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Tentative Title

Remember this can change as your research evolves.

Introduction

A general introduction laying out your plan for your first project.

Be as specific as possible about the form you imagine the project to take and answering the following points.

What are you working on now?

What do you want your first project to be?

Describe in as direct terms as possible what you want to make

How do you plan to make it?

Describe how you will go about conducting your research through reading, writing and practice. In other words, through a combination of these approaches, you will explore questions or interests you have laid out in your general introduction. In this section you can help us understand how your project will come together on a practical level and talk about possible outcome(s). Of course, the outcome(s) may change as your research evolves, but it's important to have some idea of how your project might come together as a whole.

Why do you want to make it?

Who can help you and how?

Book tutorials and ask members of staff questions related specifically to your project. Also share knowledge with your peers.

Relation to previous practice

How does your research connect to previous projects you have done? Here you can use the descriptions you made in the first session

Relation to a larger context

Meaning practices or ideas that go beyond the scope of your personal work. Write briefly about other projects or theoretical material which share an affinity with your project. For example, if you are researching urban interventions, you might want to research about Situationist approaches to psychogeography, urban tactical media and activist strategies of reclaiming the streets. Or, if you want to explore the way data is tracked, you might touch upon the politics of data mining by referencing concerns laid out by the Electronic Frontier or highlight theoretical questions raised by Wendy Chun or others. (Keep in mind that we are *not* expecting well formulated conclusions or persuasive arguments in the proposal phase. At this juncture, it's simply about showing an awareness of a broader context, which you will later build upon as your research progresses.)

References

A list of references (Remember that dictionaries, encyclopedias and wikipedia are not references to be listed. These are starting points which should lead to more substantial texts and practices.) As with your previous essays, the references need to be formatted according to the Harvard method.) See: http://pzwart3.wdka.hro.nl/wiki/A_Guide_to_Essay_Writing#The_Harvard_System_of_referencing

Feel free to include any visual material to substantiate, illustrate or elucidate your proposal. For example use images to reference your work or that of others.

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-== Kenneth Goldsmith  ==
+== Tentative Title ==
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-''''Uncreative Writing: Managing Language in the Digital Age''''<br />
-Kenneth Goldsmith started his book altering Douglas Humbler's quote “The world is full of objects, more or less interesting; I do not wish to add any more” by changing objects to texts. Following an example of Marjorie Perloff and her unoriginal genius he establishes the term of uncreative writing, underlying that nowadays texts differs from each other in their ‘technical’ aspects, the way author ‘conceptualised and executed his writing machine’ to rephrase and reorganise other’s words. With the development of Internet the 'art of Copy-Past’ in literature has become the major trend that generates many works “proclaiming that context is the new content”. In his book Goldsmith cites as an example a poem that consists from shopping mall store list rewritten in poetic form or the work that put together status updates in social networks with names of deceased writers, or Flarf, the new movement in writing that accumulates the worst of Google search result. So, in fact the text I wrote so far is a shortened and rephrased version of Kennet Goldsmith text, borrowed from others he mentions in his book.
+Remember this can change as your research evolves.
-Nevertheless the new gender has its charm and evokes emotions and connotations as the reaction on writing process itself. Further development of technology became a catalyst for a new era of literature and art in complex. Contemporary artworks put to the end traditional understanding of originality and replication and brought new conception of creativity.
+== Introduction ==
-During his classes of “Uncreative Writing” in the University of Pensylvania Goldsmith penalised students who tried to be creative and original. “Instead, they are rewarded for plagiarism, identity theft, repurposing papers, patch-writing, sampling, plundering, and stealing. Not surprisingly, they thrive. Suddenly, what they’ve surreptitiously become expert at is brought out into the open and explored in a safe environment, reframed in terms of responsibility instead of recklessness.” He found creativity not in their texts but in the way they choose what and how to reframe, proving that “the suppression of self-expression is impossible”. So the concept of ‘creativity’ haven’t become obsolete, but transformed in compliance of new realities. In other words, creativity goes not with the object but with method, the way the object was created. In era of Internet and computers “even if literature is reducible to mere code—an intriguing idea—the smartest minds behind them will be considered our greatest authors.”<br/>
+A general introduction laying out your plan for your first project.
-== Katherine Hayles  ==
+Be as specific as possible about the form you imagine the project to take and answering the following points.
-<br />
-''''Writing Machines''''<br />
-This book represents Katherine Hayes response for few intriguing questions: how to bring together two different spheres: media and material word, and if so: what will be relationships between them. To answer this questions she establishes the main concept: '''medial ecology'''. The term was created to describe complex relationships between different medias, similar to the ones we are observing in nature: mimicry, deception, cooperation, parasitism. There are two types of relationships between medias she highlights in her preface. First is '''representation''', "that assumes a referent in the real world, however mediated." The second is '''simulation''' with no counterpart. However there aren’t strict borders between them as different medias cycling through one another, making new and new layers. This is a process which Richard Gruisin and Jay Bolter named '''remediation'''.
+== What are you working on now?==
-Nevertheless, each media has its specificities, which Hayes tries to decode in her book. She pushes off different concepts to underline them: code and natural language, regularities and creativity, materiality and media. All this aspects could be found in literature and the way we produce and consume literary artefacts: texts, books. Printed book has its material properties and design that determine the way we read it: sequentially, moving from page to page and following the scenario author prepared for us. With the development of electronic literature, appearance of hypertext and contextual links, our perception of literature thoroughly changed. Moreover the representation and its visual component are not stable and predeterminated anymore. The way text looks like depends on the device, programme, code in the end, and being a reader I cannot influence on in, just choose between variants. So it seems that book lost its materiality or being a representative of media it remediated and got its new material characteristics corresponded with ... iPad reader?
+==What do you want your first project to be?==
-In chapter I author moves away from abstract terminology and tries to bring 'sense of materiality’ to her studies wrapping up it in some sort of novel. She establishes the ‘main hero’ Kaye, and binds autobiographical facts with fiction. She leaves us to guess where is her own experience and where is fiction that was born under former experience. Kaye lives between two worlds: science and literature, strict rules and creativity, mundane work and imaginative realm, code and natural language, concepts that met in desktop computer.
+Describe in as direct terms as possible what you want to make
+==How do you plan to make it?==
+Describe how you will go about conducting your research through reading, writing and practice.  In other words, through a combination of these approaches, you will explore questions or interests you have laid out in your general introduction.  In this section you can help us understand how your project will come together on a practical level and talk about possible outcome(s).  Of course, the outcome(s) may change as your research evolves, but it's important to have some idea of how your project might come together as a whole.
+==Why do you want to make it?==
+==Who can help you and how?==
+Book tutorials and ask members of staff questions related specifically to your project. Also share knowledge with your peers.
+== Relation to previous practice ==
+How does your research connect to previous projects you have done?
+Here you can use the descriptions you made in the first session
+== Relation to a larger context ==
+Meaning practices or ideas that go beyond the scope of your personal work.  Write briefly about other projects or theoretical material which share an affinity with your project.  For example, if you are researching urban interventions, you might want to research about Situationist approaches to psychogeography, urban tactical media and activist strategies of reclaiming the streets.  Or, if you want to explore the way data is tracked, you might touch upon the politics of data mining by referencing concerns laid out by the Electronic Frontier or highlight theoretical questions raised by Wendy Chun or others.  (Keep in mind that we are *not* expecting well formulated conclusions or persuasive arguments in the proposal phase.  At this juncture, it's simply about showing an awareness of a broader context, which you will later build upon as your research progresses.)
+== References ==
+A list of references (Remember that dictionaries, encyclopedias and wikipedia are not references to be listed.  These are starting points which should lead to more substantial texts and practices.)  As with your previous essays, the references need to be formatted according to the Harvard method.)  See: http://pzwart3.wdka.hro.nl/wiki/A_Guide_to_Essay_Writing#The_Harvard_System_of_referencing
+''Feel free to include any visual material to substantiate, illustrate or elucidate your proposal.  For example use images to reference your work or that of others.''