What you will do for November 17, November 24th and December 1st
This will be a combination of individual and group work organized to produce our digital book.
Organize materials and write our digital book. In preparation for class on November 17th (the week before Thanksgiving break), review the notes of the class conversations in the past three weeks. Think about the category/chapter you would most like to write about and work on organizing material for that category (reading lists, links to other shows that students have watched throughout the semester, photos, videos, articles, artist interviews, theoretical or analytical essays on the topic). This is the “chapter” of the digital book you will work on – and groups will be reorganized by chapter.
Leslie will be scheduling 1.5 hour sessions outside of class on how the digital books (created in Tome) get organized and assembled. Leslie will be tracking all the material the class has generated to date and will help you organize the way in which you want to produce your chapter.
Class time will be devoted to group meetings to produce these chapters. Your work outside of class can either be group or individual work to produce your chapter. The chapter group has to come to consensus on a writing strategy (Does each member write a short section? Do you want to write a portion collectively? Do you want to produce media — artist interviews, video clips/citations? Do you want to produce a video or audio essay rather than write text?) You can be as creative with your book chapter as you would like. The chapter should include a recommended reading list and a bibliography.
Example of a digital Tome Book: https://howmovementmakesmeaning2019.tome.press/
The last half hour of the final three classes will be devoted to organizing our “teach in.” The teach in will follow the ideas of the digital book and you can program artists or scholars to participate in your section of the teach in.
Our public “teach in” on December 8th. Please reserve 2-6pm EST for this Zoom event. Our Tome book should be complete by the time the teach-in begins.