Feminism/Media/Image/Technology COMN 3393 Feminism/Media/Image/Technology

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

Observational matrix Self Other Place Time

Observational matrix Other Time Place Self

Observational matrix

Observational matrix Other Time Place Self

Observational matrix

Observational matrix Self Other Place Time

Observational matrix

Observational matrix Self Other Place Time

A way of observing our observing Self Other Place Time Ethnography Cinema Documentary Photography Narrativity

A way of collecting our observing Self Other Place Time Ethnography Cinema Documentary Photography Narrativity

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-notes

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-notes Data kinds Images/Music/Poetic/Ritual Quantitative-numerical-scientific Qualitative- emphemeral/ethos/social/ Ethnography Cinema Documentary Art making Photography Narrativity

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-notes

A way of organizing our collecting our observing Ethnography Cinema Documentary Photography Narrativity Scrapbooks

A way of organizing our collecting our observing Ethnography Cinema Documentary Photography Narrativity Scrapbooks

A way of organizing our collecting our observing Ethnography Cinema Documentary Photography Narrativity Blogs

A way of organizing our collecting our observing Ethnography Cinema Documentary Photography Narrativity Journals/visual journals

A way of organizing our collecting our observing Ethnography Cinema Documentary Photography Narrativity Journals/visual journals

A way of organizing our collecting our observing Ethnography Cinema Documentary Photography Narrativity Video/video journal/diary

observing our observing collecting organizing interacting observing our observing

observing our observing collecting organizing interacting observing our observing observing collecting organizing interacting observing our observing

observing our observing collecting organizing interacting observing our observing observing collecting organizing interacting observing our observing observing collecting organizing interacting observing our observing

Living inquiry- a spiral

What you glimpse through the lens What you look at What you attend to Readings “others” “other’d” social postcolonial expressive form locational “ Other Time Place Self

A/R/Tography Method attentive to other Particularly as it occurs in text/image interchange Method attentive to process

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)

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

A/R/Tography A/R/Tography is a form of inquiry that works with the multiple positionings of artist/researcher/teacher 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

A/R/Tography A/R/Tography is a form of inquiry that works with the multiple positionings of artist/researcher/teacher. 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.

Next time I want to use blue paper and see how that works A/R/Tography A/R/Tography is a form of inquiry that works with the multiple positionings of artist/researcher/teacher. 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

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 m’othering view of research…more than a far’thering view of research

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.

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.