Dissertation Tutorial – 16.06.16

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:

1. Medium
2. Aesthetic
3. Digital Context
4. 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:

1. Discression (medium specificity)
2. Digital manipulation (uses and values)
3. Dissemination (Internet)
4. Disillusionment (‘news virtual reality – real and fake)
5. Demand (societal)

Begin sentences with the dynamics of a working camera/End with the muster of what results…

Interconnectedness of the internet