Dear Michael
Thank you for that quote and an additional research vista - do you
have the book reference?
Thanks
David
On 2 Mar 2003 at 10:37, Michael A R Biggs wrote:
> 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
> >
> >Tel: +44 (0)1509 228967
> >Mobile: 07944 751088
> >Fax: +44 (0)1509 228902
>
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>
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David Haley
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