EDPX 3701/4701 Cybernetic Performance
Spring 2016
TF 5:00-7:50 Shwayder 226 (& Hypercube)
Dan Wilcox, Shwayder 215, danomatika.com
Email: daniel.wilcox[at]du[dot]edu
Voice: 412 980-7081
Office hours: T 2-4pm & by appointment
Syllabus
Links
Progress Blogs:
Schedule
3/22
Course intro
HyperCube & equipment overview
In-class Assignment: PechaKucha
Make a short 5 minute presentation on yourself.
Include:
- who are you
- where you’re from
- any projects you have done
- your skills
- your interests
PechaKucha:
- at least 5 slides, no more than 20
- 20 seconds each
Powerpoint, Keynote, or Google Docs Slides
Homework
Send me an email with:
- list of classes you've taken
- what you feel main skills are
- what you'd like to do in this class
- what you'd not like to do in this class
Readings:
- Chapter 2: What is Performance? in Performance Studies: An Introduction (via library login)
3/25
Discussion on the reading
What is performance?
- Andy Warhol eating a hamburger
- Semiotics of the Kitchen - Martha Rosler - 1975
- The Couple in the Cage (video)
- GUILLERMO GOMEZ-PENA: INSTANT IDENTITY RITUAL
- Radical art, radical communities, and radical dreams: Guillermo Gomez-Pena at TEDxCalArts
- Key & Peele - McCringleberry's Excessive Celebration
- Draw Near - A Video Guide to the Catholic Mass
- Explain it to me: Passover
- Japanese Chado Matcha Green Tea Ceremony
Assign Exercise 1: Happening
Homework
Progress Blog
Progress blog post due: Sunday @ 10. Send me your blog link via email.
Find 2 sets of Instructions for next class.
Get started on developing your Happening for Exercise 1. We will have a work in progress presentation & critique next class.
3/29
Critique Exercise 1 in progress presentation
Discussion on the readings
Lighting equipment setup
4/01: Show 1
Perform Exercise 1 @ the HyperCube
Assign Exercise 2: Wearable
Homework
Get started on Exercise 2: Wearable. We will have a work in progress presentation & critique next class.
Progress blog post due: Sunday @ 10
4/05
Exercise 1 critique
Critique Exercise 2: Wearable in progress
Discussion on the readings
Audio equipment setup
4/08: Show 2
Perform Exercise 2 @ the HyperCube
Critique Exercise 2
Assign Exercise 3: Avatar
Homework
Get started on Exercise 3: Avatar. We will have a work in progress presentation & critique next class.
Progress blog post due: Sunday @ 10
4/12
Critique Exercise 3: Avatar in progress
Discussion on the readings
Basic video equipment setup
4/15: Show 3
Perform Exercise 3 @ Shwayder 023
Critique Exercise 3
Assign Exercise 4: Action!
Homework
Get started on Exercise 4: Action!. We will have a work in progress presentation & critique next class.
Progress blog post due: Sunday @ 10
4/19
Critique Exercise 4: Action! in progress
Discussion on the readings
Advanced A/V setup in the HyperCube
4/22: Show 4
Perform Exercise 4 @ the HyperCube
Critique Exercise 4
Homework
Progress blog post due: Sunday @ 10
4/26
Audio tech & setup
4/29
Assign Final Project
Video tech & setup
Possible show space visit
Homework
Progress blog post due: Sunday @ 10
5/03
Final Show ideas presentation
Work day
5/06
Work day
Homework
Progress blog post due: Sunday @ 10
5/10
Critique Final Show work in progress
Work day
5/13
Rehearsal
Homework
Progress blog post due: Sunday @ 10
5/17
Rehearsal
5/20
Rehearsal
Homework
Progress blog post due: Sunday @ 10
5/24
Dress rehearsal
5/27 or 5/28: Final Show
Final Show @ an off campus location
Homework
Final blog post due: Sunday @ 10
5/31: Final
T 6:00-7:50 Shwayder 220
REQUIRED: Final critique and post-mortem