Dear George and everyone
May I suggest that to reassert the "research agenda", as suggested by
George on 26/2/2003, it might be a good idea to ensure a mixture of
research students and supervisors/experienced researchers at such meetings.
I too, was interested in David's "auto-graph" research, because I recently
supervised a PhD on the "auto-graphic" possibilities of non-camera based
photography (if mention of photography is not banned on this list). Fox
Talbot regarded photography as "the pencil of Nature". About his first
image he said "this building, I believe to be the first that was ever yet
known to have drawn its own picture."
Michael Biggs
At 11:21 27/02/2003 +0000, George Whale wrote:
>Dear All
>
>The point I was trying to make was that we need to think seriously about
>providing appropriate forums (fora?) for drawing researchers (especially
>those doing MPhils and PhDs) to talk about their work in depth and obtain
>feedback from peers. At present, there appears to be precious few
>opportunities for us to do so. As a Drawing **Research** Network, perhaps
>we could discuss how the situation might be improved.
>
>My suggestion would be to restructure the meetings of the Network. For me,
>the most interesting and relevant bits of previous meetings have been where
>individual (MPhil, PhD) researchers have presented their work, but it's
>been obvious that 10 minutes apiece is nowhere near enough time and, with
>all the other items on the agenda, there has been little time for
>meaningful discussions.
>
>Is it possible that the bulk of the business of the Network (notifying
>members of drawing related activities, publications, exhibitions and so on)
>could be conducted electronically (on this list), so that future meetings
>could be devoted to presentation and discussion of individual research
>projects?
>
>One respondent to my previous message spoke about his own, very
>interesting, research topic and said that he "would be delighted to make a
>presentation and/or take part in a dialogue about this and related areas
>of...research in drawing". I daresay there are other researchers who feel
>the same way.
>
>1. Depending on the length of each meeting, we could invite maybe two or
>three PhD/MPhil researchers to make in-depth presentations to the group of,
>say, 30 minutes each. Ideally, each presenter would circulate a summary
>beforehand, allowing group members to think about the issues before the
>meeting takes place.
>
>2. Each presentation would be followed by up to 30 minutes of (hopefully)
>informed, focussed discussion about the specific content and context of the
>research and related methodological issues.
>
>3. We could ask presenters to provide text and images of their
>presentations for publication on the website that Steve Garner put together
><www.drawing.org.uk>. In time, these contributions could build into a
>valuable repository of current and recent drawing research.
>
>I do feel very strongly that those of us who are studying for research
>degrees or conducting post-doctoral research need to be more assertive in
>setting the agenda and ensuring that our work gets a proper hearing.
>
>Yours
>
>George Whale.
>
>
>
>At 04:43 PM 2/26/03 +0000, you wrote:
> >...or could it be that such divisive dogma is a self fulfilling
> >prophesy?
> >Martin Salisbury
> >Course Leader, MA Children's Book Illustration APU Cambridge
> >(Practitioner/Researcher)
> >On Wed, 26 Feb 2003 15:52:18 +0000 George Whale <[log in to unmask]>
> >wrote:
> >
>
>
>http://www.lboro.ac.uk/departments/ac/ad/htmlpages/staff/gwhale.html
>
>George Whale
>Research Associate
>Loughborough University School of Art & Design (LUSAD)
>Loughborough
>Leicestershire
>LE11 3TU
>UK
>
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