Unit 8 Essay:
Starting Points: Research
‘PREDICTING THE FURURE OF TECHNOLOGY’
- The Arcades Project: Convolute (pg. 27 onwards)
- The Dialectics of Seeing – Susan Buck-Morss/Walter Benjamin
- Overcoming Conformism – Ester Lesley
- The Death of Art – Hegel
Dissertation Notes:
- 18th April deadline for Unit 8 (3000 words)
- 31st May deadline for 500-100 (words) Dissertation Proposal
- Diss. 6-8000 words
- (Pre) Diss. Tutor Tutorial soon after the proposal deadline (45 min tutorial about Unit 8 Essay and Diss. Proposal questions) in May after Unit 8 Deadline
- No accommodated assessment for Diss. Proposal
- Anonymous Marking?
- *** Modified Diss. Assessment Deadline for Diss. (before or after Christmas)
- Friday 12th & Mon 20th June (Diss. Proposal Tutorials – cannot be change)
- Draft of Diss. at the beginning of Yr 3 (2000 words – Unit 10)
Diss. Proposal can be modified after the fact, the finished Diss. being vastly different but may be different to the knowledge and skill set of assigned tutor and goes without valid feedback in the beginning of the year - Format Writing: Develop and language and style of writing and should be creative in format and ideas
- Creative synthesis of ideas etc.
- Don’t do bland intro.
- Make the word count count, don’t waste on introductions
Diss. may not even be (essentially) an argument
How, and why did Benjamin predict the future of technological based practise in Fine Art