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E lit. Module 6- Readings/Viewings

Mark Hansen and Ben Rubin, Listening Post
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dD36IajCz6A
https://frieze.com/article/mark-hansen-and-ben-rubin
Winnie Soon, Thousand Questions
http://siusoon.net/thousand-questions/
John Cayley and Daniel Howe, The Readers Project
http://thereadersproject.org/
David Rokeby, n-Cha(n)t
http://davidrokeby.com/nchant.html

Part A: Write the response above those links. (500words)

Part B: 2 Peers review (250 words each X2 =500words)

Student A

Mark Hansen and Ben Rubin, Listening Post
Initially, I didn’t like this video.  After watching it a little, more I began to enjoy how the statements all come from different people. They only use statement that start with “I am” and the ways you can complete this sentence is infinite. I think a lot of the statements are vague, which to me seems a bit boring. They should have used more personal statements:

1. I am a poor collections intern.

2. I am drunk off boxed wine.  

3. I am masturbating in front of my cat.

4. I am bolder behind my computer screen.

Although, I do think the less personal statements let people relate on a deeper level to this piece of work. Those who don’t have a cat may never know the feeling of their cat staring at them in complete disgust from the bottom of your very own bed. The article associated with this piece describes the video as theatrical. At one point in this article “At particularly striking moments the text washes rapidly across the screens in patterns akin to the topologies created by the movement of wind across a wheat field (also evoked by the soundtrack) before clicking to a legible halt.” I truly believe that this is complete bologna. The video is supposed to go along with the dialogue, and it does add visual interest, but I don’t think it’s nearly comparable to “wind across a wheat field” 
Winnie Soon, Thousand Questions
For the second film, “If I wrote you a love letter would you write back? (And thousands of other questions)” I believe the random letters generating on the screen are the tweets the electronic voice is verbalizing. I had trouble hearing this one, because of the English accent of the already inaudible electronic voice, and the random phrase all strung together. I loved the title of this piece but I was ultimately let down by the content. When I watched “thousand questions” from the sound cloud link, I was bored because there was no visual content, which I think is interesting because normally I am let down by the visual content in the films you give us. I liked some of the questions presented, because they were more personal. It sort of made me think of my cringey early presence on social media. My oldest tweet with a question mark was from May 19, 2013 (I don’t have one from the 29th October 2012) and it said “Why are people laughing at me for walking my cat?” I don’t tweet anymore because I scoff at every old tweet I read. I don’t delete any of my posts or tweets, because I like viewing my archive of growth through the years.
David Rokeby, n-Cha(n)t
This piece was pretty cool, but it reminded me of a church. I was raised catholic, and the electronic voices and the echoing remind me of sermons where everyone replies to the priest loud and in unison.  Then, it began to sound more colt like, because, like many of the pieces, the voices were spewing gibberish. I think how the electronic voices are able to synchronize with one another is awesome. There are infinite ways computers can be used. It’s definitely an eerie film to watch, though,

Student B

In viewing and reading the different works, I noticed that all of these works had a pattern. Each work seemed to group sounds and words together. The first work that I encountered Thousand Questions by Winnie Soon utilized a computer synthesized voice asking numerous questions. I noticed that the questions were not linked to each other. I also noticed that the content of the questions ranged from thought provoking questions such as “Did you know that the only source of knowledge is experience?” to questions such as “Did you already have outfits for Coachella?” The information in this piece seemed to be gathered from educational sources and social media (which was hinted to by the question “Can you please send us a dm with your order  number so that we can further assist you?”) I thought that the questions showed the diversity of speech that existed on social media and the internet. The questions showcased the different personalities that exist on the internet as well.

n(chant) by Mark Hansen and Ben Rubin immediately reminded me of a Buddhist chant. The voices may have ranged in tone yet they all seemed to mesh together well. I found that the different tones in the chant made it similar to a choir as well. Similarly to a choir where the tenors, altos, and sopranos combine their voices to provide a beautiful melody, the voices blended into one another giving the chant a melody. The clapping broke this cohesiveness and it was clear that the deeper voices gravitated towards one another while the softer voices gravitated towards one another. I thought that this amalgamation of voices represented all of the conversations taking place in the earth as there were so many voices. The work definitely represented “individual thought and its role in group dynamics” (Eely).  I would have to say that the piece featured lots of words that sounded like a “distant and foreign utterance” (Eely).

Listening Post was similar to Thousand Questions with its computerized voice yet it was different in that it contained declarations such as “I am.” As the voice kept repeating “I am”, the voice sounded as if it were pausing after each repetition, like a robot being uploaded with the memory of individuals throughout the world. For me, the voice seemed to take on the voices of the internet’s diverse characters as phrases ranged from “I am hot girl” to “I am here and you are doomed.” The voice was sort of like a library that kept individual cultures and personalities in storage.

The final work I encountered was The Readers. The Readers were intriguing as each reader was a textual representation of the vocal works. The ones that I found most fascinating were the perigram and the grammatical readers. The perigram adds some words randomly making sentences unreadable. In contrast, the grammatical reader places words in a readable pattern. The Readers also represented how different people create different typed or written works.

Rubrics

- Post comprehensively addresses the topic, adds value to discussion with stimulating posts

- Posts in-depth, incisive reflections that demonstrate critical thinking; shares real-world experiences and examples

- Well-written posts made within required timeframe; no grammar/spelling errors

- Original thinking: making complex connections between multiple readings (from multiple weeks), larger culture and technology and power issues, and the themes of the course. It's a good idea to give me the impression that you're doing all the readings, not just one a week.
- Bringing up hard questions or contradictions, and really trying to unpack and think through them in depth.
- Thoughtful antipathy. You don't have to like things just because I like them, but if you hate a piece, I want you to think through why exactly you hate it. Dismissing a piece as "boring" will not impress me.
- Creative experiments. Please feel very free to play with the post/reply format, and to try out experiments (like imitating the style of stuff you're reading). Don't totally substitute a poem for a thoughtful response, but if your thoughtful response is in a stylish format in a way that makes sense