Jen Franklin

Autonomy, ambiguity, and authorship

 

Art schooled - Jamie Cole

 

Passive 

  • Didactic
  • Tutor= expert
  • Student = passive
  • Outcomes = certain conformity 
  • Alienating- fails to acknowledge difference

 

Responsive and Activity based

  • Directive
  • Tutor - trainer
  • Student = responder
  • Knowledge fixed by tutors experience
  • Imitation

 

Active and Experimental 

  • Negotiated 
  • Tutor = facilitator, supporter, negotiator
  • Student = contributor 
  • Social activity/ practice
  • Critical thinking 
  • Intelligent thinking

 

Heuristic

  • Empowering 
  • Validating 
  • Tutor = coordinator 
  • Student = researcher, inventor, discoverer
  • Experimentation
  • Unknown findings/ hypotheses. 

 

Open

  • Open
  • Tutor = attendant
  • Student = director
  • Chaotic
  •  Can invite stereotypical responses and rejection or learning

 

Grapefruit - Yoko Ono 

Lin Yutang - The importance of living 

Courtney (1994) - John Burningham

19 ways of looking at wang wei - eliot weinberger

/o - Jen Franklin

The death of the author (1967) - Roland Barthes 

 

Nick - 3rd year tutor

Diary of an autonomous collective: Nous Vous 2006-2019

  • Visual art collective 
  • Graphic design studio 
  • Illustrators
  • Publishing imprint
  • Educators 
  • Musicians 
  • Performers 
  • Friends 
  • Housemates 

 

Beginnings - working together on a degree show

  • Drawing club
  • Self publishing 
  • Events
  •  Tom leaves to concentrates on music 
  • Design studio 
  • Visual art projects
  • Illustration
  • Workshops
  • Residencies
  • Studio practice
  • Self publishing
  • Imprint
  • Character design 

 

New formation - agency/ studio/ ?

 

Q&A

How do you tread the line between professional relationship and friendship?

  • If we get annoyed with each other, we change what we are working on. 

How important is autonomy as an illustrator? 

  • Helps you not be stuck

 

How do we maintain our autonomy as art students? 

  • Try to put yourself into projects, what you want to do