🤡Week 06 | Oct 15 | Monday Schedule Meets Tuesday

Comedy is a socially acceptable form of hostility and aggression. That is what comics do, stand the world upside down. ― George Carlin

IN CLASS

ANNOUNCEMENTS

1 - Please turn in Word or PDF files for reading responses (not Pages)

2 - The final exhibition of your work will be on Friday, December 13th here at the Navy Yard and in conjunction with IDM's 20th Anniversary Party and a showcase of other student work from other IDM classes! That said, we are expecting you to attend this event. Please let us know NOW if you have travel plans or an other conflicts on this date.

3 - This week for CREATION 06 Kitsch -- you will want to do the reading BEFORE you make this work, or at the very least DURING it! You need the reading to get the concept!

4 - Check it out: OPEN CALLfor YOUR WORK if you are in the IDM/TCS community

COPIES AND COPYING/ART IN THE AGE OF DIGITAL REPRODUCTION

an engraving by Dürer of many stacked laptops

• Discussion

  • Alex discusses the Benjamin Text -- you can download the whole presentation here

  • Crits of How Do I Love Thee, Let Me Count the Prompts

ACTIVITIES 06

• READ Susan Sontag– Notes on Camp

• WRITE a two paragraph response to Sontag's "Notes on Camp" [share as a doc in your folder on the class google drive]

• CREATION 06 Kitsch -- you will want to do the reading BEFORE you make this work, or at the very least DURING it! You need the reading to get the concept!