Week 4
What is this again? I have lost my attention to most of what our lecturers said. So I googled what “Ontography” means and it came up with this: A description of beings, their nature and essence. But according to Adrian, documentary ontography is about making without thinking as nonfiction stories are told using lists of things.
Some tips I’ve heard:
Learn by doing
Adapt to changing technologies
Be thinkers
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engaging with contemporary media
Week 2 Lectorial
I’ve noticed that at the beginning of this blog, I had nothing on my mind.
I’ve also noticed that random things started to pop.
I noticed a nice Sportsgirl top that someone was wearing, my friend looking at his black Samsung while the other students worked on their laptops. I’m beginning to think if they are actually stressed out.
Rachel talked about the act of “noticing” in our lectorial today and explained that noticing allows us to learn, pick up ideas and the act of noticing itself inform future
practices. We are encouraged to use it as a tool to learn and by consciously noticing whatever’s around you, we’re communicating with the media. Whether it is mediated or unmediated communication.
“Our lives are, to a more extensive degree than we care to think, infused with a process of inscription, producing printed or written traces..”
-Dorothy
What we were shown today, John Cage’s 4’33” (1952), has led to a heightened form of noticing. Continue reading
Week 1 Lectorial
It surprised me how wide and broad the major of media is. It is a teamwork and community building subject. As our lecturer, Adrian has proposed, media is re-learning and we learn by repetition, metaphor, failure, practice and analogy. Furthermore, media is about the studio model and obviously learning both inside and outside of class.
Deep vs. Hyper-Attention
The reading that we did today reflected on the methods of learning with a combined deep attention and hyper attention. These two cognitive modes characterise the way we learn in lectorials and practicals. I am definitely a hyper-attention learner that I can seem to learn with noises around with groups of people rather than in silence.
Meeting new, unfamiliar goals would be demanding and forming successful products/outcomes would be challenging. But without, learning media would not be as fun. Therefore, the most challenging aspect of this course is to be not in part of the media community and trying to get back on our feet.