Two weeks into the class. Hard to believe. I don’t feel like
we have covered much yet, and yet, we have tons of material we can draw on. As
we explained to the students the first day, their answers to the project
prompts provide content for the course. I’m not sure they recognize what that
means at this point. Connecting the projects and discussion to the set of
reading for next week students already understand a number of key ideas without
realizing it. Some of the ideas about juxtaposition were generally clear going
into the projects, but now we have a host of ideas to discuss. Allowing the
students to generate the list of concerns or ideas in the project discussions
will begin to provide the framework on techniques so useful as they continue to
generate work. The goal with this is that by the end of the class they have a
kind of generative art tool kit – with ideas and techniques useful in a variety
of ways. We do need to pair this with the historical material and so moving
from these first projects through dada and John Cage will help ground the ideas
in time. Bob and I have discussed the second project question – which continues
to morph as we see opportunities to nudge the conversation one way or another.
The differences in section is always quite interesting.
Section one seems much more contemplative, quieter, more focused on the
discussion. Their projects had less of a performative feel as opposed to the other
section. Section two seems much louder, more easily distracted, more active. This
may have something to do with the earlier VS later class times. Both lend
themselves to the material quite well, but means the sections will be drifting
away from each other a bit over the next few weeks. As with Tuesday – lots of
great projects to discuss. We have a ton of material to weave into the
conversation on Tuesday.
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