Individual meetings for Tuesday, March 31
We would like to have 15-minute meetings with each of you — to check in on how you’re doing, and to discuss your creative plan for the remaining month of class. We propose the following schedule. (These will not be your only one-on-one meetings; there will be more to come!) Please be online 3-5 minutes before your scheduled time. You should meet us in the normal ExCap class Zoom.
Time | Golan | Nica |
1:30 PM | Oscar | Olivia |
1:45 PM | Joyce | Lukas |
2:00 PM | Kaitlyn | Lumi |
2:15 PM | Policarpo | Spoon |
2:30 PM | Jacqui | Stacy |
2:45 PM | Break | Break |
3:00 PM | Joseph | Christian |
3:15 PM | Sean | Huw |
3:30 PM | Philippe | Steven |
3:45 PM | Cat | Cassie |
4:00 PM | David | Izzy |
4:15 PM | Tahirah | — |
There are no other in-class meetings or activities scheduled for 3/31. However, we encourage you to get a jump on the following:
2. Readings & suggested project for Tuesday 4/7
As you know, we have shifted to readily-available modes of capture — and to more introspective, resourceful uses of lower-fidelity media. For next week, we ask you to read the following two articles, which consider the nature of meaning in our universe of lo-fi images, and the cultural history of an overlooked method of image acquisition:
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- In Defense of the Poor Image, by Hito Steyerl, https://www.e-flux.
com/journal/10/61362/in- defense-of-the-poor-image/ - Screens Shot, by Jacob Gaboury, https://www.
fotomuseum.ch/en/explore/ still-searching/series/156213_ screens_shot. Note that this essay has five pages (the red links: Techniques for Secondary Mediation, Picturing Computation, What You See Is What You Get, Screen Selfies and High Scores, Screenshot or It Didn’t Happen).
- In Defense of the Poor Image, by Hito Steyerl, https://www.e-flux.
In response, we invite you to make an (optional) offering for next Tuesday, April 7. We propose that you create a small, annotated collection of 3 images that delineate or depict yourself — as you and your traces are captured in what Steyerl calls “poor images”. These may be screen shots, Google image search results, inadvertent captures, surveillance footage, avatar icons…. Place these in a blog post categorized PoorImages, with a brief description of each.