Thursday, 18 October 2012

ITAP LECTURE 4 2012

This was my favourite lecture so far, I found it so refreshing and felt I could really connect with what the lecturer was saying. the points I have decided to reflect on and write about are "research" and the second point talked about "visual". 

The first point I have chosen to talk about is the importance of collecting research to help aid you in your practices, there are two forms of research; primary research which is going out and collecting the information needed yourself, whether this is in the form of photography, questionnaires or drawings, it's the practice of physically going out and collecting the information first hand, which stimulates the brain. 
 The second form is secondary research this is using data and information that others have collected before to help you with an idea or to give you inspiration, for example when I was in college I decided I wanted to experiment with underwater photography, so i looked for images that i liked the style of to help me create the sort of images I desired, and to show the thought process I had gone through throughout the assignment. The lecturer talked about how if you do not fully understand your field or practice and have not demonstrated that you have explored it or shown your thought processes your work will become shallow and uninformed. Below is an example in one of my sketchbooks where I have collected secondary research in the form of magazine layouts and adverts:




The second point is Visual, what was discusses was that in order to keep the creative mind alive almost, we are to keep constantly recording and collecting things that inspire us and help us to come up with ideas that could then lead on to pieces of work, things that show who we are. There are many different ways to do this, whether is be words, images or behaviour. Every artist will have their own way. I think that as visual research is collected it begins to show what sort of a person you are and your style within your medium. We are having to do this in the form of our RVJ's, we are constantly enquiring and trying to solve problems and questions we may have, I feel it is very important for us to collect things in our journals as research will come into every element of this project and ones to follow. 

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