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
Dissertations 10th October 2011
Round table talk about our ideas.
Conference in February re Family Album propaganda.
Ideas?
Photographer as filmmaker.
Facebook and family album propaganda.
The role of the road trip in photographic projects.
SdC.
Develop Ideas on 31st October.
Plagiarism is passing work off as your own.
Must source all your quotes.
Biblio and notes need to be in good shape.
If you can't source it you can't use it.
'as Barthes argues' or 'Sontag suggests'.
1200 words.
Tutorials.
Procrastination.
Being boring and disciplined helps.
Fear?
Perfectionism?
Poor time management?
Laziness?
Writers block? Don't try and write in a polished way, write then polish later!
Proposals.
Avoid chronological, too broad, a zillion books do this.
Similar in the way you pitch your practical ideas.
Convince the tutor it's doable and worthwhile.
Hundreds of hours.
Acknowledge the work ou are undertaking.
Break project down into tasks.
Give progress update to yourself.
Major Practical Project - Introduction
- Producing one project
- How to produce a project
- Presentation to gallery standard
- Project engagement
- How to Steal like an artist
- Need to be excited and energised by projects
- Passion
- Daniel Meadows - Uni projects!
- Tony Ray-Jones - systems & notes - reflected on his own work
- Rob Ball - cataloging cigarette machines
- John Cyr
- Managing a Project
- Research - finding a subject
- Planning (schedule)
- Doing!
- Output - book, exhibition, distribution
- Promotion - before, during and after completion
Dissertation - Introduction
- Difficult conversations - no time for nurturing
- No time for slacking
- No one will chase you
- Fill in the silence
- Proformas!
- Work back from hand in date - mechanism?
- Time Management - 90% manage/10% craft
- 1000 word proforma
- Talking about research projects
- 8000 - 10000 words
- By March supervisory tutorial
- Abstract 200 words (10% of mark) - written at the end
- Individual support
- Intense tutorials - book early and often - come with ideas
- Initiate independent study
- Research - start with enthusiasm - fall off - must push past the lulls
- Chapter of a book to be taken on to PhD
- Proforma 8th December 2011 and deadline 26th April 2012
- Working Title is ok, worry about title in March
- You sign to say you can acquire the resources
- Bibliography - what are the 5-10 key texts in this field? (total 30-50 texts)
- Emailed response over xmas so I can get going!
- Not nailed down - you can change and re-submit proforma
- Everything you read informs dissertation and must be in Biblio.
- Joined up thinking?
- Methods of research booklet
- Get started! Thinking! Diary! Notebook!
- Four colour pen...
- Library - drill down deep
- Inter library loans/journals/electronic journals/buy
- Run at an idea hard for three days!
- What is out there? What has been done?
- Can i put a spin on it?
- If boring - leave it!
- Need to feel a passion
- Is it doable? in 10000 words?
- Dummy run
- Live it!
Mixed Media - Introduction
- Think of Mixed Media as a single module
- Essay can be a photograph & not necessarily writing (piece of work)
- Research this term - ideas & prototypes
- Essay next term - doing it - tutorial based
- Tutorials available 5-7pm
- Esther Rosenfeld - Artist - how do you define yourself?
- Critical Journal is a key piece - what, why, how...
- Deadline 24th April 2012
- Proforma deadline is 8th December 2011
- 80/20, 50/50, 20/80
- 5 min film & 1000 word essay
- 3 minute film & 2000 word essay
- Storyboard/sequencing & 4000 word essay
- Proforma = 500 words
- Resources - assistant, camera, sound
- Bibliography
- Substantial Critical Journal - SOI, all research, prototype (storyboard & seq.)
- written research, visual research, contextualisation of your position
- critical reflection
- Where and how you will do it will be part of the prototype
- Journal is returned and re-submitted in April
- Prototype is returned and re-submitted in April
- Must be ratified
- What is Mixed Media?
- Opportunity to undertake practice (practice based research)
- Can be a photography portfolio (the essay is the mix)
- Examples - walk & sound track, photography & fell walking
- Do it and document it, photo or film (evidence it)
- Co-related mixed media and MPP
- Tight neat package of assignments - everything is contributing
- Example - non print publication or a book or a banner (self publish)
- Magazine?
- Narrow yet deep!
- A one minute film takes one day to edit
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