristodoulou, Steve Dixon, and Matt Adams, as well as the two live performances by Annie Abrahams and Jon Cates and their collaborators. Of particular interest is the online audience interaction. We will review the chat transcripts and explore the advantages and disadvantages of remote audience participation in online events.

Thursday, Day 1

Randall Packer, Symposium Chair

ADM Conference Room

Vibeke Sorensen, Introduction

Maria Chatzichristodoulou, Keynote

Annie Abrahams, On-Line Ensemble: Entanglement Training

Post-Performance Global Roundtable Discussion

Friday, Day 2

Lasalle College of the Arts

Steve Dixon, Introduction

Matt Adams, Keynote

Global Roundtable Discussion

Saturday, Day 3

Jon Cates, igaies (intimate glitches across internet errors)

Post-performance Global Roundtable Discussion

Final Research Hyperessay

We will discuss Final Research Hyperessay projects with each student explaining the artist they have selected, why they have selected them, and how the artist’s work fits with out study of new media history and theory.

Review of OSS Techniques

We will discuss how OSS can assist your research for the Final Hyperessay, as well as an overview as to how it might also server for future research efforts:

• Topics – note that each of your research critiques are related to one of the key topics we have discussed this semester.
• Lecture Notes – all of my syllabus lecture notes are online and you may freely incorporate them, however make sure you quote if you do so.
• Tags – note your tag cloud and how it might suggest topics and ideas that are relevant to your research.
• Search – you can search for specific words in your OSS posts in order to retrieve specific passages that may be useful.
• Quoting – you can retrieve and quote ideas, phrases, references, etc., that you have written previously.
• Hyperlinks – make extensive use of hyperlinks to document your references. Note how I have done this in my lecture notes.
• Media – Incorporate media illustrations where they are effective, use captioning to indicate where the media comes from, and past image links whenever possible to not infringe on copyright restrictions.
• Process – Use your two process posts to develop material for the Final Hyperessay, which can later be copied and paste.