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'''Reading, Writing, and Research Methodologies 2015-16'''  
'''Reading, Writing, and Research Methodologies 2017-18'''
 
Led by Kate Briggs




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Throughout, there will be an emphasis on working collectively, whether in a larger discussion group or in smaller reading and writing groups.  
Throughout, there will be an emphasis on working collectively, whether in a larger discussion group or in smaller reading and writing groups.  


==Outcome: Text on Method==


Outcome:
The specific outcome for the RW&RM seminar of 2016-2017 will be a 1500 word text which reflects on your own method and situates your work in relation to a broader artistic and cultural context. The various texts produced within the RW&RM seminar will serve as source material for your text on method. In common with all modules on the course RW&RM serves to support the other elements of the course (Self-directed Research, Issues in Art & Theory, Practice-Group Critiques &c.). Therefore, the text on method will inform your Self-Evaluation at the end of the third trimester and provide the basis for your Graduate Project Proposal that you will produce in the fourth trimester.
 
The specific outcome for the RW&RM seminar of 2015-2016 will be a 1500 word text which reflects on your own method and situates your work in relation to a broader artistic and cultural context. The various texts produced within the RW&RM seminar will serve as source material for your text on method. In common with all modules on the course RW&RM serves to support the other elements of the course (Self-directed Research, Issues in Art & Theory, Practice-Group Critiques &c.). Therefore, the text on method will inform your Self-Evaluation at the end of the third trimester and provide the basis for your Graduate Project Proposal that you will produce in the fourth trimester.
 
 
 
 
Basic style sheet
 
Titles and works = ''italics''
 
Essays = Title in Caps
 
Notation = Harvard System (writer, page number) = (Smith, 26)
 
URL = make link
 
 
[[Essay guide]]
 
[[ Print Room ]]
 
[[ Where to find books ]]
 
 
[[general tips]]
 
 
===TRIMESTER ONE===
 
 
===1-10-15 ===
 
==WhoWhatWhy #      1==
 
[[week one 71 Oct]]
 
[[WhatHowWhy]]
 
[[past pages methods]]
 
[[Eo]]
[[Jess]]
[[Adam]]
[[Nicholas]]
[[Dan T]]
[[Tor]]
[[Erika]]
[[Angelica]]
[[Ash's WhatHowWhy]]
 
===Oct 29===
 
==Exquisite corpse 29-10-15:==
 
Monumental tooth
 
licking fluffy milkshake
 
and tacky tears
 
Icy black hole
 
Whistles pink monument
 
Swirly shark
 
Whipped the sticky sunset
 
And keys of well being
 
Pock-marked cock
 
Drinking juicy molecule
 
And Rushton’s Steve
 
Mortified star
 
Painted chalky roads and sad sex
 
Ungrateful speaker yells
 
Weeping many chairs
 
Flea-bitten shoe twisting gravel
 
Gleaming Australian accent
 
Explicit sock folding softly and vegan omelette
 
Sweet computer set
 
Flowery gravel
 
and my lovers
 
destroyed
 
follow twinkle cold and colourful trap
 
Depressed toothpicks descend
 
Soft shyness
 
Laundry line
 
Frequent bell
 
Slow
 
Pleasingly bumblebee and axolotl
 
==29-10-15 = Random questions to works of art ==
 
 
[[upload questions and to,  and answers from, your work here]]
 
[[Angelica_questions&answers]]
 
[[Dan T questions]]
 
[[Ash's Questions]]
 
[[Viktor T questions]]
 
[[Anni Q&A]]
 
[[Adam Q&A]]
 
[[Tor - question to thing in box]]
 
[[Jess - Tell me about your dance/ the trouble I had]]
 
[[Eo Question]]
 
[[A list of all the questions]]
 
== 29-10-15 = What am I doing and what do I want?==
 
[[outline project]]
 
[[What am I doing and what do I want?]]
 
==12-11-15==
 
Morning:
 
Recap
 
Notetaking
 
Uncreative writing
 
Afternoon
 
Writing machines
 
 
==26-11-15==
 
AM:
 
Subjects:
 
Material Metaphors (from Hayles'Wriiting Machines)
 
Ong now and then
 
Method: note taking
 
Late AM and afternoon: writing machines
 
[[angelica_3]]
 
[[eo_3]]
 
[[Ash's writing machine]]
 
[[Viktor's pseudo gothic title generator]]
 
[[Jess's writing machine]]
 
[[Anni's writing machine]]
 
[[Erika's script]]
 
[[Dan T's writing machine]]
 
 
Outcome of the machines here:
 
==10-12-2015==
 
Work in context
 
We will write notes together on this pad:
 
http://piratepad.net/246s5BWyKv
 
 
==28-1-16==
 
At the ''N'' C.A.C
 
10:00 = Steve outlines the project=
 
What is the N C.A.C and what are we doing there? The curator's brief
 
11:00 = into groups of two
 
11:00 = prepare interview 1
 
11:10 = conduct interview 1 (20 minutes max)
 
11:20 = prepare interview 2
 
11:30 = conduct interview 2 (20 minutes max)
 
12:00= transcribe your interview
 
LUNCH
 
 
14:00 = edit your partner's text
 
UPLOAD TEXT HERE>
 
[[Interview with Erika]]
 
[[Interview with Viktor]]
 
[[Interview with Nicholas by Tor]]
 
[[Dan interviewed by Ash]]
 
[[Dan interviews Ash]]
 
[[Aggressively Fun Connie meets Angelica]]
 
[[Tor interviewed by Nicholas]]
 
[[Eo interviewed by Anni]]
 
[[Anni interviewed by Eo]]
 
[[Connie interviewed by Angelica]]
 
16:00 review in group
 
==11-2-2016==
 
 
10:15 Discuss the difference between a passive and active voice.
 
[[passive]]
 
[[active vs. passive]]
 
10:30
 
Reading: ''Politics and the English Language'' (1948) by George Orwell.
 
In context Orwell vs. modernism: ''1984'', BASIC English and Otto Neurath
 
 
''Politics and the English Language'' is an old text, but today we will use Orwell as a writing machine
 
Orwell writes:
 
" A scrupulous writer, in every sentence that he writes, will ask himself at least four questions, thus:
 
1. What am I trying to say?
 
2. What words will express it?
 
3. What image or idiom will make it clearer?
 
4. Is this image fresh enough to have an effect?
 
And he will probably ask himself two more:
 
1. Could I put it more shortly?
 
2. Have I said anything that is avoidably ugly?" (p.3)
 
Orwell later proposes the following rules:
 
"1. Never use a metaphor, simile or other figure of speech which you are used to seeing in print.
 
2. Never use a long word where a short one will do.
 
3. If it is possible to cut a word out, always cut it out.
 
4. Never use the passive where you can use the active.
 
5. Never use a foreign phrase, a scientific word or a jargon word if you can think of an everyday English equivalent.
 
6. Break any of these rules sooner than say anything barbarous." (p.5)
 
 
From 11:00
 
Experiment:


(a) edit the text you wrote last week using the active voice.
Here are the [[Text on Method guidelines]];


(b) apply Orwell's constraints to the interview text you made during the last session (you can also apply to other texts, of course). Keep both versions for comparison.
Here is the link to previous texts on method: [['''FINAL VERSIONS''' deadline 6th May]]


(c) option: you can choose to swap texts.
==Link to the RW&RM archive==


[[Angelicas new draft]]


[[Ash interviews Dan Orwellised]]


[[Connie interviewed by Angelica]]


[[Anni interviewed Eo]]
[[Previously]]

Latest revision as of 13:42, 1 November 2017

Reading, Writing, and Research Methodologies 2017-18

Led by Kate Briggs


Handbook description: "The Reading, Writing, and Research Methodologies Seminar is tailored towards (further) developing research methods within the first year of this master. By establishing a solid foundation of research skills, it will eventually prepare students for their Graduate research in the second year. Through reading core theoretical texts, they will establish a common vocabulary and set of references to work from. They will learn the practice of classic ‘essayistic methodologies’, including close reading, annotation, description and notation, students learn to survey a body of literature, filter what is relevant to their research and create comparative pieces of analysis. The seminar helps students to establish methodical drafting processes for their texts, where they can develop ideas further and structure their use of notes and references. The course takes as axiomatic that the perceived division between ‘practice’ and ‘theory’ is essentially an illusion."

Curriculum:

The seminar over the two trimesters will involve:

(a.) Identifying the object of your research: description and analysis of your work

(b.) Contextualizing your work through description and reflection on contemporary and historical practices.

(c.) Identify research material key to your practice.

(d.) Synopsis and annotation of key texts

(e.) Writing machines: creating methods for group and individual writing.

Throughout, there will be an emphasis on working collectively, whether in a larger discussion group or in smaller reading and writing groups.

Outcome: Text on Method

The specific outcome for the RW&RM seminar of 2016-2017 will be a 1500 word text which reflects on your own method and situates your work in relation to a broader artistic and cultural context. The various texts produced within the RW&RM seminar will serve as source material for your text on method. In common with all modules on the course RW&RM serves to support the other elements of the course (Self-directed Research, Issues in Art & Theory, Practice-Group Critiques &c.). Therefore, the text on method will inform your Self-Evaluation at the end of the third trimester and provide the basis for your Graduate Project Proposal that you will produce in the fourth trimester.

Here are the Text on Method guidelines;

Here is the link to previous texts on method: '''FINAL VERSIONS''' deadline 6th May

Link to the RW&RM archive

Previously

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