1. Feminism/Media/Image/Technology
COMN 3393
Feminism/Media/Image/Technology

2. Agenda Interact with your living inquiry sheets
Look at the idea of lens + inquiry
Look at the idea of collection as it relates to inquiry
Look at a/r/tography as method for inquiry
Set you up for the next phase of field-note assignment
Check in with syllabus/Scope of course and other assignments

3. Observational matrix
Self
Other
Place
Time

4. Observational matrix
Other
Time
Place
Self

5. Observational matrix

6. Observational matrix
Other
Time
Place
Self

7. Observational matrix

8. Observational matrix
Self
Other
Place
Time

9. Observational matrix

10. Observational matrix
Self
Other
Place
Time

11. A way of observing our observing
Self
Other
Place
Time
Ethnography
Cinema
Documentary
Photography
Narrativity

12. A way of collecting our observing
Self
Other
Place
Time
Ethnography
Cinema
Documentary
Photography
Narrativity

13. A way of collecting our observing
Ethnography
Cinema
Documentary
Photography
Narrativity
Scrapbooks
Blogs
Journals
Video data
Audio data
Albums; Digital and Physical
Designed collection vehicles
Official collection sites
Unofficial collection sites
Stories
Field-notes

14. A way of collecting our observing
Scrapbooks
Blogs
Journals
Video data
Audio data
Albums; Digital and Physical
Designed collection vehicles
Official collection sites
Unofficial collection sites
Stories
Field-notes
Data kinds
Images/Music/Poetic/Ritual
Quantitative-numerical-scientific
Qualitative- emphemeral/ethos/social/
Ethnography
Cinema
Documentary
Art making
Photography
Narrativity

15. A way of organizing our collecting our observing
Ethnography
Cinema
Documentary
Photography
Narrativity
Scrapbooks
Blogs
Journals
Video data
Audio data
Albums; Digital and Physical
Designed collection vehicles
Official collection sites
Unofficial collection sites
Stories
Field-notes

16. A way of organizing our collecting our observing
Ethnography
Cinema
Documentary
Photography
Narrativity
Scrapbooks

17. A way of organizing our collecting our observing
Ethnography
Cinema
Documentary
Photography
Narrativity
Scrapbooks

18. A way of organizing our collecting our observing
Ethnography
Cinema
Documentary
Photography
Narrativity
Blogs

19. A way of organizing our collecting our observing
Ethnography
Cinema
Documentary
Photography
Narrativity
Journals/visual journals

20. A way of organizing our collecting our observing
Ethnography
Cinema
Documentary
Photography
Narrativity
Journals/visual journals

21. A way of organizing our collecting our observing
Ethnography
Cinema
Documentary
Photography
Narrativity
Video/video journal/diary

22. observing our observing
collecting
organizing
interacting
observing our observing

23. observing our observing
collecting
organizing
interacting
observing our observing
observing
collecting
organizing
interacting
observing our observing

24. observing our observing
collecting
organizing
interacting
observing our observing
observing
collecting
organizing
interacting
observing our observing
observing
collecting
organizing
interacting
observing our observing

26. Living inquiry- a spiral

27. What you glimpse through the lens What you look at What you attend to
Readings
“others”
“other’d”
social
postcolonial
expressive form
locational “
Other
Time
Place
Self

28. A/R/Tography Method attentive to other
Particularly as it occurs in text/image interchange
Method attentive to process

29. A/R/Tography
Method attentive to living inquiry (thus to the matrix of other/self/place/time and…)
Particularly as it occurs in text/image interchange
Method attentive to process
Method attentive to multiple
Method attentive to feminist
Method attentive to making (technology)

30. A/R/Tography Interact with “texts”
Text can be written, made, installed, filmed, sung, poetic: thus can be art, play, music, movie, audio clip, verbal, danced, sung, rapped, graffiti. Text is that which we give our attention to, try to hear, try to hear beyond self, try to receive as repected other – text is something we read and witness simultaneously
Interact means effort to listen/attend/hear/give weight to
Hear your voice/give weight to your voice
Hear other voice/give weight to other voice
Though analytical and critical, chooses inquiry, listening and witness first as a position
Witness means withness

31. A/R/Tography
A/R/Tography is a form of inquiry that works with the multiple positionings of artist/researcher/teacher
A = artist: As we Interact with “texts” we are making our interactions – as we collect and organize meaning into forms we are also we are makers of meaning. As we observe forms/images/videos/music/we are also observing making - In this sense we become artists. A = artists. A/r/tography observes or making as much as it observes everything else – our own making/that which has been made. “The made” brings in technology. Making puts us in the position of creating and using technology. Thus the position of the artist is a way of thinking and becoming attentive to the role of making and technology and creating in culture and meaning structures. In a sense we are all the camera holders looking attentively at the relationship of our camera holding to what is being seen

32. A/R/Tography
A/R/Tography is a form of inquiry that works with the multiple positionings of artist/researcher/teacher. Example 1:
Layer 1;
Gather and comment
on made images and their
meanings
Perhaps as response
to a text (article)
Layer 2: Come back
Maybe with post it note
Also comment on the
making you have done
in bringing these images together.

33. Next time I want to use blue paper and see how that works
A/R/Tography
A/R/Tography is a form of inquiry that works with the multiple positionings of artist/researcher/teacher. Example 1:
Next time I want to use blue paper and see how that works
I seem to be thinking now by using multiple technologies: print/photo/cut out- tearing- never thought of these as thinking before

34. A/R/Tography
A/R/Tography is a form of living inquiry that works with the multiple positionings of artist/researcher/teacher
R = researcher: We are always making inquiry as we move through the world. A researcher is someone who becomes attentive to this process. This attentiveness occurs through thinking and observing and creating a means for the two to interact fruitfully. Generally this is done by being attentive to the subject of inquiry (letting it have a voice); and to the tools that shape the inquiry – especially the questions asked and the tools used to investigate the answers. Inquiry is a form of listening with query as its main position. Query as in becoming observant about the self –in order to give an/other its voice. In current western view of research: Possibly this could be called a m’othering view of research…more than a far’thering view of research

35. A/R/Tography
A/R/Tography is a form of living inquiry that works with the multiple positionings of artist/researcher/teacher
T = teacher. Teaching has to do with the public voice of knowledge. To be an artist and researcher is to be considering the relationship of inquiry and making inquiry as they influence one another though technologies of inquiry, collection and expression. To be a teacher is to think about how to share this with others, how to bring your findings into public space so that they are accessible to others, particularly to others for learning. It is also to think about the relationship between your learning and public space, the relationship between your voice and contribution and how it can become valuable to your participation in social order. It is in a sense to be thoughtful about how your learning becomes part of making public/civic/collective social spaces.

36. A/R/Tographic process: For now do two circles;
Circle 1: Start with the living inquiry lens
Look at an other (try your reading for a start, but later consider movies, music, art installations, art pieces, theorist – graffiti, and anything that comes to you as an/other.)
While you are encountering this text- document the encounter using the living inquiry lens.
Circle 2: Later go back and comment (post-it). Comment analytically and also comment aesthetically (looking at form and the form you are using to gather the information: .Comment technologically. Look at the technologies influencing what you are looking at. Look at the four prongs of the living inquiry matrix again see if there is something new that you are seeing as the result of this circle.