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"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."
[[==RW&RM LENS BASED 2017-18==]]


'''Curriculum:'''
[[==RW&RM XPUB 2017-18==]]
 
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.
 
[[Editing Reading, Writing & Research Methodologies - handbook information]]
 
 
[[Plagiarism]]
 
 
 
 
== Method for all the sessions==
 
For every session there is a different task, which employs a different writing reading or notation method. I will set no assignments outside of the class, but you must commit to trying the methods I suggest for 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.
 
==Outcome at end of year: Text on Method==
 
The specific outcome for the RW&RM seminar of 2017-2018 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. 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 [[TheTemplate]]; and here is the link to previous texts on method: [['''FINAL VERSIONS''' deadline early May]]
 
==Wiki Basic style sheet==
 
Titles and works = ''italics''
 
Essays = Title in Caps
 
Notation = Harvard System (writer, page number) = (Smith, 26)
 
URL = make link
 
==Guide to Essay Writing==
 
[[A Guide to Essay Writing]]
 
[[Harvard method]]
 
 
Jstor is a very useful resource
 
http://www.jstor.org/
 
==The Sessions (to be added to and amended)==
 
==Other method exercises (Please add)==
 
One day collaboration
 
Filter same information through different forms: report - review - interview
 
==Session Sixteen: messy writing task==
 
==Session Fifteen: fable-writing w/shop==
 
==Session Fourteen==
 
Reading with Y2.
 
A session in which we get together  with the second years to read and discuss the writing component (aka thesis) they produced this year. What they wrote, why they chose the form they did, and how they did it.
 
==Session Thirteen==
 
DEADLINE TEXT ON METHOD
 
Today you will make the finishing touches to your ToM. 
 
 
Agenda:
 
10:00 meet to set achievable aims for the day.
 
What needs to be done to finish the text?
 
How will you respond to points made in the feedback?
 
Throughout the day: Steve will be around to discuss your texts
 
 
[[UPLOAD ONTO WIKI LINK TO TUTORS]]
 
== Session X Drafts for Steve to give feedback and comment==
 
upload text on wiki (as word file or as wikipage)
 
Getting to final draft stage, TEXT ON METHOD
 
[[Draft Texts on Method 2018]]
 
Bring your draft (or upload on wiki [above], or as word doc) to the small project space and Steve will read and give feedback.
 
==Session Eleven  = No Part of the Buffalo is Wasted==
 
 
 
The printout, cutup & stick together
 
Please print everything you have written for this class
 
10:00 Cutting up and assembling text around a template
 
[[TheTemplate]]
 
14:00: make a new document of your cutup
 
16:00:Meet in Prj Space to review progress and plan ahead. Bring your long piece of paper.
 
Before next session; make new doc by cut and pasting edits you have made
 
==Outcome Session Eleven==
 
[[Draft Texts on Method 2018]]
 
==Session Ten==
 
The Question.
 
 
10:00 = 1) The Question
 
11:30 = 2) The Type Up
 
14:00 = 3) Annotating The Question (what questions and comments does the text you have made generate for your reader?).
 
16:00 = 4) The Review
 
==OUTCOME SESSION TEN==
 
[[textsForTheQuestionHere18]]
 
==Meet in Large Project Space at 14:00 for review of work done==
 
==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/
 
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==
 
[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.
 
== Session Steve will introduce the "orwell writing machine"==
 
[[Orwell's Politics and the English Language]]
 
==Outcome Session Eight==
 
[[interviews]
 
 
16:30: Review today's session
 
== Session Seven==
 
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 1 Session Seven- IN PAIRS==
 
[[8FebReadingSurvey]]
 
==OUTCOME 2 Session Seven  - EDITORIAL TEAM==
 
Editorial team work on texts made in pairs and synthesises them and uploads it here
 
https://pad.bleu255.com
 
==OUTCOME 3 Session Seven- GROUP READING==
 
[[File:obituary.mp3]]
 
==Session Six. 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 Session Six]]
 
16:00 regroup to discuss todays outcome.
 
==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 FIVE==
 
[[ecology]]
 
[[machine]]
 
[[discourse]]
 
==Session Four. What kind of writing practice do you want to build?==
 
 
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:
 
[[link to agenda]]
 
 
16:15 Upload texts below:
 
 
 
16:30 Meet in Project space to recap the day’s activities
 
==Outcome of Session Four==
 
 
[[Task4]]
 
== Session Three ==
 
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 Three: 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/
 
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
 
==Session Two==
 
Today's Pad:
https://pad.pzimediadesign.nl/
 
Task Two:
 
10:00 Intro
 
10:00 - 12:00
 
Describe three of your works/ projects
 
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 ==
 
[[xyz]]
 
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 Two: Trip to Gallery==
 
Today's pad:
 
https://pad.pzimediadesign.nl/
 
'''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'''
 
'''16:00''': Meet up back at the Piet Zwart to review work done.
 
'''16:30 Record outcome'''
 
'''17:00:''' Finish
 
==Outcome 1 Session One==
 
 
[[notesSession1Methods]]
 
 
==Outcome 2 Session One==
 
and here is the sound file of your collective reading:
 
[[ReadingSession1Methods]]
 
== Intro Session Zero==
 
 
 
Introduction to RW&RM by Steve Rushton
 
Today's pad:
 
 
https://pad.pzimediadesign.nl/
 
 
(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?
 
(d) what is your writing practice?
 
(e) what do you want to do with writing?
 
Note: 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 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.

Latest revision as of 11:02, 28 September 2017

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Led by Steve Rushton

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