Unit 2 Assessment Briefing

18 08 2011

UNIT 2 Assessment

Please note, we wish to assess all work carried out after the unit 1 assessment. Any work prior to that date may not be included.
Learning Outcomes
1. Present, in the final exhibition, a resolved body of creative practice that has evidenced the systematic enhancement of your knowledge and understanding
2. Analyse and reflect coherently upon your own practice and its context in both written and verbal forms
3. Summarise your overall progress and formulate a constructive plan for continuing Personal and Professional Development.
Assessment Evidence
1. Participation in the symposium (this is the 5 minute presentations you all did in early April)
2. Reflective journal and written paper evaluating your practice and future development (1000 words overall)
3. Practical work resolved according to your proposal and presented professionally as part of a the final exhibition

Curate your blog
You are required to curate your assessment. A separate page / section of your blog is required, with a title such as UNIT 2 ASSESSMENT. The idea of this is to indicate to the staff and your peers your understanding of the knowledge that you have developed over the unit. This is contextual knowledge, professional skills that you have developed. Knowledge that has been obtained though systematic rigour such as ‘action research’.
The ‘curation’ requires the following:
• Create a new page / section within your blog called UNIT 2 Assessment.
• List the Learning outcomes.
• Under each learning outcome, you will need to evidence how you have achieved it. Remember learning outcomes require a minimum of 2 pieces of evidence – we expect to see 3 / 4 pieces of evidence. Use the ‘Assessment Evidence’ [listed above] as a guide to what you can submit. Remember much of your ideas / developments and contextual information will be contained in the blog, so use what you have already written
• Write some short notes about each piece of evidence, discussing how it relates to the outcome, and why it is included above other evidence – why you feel its important.
Remember that things that did not work are as important as the things that did.
Please make sure all liabilities are cleared – library books + fines, Halls of residence fees etc. Failure to do so will stop the release of your grade + result.

Timetable
22 August – Show build start
25 August – meal at Jonathan’s house in the evening
30 August – Assessment starts – all evidence including the written paper must be on your blog by 09.00
1 September – final cleaning and preparing the exhibition space
2 September – show opens to the public
4 September – show closed for Sunday
6 September – private view 18.00-21.00
8 September – External Examiner visit – (he will want to meet some of you) & final day of the show
12 September – show comes down – you must come in a help to clear stuff away
13 September – final marks given out

Two important things about the show
You all need to agree an invigilation rota, to ensure all spaces are occupied by a minimum of two people. Any spaces unoccupied will be shut.
If your work involves a complicated set up to switch it on each morning, you will have to provide detailed instructions for whoever is invigilating that day, or come in each morning to set up.





MA Show Spaces

16 07 2011

http://photosynth.net/view.aspx?cid=85a860f0-9100-4dda-9293-6d513de40238&

http://photosynth.net/view.aspx?cid=cb812f2a-68ba-4691-b6a2-49198b1a5a39





2w90 Reflective Practice

7 06 2011

…or lack of it.  I’m finding it quite hard to engage with the internet at the moment (literaturely; although I’m quite sure it is not actually a word, I think it should be ;-) ), so to try and urge this interaction, I’m going to WRITE and POST…





2w90 Moscow 1 HD

2 06 2011

I do like this shot overall, but I think it would benefit from being lightened.  Again, I thought that increasing the contrast and luminance between highlights and shadows would benefit the aesthetics of the emissions, but I’m not unhappy with the outcome.  I like the piles of snow, as this adds to the climate change theme.  I feel the people in the shot add a little character, but I don’t think they really contribute to the overall appeal of the image.  I think that the emissions do move fairly fast and think that I could slow this down by stretching out the shot over the timeline in After Effects, but it is already quite a long shot at eleven seconds, so I may leave this as it is.





7 04 2011





21 03 2011

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-12766562





1w67 Blog Self Assessment

12 12 2010

My blog currently contains 75 posts and we have currently been on the course for a total of 67 weeks, equating to an average of just over one post per week.  Many weeks have two posts, yet some weeks have been neglected due to the submission of the research paper.  I also have some posts that are not yet publicly visible, as they may be pictures or video that have not yet been contextualised to fit my project and could therefore be considered as unrelated.

There is a mix of research and practical work, although the practical element received more attention at the start of the course due to my travel plans and the opportunity to create work that fitted the brief.  Research then took over from the practical work and I have tried to include a good mix of resources that discuss technology, process and inspiration.  I feel that much of the work is detailed, although some of the posts could be expanded and improved.  I feel that past posts have raised questions about my work and ideas and have given me further/new direction.  At times I have struggled with the written elements of the research and feel that I will be able to expand my thoughts in more detail as the course progresses.  Also, I feel that the research paper has increased my confidence regarding the future of my written work .

Overall, I do feel that the blog has been an indispensable tool to record my thoughts, observations and decision making, and realise that it is actually fundamental to the learning process (for example; when I write down my thoughts or merely regurgitate information, it becomes clearer and allows me to absorb more knowledge and possibly make better decisions).  I also feel that it has allowed me to develop my project proposal and its potential outcomes, and has sanctioned my understanding of the methodology and context of my creative practice, both in written and verbal form, increasing my vocabulary and confidence when discussing subject matter.





1w54 Aphex Twin Face Mapping

12 09 2010

During the London Electronic Dance Festival, Aphex Twin delivers another deviously delinquent feast of dark magic, this time in the form of live face mapping.  In his trademark style of superimposing the same morphed face onto numerous dummies, Richard D. James would have surely succeeded in freaking out a skrewface or two in the field 8-s





1w51 Alexander McQueen

22 08 2010




1w50 Lego 3D Interface

19 08 2010







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