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Critical Mass is a performative criticism wiki site created to explore the relationships between visual culture, contemporary criticism, mass communications, and computer technologies. Performative criticism is reflexive about positionality, boundaries, and authority, calling attention to author--text--audience relationships. Critical Mass will explore criticism as paradoxical power-critique, and will consider the ways in which new technologies of writing affect the development, distribution, and reception of criticism.

Critical Mass is a site of investigation through experience and experimentation: We explore criticism and the politics of creating and reading critical statements within and around intra and extra-institutional spaces while considering relationships between criticism, language, subjectivity, and authority. We situate this project in constructivist learning processes, seeking ways to develop individual and communal reflexive critical practices that actively engage, yet problematize, assumptions about the meanings and functions of critical expressions.

television-ish discussionAn open and fluid text-in/as-process, Critical Mass is shaped through the interactions of traditional classroom-based writing assignments with the iterative writing approaches of online discussion forums, featuring work from students in Art Educ 367.03; Criticizing Television and Art Educ 367.02; Criticizing Art at The Ohio State University.




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posted by wright.871   May 21 2007, 11:25 AM EDT
"Untitled" by Glenn Ligon
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posted by crit.mass   Feb 24 2007, 11:12 PM EST
Art Criticism Round Table: October Journal (2002)
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posted by crit.mass   Feb 17 2007, 4:34 PM EST
"This essay attempts to map out the main issues surrounding visual studies..."
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posted by crit.mass   Feb 14 2007, 1:48 PM EST
Lovink, G. (2007). Blogging: The Nihilistic Impulse