Category: Research methodologies
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Time, Place, Platform: An inquiry into the curation of time-based media arts
In my research I am investigating the use of time-based media by artists in the UK from the 1960s to the present day focusing on the exhibitions which laid the foundations for the curation of video-art, digital installations and time-based media. By establishing the history of exhibitions of this type in the UK, I will…
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Rhizomatic research
“A rhizome ceaselessly establishes connections between semiotic chains, organisations of power, and circumstances relative to the arts, sciences and social struggles. A semiotic chain is like a tuber agglomerating diverse acts, not only linguistic, but also perceptive, mimetic, gestural, and cognitive: there is no language in itself, nor are there any linguistic universals, only a…
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Culture Changes in Curating
My research into time-based media is a response to the cultural change in curating (O’Neill, 2012) and advancement in technologies used within art practice (Rieland, 2014). As a curator I must respond creatively in order to survive and thrive in this practice. Looking at the way time-based media is exhibited and the use of the…
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Time-Based Media.
The Guggenheim describes this area of art as ‘contemporary artworks that include video, slide, audio or computer technologies’ and because the pieces unfold over time, they are called time-based media by their very nature. Prof. Michael Tooby yesterday introduced me to the word LIMINAL. It is quite possibly the second most important ‘spark’ moment in…
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Never underestimate the power of a 1:1 tutorial.
Taking my digital media/ arts thoughts to my first 1:1 tutorial offered me a light at the end of the tunnel. Promise that it could be a really interesting topic to research – but that it is still quite niche. The warning was there, but so also was the encouragement. Tate definition of TIME-BASED MEDIA: art…
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Realisation of the evolution of ideas
When I began my research, I started with the view that my curatorial interests lay in creating experiences through the development of ideas from historical research. To enable me to understand curatorial practices and the processes of creating experiences from historical research, I surely must first research the history of exhibition making and curating, as…
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A Code of Ethics
From The Curators Committee of the American Association of Museums (CurCom) first developing A Code of Ethics for Curators in 1983; the Guerrilla Girls’ Code of Ethics for Art Museums posters, fly-posted overnight in SoHo, NY in 1989 and a new publication (to be released in the UK in March 2018) called Curatorial Activism: Towards an Ethics…
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Left brain, right brain
I am looking at my research, and I am feeling somewhat detached. Am I getting lost in the idea that as a photographer, my focus should go in that direction? My thought-bites on this blog are a pin board of ideas, exhibitions, things I have heard or read in passing that I feel I can’t…
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Barthes’ Punctum
My research as taken me to an exhibition of photographs taken from ‘Incite Project’, and allowed me to explore ideas of photojournalism, compassion fatigue, and desensitization to images of violent conflict and human suffering. I looked at truth and representation of the truth, and how through the use of text and the photographic processes used,…
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Incite Project
I aim to research the challenges of curating photographic work with an historical context, bringing together ideas of seeing and looking, the spectator, and to respond to the epistemological question ‘how do we know what is real?’ By researching this particular exhibition at Victoria Art Gallery, Bath, and then the wider Incite Project by Tristan…
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