February 24-26

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I. Announcements​

• Remember to look for the right dates under "CYPHER" to find your readings!
• If you are 100% sure of your presentation's topic, add it to the sign-up sheet.  Do NOT duplicate a topic.​

• All presentation links must be emailed (with editor access) the day before (the slides do not need to be complete)
• When absent, please look at the agenda for that day of class to see what you missed
• Next Presentations are Wednesday, 3/5: Ashley​
• And it was Keith Lee vs. British Food ALL WEEKEND! Thank Kate & Paige for this!

II. Presentations

Luke & James

Charlotte

Booktok Presentation by Charlotte Stephanow

III. This Week's Workshop

Black Rhetoric/Black Language... On(the)Line

Click Here for sign-up with a partner for next week's work on Black Rhetoric where you will make a visual together of one of the elements above!  

FINAL TASKS

1. Make sure that the final page is FIRST in the line-up (make sure you have also explained who did what)
2. Make sure your textboxes have full prose, not bulleted items. 
3. Make your names and title are prominent (erase what was created for you)! BOX IN VIDEOS (as needed)!
4. Make sure your AI background is as accurate as can be.  What would this person think about how you drew them? What would Black audiences think about how you made this person look?
5. You will lose access to your work when class ends. Finish NOW! 
6. Ask any questions before you leave.  These will all be collated into ONE presentation for the whole class next week. 
7. If you were absent Monday, plan to do the assignment solo, because your partner likely already finished.

• Start here: Find an example of your Black Rhetorical element and EMBED the video! Do not weblink! (BL Workbook and/or class sessions for ideas)
• How does this example embody your Black Rhetorical element?  What difference does it make? Explain w/ words in textboxes! 
• Get started with google's AI lab via your gmail account: https://labs.google/fx
• Create an animated background via AI that matches the person in your video! (you can ONLY use AI animation, not live figures or images created by someone else/another platform)​
• Use the weblink emailed to you for google slides. The work needs to be accessed fast and easy in order to collate everyone's slides.

Our Main Elements

• Call & Response
• Signifyin
• Tonal Semantics
• Semantic Inversion
• Directness
• Narrative Sequencing

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Our Secondary Elements

• Proverbial Statement 
• Spontaneity and Improvisation 
• Image-Making and Metaphor
• Braggadocio
• Exaggerated Language
• Mimicry
• Punning/Play on Words

...from the 1977 work of Geneva Smitherman.

This is Submission #7 due at the end of Wednesday’s class-- A HARD DEADLINE (see syllabus).  We will work on this in class. It is worth 3 points (with extra points available based on how good your AI animation is). 
​If you use live figures, no credit!

AfroSurrealist AI Art (and here) might be ONLY time to use live figures and not be cringy....