week04

Wednesday Dec 9^th

Session’s aim: to debate emerging research methodologies  such as auto-ethnographies that rely on first-hand experiences and personal narratives, and explore writing as a form of subjective inquiry.

three steps:

• 1- read the recommended texts on auto-ethnographies and arts research practices;
• 2- based on the approach that inspires you the most, develop a script ( images + text)  that is a form of personal narrative about your practice;
• 3- prepare a visual presentation following the pecha-kucha format : 20 images for 20 seconds a piece,
  for a total time of 6 minutes, 40 seconds. (see technical help below)

Reading for week 04

Auto-ethnographies and art practices as research

Main text for this week is the editorial by Deborah Smith-Shank and Karen Keifer-Boyd (Autoethnography & Arts-based Research) to vol. 2 of the journal Visual Culture & Gender. Download the text from this link: Smith-Shank-Autoethnography-and-Arts-Based-Research.

Additionally, visit the journal’s website here, where you can find related journal’s articles, which provide the essential material the editorial refers to:

AUTOETHNOGRAPHIES
Crystal/Charley: Lessons on Youthful Queer Identity (Kimberly Cosier)
Re-constructing Self within the Family: Re-building the Family Album (Anniina Suominen Guyas)
Entangled Social Realities: Race, Class, and Gender— A Triple Threat to the Academic Achievement of Black Females (Wanda B. Knight)
Elementary Majors’ Resistance to Art Method Courses: Exploring Issues of Gender, Class, and Civility (Lara Lackey, Marjorie Cohee Manifold, & Enid Zimmerman)
REPRESENTATIONS OF THE MOTHER
Women and Abjection: Margins of Difference, Bodies of Art (Leisha Jones)
The Role of Motherhood Symbols in the Conflict Imagery of Northern Ireland (Martin Forker)
VISUAL ESSAYS
Women Caught Off Guard: A Photo Essay (Paula McNeill)
Our Grandmother’s Daughters: The Work of Cynthia Hellyer Heinz (Deborah Smith-Shank with Cynthia Hellyer Heinz) Who’s in Bed with the Handmaiden?(Karen Keifer-Boyd & Deborah Smith-Shank)

Additional relevant essays written by artists from a personal perspective that you may use to inform your presentation:

Scott-Hoy, Karen, 2003. Form Carries Experience: A Story of the Art and Form of Knowledge. Qualitative Inquiry, 9(2), 268-280. Available at: http://qix.sagepub.com/cgi/doi/10.1177/1077800402250964.

download it from here: Scott-Hoy-Form-Carries-Experience

Biemann, Ursula, Writing Video – Writing the World: Videogeographies as Cognitive Medium. TRANSIT. Available at: http://german.berkeley.edu:8002/transit/2008/articles/biemannwriting.htm

Pui San Lok, Susan, 2007. Translators’ Notes1. Journal of Visual Culture, 6(1), 125-148. Available at: http://vcu.sagepub.com/cgi/doi/10.1177/1470412907075074.

download it from here: Pui-san-lok-TranslatorsNotes1

Pecha-kucha

wikipedia general definition: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pecha-kucha

Etivity for week 04

Write the narrative that accompanies your pecha-kucha powerpoint presentation and will be used as voice over. Upload the slide show to the blog before the session.

Suggestion:

Time the automatic PowerPoint presentation using the following technique

1. Write your narartive ( the presentation script) and time it.
2. Create 20 slides that include  little or no text and large, striking images
3. Paste your script in the note pane of each slide, so that you know what you’ll say for each slide. Recheck the timing.
4. Set the slides to advance after 20 seconds. Choose View> Slide Sorter and select all of the slides. (Click the first one, press and hold Shift, and click the last one.)
5. On the Slide Sorter toolbar, click the Transition button. (In 2007, choose Animations.) In the Advance Slide section, uncheck the On Mouse Click check box and check the Automatically After check box. In the Automatically After text box, enter 00:20.
6. Choose Slideshow> Set Up Show and select: Presented by a speaker and Advance Slides Using timings
7. Practice until you can deliver the presentation within the alloted time.

The best way to share it in our blog is to first upload it to slideshare

In the page with the presentation on SlideShare, below the presentation you will see (among other things) a text box labeled “For WordPress.com”

If you copy that code and paste it into your blog post on WordPress.com, it will show up as the presentation when you publish your blogpost.

If all this is too difficult for you, just prepare your automated 20 slides powerpoint presentation and you will upload it to slideshare and the blog after we go through the technicalities in class.