In research strategies you’ll find the set text, and what to have done by our first class (week 2). Don’t leave this, start it immediately. Yoko’s, Francesca’s, and Adrian’s studio blogs are happening, read them regularly. (Adrian’s has the set text, and what is to be done.) Lab membership is online and current and we have a FaceBook group you need to find and ask to join – it’s called 2016 Consilience Lab. Finally, all assessment is listed….
Imagine a drum roll…. 2016 labs (as of 12:16pm 26/02/16)
z Lab – Francesca Rendle-Short Tuesday 9:30am
- Alix Palmer
- Christopher Cody
- Darius Kedros
- Hazel Gordon
- Josefina Huq
- Louisa Buchanan
- Philippa Newell
- Tobias Brodel
- Tristan Barr
- Hazel Gordon
x Lab – Yoko Akama Thursday 1pm
- Claire Griggs
- Emmeline Kildea
- Hope Lumsden
- Matt Adair
- Michelle Wallace
- Mikaila Siegersma
- Nam-Chi Tran
- Ryley Lawson
- Timothy Snowdon
- William Yanko
y Lab – Adrian Miles Friday 9:30am
- Angela Kasprowicz
- Brendan Eichholzer
- Christopher Vik
- Fan Ching Wong
- Geordie Mcdonald
- Jake Reeder
- Jake Troughton
- Jessica Junor
- Mollie Cowell
- Zoe Blain
A 2015 honours student’s observations:
Best: Having a year to explore your obsession and work out what you are really passionate about and where you really want to go in life. I also loved the motivation and community of the cohort- my peers literally got me through the submission process and took a lot of time out of their study to read my stuff. My fellow students influenced the content of my thesis over anyone else. I also loved the coursework as it was relevant to the bigger picture and helped to embellish the final project.
Hardest: I think the hardest part was the self doubt at the start of the year in that weird phase where we were all trying to impress each other with our credibility as academics. I felt this odd concern that I wasn’t worthy of writing about my chosen topic but this was thought through and dealt with in the coursework in semester 1.
Advice I’d give: Try very hard to enjoy honours because it can be the best year of your life! Working with each other and being friendly and open will pay off at the end of the year where you will be each other’s champions. My friends read my thesis more times than my supervisor actually did.
Advice I wish I had listened to: Honours can actually be fun, enjoy it!
Jianni Tien
Reading Machines Jianni Tien (PDF)
My thesis investigates how to undertake what I describe as a ‘procedural analysis’ of electronic literature to acknowledge electronic literature’s computational processes and its literary elements. Taking John Cayley and Daniel C. Howe’s Poetics of Reading as a case study, and Ian Bogost’s conception of ‘unit operations’ as a method, this procedural analysis identi es Poetics of Reading as relying on a literary variety of autopoiesis for poetic and political effect. Poetics of Reading is then seen to ask questions about reading, texts, and the materiality of reading itself. Procedural analysis of electronic literature leads to a clearer understanding of the aims and scope of electronic literature works and can account for the speci city of the electronic in electronic literature.
The timetable page for honours has been updated to show semester one….