This week we were scheduled to do crit sessions to get feedback on the audiovisual work made to date. As there were so few people present at the start of the studio this has been rescheduled to next week, though it might be cancelled if those providing feedback in the crits are unavailable. All the studios have this crit session. They are were people from outside the studio come in and see the work that you have been doing and provide feedback to you, about your own work. This is a great opportunity to get a different point of view on what you are doing, and also a chance to ask questions – we generally invite people to crit who have either professional or academic interest and expertise in the them of the studio.
Since the crits have been cancelled or moved took me a while to get going (I had a plan, the plan got changed, I can get quite stuck when what was expected gets altered). There was a discussion about blogging as a thick media trail of what you have done, and can do, and how this provides evidence of your capability and capacity. I tied this into a possibly dodgy claim that in a media and knowledge age of excess (a post industrial time) your ability to be able to know what you don’t know, and also knowing what to do about this, matters more than what you do know. This is because the media and professional world we now have is one of change, so that being able to notice, identify, and even name what you don’t know, and why that matters, and how then to find out about it, will be a much more important professional capability than knowing a lot about a particular thing. As much because that particular thing risks being redundant. (This is why knowing process, and larger or more abstract things matters more. understanding composition in film making, sound making, and writing, is much more valuable than knowing all the short cuts in Final Cut, Logic, or Word.)
Up next, discussions in small groups from the individual readings. These will be added to the studio ebook. From here we moved to the Ingold. The problem, how to make lines, not circles? (and what does that even mean?).
I did my dogmatic thing on Ingold. Afterwards an intriguing discussion about making individual works. To be resolved, why, or how.
