May 8, 2008

* 2:27pm Anonymous edited The Sonnet Virus

April 27, 2008

+ 2:42pm Alan Liu edited Comics
Team Members (l to r): Katie Kelp-Stebbins, Dan Reynolds, Christopher Hagenah
Background:
The precarity precariousness of comics as a worthy and unique medium has limited the development of vocabulary and methodology for its critical study. Recently comics have been referred to as the ninth art (there is some debate about the eighth), and many theorists write as if they have to work against the decades of derision to conclusively demonstrate the medium's artfulness. We reject many of the descriptive terms used to designate different types of comics: Graphic Novel--is an attempt to elevate comics by equating them with a literary genre, a type of novel. Comics are not simply literature with pictures. Sequential Art--is an attempt to describe the aesthetics of comics from a graphics stance, a type of pictures. Comics are not simply pictures in order. Once we begin to understand why comics are not easily confined by the terms of other media, we can develop new avenues for study and analysis. Marshall McLuhan: "Our need now is to understand the formal character of print, comic and cartoon, both as challenging and changing the consumer-culture of film, photo, and press. There is no single approach to this task, and no single observation or idea that can solve so complex a problem in changing human perception" (Understanding Media 169).
Hypothesis:
Comics, as a medium, has formal qualities that differentiate its representational methods from any of its nearest relatives in the arts: literature, film, drawing, et al.

March 31, 2008

+ 12:41pm Dan Reynolds edited Berlin: Filmic Models
It is unusual in film for attention to be drawn toward cutting rhythm; most film, in fact, works to obscure the edits that join shots. In that way, "Panel length with snare" might be seen as somewhat anti-filmic. However, the snare sound does draw attention to a kind of rhythm that is inherent to all edited film. This increased attention to form also helps us to think about the rhythms of the comic-book page, rhythms to which we are (normally) less-attuned even than we are to the editing rhythms of films.
The temporailty of the film does not seem to correspond to the assumed diegetic temporality. We can assume that everything that occurs in the sequence in the comic takes place in a small amount of time (perhaps as little as the 25 seconds of screen time), but the unfolding of events throughout the sequence do not always seem to fit the way we are inclined to imagine them when we see them on the comic page. Some moments, such as the three-shot sequence--the shortest in the film--in which the characters greet one another, seem to unfold at an intuitively understandable pace, but others feel stilted or "off." This seems to indicate that there is more that contributes to the rhythmic pacing of comics than just panel length--that we draw inferences about time from our comparisons of the representative content of the adjacent panels.
Special bonus feature:
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* 12:38pm Anonymous edited Berlin: Filmic Models

March 27, 2008

+ 9:40am Anonymous edited Salman Bakht
Salman is interested in researching music composition using sample-based synthesis and sound analysis, the use of signal processing and statistical techniques to explore the abstract and referential characteristics of recorded sound within the context of a musical piece. Within this course, Salman hopes to study the interaction between abstract and referential qualities of a literary work as being simultaneously a sampling of language, a series of sound events (when spoken), and a narrative construct.
Personal Website
Alice Adaptation Project
Bibliography
Research Report: Alice's Adventures in Intermedia Collage
New Media Nonsense
Alice Adaptation Project Team Page


+ 9:39am Anonymous edited Salman Bakht
Research Report: Alice's Adventures in Intermedia Collage
New Media Nonsense
Alice Adaptation Project Team Page


+ 9:39am Anonymous edited Salman Bakht
Bibliography
Research Report: Alice's Adventures in Intermedia Collage
New Media Nonsense


* 9:32am Anonymous edited New Media Nonsense
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Lecercle, Jean-Jacques. "Introduction: Reading Nonsense Reading." Philosophy of Nonsense: The Intuitions of Victorian Nonsense Literature, 1-26. New York: Routledge, 1994.
Manovich, Lev. The Language of New Media. The MIT Press. 2001. 16 March 2008 .
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(1) The term “collage” is used within this text to describe the work (in its entirety) developed by the Alice Adaptation Project. This term, as opposed to “montage,” was chosen to avoid the suggestion of an intended filmic orientation. “Collage” used here is intended to suggest only an artistic creation combining multiple media sources and not to imply a lack of continuity, as is often the usage in visual art. The term “montage” is used in the text to refer specifically to film montage techniques and the usage of the term in The Language of New Media (Manovich). Purely out of the traditions of the specific media and of the project's past practices, the terms “film montage,” “sound collage,” and “text montage” are used to describe the individual media elements combined to create the work.
(2) The relationships marked between films are educated guesses as to which film text influenced the others. It additionally seems unlikely that the 1999 film could avoid influence of Disney's culturally iconic 1951 version, but this is not marked as not enough of the film was viewed to support this.


* 9:23am Anonymous edited New Media Nonsense
+ 9:22am Anonymous edited New Media Nonsense
Lecercle, Jean-Jacques. "Introduction: Reading Nonsense Reading." Philosophy of Nonsense: The Intuitions of Victorian Nonsense Literature, 1-26. New York: Routledge, 1994.
Manovich, Lev. The Language of New Media. The MIT Press. 2001. 16 March 2008 .
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(1) The term “collage” is used within this text to describe the work (in its entirety) developed by the Alice Adaptation Project. This term, as opposed to “montage,” was chosen to avoid the suggestion of an intended filmic orientation. “Collage” used here is intended to suggest only an artistic creation combining multiple media sources and not to imply a lack of continuity, as is often the usage in visual art. The term “montage” is used in the text to refer specifically to film montage techniques and the usage of the term in The Language of New Media (Manovich). Purely out of the traditions of the specific media and of the project's past practices, the terms “film montage,” “sound collage,” and “text montage” are used to describe the individual media elements combined to create the work.
(2) The relationships marked between films are educated guesses as to which film text influenced the others. It additionally seems unlikely that the 1999 film could avoid influence of Disney's culturally iconic 1951 version, but this is not marked as not enough of the film was viewed to support this.


+ 9:22am Anonymous edited New Media Nonsense
Lecercle, Jean-Jacques. "Introduction: Reading Nonsense Reading." Philosophy of Nonsense: The Intuitions of Victorian Nonsense Literature, 1-26. New York: Routledge, 1994.
Manovich, Lev. The Language of New Media. The MIT Press. 2001. 16 March 2008 .
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(1) The term “collage” is used within this text to describe the work (in its entirety) developed by the Alice Adaptation Project. This term, as opposed to “montage,” was chosen to avoid the suggestion of an intended filmic orientation. “Collage” used here is intended to suggest only an artistic creation combining multiple media sources and not to imply a lack of continuity, as is often the usage in visual art. The term “montage” is used in the text to refer specifically to film montage techniques and the usage of the term in The Language of New Media (Manovich). Purely out of the traditions of the specific media and of the project's past practices, the terms “film montage,” “sound collage,” and “text montage” are used to describe the individual media elements combined to create the work.
(2) The relationships marked between films are educated guesses as to which film text influenced the others. It additionally seems unlikely that the 1999 film could avoid influence of Disney's culturally iconic 1951 version, but this is not marked as not enough of the film was viewed to support this.


+ 9:21am Anonymous edited New Media Nonsense
Manovich, Lev. The Language of New Media. The MIT Press. 2001. 16 March 2008 .
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(1)The(1) The term “collage” is used within this text to describe the work (in its entirety) developed by the Alice Adaptation Project. This term, as opposed to “montage,” was chosen to avoid the suggestion of an intended filmic orientation. “Collage” used here is intended to suggest only an artistic creation combining multiple media sources and not to imply a lack of continuity, as is often the usage in visual art. The term “montage” is used in the text to refer specifically to film montage techniques and the usage of the term in The Language of New Media (Manovich). Purely out of the traditions of the specific media and of the project's past practices, the terms “film montage,” “sound collage,” and “text montage” are used to describe the individual media elements combined to create the work.
(2)The
(2) The relationships marked between films are educated guesses as to which film text influenced the others. It additionally seems unlikely that the 1999 film could avoid influence of Disney's culturally iconic 1951 version, but this is not marked as not enough of the film was viewed to support this.
(3)The
(3) The audio corresponding to the segments of film used in the film montage.
(4)“Database”
(4)“ Database” is used as in Manovich's text to refer to a collection of media element. He describes the use of database in art, “Many new media objects do not tell stories; they don't have beginning or end; in fact, they don't have any development, thematically, formally or otherwise which would organize their elements into a sequence. Instead, they are collections of individual items, where every item has the same significance as any other” (194).


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+ 9:15am Anonymous edited New Media Nonsense
Lecercle, Jean-Jacques. "Introduction: Reading Nonsense Reading." Philosophy of Nonsense: The Intuitions of Victorian Nonsense Literature, 1-26. New York: Routledge, 1994.
Manovich, Lev. The Language of New Media. The MIT Press. 2001. 16 March 2008 .
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(1)The term “collage” is used within this text to describe the work (in its entirety) developed by the Alice Adaptation Project. This term, as opposed to “montage,” was chosen to avoid the suggestion of an intended filmic orientation. “Collage” used here is intended to suggest only an artistic creation combining multiple media sources and not to imply a lack of continuity, as is often the usage in visual art. The term “montage” is used in the text to refer specifically to film montage techniques and the usage of the term in The Language of New Media (Manovich). Purely out of the traditions of the specific media and of the project's past practices, the terms “film montage,” “sound collage,” and “text montage” are used to describe the individual media elements combined to create the work.
(2)The relationships marked between films are educated guesses as to which film text influenced the others. It additionally seems unlikely that the 1999 film could avoid influence of Disney's culturally iconic 1951 version, but this is not marked as not enough of the film was viewed to support this.
(3)The audio corresponding to the segments of film used in the film montage.
(4)“Database” is used as in Manovich's text to refer to a collection of media element. He describes the use of database in art, “Many new media objects do not tell stories; they don't have beginning or end; in fact, they don't have any development, thematically, formally or otherwise which would organize their elements into a sequence. Instead, they are collections of individual items, where every item has the same significance as any other” (194).


* 9:13am Anonymous edited New Media Nonsense
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+ 8:54am Anonymous edited Interpretive or Methodological Essays
(in alphabetical order by author)
Add your essays below in the format: Your Name, "Essay Title"
Salman Bakht, "New Media Nonsense: Experiments in Collage Adaptation of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland"
Amanda Phillips, "The Critical GeoWiki Experiment: Inscribing the Deeds of the Hero"

March 26, 2008

+ 8:15am Dan Reynolds edited Berlin: Filmic Models
ExpirementalExperimental filmic models for
Berlin: City of Stones, Book One
Pags 1 and 2 (click for reference pages from the original)

March 21, 2008

* 4:26pm Anonymous edited Plagiarism Detection Tools for Textual Analysis by Monica Bulger
* 4:25pm Anonymous edited Research Reports
* 4:24pm Anonymous edited Plagiarism Detection Tools for Textual Analysis by Monica Bulger
* 4:23pm Anonymous edited Plagiarism Detection Tools for Textual Analysis by Monica Bulger

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