Lecture Notes


  • Vision 11 - Daniel Meadows
  • Next Week - Nothing!
  • Two Weeks - Group Crits - talk about your work
  • Three Weeks - Laura Pannack 3pm
  • Trip 24th Nov - Tate
  • Trip 30th Nov - East End
  • Photography & Anthropology - Lecture by Miranda Hutton
  • Representations of the Other
  • The 'Other' = people outside of our culture

Talk by Simon Roberts 19th October 2011

Authorship. Author not illustrator. Motherland 5000 photos. My own visual language. Looking at leisure time. What hasn't been photographed? Interrogation of the landscape. Aesthetic, found framing style. Value of the environment. Overt statement in photography. Three months planning. Democratising the commission and citizen journalism. Photos and text. Ask people to send photos. No curating or editing. Photographic wall. Cover of book needs model release. The Role of the Roadtrip.

Creative Plus 18th October 2011

Graduate Show Summer 2012. Free Range? Dates? Sidney Cooper 14th June to 21st June 2012. Question: "What do you do?" Brand/Values, must create a package. Prepared cover letter, statement about me, why I would be good for your gallery. Teacher Training? NESTA. Values and placing their importance.

Mixed Media 17th October 2011

Must book tutorials early and come with 'stuff' Plagiarism in terms of mixed media has two areas of concern Written must be sourced Practical needs to impose your signature (authorship) Authorship is the opposite of plagiarism! An early prototype needs to accompany the proposal Intervention/take back to source Ambitious Project The mixing can be a theoretical paper and a portfolio Inter-connections between modules are allowed We looked at Karen's Project, elastic band, resin ball, huge print Christian Marclay, music playing cards, snapshot aesthetic, beautifully produced Development discussion on 7th November