This semester, you will periodically be asked to “look outwards” — to browse various blogs and feeds (see below) or other resources in order to deepen your knowledge of the field, and familiarize yourself with the current state of the art. You will then be expected to report on your findings, as described below — hopefully, with a critical perspective. Some weeks, the “Looking Outwards” deliverables may be thematically oriented. There is no restriction on the sources of information you may use for a “Looking Outwards” report.<\/p>\n
A “Looking-Outwards” report is a\u00a0blog post reporting on a new media project that interests you.\u00a0<\/strong>Your job is to browse blogs and other sources, and then report on artworks or other\u00a0projects that\u00a0you haven’t seen before<\/em>. (For this course, it may be most appropriate to select projects that are made by individuals or small teams, rather than large companies, but that’s not a strong requirement). Blogging about a project of which you’re already aware defeats the point of the assignment, which is to deepen your familiarity with the fields of new media arts and creative technology.<\/p>\n Try to find things that you aspire to make yourself. If you’re not\u00a0finding projects that interest you, ask your professor or teaching assistant for advice. You probably just need to find the right search terms.<\/p>\n In a blog post,<\/p>\n In the paragraph you write, you should:<\/p>\n Part of the purpose of your Looking Outwards documentation is to increase the documentation, in the world, of noteworthy but vulnerable media artifacts.\u00a0Therefore<\/em>, when including video documentation of projects:<\/p>\n Each\u00a0Looking Outwards<\/em>\u00a0report can receive one of two marks:<\/p>\n After completing the sequence of\u00a0Looking Outwards<\/em>\u00a0reports, you will be able to:<\/p>\n In normal times, you would be encouraged to do research at our university’s library<\/a>. It has books, films and other media that are not online.\u00a0 Owing to the COVID-19 pandemic, however, it is likely that you will conduct this research online. Below\u00a0is a list of some prominent online feeds that present current work in new media art. This list can be used as a starting point for preparing your regular Looking Outwards<\/em>\u00a0reports. Highly recommended:<\/p>\n You may also find helpful:<\/p>\n What is a “Looking Outwards” report? This semester, you will periodically be asked to “look outwards” — to browse various blogs and feeds (see below) or other resources in order to deepen your knowledge of the field, and familiarize yourself with the current state of the art. You will then be expected to report on … Continue reading “Looking Outwards”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":79,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.ideate.cmu.edu\/60-212\/f2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4012"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.ideate.cmu.edu\/60-212\/f2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.ideate.cmu.edu\/60-212\/f2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.ideate.cmu.edu\/60-212\/f2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.ideate.cmu.edu\/60-212\/f2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4012"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/courses.ideate.cmu.edu\/60-212\/f2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4012\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4013,"href":"https:\/\/courses.ideate.cmu.edu\/60-212\/f2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4012\/revisions\/4013"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.ideate.cmu.edu\/60-212\/f2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/79"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.ideate.cmu.edu\/60-212\/f2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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