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Method unchained: To new adventures of ideas

December 14, 2020/in Autumn 2020_#Method /by Greg DeCuir

This position piece defends an understanding of method as a process of creative invention. The opening section distinguishes between method and methodology in order to problematise the relation between the two. In light of this distinction, the piece then assesses the general value of method’s repetitive operational chains, for instance for purposes of learning and knowledge transmission. Ultimately, the argument affirms the need for a radical openness of creative practices, including research. This is first done through an engagement with Henri Bergson’s method of intuition and then, in the final section, through the notion of metamodeling.

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On #Method: A roundtable with the NECSUS editorial board

December 13, 2020/in Autumn 2020_#Method /by Greg DeCuir

In October 2020 the editorial board of NECSUS held an online roundtable discussion to address the special section topic #Method. The initial prompt came from an editorial written by board member Toni Pape. What follows is an edited transcript of the recording of the online roundtable on this topic.

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Mistake as method: Towards an epistemology of errors in creative practice and research

December 13, 2020/in Autumn 2020_#Method /by Greg DeCuir

The article focuses on creative research as a practice, a form of making, attending to the making of mistakes – errors, deviations, detours – as the uncertain ground of an emerging methodological paradigm. Our specific focus here is upon media and performance practices. Guided by references to a range of theorists who place mistakes in the centre of their thinking – Russian formalists, Giuliana Bruno, Maurice Blanchot, Tim Erchells, and Tim Ingold – this article explores the potentials for error in method – and the potentials of error as method. We begin by observing a genealogy of mistakes as method in the theories of Russian Formalists, recognising a longstanding fascination with errors and mistakes – ‘mistake as a constructive principle’ for Yuri Tynianov and estrangement for Viktor Shklovsky, then move on to the notion of errare as ‘a map of theoretical and emotional itineraries’ for Bruno. We continue by proposing how these fascinations shape contemporary interdisciplinary methodologies in the humanities, from qualified success to absolute failure. Our preoccupation with error spans every level of creative processes, as mistakes become not only object of enquiry, but a methodological paradigm. The second part of the article focuses on practices that use error as method. In making, practising, performing – in creative research of all kinds – erring is linked to temporality. Practice itself may be recognised as a continuous journey, where method is only ever understood as provisional. In relating such temporalities to philosophical discourses on errors, the article moves towards erring as a contemporary research tool. 

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The Supermarket of Images: A conversation with curators Peter Szendy, Emmanuel Alloa, and Marta Ponsa

December 13, 2020/in Autumn 2020_#Method, Exhibition Reviews, Reviews /by Greg DeCuir

by Claire Salles The exhibition Le Supermarché des images (The Supermarket of Images, Jeu de Paume, Paris, 11 February – 16 March 2020) explores the economy of images without reducing it to the funding systems of the production of images. Marta Gili, the former director of Jeu de Paume read Peter Szendy’s essay Le Supermarché […]

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Displacing as a method: On ‘Displacing Caravaggio’ and ‘Dance of Values’

December 11, 2020/in Autumn 2020_#Method, Book Reviews, Reviews /by Greg DeCuir

Two books with very different contents, languages, and structures published between 2018 and 2019 convey through their respective arguments how displacing might serve as a method for investigating new and heterodox forms of remediation and montage. Both books offer the possibility to cross new terrains of interdisciplinary migration, unexpected ‘adaptations’, and new ways of displacing […]

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The Elephant Man’s Sound, Tracked

November 29, 2020/1 Comment/in Audiovisual Essays, Autumn 2020_#Method /by Greg DeCuir

by Liz Greene ‘The Elephant Man’s Sound, Tracked’ sets out to investigate the clean-up of a line of dialogue, ‘I am not an animal, I am a human being, a man, a man’, in David Lynch’s The Elephant Man (1980), and explores the possibility of an alternate soundtrack or even picture edit being cut for […]

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Talking [Heads] About Whitney

November 29, 2020/in Audiovisual Essays, Autumn 2020_#Method /by Greg DeCuir

by Jaap Kooijman Talking Heads About Whitney from Jaap Kooijman on Vimeo. Although about Whitney Houston, this audiovisual essay does not contain any image or sound of the late superstar singer who was defined by her voice.[1] Instead, I have compiled the talking head interviews with Houston’s family members, friends, and business associates from two […]

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Sonic Chronicle, Post Sound

November 29, 2020/1 Comment/in Audiovisual Essays, Autumn 2020_#Method /by Greg DeCuir

In this audiovisual essay I suggest that film soundtracks might be best considered a ‘soundscape’ as defined by R. Murray Schafer in his book The Soundscape: Our sonic environment and the tuning of the world (1993). Schafer established The World Soundscape Project in the late 1960s out of a growing concern for the rapidly changing […]

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Beyond the Catchy Tunes: George Bruns and the Craft of Transparent Underscoring

November 29, 2020/in Audiovisual Essays, Autumn 2020_#Method /by Greg DeCuir

by Oswald Iten George was big and easy-going, but he worked very hard and produced a seemingly endless string of fresh melodies and haunting scores. – Frank Thomas and Ollie Johnston in Disney Animation: The Illusion of Life When it comes to Disney music, and The Jungle Book (Wolfgang Reitherman, 1967) in particular, most people […]

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Mediating climate visualities: Notes on Meteorological Mobilities

November 15, 2020/in Autumn 2020_#Method, Exhibition Reviews, Reviews /by Greg DeCuir

In The Ecological Thought, Timothy Morton remarks that  ecology isn’t just about global warming, recycling and solar power – and also not just to do with everyday relationships between humans and non-humans. It has to do with love, loss, despair, and compassion. (…) It has to do with capitalism and with what might exist after […]

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Autumn 2020_#Method, call for submissions

January 19, 2020/in News /by Greg DeCuir

‘There is a point at which methods devour themselves.’ – Frantz Fanon (Black Skin, White Masks) One can observe, in recent years, an obsession with methods – both in humanities research and teaching. Discussions include apprehensions about the imminent obsolescence of established media studies methodologies, a more liberal (in all senses?) search for synergies with […]

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Anecdotal evidence

May 2, 2013/1 Comment/in Features, Spring 2013_'Green' /by Greg DeCuir

by Sean Cubitt La réalité est autre chose. – (Au hasard Balthazar) When asked to write about recent research I am faced with the problem of reconciling work on visual technologies, environmental issues, de-colonial and indigenous movements, political economy, global media governance, and media arts. Currents of thought link these fields, a general intellectual and […]

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