And here it is: the long-awaited summary of Integrated Media 1.
Some of the take-away lessons I’ve learned over the past 12 weeks are:
- To embrace the infinite possibilities of lists.
- To question the Hollywood model of film and what you can achieve through the medium.
- To understand that our current media environment is fragmentary.
- To think about how to make things differently using poetics and meaning.
- To think about the concept of linearity and where it sits in our life.
- To understand that we are in a post-industrial state of media making, where all of the rules about practice and value are different.
- To consider what an artefact can do instead of thinking about what we want it to do or what we think it ought to do.
- To realise that it’s not about the instrument, it’s about what you can do with it.
- To surrender any idea that you can control an audience or how they interpret a work, but instead understand that they have agency and you can empower them through interactivity.
- To reassess how I conceive the process of making/sketching/emergence.
- That I will strengthen my media-practice if I continue to develop as an ideas-driven practitioner.