DV1101 Discourse Module

GROUP BLOG ADDRESS www.uelphotography.blogspot.com

Wednesdays

All Graphic Design single honours, All Moving Image single honours All Illustration, Animation, Moving Image, Printmaking that are NOT combined with Photography)

Fridays

All Photography single honours

All Photography Combined Honours

Some Printmaking Students

Room / time TBC

11-1

EB 1.01

Assignment

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Students will produce an online blog that will have 12 entries, each with about 200 words.

Each entry will have credited images and weblinks to research material. It might also use video or other media.

Training will be provided for those who have not made a blog before.

All Blog options are suitable. Students can use Blogspot, Blogger, Myspace, Facebook Notes, Bebo or any other solution.

It is very important that you tutor knows your BLOG address ASAP for tutor and peer feedback

e.g www.blogspot.com/hedleyroberts or your tutor will not be able to give feedback or will not be able to mark your work

Photography / Printmaking : Julie Cook

j.r.cook@uel.ac.uk

Graphic Design / Illustration / Moving Image / Animation / Printmaking

t.s.foster@uel.ac.uk

h.roberts@uel.ac.uk

OF the 12 entries 3 must be from the CORE topics

Photography/Printmaking Core Topics

Semiotics

Feminism

Modernism / Postmodernism

Photography - 3 must be selected from the BIOGRAPHIES topics

Photography Biography topics

August Sanders

Robert Frank

Taryn Simon

Dryden Goodwin

Stephen Shore

Sam Taylor Wood

Nan Goldin

Eileen Perrier

Gerhard Richter

William Eggleston

Sarah Jones

Philip Lorcia diCorcia

Graphics Illustration / Printmaking Biography Topics (3)

Métal Hurlant

Grapus

Ed Fella

Alex Trochut

Takashi Murakami

Robert Delpire

Alan Fletcher

Deyan Sudjic

Émigré

Ray Gun

Moving Image Biography Choices (3)

Yuri Norstein

William Kentridge

Brothers Quay

Osamu Tezukag

Georges Melies

Terry Gilliam

Stan Brakage

Tim Burton

Adam Elliot

Jan Svankmajer

6 Topics Defined by the student.

These should be of personal interest for your own research and, ideally, should relate to the ‘discourse’ of your chosen degree programme. This could also be reviews of current exhibitions.

Schedules

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Discourse DV1101 Photography Outline

Week 1 – 12^th February

Introduction to Discourse and Brief

Setting up a Blog

Week 2 – 19^th February

Biography - Stephen Shore

Week 3 – 26^th February

Roland Barthes

Week 4 – 5^th March

Gallery Visit

Tate Modern Stillness and Movement Symposium or Photographers Gallery - Deutsche -Börse Photography Prize

Week 5 – 12^th March

Core Subject - Semiotics

Week 6 – 19^th March

Biography - Robert Frank/Nan Golding

Week 7 – 26^th March

Core Subject - Feminism

STUDENT VACATION

Week 8 – 16^th April

Susan Sontag

Week 9 – 23^rd April

Core Subject - Modernism/Post Modernism

Week 10 – 30^th April

Biography

Student Presentations

Week 11 – 7^th May

Biography

Student Presentations

Week 12 – 14^th May

Traditional Debate and Blog Submisssion

Subject tbc