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Schedule subject to change, please check back regularly\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

BOOK<\/a> – check here for notes about the book and questions about readings<\/p>\n

Jan 29\/31: Week 1<\/strong>
\n1.1
\nreview syllabus, schedule, book<\/a>, UBlearns,
\nwatch Abuela Grillo, The Animation Workshop,\u00a0vimeo<\/a>, info
\n<\/a><\/p>\n

1.2
\nIntroduction<\/a><\/p>\n

Q 1. Think of an example of a frame\/mental model.<\/p>\n

Q 2. Give an example of a frame\/mental model you saw in Abuela Grillo.<\/p>\n

Feb 5\/7: Week 2<\/strong>
\n2.1
\nNever Alone – we will start playing in class then buy it and play
\nReading 1: Haraway, (SWTT),Chap 3 p 58 -69 – stop at “Science Art Worldings for Staying with the Trouble” and p 86-89 on Never Alone<\/p>\n

2.2
\nTopic: How Media Represents: focus on Games<\/a><\/p>\n

Assignment: Journal Post:\u00a0Question –\u00a0 In your own words what are autopoeisis and sympoeisis? Try and give an example of each.<\/em>
\nAssignment: Group Video Blog: Topic – introduce your group<\/em><\/p>\n

Feb 12\/14: Week 3<\/strong>
\n3.1
\nMedia: Gasland<\/a>, 2010, Josh Fox (102 mins)
\nReading 2: Haraway, (SWTT),Chap 3 p 72 -76 – “Four critical Zones” focus on Black Mesa,\u00a0 and p 89-97\u00a0 “Navajo Weaving…”<\/p>\n

3.2
\nMedia: Gasland (cont)
\nHow media represents: focus on Documentary<\/a>
\nAssignment: Journal Post: Question\u00a0on\u00a0Gasland: How could you use the Haraway’s concept of weaving to analyze Gasland? OR Can a film be a model: if so what is Gasland a model of, and how?
\n<\/em>Assignment: Group Video Blog: Topic : Visualize ideas\/thoughts from your\u00a0 journal entries OR<\/strong> find out the current state of the Frack Acts in NY state and report.<\/em><\/p>\n

Feb 19\/21: Week 4<\/strong><\/p>\n

4.1
\nMedia: When the Levees Broke<\/a>, Part I, 2006, Spike Lee, (~ 1 hr)
\nReading 3: Haraway, (SWTT),Chap 2 p 44 -57 – “Anthropocene,” “Capitolocene”, “Chthulucene” AND Chapter 4 p 100 – 103<\/p>\n

4.2
\nMedia representations of Environmental Disasters
\n<\/a>
\nAssignment: Journal Post: Question\u00a0on When the Levees Broke: What most struck you about the movie? story, image, frame, person, information, camera style – be as specific as possible.
\n<\/em>Assignments: Group Video Blog:\u00a0Topic: Is the climate of Buffalo changing? Are the winters on average less severe? Find out and report. Include some kind of representation of the data.
\n<\/em><\/p>\n

Feb 26\/28: Week 5
\n<\/strong>5.1
\nMedia Art, Oddkin, Animals and Environmentalism<\/a>
\nReading 4: Haraway, (SWTT),Chap 1 p 16 -29 – “California Racing Pigeons,” “Pigeon Blog”, “Reliable Voyageurs”<\/p>\n

5.2
\nCognition, psychology, media
\n<\/a>Assignment: Journal Post: Question: Which of the art projects you saw this week could or could not be analyzed using Haraway’s concept of oddkin?
\nAssignments: Group Video Blog: Visualize the concept of oddkin.<\/em>
\n<\/em><\/p>\n

Mar 5\/7: Week 6
\n<\/strong>6.1
\nMedia: Deseret<\/a> (~1 hr 20) by James Benning, 1995
\nWhat did you see\/think\/feel? Any formal qualities detected?<\/p>\n

Reading 5:\u00a0 \u00a0 MacDonald , \u201cThe ecocinema experience,\u201d part 1 chapter 1\u00a0pp 18-20 AND David Ingram, part 1 chapter 2 (entire chapter) , both in \u201cThe aesthetics and ethics of eco-film criticism.\u201d\u00a0 in\u00a0 Ecocinema Theory and Practice, electronic version available on library<\/a>\u00a0course reserve:<\/p>\n

6.2
\nDevastation and Beauty : Reattuning the Mind<\/a>
\nAssignment: Journal Post: Question: Scott McDonald argues that retraining our perception is a precondition for environmental consciousness but David Ingram suggests that the films McDonald promotes are only accessible for trained viewers and can never be popular – who do you agree with and why?<\/em>
\nGroup Video Blog:\u00a0Using the “retraining perception” style that Scott McDonald identifies\u00a0 shoot a video that draws attention to the environmental damage done by vehicles that burn fossil fuel.<\/i><\/p>\n

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Mar 12\/14: Week 7
\n<\/strong>7.1
\nMedia: BBC Beautiful Minds: James Lovelock<\/a>, 2011, (60 minutes)
\nReading 6:\u00a0 \u00a0Haraway, (SWTT), Chapter 5 p 105 -116 (all)
\n
\n<\/em>7.2
\nRole of Media in Earth System Science, Geoengineering,<\/a><\/p>\n

Assignment: Journal Post: Question: What connections can you make between the biopic of James Lovelock and Haraway’s chapter 5.
\n<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

Assignments:\u00a0 Group Video Blog: Upload link to a song or piece of\u00a0 music that addresses environmental issues.<\/p>\n

SPRING BREAK 19-24<\/strong><\/p>\n

*** REMEMBER Keep Playing: Never Alone<\/a> ***<\/p>\n

Mar 26\/28: Week 8
\n<\/strong>8.1
\nMedia: Mad Max: Fury Road, 2015, George Miller (2 hours)
\nReading\u00a0 7:\u00a0\u00a0The Ecofeminism of Mad Max<\/a> by Sarah Mirk: AND\u00a0Mad Max Fury Road: A Savage Masterpiece of Eco-feminist\u00a0Violence<\/a> by faustusnotes.<\/p>\n

8.2
\nMad Max (cont\u2019d)
\nEcofeminism. Mass Media\u00a0and the Environment<\/a>.
\nAssignment: Journal Post: Question: Pick an example of Mass Media (Movie, TV, Game) that has an environmental message\/theme\/slant and explain how the media work constructs this theme both in terms of content and form. You cannot use Mad Max Fury Road.
\n<\/em>Assignments: Group Video Blog:\u00a0Using a quick cutting, consume-as-many-images-per-second-as-possible style, to shoot 15 seconds that demonstrates\u00a0mass consumption is an environmental problem. You can use found footage, but the cuts have to be yours.<\/i><\/p>\n

April 2\/4: Week 9
\n<\/strong>9.1 Indeterminacy Festival<\/a>
\nReading 8: Haraway, (SWTT) Intro 1-4 AND Chapter 1, 9-16<\/p>\n

9.2 Applied String Games
\nAssignment: Journal Post:
\nAssignment: Group Video Blog<\/p>\n

April 9\/11: Week 10
\n<\/strong>10.1
\nMedia: The Yes Men Fix the World<\/a>, 2009 (1:25 start at 8.59)
\nMedia: The Yes Men Are Revolting<\/a> 2015 (1:57) from $2.99 on youtube
\nReading 9: Haraway, (SWTT), Chapter 2 p 30 – 44<\/p>\n

10.2
\nMedia and Eco-Activism<\/a><\/p>\n

Song Presentation: Video Groups 1, 3, 4<\/strong><\/p>\n

Assignment: Journal Post: Question: What do you think of the Yes Men’s activist tactics? \u00a0Frame your answer with specific reference to a scene in the movie, citing the minute you are referring to.
\n<\/em>Assignment: Group Video Blog:\u00a0 Research “degrowth” – make a persuasive video explaining this movement
\n<\/em><\/p>\n

April 16\/18: Week 11
\n<\/strong>11.1
\nMedia:\u00a0 Chasing Coral<\/a>, Jeff Orlowski<\/span> (1 hr 33) – movie will play out for a few minutes past class time – stay if you can
\nReading 10: Haraway, (SWTT), Chapter 3 67 – 73, and 76 – 81 “The crocheted coral reef”
\nCrocheted Coral Reef<\/a><\/p>\n

11.2
\nSensing and Simulation<\/a><\/p>\n

Song Presentation: Video Groups 5, 6, 7<\/strong><\/p>\n

Assignment: Journal Post: Question: We have watched and experienced a variety of media works with very different tactics for bringing environmental issues to an audience. \u00a0Compare and contrast the pros and cons ofraising awareness about ecological problems using: mass media, traditional documentary, art projects, experimental forms, games (choose 2).<\/em>
\nAssignment: Group Video Blog:Topic: The importance of oceans was a major topic in the documentary we saw this week and in your reading. Make a short video that addresses issues around climate change and water . You MAY NOT use talking heads.<\/em><\/p>\n

April 23\/25: Week 12
\n<\/strong>12.1
\nMedia: Tambien La Lluvia, 2010, Ic\u00edar Bolla\u00edn\u00a0(1 hr 42)
\nReading 11: Andrew Hageman, “do ecocritics dream of clockwork green,” Ecocinema Theory and Practice,<\/em>\u00a0 electronic version available on library<\/a>\u00a0course reserve: focus on “the case for dialectical ideological critique” p63 – 66 AND\u00a0 “Fiction is Truer than Strange” and “Drawing from the Well,” p 72 – 82<\/p>\n

12.2
\nMedia: Tambien La Lluvia (cont)
\nEnvironmental Justice, Media<\/a><\/p>\n

Song Presentation: Video Groups 8, 9, 10<\/strong><\/p>\n

Assignment: Journal Post: Question: Tambien La Lluvia is constructed of films within a film: describe the different films briefly and talk about why you think the director choose this structure.
\n<\/em>Assignment: Group Video Blog:Topic: Make a short video about an environmental issue that effects people locally. Go out into the field to capture footage and\/or to interview people.
\nFor this week only the video can be from 15 -60 secs long and you will have an additional\u00a0week to complete the assignment. It is therefore due on \u00a0May 7th at 11:59 PM.<\/strong>
\n<\/i><\/p>\n

April 30\/May 2: Week 13
\n<\/strong>13.1
\nMedia: Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind, 1984, Hayao Miyazaki, (1 hr 58)
\nReading 12: Haraway, (SWTT), Chapter 6 118 – 1125<\/p>\n

13.2
\nMedia: Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind (cont)<\/p>\n

Song Presentation: Video Groups 11, 12, 13<\/strong><\/p>\n

microbes, food, soil<\/a>
\nAssignment: Journal Post: Question: In what ways can Nausicaa be considered an environmentalist film? What parallels can you draw between the film and some of Donna Haraway’s ideas?<\/em>
\nAssignment: Group Video Blog:Topic: see week 12<\/em><\/p>\n

May 7\/9: Week 14
\n<\/strong>14.1
\nMedia: Never Alone<\/a>, E-line Media (2015)
\nMedia: We Made Ourselves Over<\/a>, Blast Theory (2017) download app and start it – it will download additional material. We will play in class.<\/strong>
\nReading: Background on “We made ourselves over<\/a>.”<\/p>\n

“What happens when human exceptionalism and bounded individualism those old saws of Western Philosophy and political economics, become unthinkable in the best sciences, whether natural or social?” Donna Haraway, Chapter 2<\/p>\n

14.2
\nWrap Up
\nAssignment: Journal Post: Question: In what ways do (or don’t) Never Alone<\/strong> OR We Made Ourselves Over<\/strong> address Haraway’s contention that human exceptionalism and bounded individualism are unthinkable?<\/em><\/p>\n

Reading Week<\/strong><\/p>\n

We will not have an exam, but you can review the material you have submitted to get maximum points. Check through your journal:<\/p>\n