Firstly, I gave an overview of the conceptual ideas behind the studio by going through these slides. This studio is project-led and prompt driven.

Then, you created your own student submission folder by going to the studio’s Google Drive folder, going to student folders and creating a folder with your name and student number. In this folder you added your submission checklist by copying the checklist into your submission folder. This checklist is where you will submit all of your tasks for Seeing the Unseen.

Then, we discussed the John Mason “Forms of Noticing” reading in groups by dividing it up into sections and responding to these questions (which is a good model for a reflective blog post):

  1. Provide a brief overview of your section
  2. Pick a quote/idea that interests you? Why do you find this interesting?
  3. What don’t you understand/ confuses you/ baffles you in some way? This might be a quote or a larger idea
  4. Pose 2 questions about noticing which emerge for your group from this reading.  

The questions about noticing we posed were:

  1. How do you develop the skill of purposefully noticing?
  2. Is noticing a negative thing?
  3. Different people notice different things, so what influences people to be selective of different things?
  4. Can noticing be personal and circumstantial?

We then did this exercise based off Mason’s noticing reading on what we already notice.

Finally, we “set” ourselves something to notice over the following week with media. This can be photography, sound or video and will become your noticing post for Task One which I went through. By next Thursday’s class you should have completed your prompt and noticing blog posts.

Here is a list of the who’s doing what for studio updates and exhibition (worth 20% of task four’s mark).

Next week we will be going to the Patrick Pound exhibition at The Ian Potter Centre: NGV International at Federation Square for our Wednesday session. Meet at the info desk at 12:30.