All readings for the Seeing the Unseen studio will be available here, unless they are websites where links will be provided.
All readings should be read by the Wednesday workshop each week.
week one – noticing as a framework for practice [read for Thursday’s session]
Ihlein, Lucas. “To Follow Things as I Encounter Them: Blogging, Art, and Attention.” 127 Prince, vol. 127, 2010, http://127prince.wordpress.com/2010/05/14/to-follow-things-as-i-encounter-them-blogging-art-and-attention-lucas-ihlein.
Mason, John. “Forms of Noticing.”Researching Your Own Practice: The Discipline of Noticing, RoutledgeFalmer, 2002, pp. 29–38.
week two – noticing via collecting
Bogost, Ian. “Ontography” [excerpt]. Alien Phenomenology. Or What It’s Like to Be a Thing, University of Minnesota Press, 2012, pp. 38–52.
week three – noticing with sound masterclass with Sophie Langley
Gallagher, Michael. “Listening, Meaning and Power.” On Listening. Edited by Angus Carlyle & Cathy Lane, Uniformbooks, 2013, pp. 41-44.
Cusack, Peter. “Field Recordings as Sonic Journalism.” On Listening. Edited by Angus Carlyle & Cathy Lane, Uniformbooks, 2013, pp. 25-29.
week four – reflections on noticing
Frankham, Bettina Louise. “Complexity, Flux and Webs of Connection [Excerpt].” A Poetic Approach to Documentary: Discomfort of Form, Rhetorical Strategies and Aesthetic Experience, University of Technology Sydney, 2013, pp. 137–147.
week five – what might a practice of noticing be?
Panse, Silke. “Ten Skies, 13 Lakes, 15 Pools – Structure, Immanence and Eco-Aesthetics in The Swimmer and James Benning’s Land Films.” Screening Nature: Cinema beyond the Human, edited by Anat Pick and Guinevere Narraway, Berghahn Books, 2013, pp. 37–59.
Panse, Silke. “Land as Protagonist – An Interview with James Benning.” Screening Nature: Cinema Beyond the Human, Berghahn Books, 2013, pp. 60–70.
week six – noticing by doing