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Next Week
By next week Ken and Karen will be expecting to see a working blog with Maps showing video clips that have been produced by the whole group. It is really important that that this is complete by next week as it will be the basis, along with your individual research blogs for the marks that you receive for your efforts in Read full article »
Experimental Movie
This to be completed over holiday as a 1 minute piece to be uploaded to your blog by the beginning of the new term in January 2010. Some links to useful examples of experimental work: An hours lecture by Janye and Louise Wilson that shows examples of their work which is very difficult to see outside of the gallery context: Lecture Given Read full article »
Mass Observation 10th December
What you need to have ready for next week: All footage digitised and uploaded to YouTube...............remember the title MASS OBSERVATION lots of material has been captured and we need to upload it so that we have multiple slices of life and people from the village and city. The mass observation project the archive based at Sussex University states: The Archive results from the Read full article »
The idea of citizens as a Mass to be observed
An interesting set of documentaries on the rise of citizen as "mass" and the attempts to understand, ameliorate, influence and control the "mass" developed into a set of ideas and approaches that were initially provoked by Freud's ideas about the nature of desire and the role of the unconcious. Adam Curtis produced a whole series of one hour programmes titled "The Read full article »
