WEEK 9

From Sarah & Lizzie –

WEDNESDAY CLASS

In Wednesday’s Class, we went through the creative possibilities for Task Four – showcasing our work in different mediums from previous ideas.

We looked at different media forms including sound, video art and mobile media works and how this can contribute to our own personal reflective task. For example, once examining the different media forms, I have decided to settle on a more artistic video reflection for my piece – particularly centered around mosaics and videography for the main theme.

From this, we discussed the states of natural and unnatural and how our own works can create sensory experiences, rather than just singular meaning. Thus, expressing your work in different formats can change the experience for the viewer – for example, using instagram as a medium to express your photos or tumblr to showcase your videography.

We also discussed creative possibilities and making media from non-linear and non traditional methods which was interesting to discuss and to hear people’s view on different things. We watched a couple of multimedia projects including: Interstitial Moment by Robert Croma, The Aesthetics of New Media Art by Johnathan Harris and Greg Hochmuch and The Enclave by Richard Mosse.

Thus, this further expanded our knowledge on the different showcasing of media and will be something we will consider going into task four.

THURSDAY CLASS

In Thursday’s class, we went through several tasks that would enable us to narrow our approach to task four. It was important that the idea we had for task four was open to flexibility but also had enough direction for us to work towards. Our first activity was to look at the small, big and biggest things that we wanted done in task four. The biggest things were basically the prompt or questions that we wanted explored or answered in task four- it was what we wanted to find out. The big things was more of a focus on what we had to do in order to answer the prompts we set ourselves. These things were fairly broad, whereas the small things were the very specific tasks that we reminded ourselves we needed to do for our task four. By separating our tasks into these columns, we could establish what individual tasks would lead us to achieve our goals.

Our next task was creating a timeline to plan out the next couple of weeks before task four is due. The previous chart made it a lot easier to devise a timeline, with an outline of the smaller things we had to accomplish in order to achieve the big.

Lastly, we listed the important words that related to our individual projects, in order to maintain the correct direction in our task four and not go off topic. These words can be drawn upon throughout our timeline to ensure we are exploring what we set out to.