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Assignments
Assignment 1
A 1: Beginnings.
A 1: Preparation: Genre Shoot
A1: Allied research
Visual research: Photographing Covid No 1; Collective responses
Visual research: Photographing Covid No 2; Individual responses
A1: Self assessment
A1: Tutor submission
A 1: Tutor feedback and responses
Assignment 2
A 2 Preparation
A 2: Preparation: autoethnographic series
A 2:Preparation: Film for my ethnography
A 2: Draft film for OCA critique
A 2: Preparation – Photovoice
A 2: Software options for virtual photovoice
A 2: Collaboration
A 2: Preparation: Film ‘The Plague’
A 2: Allied research
A 2: BOW: Photo-voice Research Proposal (09/11/20)
Psychogeography – theory and ideas
Four books on visual anthropology and methods
Psychogeography – Practitioners
A 2: Tutor submission
A 2: Tutor submission – final images
A 2: Tutor feedback and responses
Assignment 3
A 3: Preparation – auto-ethnography
A 3: Preparation – ‘Staged images’
A 3: ‘Staged’ experiments shared with OCA peers
A 3 Staged – preliminary advice from tutor
A 3: Collaborative artwork
A 3: Tutor submission
A 3: BOW Tutor comments and my responses
Assignment 4
A 4: Preparation
A 4: Tutor submission
A 4: Self assessment
A 4: From disappointment to innovative images
A 4: Tutor feedback, my responses
Assignment 5
A 5: Reflections, experiments and new learning
A 5: Naming things
Surrealism – distorted image – essay from 2018
A 5: Tutor submission
A 5: Evaluation
A 5: ‘Chance’ experiments – Room dioramas
A 5: Making decisions about the organisation and presentation of my BOW
Fine art review of ‘Visible Invisibility’ by Lens Culture
A 5: Redeye review of my portfolio
A 5: Where does assemblage work sit and why?
Introduction to BOW – revised
Evaluation – Revised
A 5: BOW OCA peer review
Link to development padlet for ‘Visible Invisibility’
Coursework
Part 1
Research Point: ‘Genre’ – Gregory Crewdson
Psychogeography – theory and ideas
Psychogeography – Practitioners
Research Point: Conceptual photography
David Bate – concepts of genre
Part 2
Alex Soth and ‘The Frank Album’
Research Point: Paul Graham and ‘Chance’
Psychogeography (2018)
Taking chances
‘Quo vardis’ and Making technical mistakes
Part 3
Editing, Sequencing and Labelling
Part 4
Notes on display
Contextual Research
Research
Thinking about my research
Theory: Deep Mapping, Liminal spaces, and heterotopias
Theory: Liminal spaces – Turner and Gennep
Theory: Place, space and being – theory explored
Book: Semiotics: the basics
Visual and textual research: Images of doctors
A1 Book: Practices of Looking: An introduction to visual culture.
Assignments
Assignment 1
Writing Plan
Initial ideas at A1: mind node and reflections
A 1: Preparation. ‘Visual culture in practice’
A 1: Tutor submission: Images from my autoethnography: Representing ‘Lockdown’
A 1: Tutor comments and my responses
Assignment 2
A 2: Preparation: Literature Review
A 2: My evaluation
Typology of Doctors Instagram images (2018)
A 2: Tutor submission: literature review
A 2: CTS Tutor feedback my responses and changes made
A2 – My response to tutor comments – annotated bibliography with theoretical sources
Assignment 3
A 3: CS Preparation
A 3: Tutor submission – essay plan
A 3 Tutor and my responses
Assignment 4
A 4: Tutor submission CS
A 4: Tutor feedback and my responses
Developing the essay from A3-A4: mind node and reflections
Assignment 5
A 5: Tutor submission (CTS)
A 5: Tutor feedback, my responses and changes
A5: CTS Final version for exam
Final reflections on the production of the CTS essay
Developing Chapter 2: The Covid Briefing
Coursework
Part 1
The work of art in the age of mechanical reproduction
The photographic Activity of Postmodernism
The rhetoric of the image
‘Reading an archive; photography between labour and capital,’ ‘Photography against the grain’ – Alan Sekula
Part 2
Part 3
Part 4
Part 5
SYP
SYP: Assignments
SYP – A 1: Preparing a project statement, artist statement, bio and CV for a portfolio review No 1 (Lens Culture framework)
SYP – A 1: Preparing a project statement, artist statement, bio and CV for a portfolio review No 2
SYP Assignment 1: Preparation of ‘Asking for feedback’
TUTOR SUBMISSION SYP A 1: Asking for feedback
A 2: Publication Proposal (JUNE 2022)
SYP – A 2: Feedback from Tutor and reflection and learning from meeting
Draft charity image-text zine
A3: Producing a ‘Photo-Text’ Book – Tutor submission
Collaboration: practice and theory
SYP: Is my work documentary?
SYP: Is my work ‘socially engaged’ documentary photography?
SYP: Course work and Critical thinking
SYP: Ethical issues: ‘Break Point’ Feb 2023
SYP: Anatomy of a competition entry (AOP student competition 2022)
Learning from my assessment results for BOW and CTS
SYP Portfolio Reviews
SYP: Feedback from Moira Lovell June 2022
Lens Culture series review March 2022
Format Portfolio Reviews 24-25th March 2022
SYP – Two Red Eye Portfolio reviews 07/02/2022
SYP: Books, talks, webinars etc
SYP Group meeting 10th May 2022
SYP: Tips for an online portfolio review – ‘Format’ Webinar
Critical thinking
Reflexivity, reflections and Covid-19
Finding Focus when it’s been lost
Critical thinking – managing uncertainty (and anxiety) 03.08.21
Finding Focus – reflections 11/03/2021
Critical thinking: changes in direction (Jan 2021)
‘The bar is this high’
Jumping on a ‘runaway train’
Critical Thinking: ‘The Progression interview’
An evaluation framework
Statement of intent
Artists, books etc
Books and articles
Larry Sultan
Jim Goldberg
Four books on visual anthropology and methods
Illness as Metaphor and AIDS and Its Metaphors. Susan Sontag
Book: Maxwell Street 2019
Book: Understanding photo books
Book: ‘The documentary impulse’
Books: Place and two works of Edward Casey
Book: ‘The Birth of the clinic’
Books and OCA guidance: ‘How to write better essays’
Webinars and talks
Picturing Lockdown: Photography and the Pandemic. Format21 webinar and then OCA tutor led discussion 17/03/21
Artist talk: Andy Hughes in-conversation with Lizzie Perrote – 29 October 2021 – Online event
Tutor led Format21 discussion 13/03/21
Webinar – Live Hub via padlet 07/03/21
Webinar: Keeping up Momentum Session: Student Stories 27/02/21
Artist’s talk: Jane Weinmann Webinar 21/02/2021
Artist’s talk: Rob Townsend Webinar 10/02/2021
Artist Talk: Jim Mortram – Webinar 30/01/21
Webinar: Victoria Sorochinski
Shahidul Alam ‘Speaking Truth to Power’ Webinar NEPN 18/03/2021
Webinar Book Fair: ‘ReFramed – Activism and Publishing’ 17/10/2020
Webinar: RPS Digital Imaging – Photography Close to Home: Creatively Seeing the World Around You with Brenda Tharp 17/10/2020
Online Book launch: Rio Tape/Slide Archive and Book
Library webinar: Introduction to Moving Image Resources 24/02/21
Hangouts, study groups
Keeping up Momentum ‘Peep Show’ session with Hayley Lock 27/11/2021 and 11/12/202
OCA Focus Live Hub meeting feedback 21/11/2021
Keeping up Momentum ‘Chain Reaction’ Collaborative workshop October 2021
Keeping up momentum 18.09.21
CAHOOTS Keeping up momentum collaborative project (April 2021)
CAHOOT session 10/04/21
Art Lab presentations 01/02/2021
CS Tutor led meeting 25th January, 2021
Library webinar: Reading lists and citation software
Theory: Tutor led group work online: ‘Knowledge and intrigue in research’
Gallery and study visits
Exhibition – ‘The destructors’ by Iran Perretta
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