ARTD6142
Critical Media Practice
Week 8 oncluding thoughts and
further Summative Assessment
Guidance
The module has aimed to:
CRITICAL
–
Allow you to identify and reflect on
your position as a practitioner,
someone who makes media and has
a practice with media texts, images,
audio, and video.
–
Offer a range of approaches to
media practices, using examples
from artists, filmmakers, bloggers,
institutions(news media, corporations,
film and TV productions)and general
MEDIA
PRACTICE
The module has aimed to:
CRITICAL
MEDIA
PRACTICE
Build a critical vocabulary of terms,
ideas, theories, and critical thought on
media theory and practices (review
lectures)
Encourage you to identify current ideas
and interpret the contemporary digital
media landscape, focusing on the
specificity of media formats, their
production, the meaning-making
processes, the bodies involved in making
CRITICAL
MEDIA
PRACTICE
Authors we have covered and their main
disciplines/practices:
? Hito Steyerl (artist, philosopher)
? Holert, Tom (art historian)
? Taslima Akhter (photographer-activist)
? Christina Sharpe (visual studies,
philosophy)
? Gayatri Spivak (postcolonial studies,
philosopher)
? Sendra, Estrella (film and media
scholar, filmmaker)
? Grant, Catherine (film scholar)
? Morales, Darline (film and media
researcher)
? Oyallon-Koloski, Jenny (film and media
scholar)
? Lothian, Alexis (media and queer
studies scholar)
Media Studies
CRITICAL
Film Studies
MEDIA
Gender and Queer Studies
PRACTICE
SOURCES
Art and Art History
Philosophy and Critical Theory
—– Not: Marketing, Advertising, Science (esp.
Behavioural Sciences: eg. Psychology, or !rd
sciences eg. Neuroscience) GMM guides is
where you should go to, as explained in EAP.
PRACTICES with
TEXT
Creative use of the medium of writing (ie
creative textual practices)
Digital and social media texts (produced
for online platforms and their
requirements, for example:
?
?
?
Blog Entries (with a specific theme ¥g. creative writing about media,
technology and bodies)
Reporting and Journalism (for news
platforms)
Digital magazines, journals, zines etc.
PRACTICES with
IMAGES
Digital, analogue (or a mix of)
creative practices of making still
images, for example:
?
Photography
?
Drawing
?
Collage
PRACTICES with
Digital, analogue (or a mix of)
creative practices of making
moving images, for example:
VIDEO
?
Video essays
?
Remix
(using footage found and retrieved form
online platforms of a large variety or
new, filmed footage)
PRACTICES with
Digital, analogue (or a mix of) creative
practices of making audio, for
example:
AUDIO
?
Creative sound practice with
instruments or software
?
Audio remixes
(using footage found and retrieved
form online platforms of a large variety
or new, filmed footage)
SUMMATIVE
ASSESSMENT
You have all the information
about it in the brief
+ review formative
assessment
+ lecture guidance
+ announcements clarifying
some concerns raised
SUBMISSION
WHERE TO UPLOAD
MATERIALS
STEP 1
Create Efolio eek 1 Video
Guidance on Blackboard;
STEP 2
Upload your creative practice on
this platform, so we can access it
as audio-visual material (make sure
you allow time for large files to upload and
also check it plays back/formatting/display)
SUBMISSION
WHERE TO UPLOAD
MATERIALS
STEP 3
Upload / copy&paste your Critical
Commentary (2000 words) to
Efolio as text on the same page
STEP 4
Create a PDF (instructions in
Efolio video) of your blog entry
and Upload this in Assessment
A LIST OF EXERCISES
YOU CAN DO TO
PREPARE FOR THE
ASSESSMENT
– GO through all of the texts suggested
as reading and SELECT the ones that
have relevant ideas for your practice
–
MAKE a LIST of terms, concepts,
points from the relevant texts selected
–
GO through the examples given in all
of the lectures, and find some that are
inspiring/useful. MAKE a list of them
and then THINK of other inspiring
practices. HOW does your creative
response stand in relation to these?
–
DRAW A CONCEPTUAL MIND-MAP
of the authors writing about the media
format you chose (text, image, audio,
video) and how they connect [eg. Hito
Steyerlànotion of poor images in
relation to ideas about the limits of
representation]
–
WRITE DOWN reflections about your
own practice with the media format
and your creative response (what do
you think it does and HOW it connects
to the theoretical/academic
A LIST OF EXERCISES
YOU CAN DO TO
PREPARE FOR THE
ASSESSMENT
1. PLAN YOUR WORK
2. FOLLOW GUIDANCE
ON BB
3. DON PANIC

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