Saw some work. Edited some words. Made some posters. Answered some questions. Moved everything along. Tried to avoid making monuments. Trying to let things be allowed to be finished even if not perfect so that you can do and finishRead more…
Penultimate Friday
Rushing Headlong Toward What We Don’t Know
Isabelle outlines her 100 media project which has been to compose a list within a constrained space in an artist’s studio. This is a formal exercise in making, similar to the work that fluxus (outline, and their project) and OULIPORead more…
What’s Happened?
There’s movement on the blogs after a period of torpor, but no one is coming to the studios? Curious as to why? Monique has a good post with a variety of contextualising quotes for her project about what a fenceRead more…
essays
Introductory remarks about essays, films and stuff from Wednesday’s class:
Excitement
This is the opening introductory chapter (PDF of John Law’s After Method: Mess In Social Science Research. It could be the manifesto for this semester. Law is a colleague of Bruno Latour (actor-network theory, mentioned in the Bogost readings andRead more…
Updates, Notes, Clips, Quotes
In the lab I showed the very opening of Chris Marker’s Sunless (Sans Soleil). Widely regarded as the masterpiece of essay films. What I showed was the film’s first minute: I emphasised how it discussed itself, solved its problems byRead more…
Week 10 Part 2
This is one of those posts and today was one of those studios where you can’t write it down to explain what we did or happened. That misses what we did, but also confuses the teaching and learning with aRead more…
Week 10
Summary read Corrigan apply edits and complete draft of script For this coming Friday apply the edits that have been suggested today, keep writing. Aim for 1500 words maximum. We are going to work intensively on the writing on FridayRead more…
Corrigan, Essays
This is the opening chapter of Corrigan, Timothy. The Essay Film: From Montaigne, After Marker. Oxford University Press, USA, 2011. Print. Read it. If it appears too much, then you must at least get up to page 30. (PDF extract,Read more…