STUDIO PROMPT
How can media artefacts emerge through practices of attuned noticing?

STUDIO DESCRIPTION
As cars drive past in Melbourne traffic, you wait for a tram, and so does that person over there, drops of water glisten as sunlight catches them on the glass barrier of the tram stop, woven baskets are stacked haphazardly on the footpath outside a grocery store, the sign above you says three minutes until the tram arrives, the tiny circular lights on a forty km/h speed limit sign flash on and off, smoke emerges out of pipes in the distance, the tram arrives, you hop on. In Seeing the Unseen you will explore how audiovisual media (whether sound, installation, film) can emerge through practices of attuned noticing. Through researching noticing as a framework for practice this studio will look at how attuned noticing might become a way of unveiling patterns in the world. The types of things which often get left on the cutting room floor, when we create stories which simplify, minimise, subtract, and contract what is out there. By “actually look[ing]” your projects may come closer to performing the complexities of the world. In this studio you will make audiovisual media through iterations of experimenting with what noticing can do. Through this process you will be exposed to experimental modes of making and distributing media. A subscription to Adobe Creative Suite and/or Korsakow may be required.

AIMS OF THE STUDIO
To grasp noticing as an experimental approach to making media. To explore the creative possibilities of making media outside of traditional linear production methods. To create media artefacts which come closer to performing the complexity of the changing world around us.

WHAT THE STUDIO ACHIEVED

ADD SHOWREEL

In the Seeing the Unseen V2 studio, students developed research projects in response to a series of prompt words brought up in the key readings throughout the semester: lingering, vanishing, encountering, wondering, tuning, and priming. In response to these prompts, students iteratively produced a project and found experimental forms to invite viewers to attentively notice the environments within their work. The projects made included: experimental short films, video collages, interactive Instagram accounts, and online interactive films. From making these projects students developed an experimental way of making audiovisual nonfiction, alongside an understanding of how these works may draw attention to some of the complex relationships which commonly go unseen in the world around them.

A link to a great student reflection on the semester as a whole from Jack Fahey.