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Museum Readings

Posted in March 23rd, 2010
Published in AfterPrint, Assignments

Note: These readings are for March 31st.

1. Spalding:“Poetic Museum” – Read Introduction, ch1

2. Walter Benjamin: The Work of Art in the age of Mechanical Reproduction

3. Cooper-Hewitt: Museum Design Lab: Museum Future Symposium (113 min.)

4. Institute of Museum and Library Services: The Future of Museums and Libraries

5. Jeff Gates: Confessions of a Long [...]

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Getting Edu-mocated. K-12.

Posted in March 10th, 2010
Published in AfterPrint, Assignments

The K-12 Group winds the award for most organized. To get their reading just visit this publicly shared google doc. Note:Don’t forget to take the survey as part of the reading.

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Film Group Readings

Posted in March 1st, 2010
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Readings for Film, March 10th.

James Monaco- How to Read a FIlm (CH1: Film As Art) HTR1.pdf
James Monaco- How to Read a FIlm (CH4: The Shape of Film History read only pages 228-300) : HTR4.pdf
JAY DAVID BOLTER- Transference and Transparency
Lev Manovich-WHAT IS DIGITAL CINEMA?
Wikipedia article: History of Film

P.S. The Monaco Chapters don’t [...]

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What This Class is About

"the technical structure of the archiving archive also determines the structure of the archivable content . . . .The archivization produces as much as it records the event." -Derrida, Archive Fever