Class Schedule for Thursday, February 5th

If your TA seems clueless to this post then call them over and have them read it at the beginning of class. Point out to them that they should check their emails before class. You know all they do is party and daaaaaance while you all slave away and work your fingers to the bone.

Today you are going to pin-up your studio's work in a logical pattern like this: Three printouts side by side- on the left, a very early version of what they were doing (EXno.4 or EXno.5), in the middle the last one they did (EXno.8), and now the final one (EXno.9).

Make sure your work is separate from your classmates and the threesome can be discerned easily because...

For the first hour of class you will rotate over to review a section that you have not ever reviewed with (Lindsay and John or Adrianna and Sonya should not swap sections between themselves). Critique it and look at how the work developed. Is it a progressive transformation? Are they using the rules as conveyed? Which ones are working best? Each student claims one that is most like their own work and then, once they've claimed that work, they will be that person and will tell that work's story to their classmates. When there are fewer projects in the studio you are going to than there are people in your section double up.
For the last hour of class go through each of these projects (with each author mute) and get the studio to explain the apparent narrative in the work. What thematic devices can you discern in the work? What conceptual, intentional, parti, indexical, "big idea" , narrative device, way of working, organizational devices, systematic ways of working, etc. etc. are evident or apparent in each project. This is critical to discern as you begin to transform these things into another site and format. You have to start telling stories through what you see.