Cut-Up Assignment + Linda Alcoff's 4 Steps to Reconcile Speaking Others

Linda Alcoff's 4 Steps for Speaking for Others (link to pdf for those who are interested)

1. Determine your intentions: are your intentions to teach, or to learn?
2. Determine your vantage point: where does your cultural perspective differ from the perspective you are performing?
3. Be open to criticism
4. Predict what, if any, outcomes may be harmful, or perceived as harmful by members of the cultural perspective you are presenting.

Cut-Up Exercise

go to : http://www.cutnmix.com/macversion/ or http://www.robopoem.com/ for PC users

• Write a brief aesthetic text from your or another’s perspective (if writing from another’s perspective please complete Alcoff’s steps recommended for “Speaking for Others.”)
• Find one or more other texts to cut up with your text (this can be lyrics, a poem, a movie script, a set of directions - anything!)
• Cut N Mix: 1.) Download the app for your respective computing machine 2.) Open the app and go to "Input Tracks" tab; 3.) Select "Track 1" tab and write in your composed piece (sorry, this does not do "cut' and "paste"!) 4.) Select "Track 2/3/4" tab and insert your reappropriated piece(s) 5.) Tab back to "Output" and determine your parameters (i.e. turning down one track, etc., size filtering out words) 6.) Hit "Mix Tracks" 7.) I FORGOT TO MENTION THIS IN CLASS SO PLEASE READ: Again Cut N Mix cannot cut and paste so hit "Save Mix" and save it somewhere you will be able to locate. It will save as a TextEdit file. You can use that to print it out or cut and paste into Word/GoogleDocs/Open Office.

  
  

• Refine the language to make as much (or little sense) as you would like. This is another layer of your aesthetic interpretation.
  *At least 20 lines, please!

Links for Today's Performances

Taylor: http://wimp.com/kidtalk/
Dorian: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VDMBMWzeNac
Carlos: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ziGaUiFXPI&feature=c4-overview&list=UUSWbsIOjo6w0IJdoTE-o56g
Abby: http://vimeo.com/32617142
Tucker: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rc2yU7OUMcI
Carly: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=juMwSNZ2ltM
Amanda: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wpFRlhPzQJ8
Kristen: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=apNKEhdokKM
Lauren: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XeJyEfMVp5E
Perri: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pZfvpbIgiZA
Li Zhishu: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eR2hyEbZ4dU
Ellie: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sia31xQBWAM
Will Medlock: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=abThcjwuW4w
Ryan: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ngwUTTPbMzY
Laura: https://vimeo.com/71799569

Response

Emergence

I guess it's a story that talk about the cooperation. But it also shows that people need to communicate to each other. Every one has their own unique answer to the weight, or say to everything. When they communicate to others and share their answers, they may get a better idea. I think that's the point.

Help

For this part, I actually think about the fear. People fear something that can happen recently, but not something faraway from them. For example, everybody knows that smoking and drinking will hurt their body. But they won't quit because they probably die for that 40 years later. It's still far away from that. However, when you pull that consequence in front of their faces, they will truly think about that. I think that's an interesting point.

emergence and help

For the emergence part, it tells us a story about a compitation to weight an ox in their mind. The result shows that people who guess in groups get a very accurate and close answer. I think it tells us that people who works in group is more easy to have a better idea.
For the help pat, it tell us a story about some people who wants to quite cigarettes or cure alcoholism. The most interesting thing for me is their conflict in mind, it is hard to stop,but they also feel guilty if they keep doing this.