Just wanted to follow up after our crit session with Paul Ritchard and Sophie Langley. I was talking with both of them yesterday (in a posthumanism research group – the whacky things we do) and they raised again with me how much they enjoyed and were impressed with the quality and intelligence of what you showed. I guess I’m not sure how apparent the changes have been from the beginning of semester in this studio. This studio has paid no direct attention to technical skills development, addressing this by arguing that understanding your equipment, and your use of it, as a relational network where different bits have different agency, being able to notice and identify what these are, that this is a more solid basis from which to learn skills. (From which to learn skills, not the skills themselves.)
Given this, where you started from and are arriving at is significant, and an impressive achievement.
Critique
Just wanted to follow up after our crit session with Paul Ritchard and Sophie Langley. I was talking with both of them yesterday (in a posthumanism research group – the whacky things we do) and they raised again with me how much they enjoyed and were impressed with the quality and intelligence of what you showed. I guess I’m not sure how apparent the changes have been from the beginning of semester in this studio. This studio has paid no direct attention to technical skills development, addressing this by arguing that understanding your equipment, and your use of it, as a relational network where different bits have different agency, being able to notice and identify what these are, that this is a more solid basis from which to learn skills. (From which to learn skills, not the skills themselves.)
Given this, where you started from and are arriving at is significant, and an impressive achievement.
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Adrian Miles
Adrian Miles is a Senior Lecturer in New Media and currently the Program Director of the Bachelor of Media and Communication Honours research studio at RMIT, in Melbourne, Australia. He has also been a senior new media researcher in the InterMedia Lab at the University of Bergen, Norway. His academic research on hypertext and networked interactive video has been widely published and his applied digital projects have been exhibited internationally. Adrian's research interests include hypertext and hypermedia, appropriate pedagogies for new media education, digital video poetics, and the use of Deleuzean philosophy in the context of digital poetics. He was the first or second person in the world to videoblog.
May 16, 2017
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