COMN 3393

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COMN 3393

• Feminism/Media/Image/Technology

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Agenda

• Interact with your living inquiry sheets
• Look at the idea of lens inquiry
• Look at the idea of collection as it relates to
  inquiry
• Look at a/r/tography as method for inquiry
• Set you up for the next phase of field-note
  assignment
• Check in with syllabus/Scope of course and other
  assignments

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Observational matrix
Self Other
Place Time
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Observational matrix
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Observational matrix
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Observational matrix
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Observational matrix
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Observational matrix
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Observational matrix
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Observational matrix
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A way of observing our observing
Ethnography Cinema Documentary Photography
Narrativity
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A way of collecting our observing
Ethnography Cinema Documentary Photography
Narrativity
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A way of collecting our observing
Ethnography Cinema Documentary Photography
Narrativity
Scrapbooks Blogs Journals Video data Audio
data Albums Digital and Physical Designed
collection vehicles Official collection
sites Unofficial collection sites Stories Field-no
tes
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A way of collecting our observing
Scrapbooks Blogs Journals Video data Audio
data Albums Digital and Physical Designed
collection vehicles Official collection
sites Unofficial collection sites Stories Field-no
tes Data kinds Images/Music/Poetic/Ritual Quantit
ative-numerical-scientific Qualitative-
emphemeral/ethos/social/
Ethnography Cinema Documentary Art
making Photography Narrativity
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A way of organizing our collecting our observing
Ethnography Cinema Documentary Photography
Narrativity
Scrapbooks Blogs Journals Video data Audio
data Albums Digital and Physical Designed
collection vehicles Official collection
sites Unofficial collection sites Stories Field-no
tes
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A way of organizing our collecting our observing
Ethnography Cinema Documentary Photography
Narrativity
Scrapbooks
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A way of organizing our collecting our observing
Ethnography Cinema Documentary Photography
Narrativity
Scrapbooks
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A way of organizing our collecting our observing
Ethnography Cinema Documentary Photography
Narrativity
Blogs
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A way of organizing our collecting our observing
Ethnography Cinema Documentary Photography
Narrativity
Journals/visual journals
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A way of organizing our collecting our observing
Ethnography Cinema Documentary Photography
Narrativity
Journals/visual journals
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A way of organizing our collecting our observing
Ethnography Cinema Documentary Photography
Narrativity
Video/video journal/diary
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Living inquiry- a spiral
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What you glimpse through the lens What you look
at What you attend to Readings others other
d social postcolonial expressive
form locational
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A/R/Tography

• Method attentive to other
• Particularly as it occurs in text/image
  interchange
• Method attentive to process

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A/R/Tography

• Method attentive to living inquiry (thus to the
  matrix of other/self/place/time and)
• Particularly as it occurs in text/image
  interchange
• Method attentive to process
• Method attentive to multiple
• Method attentive to feminist
• Method attentive to making (technology)

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A/R/Tography

• Interact with texts
• Text can be written, made, installed, filmed,
  sung, poetic thus can be art, play, music,
  movie, audio clip, verbal, danced, sung, rapped,
  graffiti. Text is that which we give our
  attention to, try to hear, try to hear beyond
  self, try to receive as repected other text is
  something we read and witness simultaneously
• Interact means effort to listen/attend/hear/give
  weight to
• Hear your voice/give weight to your voice
• Hear other voice/give weight to other voice
• Though analytical and critical, chooses inquiry,
  listening and witness first as a position
• Witness means withness

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A/R/Tography

• A/R/Tography is a form of inquiry that works with
  the multiple positionings of artist/researcher/tea
  cher
• A artist As we Interact with texts we are
  making our interactions as we collect and
  organize meaning into forms we are also we are
  makers of meaning. As we observe
  forms/images/videos/music/we are also observing
  making - In this sense we become artists. A
  artists. A/r/tography observes or making as much
  as it observes everything else our own
  making/that which has been made. The made
  brings in technology. Making puts us in the
  position of creating and using technology. Thus
  the position of the artist is a way of thinking
  and becoming attentive to the role of making and
  technology and creating in culture and meaning
  structures. In a sense we are all the camera
  holders looking attentively at the relationship
  of our camera holding to what is being seen

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A/R/Tography

• A/R/Tography is a form of inquiry that works with
  the multiple positionings of artist/researcher/tea
  cher. Example 1

Layer 1 Gather and comment on made images and
their meanings Perhaps as response to a text
(article) Layer 2 Come back Maybe with post it
note Also comment on the making you have done in
bringing these images together.
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A/R/Tography

• A/R/Tography is a form of inquiry that works with
  the multiple positionings of artist/researcher/tea
  cher. Example 1

Next time I want to use blue paper and see how
that works
I seem to be thinking now by using multiple
technologies print/photo/cut out- tearing- never
thought of these as thinking before
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A/R/Tography

• A/R/Tography is a form of living inquiry that
  works with the multiple positionings of
  artist/researcher/teacher
• R researcher We are always making inquiry as
  we move through the world. A researcher is
  someone who becomes attentive to this process.
  This attentiveness occurs through thinking and
  observing and creating a means for the two to
  interact fruitfully. Generally this is done by
  being attentive to the subject of inquiry
  (letting it have a voice) and to the tools that
  shape the inquiry especially the questions
  asked and the tools used to investigate the
  answers. Inquiry is a form of listening with
  query as its main position. Query as in becoming
  observant about the self in order to give
  an/other its voice. In current western view of
  research Possibly this could be called a
  mothering view of researchmore than a
  farthering view of research

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A/R/Tography

• A/R/Tography is a form of living inquiry that
  works with the multiple positionings of
  artist/researcher/teacher
• T teacher. Teaching has to do with the public
  voice of knowledge. To be an artist and
  researcher is to be considering the relationship
  of inquiry and making inquiry as they influence
  one another though technologies of inquiry,
  collection and expression. To be a teacher is to
  think about how to share this with others, how to
  bring your findings into public space so that
  they are accessible to others, particularly to
  others for learning. It is also to think about
  the relationship between your learning and public
  space, the relationship between your voice and
  contribution and how it can become valuable to
  your participation in social order. It is in a
  sense to be thoughtful about how your learning
  becomes part of making public/civic/collective
  social spaces.

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A/R/Tographic process For now do two circles

• Circle 1 Start with the living inquiry lens
• Look at an other (try your reading for a start,
  but later consider movies, music, art
  installations, art pieces, theorist graffiti,
  and anything that comes to you as an/other.)
• While you are encountering this text- document
  the encounter using the living inquiry lens.
• Circle 2 Later go back and comment (post-it).
  Comment analytically and also comment
  aesthetically (looking at form and the form you
  are using to gather the information .Comment
  technologically. Look at the technologies
  influencing what you are looking at. Look at the
  four prongs of the living inquiry matrix again
  see if there is something new that you are seeing
  as the result of this circle.