The document discusses different contexts that can frame an audience's or maker's understanding of a work. These contexts include social context, political context, personal context, critical/theoretical context, historical context, geographical context, institutional context, and cultural context. It also discusses how the systems and structures through which a work is presented, such as museums, galleries, hanging methods, and new media can further contextualize the audience's understanding.

1. understanding what you do.

2. how the work is experienced.

3. where the work is experienced.

4. context frames an audiences reading/understanding of work

11. context frames a makers reading/understanding of work

12. your making - contextual framework

13. social context - making and seeing an image always takes place in a social context. The way it is seen and how it is seen are culturally constructed. - audience for work - who is included/excluded/implicated on the ways an image is produced, circulated and consumed.

14. political context - specific political issue. - broad political issue. - gender - race - ethnicity - sexual orientation - class - disability – religion.

15. personal context - biography - narrative of the self. - particular issues – memories. - what motivates/ drives you? - your particular skills as an artist/ designer/writer/photographer. - what strategies do you use when the work is not going well? - how do you relate to the forces that in part condition what you know and in which you make things?

16. critical/theoretical context - does your work relate to particular critical debates about contemporary art and design practices? - is your work informed by/engaging with/contesting particular theoretical frameworks/issues?

17. historical context - understand how/whether your practice relates to a tradition, with a history. - how knowledge relates to periods in time.

18. geographical context - local, regional, national, international, global. - where do you make your work? - do you make your work in relation to a particular place? - studio home church city rural cyberspace.

19. institutional context - MA Course - school of design. - your educational background/experience. - your professional background/experience. - your family background/experience.

20. cultural context - in it’s broadest sense - ‘a whole way of life’ - this relates to all the other categories. - more specifically, what works of artists, designers, writers, filmmakers, photographers, musicians are important to you and your work - why?

21. mapping your practice - any other contexts worth considering? - importance. - overlapping. - change - evolution of practice.

22. work is mediated by systems/structures which contextualizes an audiences understanding

23. the museum

24. the gallery

25. hanging Machiko Agano Naomi Kobayashi

26. Mitsuo Toyazaki the floor

27. the wall

28. the plinth

29. the mannequin

30. the shelf

31. the table

32. the spotlight

33. the vitrine

34. the diorama

35. on-line

36. television (live transmission)

37. video/DVD

38. digital (monitor)

39. digital (projection)

40. new media

41. performance

42. installation

43. site specific

44. Mel Chin - Melrose Place intervention

45. relationship(s) to practice

46. object maker

47. audience object

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73. maker participant