Logbook Entry #1
This first week for our capstone seminar we read most of The Gift: Creativity and the Artist in the Modern World by Lewis Hyde. In our class discussion, we spoke about the gift exchange market Hyde writes about and how our capstones- and the research and creation process behind them- engage with Hyde’s idea of the gift.
Our first assignment was to chart how we structured and scheduled our work (capstone-related, course-work related, meetings, etc.) over the course of a week. While the ‘time map’ I created was perhaps affected by the fact that this was the first week of classes, I noticed a trend of doing capstone-related work over the weekend, and not carrying through work through the week. My main goal moving forward was to try and spread this out so that I am working at least a little bit on my capstone every day.
I also met with Glenn Wharton, my professor for Intro to Museum Studies who gave me bibliographies for curating contemporary art and social practice art to use in my research. Additionally, I began to go through some books I had taken out of the Bobst library:
Obrist, Hans-Ulrich. Ways of Curating. New York: Penguin Books, 2014. Print.
Obrist, Hans-Ulrich. Everything You Always Wanted to Know about Curating but Were Afraid to Ask. Berlin: Sternberg Press, 2011. Print.
Rand, Steven. Cautionary Tales: Critical Curating. New York: apexart, 2010. Print.
This helped me to start my annotated bibliography. Although I have yet to read most of the sources included, it is very helpful to have them all in one place because I had begun to compile separate bibliographies based on when I working on the project. By consolidating all the sources I am using or going to possibly use, I was also able to categorize them into sections.
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