Week 10 Update: PB4 Begins

This update provided by Adrian Lapiz.

It’s that time of the year again. The time where find ourselves extremely overwhelmed by the amount of work we’re given and the lack of time we have to complete it. The time where we lock ourselves in our rooms, telling everyone we’re going to study, but really, we’re just going to cry. The time where we begin to question why we even chose this career path. That’s right, it’s the end of semester. With only a few weeks left to go, we were tasked with one final assignment; to “embark on an exploration of the theoretical, practical, industrial or creative possibilities that lie at the intersection of old and new media”.

Now, since this assignment is about applying all of our research that we’ve done over the past semester into practice, we don’t really have any more content to discuss in class. That means no more interesting class discussions, no more fun little tasks and activities, it’s literally just time to work on our assignments (which makes weekly updates a little more difficult).

With such an open-ended topic, it’s good to see a variety of creative ideas among the students.

So, I asked a few students (and a tutor) about what they are planning for their assignment. Here’s what they said:

“I am creating a playlist and seeing how it translates over three different formats. So, I’m doing a cassette tape, a compact disc, and a Spotify playlist, all of which are accompanied with variant different album artworks and seeing the different associated meanings between forms”

• Anniemae Goldring

“I’m embroidering ‘F*ck You’ into a pillow. I’m going to put the F, U, C, and K, into sequential order, and then embroider little pretty flowers around it. Embroidery’s an old thing, it’s a pretty old gig. It’s about authenticity, I’d say, and then combining that with the quite modern, contemporary expression, ‘F*ck You’. Many people wouldn’t say ‘F*ck You’, back when embroidery was a big gig. New and old”

• Shannon Griffiths

“I’m Cody, and I’m in a group, and I’m with Adrian in the group, and Jeremy, but we call him Bryan, and we’re doing 80s. We are doing a video for the 80s. Funky music, themes, and stylisations, and nostalgia, and materiality. 80s history, originality, process, research (it will take a lot of research into 80s things), and then we’ll be satisfied”

• Cody Nelson

“I am doing many things for my assignment. I’m trying to collate some materials on authenticity, and materiality. I’m trying to make sure that I read the project brief carefully, and that I submit everything on time”

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