Tutor report assignment 3 and response to Tutor feedback

Tutor report Assignment 3

Response to tutor feedback Assignment 3
Great overall comments received."This is a solidly researched and well-executed assignment Nicola. Pursuing your your critical reflection a little further would be an opportunity to add depth." (Bloomfield, 2015) I enjoyed working on this assignment, and the time of year (November) and foggy, drizzly weather added to the atmosphere. 

Good points
Having researched first world war colour photography and ways of reproducing the effect in photoshop, I thought the images were engaging and I had not made the link between hyper-real and simulation, instead linking the work to memory and truth. 

It is really helpful to receive feedback which takes my work off in a different direction, and also provides links for future assignments. Looking back over the course, this assignment started to develop some of the ideas that I would use later on in the course.

Points for development

• link the artificiality of the autochrome effect and the artificiality of the reconstructed trenches
• Consider using Spielberg as the link between fantasy and reality within simulation
• Consider "how the reconstruction is different from the original place it represents. For instance, how is it experienced differently by the contemporary visitor from the traces of the original WW1 training camp at the site? How do the different contexts of warfare, country park, culture industry and so on change the meaning?" 

Further reading

Baudrillard’s Precession of Simulacra

Jeremy Deller’s The Battle of Orgreave

Joan Fontacuberta’s Landscapes Without Memory

The research around it sent me off in different directions and from here I felt the landscape course became really interesting. The further reading became my basis for the critical review because I wanted to develop my understanding around these theories and ides.