1:1 Tutorial:
- Peter Osborne – mediums identity (photography)
- Mute – New Aesthetic Critique
- Revised Question: What is the medium status now? (more direct line of questioning)
- Manipulation and the Internet
- Focus on Photographic forms
- Gursky – specifically (high profile case) of exploring the post-medium condition – commenting on loss of medium specificity
- Marsolier – Deals with digital (falsification of the real) artefacts
- need to start with definitive chapters that will help in the initial writing process, adding structure and thematic links in writing
- essentially question of photography in the post-medium condition (not a case of what it looks like, but what actually is it?)
- deals with issues of the digital including ‘New Aesthetics’ – need to specify an artist who links to this movement
- also deals with the web – context in which to frame the work
Breaks down research into:
- Medium
- Aesthetic
- Digital Context
- Installation/Dissemination
Dissertation Workshop:
Reading Books:
- Abstract and Conclusion – INITIAL READ ONLY – before highlighting key chapters to explore more extensively
- Academic Support: Email Support Tutors (Throughout Autumn Term)
Thursday (A336) - Nicola Ray (Library) – AVAILABLE ON MONDAY AFTERNOONS
- Tom Beggs (E Block – E106) – Academic Support Office
- ‘Question[ING]‘ as an academic register***
- Hito Steyerl – e-flux
- Affect/Memory Theory Reader (Whitechapel)
- Be poetic, emotive (but not emotional) and creative in wiring – but only do this when beneficial to style of writing or topic
- Examples include: Sontag, Barthes, Berger
- Dissertations available in the library
- Make your argument active – active language makes the words come to life
- Content equal to context/Structure
- Show your personality in your writing – this will make your writing stand out from others on a similar topic
Initial Research Chapters:
- Discression (medium specificity)
- Digital manipulation (uses and values)
- Dissemination (Internet)
- Disillusionment (‘news virtual reality – real and fake)
- Demand (societal)
Begin sentences with the dynamics of a working camera/End with the muster of what results…
Interconnectedness of the internet
