Calendars:Networked Media Calendar/Networked Media Calendar/15-12-2021 -Event 1

LB1 11:00 - 17:00 Reading, Writing and Research Methodologies with Steve Rushton

We start at 11:00 PROMPT

Outcomes:

1) Synopsis of a text

2) Annotation of text

We will follow the techniques of annotation we employed over the last two sessions

3) Bringing together this trimester's writing workshops

BRING: a text you want to annotate and make synopsis of (a text you feel has some relation to the work you are making).

if you are at a loss, look here for inspiration: https://pzwiki.wdka.nl/mediadesign/Lens-Based_Core_Booklist

Throughout: Steve will be giving individual tutorials

11:00 Steve gives outline; example of synopsis (rough draft) of Hito Steyerl's Proxy Politics: Signal and Noise.

[text and author]

Hito Steyerl's Proxy Politics: Signal and Noise is a chapter from a book of essays Duty Free Art: Art in the Age of Planetary Civil War(2017) by artist and writer Hito Steyerl 

[what is it about- what is it’s thesis? (2-3 sentences)]

Steve notes: In recent years there has been a shift in the role of the apparatus of the camera as a mediative agent. Until recently the lens and mechanical construction of the camera apparatus determined the image (format, scale, material support, reproducibility). Today when our phone camera takes a photo software makes alterations to the image (an algorithm constructs an image based on comparison with a series [directory-library] of existing images). This software is updated remotely. The camera apparatus takes on a different status. Steyerl examines the implications of this change. ]

[what is its context?]

The text can be seen in the tradition of a critique of  media which understands that the material practice of discourse produces its object. See also, There is No Software, F. Kittler (1992-97); The Burden of Representation J. Tag (1993); Techniques of the Observer J. Crary (1992) and Objectivity L. Daston & P. Galison (2010) [other core text: The Work of Art in the Age of Digital Recombination, Jos De Mul (2009): http://www.demul.nl/nl/item/412-the-work-of-art-in-the-age-of-digital-recombination]

[Texts and art works it relates to…]

[Relation to your own work?]

Breaking those elements down to a template we have:

[text and author]

[thesis]

[context]

[relation to my own practice]

11:30-16:30 = 1, 2 & 3

16:30 Recap

Making a wiki page of this trimester's writing workshops

SteveR15-12-21WhatWhyHow

SteveR15-12-21 Interview

SteveR15-12-21Annotation1

SteveR15-12-21Annotation2

SteveeR15-12-21NotesOnWriting

SteveR15-12-21Synopsis

Links to previous sessions (pads)

What, how, why

https://pad.xpub.nl/p/MethodsLB12-9-21

Interview

https://pad.xpub.nl/p/MethodsSessionTwoLB-21-22

Two people will make annotations (notes, links, handy references) of each presentation on this pad.

https://pad.xpub.nl/p/MethodsSessionFourLB-21-22

Steve's notes on what you read and write and what you want to do with writing on this course).

https://pad.xpub.nl/p/MethodsSessionThreeLB-21-22

Annotation in groups

https://pad.xpub.nl/p/MethodsSessionFiveB-21-22