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'''Reading, Writing, and Research Methodologies 2016-17'''   
'''Reading, Writing, and Research Methodologies 2017-18'''   


Led by Steve Rushton (trimester 1&2) and Steve Rushton & Kate Briggs (trimester 3)
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: Text on Method==
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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 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]]; and here is the link to previous texts on method: [['''FINAL VERSIONS''' deadline 6th May]]
Here are the [[Text on Method guidelines]];  
 
==Wiki Basic style sheet==
 
 
 
 
 
 
Titles and works = ''italics''
 
Essays = Title in Caps
 
Notation = Harvard System (writer, page number) = (Smith, 26)
 
URL = make link
 
==Some tips on normative writing==
 
[[Essay guide]]
 
[[general tips]]
 
Active / passive mode of address [[Orwell's Politics and the English Language]] &c
 
 
 
==Session 8 december==
 
 
10:00 Steve gives intro to: 'why the hammer can only think nail'.
 
A field exercise in which:
 
The subject is
 
1) an ecology
 
2) a machine
 
3) a discourse
 
 
11:00 - we go into the field, observe the subject and take notes.
 
 
 
15:30
 
Group performance of our notes in three acts
 
1) an ecology
 
2) a machine
 
3) a discourse
 
 
This session's outcome: a recording of the above archived on the wiki.
 
 
Zigong [Tzu-Gung] traveled south, and on his way back through Jin, as he passed along the south bank of the river Han, he saw an old man working in his vegetable garden. The man had hollowed out an opening by which he entered the well and from which he emerged, lugging a pitcher, which he carried out to water the fields. Grunting and puffing, he used up a great deal of energy and produced very little result. “There is a machine for this sort of thing,” said Zigong. “In one day it can water a hundred fields, demanding very little effort and producing excellent results. Wouldn’t you like one?” The gardener raised his head and looked at Zigong. “How would it work?” “It’s a contraption called gao and is made of a piece of wood. The wood is shaped so that the back end is heavy and the front end light and it raises the water as though it were pouring it out, so fast that it seems to boil right over! It’s called a well sweep.” A scornful smile appeared in the old man’s face, and he said, “I have heard my teacher say that whoever uses machines [jixie] does all his work in the manner of a machine [jishi]. He who does his work in the manner of a machine lets his mind run like a machine [jixin], and he who carries his machine-like mind around loses his pure innocence. Without the pure innocence, the life of the spirit knows no rest. Where the life of the spirit knows no rest, the Way will cease to buoy you up. It’s not that I don’t know about your machine. I would be ashamed to use it!”
Zigong blushed with chagrin, looked down, and made no reply. After a while, the gardener said, “Who are you, anyway?”
“A disciple of Kung Qiu [alias Confucius].”
 
From The Freudian Robot: rethinking the human and the machine, Lydia H. Liu, P 108)
 
 
UNFINISHED BUSINESS:
 
Please upload my notes from the last session here:
 
[[Steve's notes on what I want to do with writing]]
 
I still need to talk to some of you. At the beginning of the next trimester we will get back to unfinished projects, or projects which can be developed further.
 
==Session 24 Nov. What kind of writing practice do you want to build?==
 
This session’s agenda
 
'''10:00 : Kate Briggs'''
 
will extend an invitation for you to become involved in the February Writing Event on the 14 of February 2017. The first of these events took place last year. Students gave readings of texts they were working on and we invited some professional writers to come along and talk with the students individually about the role of writing in their studio practice.
Kate will outline the project and discuss with you how you might participate.
 
 
'''11:00-16:30'''
 
Continue from the last session:
 
[[Task4]]
 
 
11:00-16:30
 
Meetings with Steve:
 
Aim: to talk about your ambitions over the next two years, specifically related to writing. What kind of writing practice do you want to build?
Agenda: please consider these points of discussion beforehand:
 
1) What role does writing currently play in your practice?
 
2) What role would you like writing to take in your practice over the next two years?
 
3) What you read and how you read it – what you write and how you write it (from tweets to shopping lists)
 
4) Throughout, Steve will take minutes and hand them to you for your own use at the end of the session.
 
Sign up here:
 
http://pzwiki.wdka.nl/fineart/Calendars:Fine_Art_Calendar/Fine_Art_Calendar/24-11-2016_-Event_1
 
 
16:15 Upload texts below:
 
 
16:30 Meet in Project space to recap the day’s activities
 
==Upload outcome of Session 4 - 24 Nov==
 
 
[[Task4]]
 
== Session Three 10 Nov==
 
10:00- 11:00
 
Meet in project space for update with Steve
 
Feedback from readers (continued from last session)
 
In groups of 2
 
(1) give feedback on the second draft of the What? How? Why? texts.
 
(2) Make edits to your text and upload changes
 
==Session: weaving research strands, making collective notes==
 
Task three
 
11:00-17:00
 
Select three things
 
1) a piece of media (YouTube clip, film, TV show)
 
2) a text you are reading which has a useful relation to your work
 
3) a work of art (by another) which delights or infuriates you
 
Make a link to media, text &c (where possible) here:
 
https://pad.pzimediadesign.nl/p/Steve_Rushton
 
Bring a lap top
 
 
( When we discuss the texts you choose, Steve will outline handy note taking technique)
 
==Outcome of Session Three==
 
Please upload your wiki content on a new page here
 
[[Three things Nick]]
 
[[three things alex]]
 
[[three things Timur]]
 
[[Three things SOphie]]
 
[[Three things Sophie V]]
 
[[Three things Anne]]
 
[[Three things Collette]]
 
[[Three things Larisa]]
 
[[Three things Anastasia]]
 
[[Three things Katharina]]
 
[[Three things Victor S]]
 
[[Three things George]]
 
==Session Two 27 Oct==
 
 
Task Two:
 
10:00 Intro
 
10:00 - 12:00
 
Describe three of your works
 
for each work describe
 
What (100 words max)
 
How (100 words max)
 
Why (100 words max)
 
300 word description of three works = 900 words (max)
 
12:00
 
==Outcome of Session Two ==
 
 
[[Nick's WWH]]
 
[[Sophie B'sWWH]]
 
[[alexander's what? how why]]
 
[[George's W,W,H]]
 
[[Marta's WWH]]
 
[[Sophie V.s WWH]]
 
[[TimUr's WWH]]
 
[[Johanna's WWH]]
 
[[Shraddha's WWH]]
 
[[George WWH]]
 
[[Victor WWH]]
 
[[Larisa WWH]]
 
[[Katharina's W?W?H?]]
 
[[Collette's WWH]]
 
[[Anne]]
 
[[Anastasia WWH]]
 
 
 
12:15 - 13:00
 
In groups of three,
 
Read each other's texts
 
Readers: give feedback (what were you given to understand by the text? how can it be improved to make it clearer?)
 
Writer: remain silent, do not try to defend the text, concentrate on what the text is actually communicating to your readers.
 
Make notes of your reader's comments
 
13:00 LUNCH
 
14:00 Continue reading in groups and making notes
 
15:00 Make changes to your text
 
Keep original draft
 
17:00 Meet in large group to review and to wind up
 
Steve will introduce next session.
 
17:30 FINISH
 
== Session One: 13 Oct==
 
 
 
 
 
'''10:00''': Introduction to RW&RM by Steve Rushton
 
(a) What happens in the seminar?
 
(b) How does this fit in with the other aspects of the program? 
 
(c) How does the the seminar feed into the course over two years?
 
For every session there is a different task, which employs a different writing method. I will set no assignments outside of the class, but you must commit to trying the methods I suggest for at least the day of the seminar. Over the three trimesters you will accumulate a collection of texts and approaches to writing which serve as a resource as you go into the second year.
 
'''10:30''': Steve will outline the task for this session:
 
www.servinglibrary.org/space
 
'''11:00''' We will catch the 21 or 24 tram to the
 
==Stedelijk Museum Schiedam==
 
'''PLEASE BRING:'''
 
1)  '''NOTEBOOK AND PEN'''
 
2) an '''OV CHIP CARD''' with a few Euro on it
 
3) and a '''PACKED LUNCH'''
 
4)  '''STUDENT CARD/ and or/MUSEUM PASS/ ROTTERDAM PASS'''
 
Exhibition: 
'''The Volkskrant Art Prize 2016-17''': '''Alexis Blake*''', Jan Hoek, Anouk Kruithof, '''Jay Tan*''' and Evelyn Taocheng Wang
 
AND
 
'''Ten Years of the Volkskrant Art Prize'''
A group show of recent work by past winners
Nathalie Bruys (2006) | Guido van der Werve (2007) | Eylem Aladogan (2009) | '''Navid Nuur*''' (2010) | Ahmet Ögüt (2011) | Tala Madani (2012) | Femmy Otten (2013) | Floris Kaayk (2014) | Bram De Jonghe (2015)
And public's favourites: Sharon Houkema (2010) | Nik Christensen (2011) | Sarah van Sonsbeeck (2012) | Zoro Feigl (2013) | Floris Kaayk (2014) | Levi van Veluw (2015)
 
'''(*Piet Zwart alumni / alumna)'''
 
'''16:00''': Meet up back at the Piet Zwart to review work done.
 
'''17:00:''' Finish
 
'''Useful links'''
 
Venue:
 
http://www.stedelijkmuseumschiedam.nl/nl/
 
Route: 21 or 24 tram (25 mins)
 
https://www.google.nl/maps/dir/Centraal+Station,+Centrum,+Rotterdam/Stedelijk+Museum+Schiedam,+Hoogstraat+112,+3111+Schiedam/@51.9191103,4.4171624,14z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m14!4m13!1m5!1m1!1s0x47c434a5b6024787:0x332d3e78fcabe64e!2m2!1d4.4692218!2d51.9250827!1m5!1m1!1s0x47c4356ad919961b:0x6e314d010ad71885!2m2!1d4.3981296!2d51.9159847!3e3
 
==Outcomes of Session One==
 
 
here are the notes:
 
[[Media:2steve.png]]


and here is the sound file of your collective reading:
Here is the link to previous texts on method: [['''FINAL VERSIONS''' deadline 6th May]]


http://pzwart1.wdka.hro.nl/~acastro/descriptive%20description.mp3
==Link to the RW&RM archive==




[[previously...]]




[[Links to Steve's Intro Talk: Bibliography]]
[[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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