I remember Jonathan’s emphasis from the first on making sure I include my Karachi projects in the final show. The best way I could think of conveying their spirit and allowing people to experience them immersively, despite being an online student, was to create an expressionist video projection on chiffon. Chiffon is a light material and experimenting with it showed me that it handles a projection very well, even in daylight. Ideally, I would like to hang it somewhere people can walk around it, causing it to move and causing the projections to play across their body (since the images …
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Notebook overview
This blog is not the only place I have used for reflection during Unit 1. My notebooks are an important part of writing down ideas as they come, sketching things out, doodling to untangle thoughts and make notes during the skype sessions, lectures and tutorials. Since it would be redundant to post daily about the notebook, I made a quick video of some of the pages to give a succinct idea about their usefulness:
Finalizing the research paper — step 1
Post truth and public art were the two keywords my research began on. I even identified a research question in the previous blog post. I just finished reading Lee McIntyre’s book and it cemented the fact that the post-truth era is intriguing and very pertinent, and definitely something I want to include into my research. So here’s the title and abstract I have so far, bear in mind that this abstract is the pre-completion abstract and will probably become more succinct once my paper is complete: Public Art in the Post-Truth Era A commentary on …
Research paper brainstorming part 2
My research paper has not taken form as yet. It is still amorphous research and concepts. But I am moving forward with it. You could say I am electively burrowing down an endless rabbit hole. The study I engaged in since this morning was supposed to yield some substantial outcome, leave me with perhaps a solid working title. But all its done so far is spark more ideas in my head. But I won’t give in just yet. Here’s a link to the brainstorming I did this morning. It’s led me to more books and more ideas, but I see …
Tutorial 3
Thanks to three month long summer vacations in Jeddah, the rhythm of my blog was completely thrown off. I ended up writing blogposts in my head on planes, while running after kids, in meetings and even while painting! But never got a chance to actually post them here. I did write down all the topics I want to write about, though, so that I don’t accidentally miss out a blogpost. Here’s another reason why I haven’t returned too frequently to the blog of late. I am officially freaked out by the upcoming end of Unit 1. Random, frightened thoughts are …