Tutorial over Zoom

 

A name that cropped up 

Had the chance of a Tutorial with City Lit  Art & Design's Moving Image specialist Dr Pete Gomes today.

One of the things that I was aware of and will now act is to make the online posts more reflective - with the benefit of time I will revisit and hopefully be able to extrapolate more in the way of lessons and attitudes to my own efforts.

It was a wide ranging conversation that covered quite a lot of areas  one name that I thought was familiar was Guy Debord who I had come across when I read Malcolm McLaren's biography - have started reading about the French Situationist but  not yet completed .

Here's a bit of the conversation (on Zoom Chat) with some notes from me - it was useful for me to try and convey my thoughts and direction and Pete did well to get a sense of my interests...

Socially Engaged Practice
11:15:00 From Pete Gomes to Everyone:

spectrum
11:15:14 From Pete Gomes to Everyone:

Further field.org
11:15:24 From Pete Gomes to Everyone:

(a link for me to follow) 

furtherfield.org
11:15:59 From Tim B to Everyone:

https://austinkleon.com/
11:16:56 From Pete Gomes to Everyone:

https://www.tate.org.uk/art/art-terms/s/socially-engaged-practice
11:17:37 From Pete Gomes to Everyone:

https://www.salford.ac.uk/courses/postgraduate/socially-engaged-arts-practice
11:20:03 From Pete Gomes to Everyone:

(another link for me to follow - this one good as it pointed a way for practice that is perhaps less rarefied?) 

Participatory practcie
11:20:07 From Pete Gomes to Everyone:

practice
11:26:24 From Pete Gomes to Everyone:

http://stephenwillats.com/
11:27:28 From Pete Gomes to Everyone:

http://stephenwillats.com/work/where-do-i-belong/
11:27:42 From Pete Gomes to Everyone:

http://stephenwillats.com/work/four-pressures-four-freedoms/
11:30:09 From Pete Gomes to Everyone:

derive
11:30:12 From Pete Gomes to Everyone:

Guy debord
11:32:08 From Tim B to Everyone:

https://youtu.be/aQWaW3wYoKY
11:33:08 From Pete Gomes to Everyone:

http://stephenwillats.com/work/time-tumbler-drawings/

another artist who has a way of approaching his audience in another way  

11:34:50 From Pete Gomes to Everyone:

Photography in the book?
11:35:01 From Pete Gomes to Everyone:

photocollage
11:36:39 From Pete Gomes to Everyone:

Conversation in art
11:37:08 From Pete Gomes to Everyone:

Joseph beuys
11:38:06 From Pete Gomes to Everyone:

marina abramovich
11:38:16 From Pete Gomes to Everyone:

Social engagement
11:41:20 From Pete Gomes to Everyone:

research into social practice in art
11:41:57 From Pete Gomes to Everyone:

Instagram accounts
11:47:08 From Pete Gomes to Everyone:

Exploring / Testing / Refining
11:47:20 From Pete Gomes to Everyone:

Not linear

I have some directions to go in and even when some of the approaches are not what immediately have jumped to my mind, the suggestions from someone looking in are useful and at least make me ask questions of myself.

A most useful forty-five minutes or so.

Keep Feeling Fascination ..

 There are a couple of things I'm thinking of these days and one of them is Prosopagnosia (or face blindness).

Oliver's book 

It's all about people not recognising  faces and there are some big names who've suffered it, they include Oliver Sacks (who wrote a book about it)  Stephen Fry, Comedian Paul Foot and seemingly the rather strange  connection of US photo-realist artist  Chuck Close.

I don't know if there are connections between sufferers (drug use?) or if it is more common amongst men or women but I can't help thinking that it tells us something about the human brain's operation.

Let's face it with several billion people in the world most with fairly 'standard' facial features it can seem pretty amazing that we can spot individuals visually - domestic animals often have keener senses of smells that humans but most of us are at least not conscious of detecting people by smell.

I recall about 25 years back on being required to meet a friend at HK Airport after not seeing him for some time anticipating spotting him being a challenge, it proved not to be the case but I do think about this and the point of losing this ability to differentiate as the years go by. 

  

 

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Charles Allen slags off C4

The TV festival in Edinburgh gives TV 'luvvys' a chance to speak about the industry

Interesting that Charles Allen the outgoing ITV CEO has decided to have a go at C4 and the BBC in this year's keynote address.

Andy Duncan who I think is doing a remarkably good job at Horseferry Road has ruled himself out of the race to succeed the departing Allen and the ITV hot seat is looking a bit of a poisoned chalice.

Now I personally have thought that there are questions about C4’s status as a quasi- commercial broadcaster but having seen the disaster commercially and critically that ITV has become I’m thinking twice about ITV’s own version of market failure.

The backdrop to ITV's commercial failure is that a key report has shown that ITV advertising is actually cheaper than it was ten years ago in 1996


The new boss will have one chance to correct the errors of recent times with a new ITV branding proposition key to any recovery.

Charles's address is avialble here

and now I've the new groovy blogger format here's a funny video...