02/08 WK 04 UT/ WK 03 NYU
"Life is a tragedy for those who feel and a comedy for those who think." - Margaret Cho
IN CLASS
ANNOUNCE
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6:10-6:50PM Student Presentations of "Cry Until you Laugh" (5 mins per group)
Fallon Jones, Edward Ramon, John Yoon, Angela Medina presenting "A Conversation" (edited)
Blessing Emole, Sarah Tahir, Ainur Kalimoldayeva, Anastasia Green, Ajinkya Hukerikar
Max Truty, Emma Hibler, Justin Kung, Jia Jen
Gardner Williams-Capone, Michelle Zhang, Garrett Bridges,
Mental Health: The Struggle Kai McIntosh, Jackson Richardson, Nat Briceño
Bob's Life - Aman Chopra, Maria Tomilenko, Matthew Levy
Jack Kelly, Peter VanBenthuysen, Samuelle Buning
Leigh and Huiru (going next week)
7-8:50PM ABSURDITY: Guest Expert: Dr. Charlotte Kent, Presentation and Q & A The talk is a whirlwind tour of the absurd across time and the arts. It starts with Camus' famous foundational text for the arts' engagement with the absurd, The Myth of Sisyphus. That launches into the existential crisis of our contemporary to draw connections with the Medieval Dance of Death, recognized by Marshall McLuhan as an absurd art par excellence. In the 14th and 15th centuries we find many similar intellectual challenges as faced in the 20th and 21st centuries, and manuscript illuminations provide a background visual culture to contemporary animation aesthetics. This returns us to the contemporary to talk about cybernetics and our digital transformation as a disorientation that cultivates the absurd. Interspersed throughout students will be responding to queries and workshopping information.
In class exercise led by Charlotte - Students break out into groups of 5 and answer the question: "What sense does it make to post on social media accounts?" This will be following Charlotte's introduction of the "Danse Macabre" or Dance of Death from the late middle ages, the allegory that asserts that death unites us all, no matter one's station in life. So, for the in-class group project, they have to answer the "posting on social media" question five times, while other students in the group reply to their answers. A kind of Exquisite Corpse will develop from these iterations of replies and responses. Bio Charlotte Kent, PhD, is an arts writer and assistant professor of visual culture, with a particular interest in digital culture and the absurd. Her research seeks out historical frameworks for thinking about emergent practices. She is co-editor of Contemporary Absurdities, Existential Crises, and Visual Art (forthcoming, Intellect Press). Her scholarship appears in journals such as Burlington Contemporary, Journal of Visual Culture and Leonardo, among others. She is an Editor-at-Large for Brooklyn Rail and writes for ArtNet, BOMB, Hyperallergic and Wired regularly. She speaks internationally on panels about contemporary art, with a recent emphasis on blockchain art.
ASSIGNMENT 04
VRL (1) WRITE & POST your responses to Charlotte Kent talk (2) VIEW "Can robots be funny" https://www.cnn.com/videos/international/2014/10/29/spc-leading-women-robot-comedy-heather-knight.cnn/video/playlists/intl-leading-women/ (3) WRITE & POST on your✍ Process Blogyour responses to the VRL (4) COMPLETE Microassignment 02 Absurdity and POST your work on your Process Blog
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