WEEK 06: Wednesday 22 November 2006
Spatial theory
Required reading
Cavallaro pt 3: chapt 3-space/ chapt 6-simulacrum
Additional material> blog links

As a result of last week’s discussion it was decided we would invest the last session of this first semester trying to answer the following query: how to develop an art practice as a theorist? and how to write with critical theory?

For this purpose please prepare a 5 minute on-screen presentation of how you intend to use theory to develop your current research project and how you plan on writing about it.

Follow this method

• -give your future theory essay a title and subtitle
• -create a structured outline that list its main sections and the topics you intend to approach theoretically
• -indicate how you intend to use post-structuralist/ semiotic /psychoanalytic/ intertextual theories and methodologies to organise your research and reflect on its results
• -include a bibliography of the essays you intend to reference in your final essay
• -upload this outline to your blog with images of the visual materials you intend to use

You will use your blog for your on-screen class presentation. Note that other audio-visual or hardcopy (printed version) methods are not an option.

resources
Graeme Sullivan: Visual Arts Research Model (1998)
http://www.tc.columbia.edu/academic/a&hdept/arted/faculty/gs354/gs_projects4.htm