The ways in which we are connected – various thoughts from the week

  • Relations – media as a relational thing, eg the components within the frame/
  • Tacit Knowledge – knowledge that is difficult to transfer to another person by means of writing it down or verbalising it. Egs: facial recognition, the notion of language itself, riding a bike
    – We know more than we can tell
    – Tacit knowledge as ‘artful doing’
  • Process
  • Problem-based learning = learn research skills, critical thinking, content, contextualising
  • Cycle and Reflection = return to problem and think about it in what ways it is now different and from this make new decisions.
    – make, test, critique, make changes
  • Roland Barthes:
    – disenchantment with both established forms of writing and more experimental, avant garde forms which he felt alienate the reader
    – art should be critical and should interogate the world, rather than seek to explain it
    – search for individualistic meaning in art
    – attempts to dissect and expose the misleading mechanisms of bourgeois culture
    – limitations of signs and symbols, and Western culture’s dependency on beliefs of constancy and ultimate standards.
  • Constraint as liberation – frames 10, 40 and 70 minutes into a film
  • Multi-linearity
  • Entanglement
  • Sketches: suggest and explore, intentionally ambiguous
  • Specificities matter much more than generalisations
  • Juxtaposition
  • Multiplicity: being in two places/two things at once
  • Readerly Texts: classic texts presented in a familiar, linear, traditional manner. Meaning is fixed and predetermined. The reader merely receives information.
  • Writerly Texts: reader takes an active role in the construction of meaning. There is a proliferation of meanings and a disregard of narrative structure.

 

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