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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.
 
==TRIMESTER TWO==
 
 
 
==Session Eight - 23-2-17==
 
To prepare..
 
as a mental exercise...
 
imagine...
 
you have a show in
 
THE PERFECT SPACE and
 
THE PERFECT AUDIENCE
 
come to see it!
 
What is THE SPACE and who are the AUDIENCE and WHAT WOULD YOU SHOW THEM?
 
This session will involve
 
interview, transcription of interview and editing of interview.
 
Here is today's pad:
 
https://pad.bleu255.com/p/Steve23FedMFA
 
And here is the program:
 
10:00-16:00
 
1) Boomerang. Nancy Holt & Richard Serra
 
2) Perfect, Perfect
 
3) Normal, Usual
 
==Normalville Contemporary Art Centre for Contemporary Art==
 
[Very clear notes from today's pad:]
 
Normalville Contemporary Arts Centre of Art (CACOA)
 
3 works will be installed in 1 of the 500sqft space.
 
What does the audience need to know about the work?
 
The audience live in Normalville but 90% of them are not from the art industry.
 
2 hour plan:
 
for 30 min ::::0) Prepare for the interview
 
for 30min :::: 1) You will be the curator and will ask questions to elicit responses from the artist (that will encourage the ppl from Normalville to visit the show?
 
for 30 min :::: 2) You will be the artist and will be interviewed by the curator on the show you are proposing, you will negotiate your position.
 
for as long as it takes ::::3) Transcribe the interview
 
for as long as it takes ::::4) discuss and edit interviews.
 
As artist: Plan the exhibition 
 
As curator: Plan the questions you want to ask
 
For interview:
 
Talk NO MORE than 30 MINS -- or a focussed interview will become an 'interesting conversation'
 
Please don't talk "industry language"
 
References:
   
Tate Shots: 5 minute artist interviews: http://www.tate.org.uk/context-comment/audio-video/search?
 
 
From 16:00
 
At 16:00 those who want to be part of the radio re-do meet in the small project space.
 
[[Re-do radio]]
 
 
Steve will introduce the "orwell writing machine"
 
[[Orwell's Politics and the English Language]]
 
Upload interviews here
 
[[transcript Nick]]
 
[[Collette Transcript]]
 
[[Anne K interview]]
 
[[George tran]]
 
[[Alex trans]]
 
[[Johanna trans]]
 
[[Anastasia trans]]
 
[[Katharina tanscript]]
 
[[Larisa transcript]]
 
[[Victor transcript]]
 
==Outcome Session Eight==
 
[[interviews-23-2-17]]
 
 
16:30: Review today's session
 
== Session Seven - 9 - 2-17 ==
 
Thinking together about reading
 
Today's outcome: a publication which survey's what we read, how we read it and why we read it.
 
10:00 Intro
 
'We are street readers [...] info junk dealers'
 
Reading: ''I Read Where I Am'', Gerritzen & Lovink, eds.
 
10:15
 
brief discussion
 
Intro to survey with Steve as test subject
 
11:00
 
In pairs:
 
Player 1 types notes (half hour max)
 
Player 2 answers survey
 
Player 2 types notes (half hour max)
 
Player 1 answers survey
 
 
Survey:
 
Please talk to your note taker about your relationship with reading, please include discussion of the following
 
what you read:
 
Online
 
Magazines and journals
 
Currently reading
 
Do you take notes? if yes, how?
 
Could you talk generally about your reading history and reading habits?
 
14:00: Editorial team meets
 
16:00 review outcome
 
==OUTCOME Session Seven- IN PAIRS==
 
[[8FebReadingSurvey]]
 
==OUTCOME Session Seven- EDITORIAL TEAM==
 
Editorial team work on texts made in pairs and synthesises them and uploads it here
 
https://pad.bleu255.com/p/Steve9Feb
 
==Session Six 26-1-17. Writing Machines==
 
This is the task for this session
 
Set yourself a writing assignment, design a writing machine.
 
Use the methods employed so far, or design your own methods, to develop a procedure (constraints) for writing (AKA a writing machine)
You can use the methods we have experimented with = (for instance [[Task4]]; WHW; think of your subject from the point of view of ecology, machine, discourse; swap interviewee-interviewer roles...
Your subject: the piece you are working on now, the piece you have just finished or the piece you are about to make.
 
Word count 1500 words max
 
If last time you didn't get a chance to speak to Steve about what you want to achieve with writing over the next two years, sign up here and we will do it today:
 
http://pzwiki.wdka.nl/fineart/Calendars:Fine_Art_Calendar/Fine_Art_Calendar/26-01-2017_-Event_1
 
Timetable for this session:
 
10:00 Steve's intro
 
11:00-(1) make plan
 
12:00 (2) execute plan
 
15:00 upload outcome of today's session here:
 
==Outcome Session Six==
 
[[outcome 26 Jan]]
 
 
ALSO
 
UNFINISHED BUSINESS:
 
Please also find time today to edit and upload  Steve's notes on what you want to do with writing whilst at Piet Zwart:
 
[[Steve's notes on what I want to do with writing]]
 
If you missed the slots today, try:
 
http://pzwiki.wdka.nl/fineart/Calendars:Fine_Art_Calendar/Fine_Art_Calendar/01-02-2017_-Event_2
 
15:05
regroup to discuss todays outcome.
 
16:00
 
Meet outside: KINO - Gouvernestraat 129 -133
 
As part of the film festival  a number of video installations open this evening
 
From Google translate:
 
" Traditionally IFFR looking for the cross-pollination between film and visual art, and there are also outside the cinema plenty of activities, performances, objects and admire installations.
We invite you therefore like from the official opening of all exhibitions within the framework of the IFFR 2017 program on Thursday, January 26, from 16:00
 
4:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. in KINO - Gouvernestraat 129 -133
installations HEIS (on the wall) - ORAL HISTORY - AZADAAR
 
5:00 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. in the Studio (former CBK) - New Shortcuts 75
The exhibition NUTS & BOLTS; with speech by Bero Beyer at 17:30
 
19:00 to 20:00 in V2_ - Eendrachtsstraat 10
installations ROBOT BODIES and TESTAMENT OF HOPE AND FAILURE
 
20:30 to 21:30 in the Czech Centre - Westersingel 9
the exhibition Jan Němec and the Czechoslovak New Wave - Movie Posters
The complete overview of all the art projects at the festival can be found at IFFR.com/expo
Nuts & Bolts was realized with the collaboration of the Mondriaan Fund"
 
Google translate ends
 
==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.
 
 
==OUTCOME SESSION 5==
 
[[ecology]]
 
[[machine]]
 
[[discourse]]
 
==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]]
 
[[Three things Marta]]
 
==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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