Costelloe-KuehnMemo43

=Memo43: Seed Research= This memo should describe potential seed research that would help you prepare for the proposed research. Try to come up with a number of possibilities. You could aim to do some interviewing, on whatever topic, perhaps with a mentor (faculty or grad student), to gain a sense of the dynamics of interviewing. You could do some interviewing that tests the interview questions in your proposal. Or you could do content/discourse analysis of media coverage or policy documents related to your topic. Be creative and expansive (not worrying, for now, about time requirements) in what you come up with.

Interviews:
 * Asthma Files interviews next week.
 * RPI Arts students and faculty on
 * meaning of "experimental" (and why? value? what are they pushing against? "EMPAC" experimental vs. ___)
 * "political art" (forms it can take? historical trajectories?)
 * community-based art
 * old/new media
 * meaning of terms: tactical? alternative? independent? community-based? experimental?
 * bioart
 * SCI-FI (already conducted a few interviews, I will do a few more, revise my IASTS talk for ICA (may 21-25 in Chicago), and combine with a short lit. review to produce a publishable essay. But where to publish on sci-fi and teaching?)
 * Topic of anarchism and self-organization (ron, sal, others?) will help me think about forms of collectivity, and questions of democracy.
 * Asthma Files/Exposure Science stuff
 * Greenpeace media people?
 * Community gardens

Content/discourse analysis of:
 * Suro's collaborative projects (or at least jatantrust.org)
 * Revisit discourse analysis project on critical media literacy... think about "critical technoscientific literacy"

Art/Media projects:
 * Follow up with capital district community gardens. Revise preliminary promotional video completed last semester and update with footage of the veggie mobile and people working in the gardens. Do at least one more video-taped interview too.
 * Work with data collected Earth Week with Asthma Files.... work with tomie?