Today, I talked a little bit about how you might want to display your photography projects and I just saw this site called issuu that allows you to create digital books with photographs. The students in Brian’s studio on photography used it last semester to display their work, which you can look at here.
When you have finished your task four project can everyone please submit a thirty second preview in video format to be used for the studio presentation on the 26th of October.
Please clearly label your file with your name and the name of your project and place in the FINAL PROJECT PREVIEWS FOR EXHIBITION folder by midnight on Friday the 20th of October.
Mia, Molly, Chloe and Michael as our exhibition and website team will edit these together for our presentation.
In today’s workshop (week 11 Wednesday) I will introduce you to a piece of software called Korsakow. Korsakow is a piece of software that authors interactive video pieces, yet can provide a tool to notice.
We will be completing this exercise using Korsakow.
Unlike, other editing programs such as Premiere or Final Cut, where you create fixed sequences between video parts, in Korsakow you create possible relations between video parts. What I mean by possible relations is that while you create rules, through a tagging system, which constrains what video parts can possibly connect to each other, there is an unpredictable quality to the software which allows you to notice visual resonances between parts which you may not have noticed.
The exercise we will be doing in class today will be downloading this demo version of Korsakow.
From here, we will import in some media we have (preferably from our task four projects) and export a random Korsakow film to see what we notice when the software creates relations between parts.
Some of you might find Korsakow a suitable tool for you to use for your final projects, while for the rest of you it might allow you to notice new things in your media objects.
Here are examples of some Korsakow films that have been made (you made to download and/or enable the Adobe Flash Plugin in your browsers):
My film Sometimes I See Palm Trees
Matt Soar’s Ceci N’est Pas Embres
Matt Soar’s Fibonacci Film
Florian Thalhofer’s Forgotton Flags
Florian Thalhofer’s Planet Galata
Adrian Miles’s Fragments
And there are more to find on the showcase page of the Korsakow 6 site here and the Korsakow 5 site here.
We’ll see how much we get through today and might continue in next Wednesday’s workshop.
In last week’s Thursday class I introduced some ideas from some theorists who think about the world as precarious, changing and indeterminate. What I would like you to think about as you draw closer to the end of task four is how your way of noticing might allow you to see some of the complexities of the world. This is the final aim of the studio so it’s important for you to reflect on this on your blogs.
Here are some questions which we’ll talk about in today’s class that might give you some direction:
How might your project evolve in concert with the dynamic environment around you? (Gibson, Changescapes)
What do you think “patchy landscapes,” “multiple temporalities” and “shifting assemblages of humans and nonhumans” might mean? (Tsing, Mushroom at the End of the World)
Does what you’re doing for task four allow you to look around rather than ahead? (Tsing, Mushroom at the End of the World)
Will your task four allow you notice neglected things? What do you think they might be? (Tsing, Mushroom at the End of the World)
If your task four, is about inhabiting a space or noticing in a particular environment, what are the particular qualities of that environment you come to be aware of through simply being there? (Stewart, Atmospheric Attunements)
What will you be tuning into through the making of your project? (Pickering, The Mangle of Practice)
If you tune into something unexpected does your project have the flexibility to adjust? (Pickering, The Mangle of Practice)
For the week 11 consultations you should bring in a “rough cut” of your task four assessment. As noted your projects might take various forms so bring what you consider to be a “rough cut” of what you’re making.
You will also need to show where you’re up to on your timeline and how your work is responding to the biggest, big, and small things you wrote out in week 9.
You will need to show where your portfolio of blog posts is up to and what research is informing your making.
Like our week 7 consultations these will be done in small groups.
Please book into a consultation time via this form.
As noted in Wednesday’s workshop Chloe, Mia, Michael and Molly will be working on the end of year studio presentation & website. I’ve given you all access to update the studio exhibition blog, which you can find here.
Some info from Paul Ritchard…
Presentation
Each studio will put together an 8 minute (no more) presentation summing up the journey of the studio over the semester. The exact nature of the presentation will be developed by the students. It could contain:
Website
Kris will bring her test shooting material
Zane will bring his list of objects (end of week 10 will have the photos from friends)
Vivian will bring four or five sounds of different objects
Rico will bring locations and items to film
Molly will bring rhythm and sound of water tests
Lizzie will bring location & first run of photos in colour and black & white
Sarah will have gone to the first location by yourself, so will have media from that location
Mia will have written two blog posts, a method for each place + shotlist + meditation + check-in with housemates
Jemma will have finalised areas and locations
Chloe will have the starting media item
Is Anna Tsing’s “Arts of Noticing.” This reading gives you an idea about why your projects that see the unseen might matter to the world beyond yourself.
Here’s a video of a panel discussion on “Arts of Noticing” which you might want to watch as well.
Tsing, Anna Lowenhaupt. “Arts of Noticing.” The Mushroom at the End of the World: On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins. 2015. pp. 11-26.
Here, you can find everything we’ve discussed about the submission of task three next Friday.
