LJMU/TT Practice Based PhD Supervisory Meeting, Friday, November 12, 2021 from 4:00-5:00 PM EST.
In attendance: Supervisory Lead Mark Roughley, TT Supervisors, Robyn Ferrell, Borinquen Gallo, and PGR Gina Dominique Hersey
Since the committee's first October 2021 meeting, I reviewed with Mark Roughley and Advisory committee members Robyn Ferrell and Borinquen Gallo what I was able to complete re: my "LJMU TO DO LIST", which includes:
1. I logged onto my LJMU email account, read, sorted and replied to essential emails (120 to start!)
2. I logged onto Canvas, enrolled in and completed:
A) "Doctoral Academy Welcome" module, privately, with Jo McKeon, on Friday, 5 Nov 2021, during a 1 hr. 40 min. online live zoom meeting. Jo left me with the .pptx slide show, and I took notes on her presentation. She said that I ought to eMail “Mandy” a.f.williams@ljmu.ac.uk re: the required “Ethics Module”...that I need access to it, etc.
B) "Ethics Course" Module- I Completed LJMU Canvas Module Thursday, 11 Nov 2021 at 10:05 PM EST. Because I was knocked offline multiple times, I re-took 4 or 5 of the 7 internal quizzes...one or two of them many times. Due to the technical glitches, the 90 min or so module took me about 7 hours to complete.
C) "Equity Diversity of Inclusion" (EDI) Course Module and quizzes.
3. I logged onto eDoc and:
A) Added supervision meeting notes
B) Uploaded my PhD project title via a new "change request" submission
C) Uploaded and submit my practice based PhD project (description, etc)
Regarding C) my project description, during the meeting, Chair Mark Roughley stated that he will send it back to me for reformatting. He will also email/share a properly formatted Program description.
Then Borinquen G offered comments on my re-draft. She emailed them to me and committee members via google docs. All committee members agreed to assist with edits/commments, re-drafting it via a word document, or google docs.
Since LJMU internal systems are Microsoft Office (word or .docx) based, in the long run, maybe word is the wiser choice. I, GDH, will make changes, email them to commmittee members, receive their input, revise and we will all discuss again at the next meeting. After that, by January 15, 2022, I will re-submit for approval.
Committee members stated that they read my, Gina's PhD Process Blog, and were able to get a sense of what I have been doing, reading, etc. Robyn Ferrell commented on my, GDH's Agamben Reading Log post. She stated that she will send suggestions/links to additional related readings on the phenomenology of perception.
I, GDH, shared images of color based paintings I am working on in my studio. Then I shared on the following 12 chapter text (writings, paintings, installation, light installation, unclear as yet, what will manifest) outline that I created in recent days:
"Color Contexts: the democratization of color"
1. Color History- Ex. Ancients take on it. Ex. Aristotle and da Vinci published works on color. (Create a paintings or a body of work based on this...painting with Aristotle's notions of color...borrow his "palette". Do the same from da Vinci's...apply/interpret his color ideas to paintings within the larger body of work. "Ancient and Modern Color")
2. Formal Color Theory- Ex. formal scientific color investigations. Ex. Isaac Newton’s ROYGBIV rainbow, color charts, models and wheels. (Create a body of work based on this)
3. Iconographic and Iconological Color-add underlying “meaning” of colors and color palettes or “programs”- Ex. color as symbol? (Create a body of work based on this...maybe a color installation that works like "stations" of the rainbow...each color in gradient or striated color...or maybe solid...is presented on a full length half-tube like concave shaped canvas that one stands in (front of).
4. Gender and Color- Ex. Chart the history of how various cultures (from ancients on) associate which/various colors w/ various genders. Ex. Anc. Egyptian, Anc. Greek, Middle Ages, Renaissance/modern color:gender in artworks
5. Socio-economics and Color-Ex. historical how and why $/class/wealth/power and lack there of aka poverty is associated with particular colors/palettes. Ex. Ancient Roman red (robe) on emperors, Pompeii Red from frescoes “belonged” to the elites, early Christian mosaics define the power of the church, early Middle Ages gold is associated w/ Christian Carolingian church’s increased wealth/power, Gothic blue (stained glass and manuscript illumination) associated w/ (French) kings/royalty.
6. Ethnobiographical Color-What various ethnicities identify as their colors/palettes
7. Autobiographical Color-which artists created a color/palette that “still sticks” to them/defines them…Ex. Byes Klein blue, Guston’s “fat pink”...(Create a body of my own autobiographical color/work based on this)
8. Human Color/Pigmentation (historical “scientific” race theory) w/ charts, diagrams, maps, etc. 19th-20th C. Fake scientists and their racism that is behind race theories, which scientifically does not actually exist. Race is a socially constructed idea (as is color, gender, language, mathematics, etc. the idea of race is based on skin, eye and other human pigmentation. (Create a body of work based on this...conceptual/abstracted skin pigmented paintings...paint and skin share similar if not the same space)
9. Color Linguistics- Ex. The Big Bang of Color… “in the beginning was the word and the word was with God, and the word was God”, and “…let there be light…” …presumably in that instant, color was also born. Ex. (Create a body of work based on this...ex. Color inventory and/or diagrams…?)
10. Deconstructed Color- It is said that color is born of light? Is it, or is light born of color? :) (Create a body of work based on this...maybe a colored light installation)
11. Global Color- Flag schemes of all internationally recognized countries/nations…? (Create a body of work based on this)
12. Digital color: Ex. the internet, digital reality and the proliferation/ democratization of (ephemeral) color…or is it? (You can configure the Adobe Color Picker to let you choose only colors that are part of the web-safe palette or choose from specific color systems. You can also access an HDR (high dynamic range) picker to choose colors for use in HDR images.)(Create a body of work based on this) helpx.adobe.com/photoshop/using/choosin…
Discussion notes:
Agreed action points (to be completed after the meeting)
_ a) Complete "Induction Ceremony" module- (GDH: it is 11.12.21 and I still have not received email or a module in my eDoc or Canvas with link or recording…?)
_ b) Re-do "Training plan"- re-read, re-answer questions, locate “submit” and click it so that the plan shows up on my eDoc record
_ c) Receive template and restructure my program description, circulate word or google doc among committee members and discuss at next meeting. Following that, re-submit for approval.
_ d) Next Advisory Committee meeting is scheduled for Friday, Dec. 10 4PM EST.
