We are artist/readers and artist/writers
- be responsible and respectful of ideas; don't have to be a philosopher or expert
There is more than one way to write
- find routines/habits/systems that work for you and stick with them
You only get out what you put in
- faculty can only respond to what you give them
Describing an idea is not enough, analysis and connecting ideas is where research gains relevance, interest and originality. Ideas are only relevant if you tell us how they're relevant (NB: don't directly connect the ideas to your studio practice, rather it is a survey of the associated ideas. These ideas will come from your studio work)
Lit review structure: 10% intro, 80% body, 10% conclusion (approx.)
- examples on Teams currently with some annotations
- only put illustrations of things in if you're talking about them directly; no need to pretty things up
Test run! Lit review practice (rough):
Text: Timothy Morton's "Thinking Ecology: The Mesh, The Strange Stranger, and the Beautiful Soul"
What is the most interesting thing about the text?
Morton addresses the idea of ecology as a "mesh", a vast interconnected web of relation. He suggests that as things are made up of other things, the boundary between things is fluid and subject to speculation; and that the rhetoric of science and DNA, much like other systems of language, are open to analysis. There is no definite life-non-life boundary, and no foreground or background in existence, only mesh.
Intro sentence (title, what, who, where, when...)
In the text "Thinking Ecology: The Mesh, The Strange Stranger, and the Beautiful Soul", philosopher Timothy Morton discusses ideas around ecological interdependence and connection. Referencing concepts of semiotics, ontology and the Interdependence Theorem, Morton suggests that existence is not binary or linear, and all things are in some way connected to each other. Through virtue of being both a sum of their parts and not their parts, Morton outlines his belief that existence is defined by its commonalities rather than an isolation from a wider ecological environment.
Connect to another idea/text/artwork which relates to and isn't discussed in the initial text
These ideas relate to concepts around the Anthropocene, ecology, vital materialism and Object-Oriented Ontology. Laura Greyson's Vital Reenchantments comes to mind as she also talks about science as an ontology, though she does so from the position of it being a vehicle of re-enchantment rather than a language system open to analysis and deconstruction as Morton does.
Think about different parts of your practice (i.e. installation, new media, OOO,...) and whether there are different texts that could be used to touch on these different points. Remember artworks are texts too.
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