Recently, I had a meeting with both my supervisors and the two lecturers who run my course. This slightly-scary meeting was labelled in my diary as “super supervisory meeting”. These are my notes from that meeting.
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Notes from Super Supervisory Meeting
Atau: AHRC funding conveys level of respectability, and means that the research can be referenced in the future by other organisations.
Audience for the report drawn from the sector, ie, people who are developing their own hacklabs and similar enterprises. Also, secondary audiences of universities and arts funding bodies.
To read: Policy documents, (also see: John O’Shea)
models from the 70′s that
film workshops (see Side cinema) which came from a funded model to establish centres of production and distribution. What happened to this policy? What happened to the centres funded by this policy?
Research thoughts: Most interesting and useful is to describe practice of hacklabs:
(arduino, mindstorms, lazers, processing… and more!)
This research is being done from a practitioners viewpoint for other practitioners, with the aim of creating a model from the practice of previous artists working in the area.
Inquiry one: Historic approach is not a goer, in that it is by itself PhD level research. This should be reformatted as a pracicioner led inquiries that are sector based…. Arts Council ’10 turning point’? strategy (which might not be effective) and Digital Economy funding, which was the focus of the Sheffield research conference I attended recently.
Inquiry two: reduce number of case studies to more feasible number. False outcomes would come fom not taking funding into account: for instance, funding for Access-Space would be entirely different to the funding from NYC Resistor… any research is not definitive.
Outcome: license (how can CC license be fostered? What other examples of books on a wiki can be found? Game Culture book? Lessig? Goto10?)
Next actions: define who I’m researching, methods of data colleciton, case studies (why, how, then data collection)
