Primitive Hypertext Crit
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General
Course Long Title
Primitive Hypertext Crit
Subject Code
AART
Course Number
500P
School(s)
Academic Level
GR - Graduate
Description
This critique course will engage with the poetics of primitive hypertext: casting a wide net across many disciplines and methodologies and building embodied relationships between knowledges. This crit course is organized in two parts: Students gather to discuss and critique each other's finished works and works in progress, focusing on materials, intention, and spatial awareness.
Students will build their "primitive hypertext" of images, texts, drawings, audio, and other materials that help them to language their practice. Each session, students will add two resources to their anthology folder. Students will partner and gift a resource to one another; and will select a random resource from the resource grab bag created by the instructor.
At the end of the semester, students will "publish" their primitive hypertext as a zine, physical book, large diagram, or other public mode of sharing the resources they've gathered and have been gifted over the semester.
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In a 1998 interview between Octavia Estelle Butler and Samuel Delany, Butler describes her creative practice:
"I don't have access to this kind of thing on computer but, oddly enough, what you're talking about sounds very much like the way I start looking for ideas when I'm not working on anything. Or when I'm just letting myself drift, relax.
I generally have four or five books open around the house--I live alone; I can do this--and they are not books on the same subject. They don't relate to each other in any particular way, and the ideas they present bounce off one another. And I like this effect. I also listen to audio-books, and I'll go out for my morning walk with tapes from two very different audio-books, and let those ideas bounce off each other, simmer, reproduce in some odd way, so that I come up with ideas that I might not have come up with if I had simply stuck to one book until I was done with it and then gone and picked up another.
So, I guess, in that way, I'm using a kind of primitive hypertext."
Students will build their "primitive hypertext" of images, texts, drawings, audio, and other materials that help them to language their practice. Each session, students will add two resources to their anthology folder. Students will partner and gift a resource to one another; and will select a random resource from the resource grab bag created by the instructor.
At the end of the semester, students will "publish" their primitive hypertext as a zine, physical book, large diagram, or other public mode of sharing the resources they've gathered and have been gifted over the semester.
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In a 1998 interview between Octavia Estelle Butler and Samuel Delany, Butler describes her creative practice:
"I don't have access to this kind of thing on computer but, oddly enough, what you're talking about sounds very much like the way I start looking for ideas when I'm not working on anything. Or when I'm just letting myself drift, relax.
I generally have four or five books open around the house--I live alone; I can do this--and they are not books on the same subject. They don't relate to each other in any particular way, and the ideas they present bounce off one another. And I like this effect. I also listen to audio-books, and I'll go out for my morning walk with tapes from two very different audio-books, and let those ideas bounce off each other, simmer, reproduce in some odd way, so that I come up with ideas that I might not have come up with if I had simply stuck to one book until I was done with it and then gone and picked up another.
So, I guess, in that way, I'm using a kind of primitive hypertext."
Registration Restrictions
RGART - Art School Only