Apr 4, 2019 | Coursework, Coursework IC, Informing Contexts |
For part of our coursework for Informing Contexts this week we were asked to look at Trilogy (2003/2103) by Daniel Gustav Cramer. We were asked to consider the nature of the development of Trilogy as a long-term project, how effective we believed the edit of his work...
Mar 31, 2019 | Coursework, Coursework IC, Informing Contexts |
This week’s coursework is about contexts in which objects are displayed. This subject is not just about how we might arrange our work in a particular space but also about the politics and economics of art organisations. These institutions in turn are able to influence...
Mar 18, 2019 | Coursework, Coursework IC, Informing Contexts |
As part of our reading and reflecting this week we were asked to consider whether and in what ways photographs can persuade and whether in turn we as the viewer are shocked, apathetic or indifferent and why? Susie Linfield in The Cruel Radience asked: “Try to imagine,...
Mar 13, 2019 | Coursework, Coursework IC, Informing Contexts |
Our tutor advised that in considering the approach and story for our Critical Review of Practice coursework we find a quotation that encapsulates the essence and intent of our work. So I have been searching for the words . . . I had a couple of ideas but neither...
Mar 5, 2019 | Contextual Research, Coursework IC, Informing Contexts |
We were asked to look at a case study this week – National Geographic – and consider the main points and arguments made by Andy Grundberg in A Quintessentially American View of the World – an article in the New York Times (18 September 1988) – coinciding with Odyssey:...
Mar 5, 2019 | Coursework, Coursework IC, Informing Contexts |
This week’s lectures and readings attempt to capture the sheer volume, diversity and contexts in which we view and interpret photographs and to the reproduction and recycling of images. The ‘ordinary image’, broadly defined as those we take with say a...
