Tuesday, February 15, 2011

Robotic, Erotic, Electric: ARTkive Gallery 33: Machine (ROBOT) Versus (WO)MAN...

Robotic, Erotic, Electric: ARTkive Gallery 32: Is MUSIC literature? Is LITERATURE music?


a former student of mine, Richard Nuñez sent this to me and i thought i would share it.... think of it as a collaborative symphony of story--hit the image for the link:


Robotic, Erotic, Electric: ARTkive Gallery 31: The Masked Self

More from one of your colleagues on the idea of pscyhe, self, mask, and identity; here's his email:

Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2011 19:24:16 -0800 (PST)
From: dverzosa90 AT yahoo DOT com
Subject: the psychology of batman
To: William Nericcio

hey bill, i have a great video on the psychology on batman. it relates to your lecture on the psyche and different personas.

dom verzosa

Monday, February 14, 2011

Robotic, Erotic, Electric: ARTkive Gallery 31: Lady Gaga on 60 Minutes

Much of what Anderson Cooper and Lady Gaga talk about in this new 60 Minutes interview directly relates to the lecture we had today on Robert Louis Stevenson, Sigmund Freud, the Id, and the pscyhe: check it out: (yes, viewing is required; yes it will be on the quiz)

Robotic, Erotic, Electric: ARTkive Gallery 30: Huck Finn! The ROBOTIC Edition!

Just got a groovy note from one of your colleagues.... check out the link by hitting the image below:

From: Katrina Vangelas kmisfit AT hotmail DOT com
Subject: Electric ARTkive
Date: Sun, 13 Feb 2011 17:52:06 -0800
To: William Nericcio

Hey Dr. Nericcio,
I found this and thought you would find it just as interesting as I did, perhaps even more.
http://www.nerdist.com/2011/02/huckleberry-finn-with-extra-robot/

Kindest Regards,

Katrina Vangelas

Thursday, February 10, 2011

Robotic, Erotic, Electric: ARTKIVE Gallery 25 | The Huck Finn Robot, via BoingBoing.net

Robotic, Erotic, Electric: ARTKIVE Gallery 24 | Mike Mignola, Setting, Meaning, and Literature

I think I am going to start using this old blog of mine from a previous class as the respository for yours and my Robotic, Erotic, Electric ARTkival contributions to our seminar.

Yesterday, Wednesday, February 9, 2011 in class (the lecture on René Magritte with the screening of Chris Marker's La Jetée), I was talking about how storytellers use setting to underscore theme--indeed, among modernists like James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, and William Faulkner, setting as theme, or, even, setting mirroring psychology was a way of life (perhaps the best American author in this vein in Edgar Allen Poe, whose poetry and fiction anticipated what would come to be called high Modernism decades later). In class, I focused on Marker's uncanny settings (remember to look up the meaning of "uncanny" and to include a printout of an "uncanny" personal photograph you own, one that speaks to you of the past in moving/unsettling ways in your roboticJOURNAL), suggesting how the use of RUINS in La Jetée, the use of the NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM, with all its corpse/relics, assisted Marker as he told a story of apocalypse and memory.

In any event here's a story from the horse's mouth about setting and narrative in the work of comics author Mike Mignola you may find useful:



Friday, February 04, 2011

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Wednesday, January 26, 2011