IN DRAFT
A slight change of tenor as I will give you some information about what might happen after your degree. Options, the differences, and why you might do one rather than the other.
Then we moved into a reflective learning graph. This helps make visible your achievements through the semester. A visualisation of the consequences of your actions. These were photographed to be added to the studio blog.
The graph graphed:
- how has your understanding of yourself (as a learner, or media practitioner/maker) changed? (this is a quant question)
- how has your understanding of ‘relationality’ (of connections between things and how or why these connections matter) changed?
- how have your assumptions or ideas about your discipline, practice, or the world, been productively provoked through the semester?
Sideways again. This anecdote from Inger Mewburn on a PhD, read it. Now, this is advice that translates out of academia into what you do after your degree. Now, this is advice that translates to studios…
Now, read this, homo faber. The discussion was how to use this in your career, and then how to use this in your studio. Key take away? To paraphrase Inger. When you are doing a studio you start to be rewarded for the way you work, not just the work itself.
This lead to a discussion about how we can think about media practice as no longer about artefacts but about experiences (why do you think cinemas are now more like lounge rooms?), not the object itself. The emphasis on the artefact is partly a consequence of VCE, which is completely artefact driven (individual assessment and there is an emphasis on things that are valued because they accrue marks). This is not a helpful way to understand what you need to do outside of university.
