PARTICIPATION (20%)

• Create a list of at least five significant actions that will contribute to your learning in ecologies of noticing.
• Document this list in your blog.
• Describe what you have done well and what you might need to do differently in your blog (we will do this at the start of every studio)
• At the end of semester you will use this documented record to assign an overall grade for your participation in this studio.
• This will contribute half of the value of this final brief.

In our final studio you will look over your documented history of participation, what the significant actions are that you defined, and then share with the class (verbally) what you have done well, what you have learnt to do better, what you could have done better, and the overall grade you are awarding yourself for your participation. THIS WILL BE IN THE FINAL STUDIO.

A RELATIONAL PORTRAIT (Intimate Glimpses) (20%)
This studio has invited you to think about the importance and role of relations between things and what these relations do. How they are what we notice of things, that there are other things that could be noticed (by us, and by other creatures, and by other non living things – what a glass ‘notices’ about water is not what we notice about water). This is relationality. Things can have relations because they have properties or qualities that come into relation, that are available to be ‘called’ by other things. This is materiality. What these qualities and properties are, and how they come to matter to the things that come to relate, is their agency.

These ideas are applied to everything. To the camera in itself, to us and the camera, to us and the camera and what is filmed.

To explore this and to help realise it through making (doing, not talking about it) you will make three short descriptive (list like) films. Each film is to be a minimum of one minute in length.

• the first film is about a single thing you have that matters for you
• the second film is about one activity and in that activity one key action that you do that matters for you
• the third film is about one statement (quote) from any of the course readings that matters for you

In the thing and activity films there must be a narrational sound track. This sound track must detail the parts of the thing or action. It should not name the thing or action. It will involve you filming their single thing, and in the second film you deciding what you want to film, and why.

The first two films need to include a brief written report that describes:

1. what you want your work to do
2. how would you know if it has done this? (what would your work do or be like to achieve this?)
3. and what do you think what you have made achieves?

In the third quote film the first shot should be the quote. The narrational sound track should list (not explain) or describe in what ways this matters to you. What does this quote let you do, or caused you to do? How has it (as an idea) changed you?

All work is due end of Friday June 2. Please submit the three films that you have made inside a single folder that has your name. Make sure your written work is in this folder too. Your written work must include your name INSIDE the document.

SUBMIT YOUR WORK TO THIS FOLDER.