Tuesday Jan 13
Class Orientation
Before Thursday. Jan 15..
- Subscribe to this blog by email, book mark it on your personal computer.
- Log-in to Blackboard to track your grades throughout the semester
- Read (on this website)...
- Course Syllabus in tab above
- Module 1 (accessed via the tab at the top of this web page)
- Get the textbook from the bookstore (or the e-version from Amazon)
- READ CHAPTERS 1 & 2 in James Bennett's "Design Fundamentals for New Media," 2nd. ed. ISBN-10:1401837794 for next week.
- In addition, read this linked online article (click to access): About Digital Photography
- Watch Videos: Intro, Chapters 1, 2, 4 in Skill Set 1 of the Training Tab for class Tuesday
For Thursday Jan 15...
We meet at 6:30 PM in the College of Arts & Sciences Gallery at the Wesley Foundation House across from the Lowe Museum on Stanford to attend the Ibis Poetry Reading. Related assignment is provided in guidelines below.*
Starting next week:
- Bring earphones to class every day.
- Bring a small sketchbook and a 2GB+ memory stick or portable USB drive to class (every day) or have access to an online dropbox of your own.
- If you are new to the Mac also review "The Mac Platform: Intro for Windows Users" (in Anatomy of a Mac at apple.com) and the online resource: Switching to Mac: The Missing Manual before next week.
THIS WEEK'S POWERPOINTS:
You will notice on the tab page for MODULE 1 that classes include lectures that have accompanying Powerpoints. You can PERUSE, download, or access these ahead of time for Lecture Notes. This first couple weeks of Lectures includes these Powerpoints:
-Intro to Digital Imaging
-Romanticism vs. Realism
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PRACTICE 1 BELOW WILL BE YOUR FIRST ASSIGNMENT,
DEADLINE Tuesday Jan 20, at start of class.
DEADLINE Tuesday Jan 20, at start of class.
PRACTICE 1: Romanticism vs. Realism
(2 points)
Attend the Poetry Reading assigned for Thursday night on campus (at the College of Arts and Sciences Gallery at the Wesley Foundation House across from the Lowe Museum on Stanford) and create an oral presentation for Tuesday on one particular poem and its affinity to either Romanticism or Realism.
Attend the Poetry Reading assigned for Thursday night on campus (at the College of Arts and Sciences Gallery at the Wesley Foundation House across from the Lowe Museum on Stanford) and create an oral presentation for Tuesday on one particular poem and its affinity to either Romanticism or Realism.
The purpose of this assignment is to contemplate romantic vs. realist approaches to art and how symbolism plays a role in our reading of artistic messages. We will attend the Ibis Poetry Reading described below as a class. Take notes and pay particular attention to symbolism used by the poets and the tendency of each poet toward romanticism or realism.
For Tuesday Jan 20, you must prepare an oral presentation (powerpoint or an outline in Word with images) that you can email to me before class. Be prepared to share your presentation in class on Tuesday.
For your presentation, choose one poem from the reading and make an argument for it being either Romantic in style or Realist. Poems can be researched online as additional support for your argument.
We will present (some) of these in class and discuss our attitudes toward Romanticism and Realism and how symbolism and metaphor play an important role in creative communication.
A secondary purpose of this assignment is to discuss the language we use in critiquing art and creative messages and how we can apply a common vocabulary to critiques of our own work in class.
Outcome: Organize
a persuasive visual/oral critique using text and image effectively.
(2 points)
Purpose: To understand the “atmospheric” differences between
romantic versus realist artistic approaches and to demonstrate your ability to identify two
styles of creating that communicate different moods. Show your understanding
also of raster file type, size, and resolution by downloading photos from the
Internet and converting them to the proper format. Finally, practice your
critiquing skills for later “critique days” where you will comment on the work
of fellow class members.
Instructions: After attending the poetry reading, write a critique of a single poem by one of the 3 poets performing (1 page or 8-10 slides). Your critique should address the issues
given as questions below. Next Tuesday, be prepared to walk the class through your argument (in oral presentation). The format of the critique you turn in is up to you (written or
visual—Powerpoint/video slide show/bulleted presentation with photos--or a
combination of the two), but you should answer these questions:
- Would you describe the chosen poem as romantic or realist and what are the characteristics that identify it as such to you?
- What
do you notice about the “mood” of the poem. (Describe it/contrast to another familiar poem.)
- What
do you see as the rhetorical or creative strengths of the poem you
chose?
- What are the strengths (technical or aesthetic) of the poem you chose?
- Come up with one or more images to present that you feel illustrate the mood of the poem and explain how/why
- If you were to create your own illustration or photo composite (montage) to depict this poem in Photoshop what would you create? Describe the content but also lighting, mood, style, color, and composition.
NFORMATION ABOUT THE EVENT:
Poets
Michael Burkard, Staceyann Chin, and Mary Ruefle will share a stage at the
first major event in the 2015 Ibis Literary Reading & Performance Series at
7 p.m. on Thursday, January 15, at the College of Arts and Sciences
Gallery at the Wesley Foundation House.
Poets Michael Burkard, Staceyann Chin, and Mary Ruefle will share a
stage at the first major event in the 2015 Ibis Literary Reading &
Performance Series at 7 p.m. on Thursday, January 15, at the College of
Arts and Sciences Gallery at the Wesley Foundation House, 1210 Stanford
Drive, Coral Gables.
Burkard’s
books of poetry include My Secret Boat (W. W. Norton), Entire Dilemma, and Unsleeping (Sarabande Books). His poems
appear in many journals and magazines, including The American Poetry Review,
Chicago Review, Verse, Fence, and Black Clock. He
has twice received fellowships from both the National Endowment for the Arts
and the New York State Foundation for the Arts, and in 2008, he was awarded a
Guggenheim Fellowship. He also received the Alice diFay di Castagmola Award
from the Poetry Society of America, and a Whiting Writer’s Prize. His poetry
has appeared in four separate Best Anthologies. He is associate professor
of English at Syracuse University, where he teaches in the M.F.A. Program in
Creative Writing.
A fulltime
artist, Chin is a resident of New York City and a Jamaican national who has
been an “out poet and political activist” since 1998. From the Nuyorican Poets’
Cafe to one-woman shows Off- Broadway to acting in Julie Taymor’s Across
the Universe and performing in both the stage and film versions of Howard
Zinn’s Voices of a People’s History of the United States, to starring in
the Tony-nominated Russell Simmons Def Poetry Jam on Broadway, Chin
credits the long list of “things she has done” to her grandmother’s history of
hard work and the pain of her mother’s absence.
Ruefle is
the author of Trances of the Blast (Wave Books, 2013), Madness, Rack, and Honey: Collected Lectures
(Wave Books, 2012), a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in
Criticism, and Selected Poems (Wave Books, 2010), winner
of the William Carlos Williams Award from the Poetry Society of
America. She has published ten books of poetry, a book of prose (The Most of It, Wave Books, 2008), and a
comic book, Go Home and Go to Bed!, (Pilot Books/Orange Table
Comics, 2007). She is also an erasure artist, whose treatments of 19th century texts have been exhibited
in museums and galleries and published in A Little White Shadow (Wave Books, 2006).
She is the recipient of numerous honors, including the Robert Creeley Award, an
Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, a Guggenheim
fellowship, a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship, and a Whiting Award.
She lives in Bennington, Vermont, and teaches in the M.F.A. program at Vermont
College.
The IBIS
Literary Reading Series, sponsored in part by the University of Miami’s College
of Arts and Sciences, the English Department’s Creative Writing Program, and
Women’s and Gender Studies, is free and open to the public. For more
information, contact UM Creative Writing Director M. Evelina Galang
at mgalang@miami.edu or Melissa Burley,
creative writing events and community outreach coordinator, at m.burley1@umiami.edu.
For
information about parking, please see UM Parking Information.
SAMPLE POEMS BY...
Michael Burkard
http://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poem/unappreciated-butterfly
http://www.connotationpress.com/a-poetry-congeries-with-john-hoppenthaler/2010/april-2010/384-michael-burkard-poetry
http://www.poemhunter.com/michael-burkard/
http://poemsoutloud.net/audio/archive/burkard_reads_the_eyeglasses/
Staceyann Chin
http://www.toppbottom.com/fk-like-we-did-a-poem-for-the-jaded-staceyann-chin/
https://indian2006.wordpress.com/2012/04/09/spoken-poetry-stacey-ann-chins-if-only-out-of-vanity/
http://www.autostraddle.com/pure-poetry-6-staceyann-chin/
http://caribbean-beat.com/staceyann-chin-i-have-walked-long-hard-roads-get-here#axzz3OcmzoZJD
(You will also find many readings by Staceyann Chin on YouTube.)
Mary Ruefle
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/mary-ruefle
http://www.poemhunter.com/mary-ruefle/
https://www.poetrysociety.org/psa/awards/annual/winners/2011/award_7/
https://www.poetrysociety.org/psa/awards/annual/winners/2011/award_7/
http://www.gwarlingo.com/2012/the-sunday-poem-mary-ruefle/
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