week 15: last week of classes

Sunday 2 December 6PM BLOG POST
HW: POST the following to your blog:

1. to-do list
2. point person for each task
3. draft project proposal to the blog. Each member will post an IDENTICAL, group-authored document. This means you have to find a time to meet over the weekend. This should be a short essay that serves as a script for the presentation you will give in class. It will be the text that you read to the class, including notes about when and where you will present audio visual information. Make sure to indicate who will be presenting each section, keeping in mind that each group member needs to hold equal responsibility for the project. Your proposal should include information from the creative brief, but it will provide more elaborate, complex, and refined answers.

Monday 3 December
NO CLASS - WORK DAY! Take this opportunity to meet with your group members to prepare your presentations for Wednesday.

Wednesday 5 December
HW: Prepare a 5-min excerpt from your presentation of images and other information about your project for the class to give you feedback. This will be graded. ALSO: You will turn in the handout questions from last Friday.
in-class: in-process critiques of your project presentations

Friday 7 December: last day of classes!
HW: Bring WRITING PORTFOLIO:
1- Hard copies (ie physical/paper copies) of essay 1 & 2, BOTH VERSIONS along with all associated ROUGH DRAFTS and other materials that were in your submission packets.
2- Digital copies of essay 1, 2, 3! This can be on a flash drive, CD-R, or emailed to me by the start of class.
Do not give me .docx files, I will not be able to open them. They should be .doc or .txt or .rtf

These materials are being collected to evaluate the CAS 100 program. Everything will be
returned to you, along with essay 3, on our presentation days next week.

in-class: group work day and group meetings with FT

* Group assessment from PDF - LINK
We will do this before the presentations. FHT will bring snacks.

Wednesday 12 December 7:15-9:15 PM PRESENTATIONS for 9:30 section
Thursday 13 December 2:45-4:45 PM PRESENTATIONS for 11:40 section

week 10: Kwon and essay 3

TWO OPTIONS FOR BLOG THIS WEEK!

Each option requires that you read pages 100-120 in Kwon for Monday's class. In this passage, she describes an exhibit called "Culture in Action" in Chicago that featured the following projects:
-Daniel Martinez, VinZula Kara, and the West Side Three-Point Marchers: Consequences of a Gesture and 100 Victories/10,000 Tears
-Simon Grennan and Christopher Sperandio and the Bakery, Confectionary and Tobacco Workers' International Union of America Local No. 552: We Got It!
-Haha and Flood: A Volunteer Network for Active Participation in Healthcare: Flood
-Inigo Manglano-Ovalle and Street-Level Video: Tele Vecindario
-Mark Dion and the Chicago Urban Ecology Action Group: The Chicago Urban Ecology Action Group
-Kate Ericson, Mel Ziegler, and Ogden Court Apartments: Eminent Domain
-Robert Peters and Mushroom Pickers, Ghosts, Frogs and other “Others“: Naming Others: Manufacturing Yourself
I have purposefully not included Suzanne Lacey's Full Circle.

OPTION 1 BLOG, DUE AT 6 pm SUNDAY:
Choose one of these projects and do some brief research so that you have a better idea about it. You may need to find an article in an art journal database or a book in the library. You will need to use an ART database, as you won't have much luck with the history or science databases we used for the last essay. HINT: Kwon also discusses these projects more in her text so you can look into them there.

Then choose a ONE SENTENCE QUOTE from the Kwon reading and use it as a lens for analysis of the project. Remember the strategies we have reviewed from the last Writing Analytically reading. How can you create a conversation between the quote and the project you have chosen? Paraphrase the quote and, if appropriate, use your source to ask a question about the project.

OPTION 2 BLOG, DUE 12 noon THURSDAY:
Attend the Mary Jane Jacob lecture on Tuesday. TAKE NOTES! Write about it in your blog as it relates to a ONE SENTENCE QUOTE from the Kwon reading. You will still need to have the reading completed for Monday's class, but you will have until Thursday to blog about it as it relates to the Tuesday lecture

Monday 29 October:
screening of Couple in a Cage & discussion about "Culture in Action". Bring one question and one comment in your notebook.

Tuesday 30 October 7pm:
Mary Jane Jacob lecture in Arnold M. Grant Auditorium

Wednesday 31 October:
HW: study for Grammar Slammer test
BLOG: Post your subject matter for essay 3 with the following components:
1-CHOOSE the art project your essay will be about
2-TWO questions you have about the project
3-LIST of 4 books or articles (no internet resources) about your subject. You may edit this list later, but for now, you want to investigate the range of possibilities. You don't need to read or print them yet, but you do need to indicate title of the article, journal title, and author.

Thursday 1 November, 12 noon:
OPTION 2 BLOG DUE

Friday 2 November:
BLOG HW: Post an outline for your essay with:
1-TOPIC SENTENCE for each paragraph, in order of appearance. Before you write your topic sentence, make sure you have decided WHAT QUESTION IS THE PARAGRAPH ADDRESSING? Note that each paragraph doesn't need to literally ask a question (you may not have a question mark in sight), nor does it need to literally answer a question, but a question, conundrum, dilemma, or complexity should be at the heart of each paragraph. Can you work with the questions from your last blog entry?
2-2 versions of the THESIS, for beginning and end of your essay. Don't just reword it. HOW WILL IT EVOLVE?
3-ONE QUOTE from 2 of the journals and the 2 textbooks that you plan to use. By this point you should have started reading and reviewing your sources for the essay.

week 9: CAE, Piper, Ayo, Kashmere

Sunday 21 October 6 PM BLOG: READ pages 37-46 of "Video and Resistance: Against Documentary" in The Electronic Disturbance by Critical Art Ensemble. (First full paragraph on page 4 to end of page 13 in PDF). LINK to PDF
WRITE: Briefly summarize the authors' (it's an artist group) claims (5 sentences or less). Compare these views to those of Sontag from earlier this semester. LOOK UP and POST an image from one of the projects mentioned in the article: Nanook of the North, Piss Christ, Lumiere Bros., or Birth of a Nation.

Monday 21 October: screening of Jeremy Deller's The Battle of Orgreave and discussion on "Video and Resistance"

Wednesday 23 October: HW: READ Adrian Piper's "Notes on Funk" in Participation 130-134. How does this project compare with artist Damali Ayo's "National Day of Panhandling for Reparations" (check out the YouTube video on her site). How does each project engage the audience in participation? How does each project raise issues about race and racism? We will have a discussion about these questions. WRITE IN YOUR NOTEBOOK: one comment and one ANALYTICAL QUESTION. Note that Piper's work is also discussed in our previous readings from Kester.

Friday 25 October: visiting filmmaker BRETT KASHMERE!
HW: Read a review of his film, Valery's Ankle. LINK

mid-term writing conferences

Meet in Tolley 205. Please be ON TIME so that other people's appointments don't get backed up.

Bring to the meeting:
- at least 1 new resource (book, article, website) that you will be using for your
revision. You can link to websites on your blog but online journals need to be printed.
- the library worksheet about evaluating sources, applied to one of your resources (it should be a JOURNAL article)

TUES
3:15 Jason
4:00 Lauren J.
4:15 Sam
5:00 Courtney
5:15 Claire
5:30 Rick

WED
9:30 Tim
9:45 Deanna
10:00 Nick
10:15 Mike
10:30 Amy
11:00 Caryn
11:15 Cristina
11:30 Rachael
11:45 Matt
12:00 Pierson
12:15 Stephanie
12:30 Alyssa
12:45 Justin
1:00 Max
1:30 Jordan
1:45 Lauren G.
2:30 Zack
3:45 Blair

weeks 6-7: library , essay 2

Monday 1 October: library session about databases
HW: blog about cultural event by 6pm on Sunday the 30th

Wednesday 3 October: in-class review of Kester from last week
I will return the quizzes and we will talk about some art projects.

HW: POST ON YOUR BLOG:

1) Post a narrative synopsis (written paragraph with full sentences) of the Christian Science Monitor article (see link below under essay 2 links). Make it good enough to use in your essay for next Monday.

List the key points you plan to address in your essay. This is not a thesis, it is a synopsis of the article, to which you will respond in later drafts of your work. It is difficult to have good IDEAS about the issues if you haven’t gathered information yet. You can wait to write a thesis after you have done some research.

2) Make a link to at least one on-line resource that you think might be relevant for background information for your paper. Make a hyperlink that you can click. Check Blogger HELP for info on how to do this if you don't know how. In Firefox, the picture-icon in the "compose" function of the "edit posts" will allow you to do it.

4-6 October - SU Human Rights Film Festival - RECOMMENDED, but no longer required

Friday 5 October: Back in the library 046.
HW: Print and bring one peer-reviewed periodical resource for your paper about Onondaga Lake from a DATABASE search (covered on Monday), and bring it to class. Highlight at least two passages that seem notable for your paper.

Monday 8 October: Library 046: evaluating sources
HW: ESSAY 2 DUE - BRING enough COPIES for your group members and FHT.
Make sure you have the right formatting and check MLA style guides!
Sign up for writing conference times.

Wednesday 10 October: writing conferences with Fereshteh
We will not meet as a group. Bring a new reference that you might use in the revision of your paper (book, article, etc) to the meeting, along with the article evaluation sheet from the library. Note changed assignment.

Friday 12 October: No class, Eid
HW: Mark your peer's essay with comments and questions.
Meet with your group over the weekend to review your essays and to get photos if you have not done so already. Discuss how you will print and share the photos.

Sunday 14 October: 6PM BLOG
Post a revision of your paper, based on comments from your group and the article from Writing Analytically (to be distributed). These should be about content, meaning, analysis, and organization, not just spelling and style.

week 4-5: writing revisions, Kester 2

Mon 17 Sept: SyracYOUse essay 1 due. 1 copy, printed. See assignment outline.
writing workshop: the thesis

Wed 19 Sept:
HW: Read "10 on 1" from Writing Analytically, which was distributed in class. Find a passage from your paper that you would like to revise using the methods outlined in the reading. It could be any paragraph or other section that needs work. Apply one of the "10 on 1" revision strategies to this passage. Bring 4 printed copies to class with your original passage followed by the revision you made. Do not bring copies of the entire essay.

RECOMMENDED EVENT eligible for blog:
Thurs 20 Sept, 12 noon (speakers begin at 3 pm)
Onondaga Lake Park, Liverpool (free shuttles to run from SU)
Roots of Peacemaking: Indigenous Values, Global Crisis
An International Day of Peace at the birthplace of democracy
Haudenosaunee traditional foods, artisans, speakers, music and dancing, plus water ceremony
LINK - http://rootsofpeacemaking.syr.edu or 315-443-3861

Fri 21 Sept:
No HW, work on your paper. Meet at the Sheraton Hotel, 2nd floor. We will be attending a panel at the SU Minority Studies conference.

RECOMMENDED EVENT (not eligible for blog):
Sat 23 Sept: Westcott Street Cultural Fair LINK

Mon 24 Sept: SyracYOUse essay 1 revision

RECOMMENDED EVENT eligible for blog:
Tues 25 Sept, 7:30 PM - Onondaga Land Rights meeting
The Warehouse, Fayette and West St. (Connective Corridor shuttle from SU)
Hear an update on the Onondaga Land Rights Action which will be heard in Federal District Court in Albany on October 11. Speakers: Onondaga Chief Jake Edwards, Tim Coulter, Executive Director of the Montana-based Indian Law Resource Center and one of the lawyers representing the Onondagas in their Land Rights Action and Joan Cope Savage, environmental scientist and member of NOON.

Wed 26 Sept:
READING: KESTER CHAPTER 2 and QUIZ on Kester (intro, ch.1, ch.2)

RECOMMENDED EVENT eligible for blog:
Thu 27 Sept: Phobia: Collecting in the History of Fear
4 pm Bird Library, Peter Graham Scholarly Commons (1st floor)

Fri 28 Sept: Library Visit 1. Meet at the Electronic Training Center, Bird Library.
HW: TBA

RECOMMENDED EVENT eligible for blog:
Sat 29 Sept: Central New York Anti-War Rally in Syracuse. LINK

Sun 30 Sept, 6 pm
BLOG entry due : Cultural Event (please see complete list below)

week 3: Kester

GRAMMAR SLAMMER STARTS THIS WEEK

Make sure you give yourself time to do a site visit to to Armory Square.

BLOG by Sun 9 Sept 6 pm: 2 choices
READ Intro+Chapter 1 from Kester - Conversation Pieces p. 1-49

• How does the rhetoric from the Imagining America conference compare to the ideas of community discussed in the Kester article?
  OR
• Visit the Light Work gallery. Hours are Sun-Fri 10 am - 6 pm and by appointment. Entry is free. Near Bird Library: 316 Waverly Ave, at the corner of Comstock Ave. :::::: How does the Binh Danh exhibit function as a testimony about the Viet Nam war and as a reflection of our current times? How does your impression of this exhibit compare to the views from Sontag? Check out her article on the Abu Ghraib prison photos (below) for extra war-related perspectives.
  

Mon 10 Sept:
MEET at Light Work gallery.
in-class discussion and writing about Sontag from last week AND
Kester (1 question+1 observation in your notebook)

Wed 12 Sept:
Come prepared to discuss "The Blue Guide" by Barthes , assigned last week (1 questions+1 observation in your notebook)

Fri 14 Sept:
BRING a rough thesis for your essay. Use the methods discussed in the handout from class. BRING notes from your field trip to Armory Square. Do the NOTICE + FOCUS process we did together in class on Monday:
1) What do you NOTICE? Make a list.
2) What do you find most INTERESTING? Rank the top choices.
3) WHY does this observation matter?

week 2: de Duve, Sontag, Barthes (Blue Guide)

The printed schedule from the syllabus has already changed so please make sure to consult the blog from now on!

BLOG due Mon 3 Sept by 6pm (this is a special extension just for this week)
No class because it's Labor Day, but you still have reading due!

1- READ the excerpt from “Art was a proper name” from Kant after Duchamp by Thierry de Duve, 1996
2- WRITE 2 paragraphs in response to the reading. Post the text to your blog so that I can see that it’s up and running:

• Define ART in one sentence. Then discuss a memorable experience you have had with an ART work. Where did you find the piece, and when? How much time did you spend with it? Why was it memorable? How would you describe it to someone who wasn't there? What distinguished it from other art works you have experienced? What kind of emotions did it evoke? What was the artist's intention for the work? Was it successful or not, and why?
• Discuss de Duve’s essay in relation to your own thoughts about art.

Wed 5 Sept: READ "The Image-World" from On Photography by Susan Sontag, 1977
OPTIONAL READING: "Regarding the torture of others" by Susan Sontag, 2004
We'll have an in-class discussion about de Duve and Sontag. Come prepared with 1 question and 1 comment for each author.

RECOMMENDED EVENT (take notes, this will give you good material for upcoming assignments)
Thu 6 Sept 6:30 pm : Binh Danh, Vietnamese photographer, Watson Auditorium

Fri 7 Sept: READ “The Blue Guide” by Roland Barthes from Mythologies, 1957
No class today because of the conference, but you still need to do the reading. This reading is the basis for your first essay assignment.

In lieu of class:
* VISIT the Binh Danh exhibit at Light Work.
and/or
* ATTEND one of the panel discussions at the Imagining America Conference that I’ve listed below. Conference attendance for students costs $35 (regular fees are over $100 for the 3-day event), and this provides free food and entry to all the events. If you choose to attend and this is a burden for you, please contact me or Assistant Provost Bobbi Jones at rsjones@syr.edu

Light Work gallery hours are Sun-Fri 10 am - 6 pm and by appointment. Entry is free.
Next to the Bird Library: 316 Waverly Ave, at the corner of Comstock Ave.

7-8 September : IMAGINING AMERICA CONFERENCE OPTIONS
See full conference schedule here: http://imaginingamerica.syr.edu/07.ia-nc.html

FRI 9:45 – 11:15 Community Voices: Do We Really Hear Them? Are We Really Listening? Sheraton Syracuse University Hotel and Conference Center – ADAMS ROOM

FRI 1:15-2:45 Over-the-Rhine: A Model for Student Immersion, Learning, and Social Change - Sheraton Syracuse University Hotel and Conference Center – COMSTOCK A

FRI 3-4:30 Moving Art Into the Public: A Seminar and a Dialogue - Sheraton Syracuse University Hotel and Conference Center – COMSTOCK B

SAT 2:15-345 Negotiating Contradictory Values in Community Arts/Higher Education Partnerships - Sheraton Syracuse University Hotel and Conference Center – COMSTOCK B

week 1: intros, Swanson/Adler, Barthes (Criticism)

Mon 27 Aug: introductions, blackboard, blog, portraits, student info, books, notebooks

Wed 29 Aug:
1-SET UP your blog http://www.blogger.com
and make sure you can access Blackboard.
2-EMAIL FHT with your blog URL
3-READ and take NOTES:
-“What’s wrong with plagiarism?” by Gunnar Swanson
-the syllabus
-chapters 3 and 12 from How to Read a Book by Charles Adler

Don’t forget to bring your printed readings to class. They should be marked up with notes and underlined or highlighted. Be prepared for a quiz.

Fri 31 Aug:
1-READ and take NOTES:
“Blind and Dumb Criticism” by Roland Barthes from Mythologies. Right-click or control-click on the link to download to the computer. Read it three times. Make notes in your notebook. Come prepared with 1 question and 1 comment about Barthes for the class. We will have a discussion.