Mia/Text on Method

Notes

Calendar page of Methods (10.4. 2019)

Text On Method Guidelines

WHAT IS A METHOD? method as a habit, how you do things, how you approach way of working methodology is an analysis of that about how I am working and what am I working on

what methods did you use and how did they work for you? what kind of researcher are you, what suits you how did you do it? your methods + content material practice of research decisions (a la mistakes) (which result in) change in direction recognition of a core research strand (recognition of what is important to your research) affordance (more than just the function) how the new skills you acquire tie in other skills and what such skills afford

what to use for the text on methods?

• wiki pages of projects
• tutorial logs
• essays
• interview

what - content how - methods (techniques etc.) why - decisions, choices

First draft

Where does it come from? (past)

• photograms, collages, mixed media paintings

What is it now? (present)

1. Trace

• what: photobook, blank pages, tactile,
• how: finding, chance principle, marginal fragments in public space... obstacles&decisions in the making - change of direction (david's tutorial!)
• why: to relate photography to my previous practice, to open up my ways of thinking, working, looking

READING&WRITING

• what was the input (my readings)
• how was it processed (my methods)
• what are the products (my writings)
• how does it feed Trace and Drawing camera

2. Drawing Camera

• what: a) camera b) photographs produced by it
• how: creating a wooden camera (customising the template), experimentation with materials (plastic foil, drawing tools)
• why: to break down the complexity of the camera, to make a tool that is not commercially produced and is in this sense unique, to merge 2 principles of working(photographic and drawing methods)

3. TVACUUM

• what: 2D animation
• how:
• why: to learn about digital tools for animation

READING&WRITING

• what was the input (my readings)
• how was it processed (my methods)
• what are the products (my writings)
• how does it feed TVACUUM

Where is it going? (future)

MAKING: photograms, collage

READING&WRITING - What is: image; drawing; sign; animation