The Time Machine – Symposium 2 Thursday 31st March 2011
The focus for this Symposium is to take a practitioner in the creative arena, and treat this practitioner in a similar way to the way in which you treated the object/artefact studied for Symposium 1 – as a starting point for broad contextual investigations.
As with Symposium 1, you will need to examine the resonances, influences and connections in association with this practitioner, both forwards and backwards in time. How was their creative work influenced by others, and by past events? What influence did they have, directly or indirectly? How can they be viewed in the light of historical and contemporary contexts?
The direction in which the research goes can be both linear and non-linear. You are encouraged to research at tangents as well as in straight lines! The colourful and interesting byways of Symposium 1 were one of its principal strengths.
The practitioner can be alive or dead, historical or contemporary.
You must not use the practioner as the main basis for your Time Machine essay, although you may refer to them in your essay as a context for the essay’s main subject.
CATF students were briefed today - time to get your heads together again! Good luck!
I'm confused... does that mean we have to give another presentation with our group?
ReplyDeleteYes! It's on your timetable, Alex... it says 'Symposia'
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