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Channel, Richard Morris Nov 2016

Channel, Richard Morris

Richard Morris

The painting Channel - enamel and butyl rubber on plywood 36cm x 32cm in the exhibition Richard Morris Paintings 2015 exhibited at ASW Art Systems Wickham, Newcastle., was formed by deconstructing pre-painted panels, into narrow rectilinear units, which have been re-assembled into a horizontally stacked rectilinear configuration. By utilising a strictly horizontal assembly or ‘stack’ of painted ‘splinters’ of plywood, each with distinct variation in both colour and texture, the work entails a type of stratification, suggestive of a landscape ‘field.’ Such notions can be seen to stem from a similar structuring configuration in the horizontal bands of earth, water …

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Digital Storytelling: Using Producer’S Commentary In The Classroom, Korina Jocson Dec 2015

Digital Storytelling: Using Producer’S Commentary In The Classroom, Korina Jocson

Korina Jocson

In this essay, the author echoes the importance of digital storytelling as an opportunity for identity construction, art-making, and teaching and learning with technology. The author begins with the concept of assemblage as key to the creation of digital stories and offers an analysis of one students’ digital story to illustrate pedagogical possibilities in the college classroom. The author suggests the use of producer’s commentary as a method toward deeper understandings of do-it-yourself media production, layers of meaning within the digital story from the student’s perspective, and various other elements behind the scenes that otherwise might not be captured through …

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Wild Things: Stories, Transition And The Sacred In Ecological Social Movements, Luigi Russi Nov 2015

Wild Things: Stories, Transition And The Sacred In Ecological Social Movements, Luigi Russi

Luigi Russi

This article examines the role of stories in ecological activism. It first situates stories inside object ecologies, encompassing relationships of reliance, care and maintenance of things. It suggests that ecologies of this sort work as an extended mind where our cognition takes place and meaning is apprehended, so that what we can think of is always a function of what we have Ôat handÕ. The article then considers how these ecologies are impacted by discourses on climate change and peak oil, which stress the impossibility to keep ordering our lives through the same entanglements that have supported them so far. …

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Material Agency In The Urban Material Culture Initiative, Robert Rotenberg Dec 2013

Material Agency In The Urban Material Culture Initiative, Robert Rotenberg

Robert Rotenberg

This contribution to the discussion of collecting contemporary objects reviews the implications of taking seriously how and what objects communicate, especially how we can identify the ways messages are coded in the forms of familiar objects. Of special interest are the conceptual tools that are available to differentiate these messages when objects are arranged in assemblages, including emergent implicit messages, the messages implicit in sets of objects. I advocate an approach to collecting in museums based on the tactics people use to create these assemblages at home. What theorizing about material agency offers to our collection program is a focus …

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