Week 12: The Revolution will be Tutorialized
What is step by step documentation: social context plus knowledge meets your intended audience on the stage of language. 4 real. What is the documentation assignment: document and create a tutorial explaining how to do something. Be funny, be autobiographical, be experimental, be descriptive. Some assembly required.
Below are the links to the materials covered in class:
Artists who use instruction sets
Sol Lewitt
Lewitt’s instruction set for conceptual art
Miranda July & Harrell Fletcher
Access principle
Why do I know more about the ink made by Issac Newton than by KR?
Sharing and disseminating unpopular knowledge:
http://www.vcn.bc.ca/citizens-handbook/
http://omnipresence.mahost.org/inttxt.htm
http://www.12ozprophet.com/forum/forumdisplay.php?s=f0d038793019ff21f3b39cc482d90bf2&f=21
Global DIY
http://www.afrigadget.com/
http://www.open-america.org/
DIY Economies
Martha Stewart
ReadyMade
Make
Responsibility
http://dangerouslyfun.com/
http://www.totse.com/en/bad_ideas/ka_fucking_boom/index.html
http://thedisease.net/?ejaculate=library&your_poison=Explosives
April 17th, 2007
Entry Filed under: Assignments, Spring 2007

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