Converge
The Converge team has been hard at work planning this years lecture series. We are a little disappointed that we did have our first event yet, but scheduling conflicts with the artists did not allow that to happen. We have our first event booked with Chris Curreri & Louis Jacob. We met today with Dave Dyment & Roula Partheniou today to discuss our second event and have dates for that now set in stone. A couple other artists have been contacted and are aware of our interest. On the boring side of things, all of our funding applications have now been sent out. We have yet to hear back from everyone just yet and still have a few presentations we have to make to people but the boring number stuff has been completed. We re-established our social media presence and are ready to get into that. We have fundraising plans ready to get right into when we come back in September. Overall, it's been a slow start but we are excited to finally start the events in the next term!
Personal Thesis Project
I haven't had much time to really work on my personal thesis project too much. I am so glad I chose to do it in the second semester though, even though I am going to be flooded doing both projects next year. I have had a lot of time to collect materials and do lots of research. The annotated bibliography has been very helpful for me. I am never able to do much research before delving into my projects so I have found this time very enjoyable. As soon as my work load lightens up next week, I am super excited to be able to start playing around with my ideas more so I can come back in the winter term with a hopefully solid idea. I still have no solid idea as to what I am going to be doing for sure, but I feel i'm in a better place about it then I was back in September.
