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Exploding Tongues: Language, Art, and the Russian Avant-gardeMain MenuBack to Futurism: Russian Artist BooksIntroductory Page by Chris GilmanBookENDS: A Working Theory of Textuality as Cultural Dominant, 1912-An Introduction and Conclusion to a Semester's Investigation into the Book Arts as an Avant-garde PracticeBook Case StudiesCollaborative Research by Case StudiesBig Bang: Timeline of Russian Avant-Garde Book Arts and Their Cultural ImpactsA Timeline of Russian Avant-Garde Book Arts and Their Cultural ImpactsCoaRse CaLIBrationARTS 227 "Introduction to Letterpress Printing" (Pedersen) and CSLC134/RUSN334 "Exploding Tongues" (Gilman)NthOlogyA limited edition collaborative book arts project by students of ARTS 227 (Pedersen) and CSLC 134/RUSN 334 (Gilman), Spring, '17MANIFESTERS (AB & Kelly): A portfolio of process and productsAppendix: A Path Through Russian Avant-Garde BooksChristopher Gilman1985b99a2acd541caa12a10c3ebf6896565283abDexter Blackwell92e005ca94195f836c6089cf147faff4c74fa79eZoe Foster-La Duc1c8954189fb3ee4ab6e36bfb90fae86777eab97Stephen Heim7069d17c035042745c96bc6c7619096cd7b33da4Kelly Kirklande1805e502570d093d70f00df18f145c99290d0a3Ian Lehineb028c384a69e4b92166e7791b002fa3f2cee5818Timothy Lewis13880d3d99b4b71ce85be63e69a6d44e38853d68Jmedina29ac3fc10003fb639ac412984b59b01a5b826e161Taylor Robinsonaa08dd3939f1f1c6162c5518ae531385e51659afEvan Sarafian042e10782d9a6d3f0001a4b35abb02f58ad84684Craig Dietrich2d66800a3e5a1eaee3a9ca2f91f391c8a6893490ILiADS (Institute for Liberal Arts Digital Scholarship)
Utopians, Prospectus!: tentative explorations of Russian Avant-garde art, literature and book arts
12017-05-26T10:18:29-07:00Christopher Gilman1985b99a2acd541caa12a10c3ebf6896565283ab1204114structured_gallery2017-05-26T12:01:29-07:00Christopher Gilman1985b99a2acd541caa12a10c3ebf6896565283abStudents in CSLC 134 / RUSN 334 identified topics of interest within the Russian Avant-garde for further individual research. They worked in Lab section once a week with Scalar developer and Oxy's Mellon Research Fellow, Craig Dietrich, to master fundamental skills for managing media content, and critical visual analysis of cultural artifacts using Scalar's Annotation Tool, text input, formatting, and metadata fields. Students experimented with layouts and display modes best suited for oral presentation.
This preliminary assignment applied analytical approaches developed in lecture and discussion to a web-based scholarly medium. Working with Dietrich, students gained an insider's view of a scholarly tool in progressive evolution, and grappled with the unique affordances of Scalar as a "tool to think with." The Russian Avant-garde, and particularly the materials of focused study from Perloff's Explodity, such as Mirskontsa (Worldbackwards) and Pomada (Pomade), provided numerous liberating conceptual metaphors for methodological innovation in ways of seeing art and literature: abstracted, trans-rationally, simultaneously, backwards, upside-down, non-Euclidean, rotated, contra-Gutenberg, etc. Ideas from the subject matter of the course, in other words, informed the students' developing methods of critical analysis.
"Prospectus!" projects provided a benchmark work product for identifying students' baseline "visual information literacy" proficiencies. Formative assessment in a media-rich research curriculum with significant technology integration and collaborative project work is critical to address unique challenges for each student early enough in the semester to ensure a coherent final work product. Research using web-based visual materials often defaults to a Google Image search as the first step in a process. Subsequent inquiry was redirected back to the Getty Research Institute's rich trove of visual materials related to the Russian Futurist books.
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12017-03-26T11:07:32-07:00Christopher Gilman1985b99a2acd541caa12a10c3ebf6896565283abCoaRse CaLIBrationChristopher Gilman72ARTS 227 "Introduction to Letterpress Printing" (Pedersen) and CSLC134/RUSN334 "Exploding Tongues" (Gilman)structured_gallery2017-05-26T12:45:21-07:00Christopher Gilman1985b99a2acd541caa12a10c3ebf6896565283ab
12017-02-23T10:18:50-08:00Dexter Blackwell92e005ca94195f836c6089cf147faff4c74fa79eFinding Meaning from Zaum16Utopians, Prospectus - Blackwellplain2017-03-14T10:47:57-07:00Craig Dietrich2d66800a3e5a1eaee3a9ca2f91f391c8a6893490
12017-02-23T10:45:45-08:00Stephen Heim7069d17c035042745c96bc6c7619096cd7b33da4Shattering the Boundaries of Three Dimensional Figures17An analysis of Malevich's representation of fourth-dimensionalityplain2017-04-16T21:01:46-07:00Stephen Heim7069d17c035042745c96bc6c7619096cd7b33da4
12017-03-01T12:20:23-08:00Jmedina29ac3fc10003fb639ac412984b59b01a5b826e161Visual Poetry in Suprematism40gallery2017-05-26T10:51:00-07:00Christopher Gilman1985b99a2acd541caa12a10c3ebf6896565283ab
12017-02-23T11:38:06-08:00Ian Lehineb028c384a69e4b92166e7791b002fa3f2cee5818The Experience of Language in Art69uTOPIAN Prospectusplain2017-03-15T14:44:20-07:00Craig Dietrich2d66800a3e5a1eaee3a9ca2f91f391c8a6893490
12017-04-29T16:59:20-07:00Kruchenykh, A, and Khlebnikov, V. MirsKONtsa (WorldBACKwards), 1912 (cover)5Book-making collaboration between poets Kruchenykh and Khlebnikov, and artists Larionov and Goncharova, notable for its variations in cover design, mixed methods type, and reverse time-space philosophymedia/Screen Shot 2017-04-29 at 4.58.00 PM.pngplain2017-04-30T13:30:27-07:00
