Odyssey

In 2020 I decided to study for a masters in the visual art of photography.

It had been a long held desire of mine to continue my studies, and with the aid of a small inheritance I was able to realise this dream.

I thoroughly enjoyed the work, and looked forward to every challenge, every assignment, and the amount of work I put into it was colossal, including an entire website containing all these posts.

And although I appeared to get on well with my online tutor, as he was constantly praising my submitted work, he suddenly and very unexpectedly one day towards the end of the first semester, just shortly before the submission of the main assessment, informed me that work he had previously described as “very good”, he now described as just perfunctory.

This directly affected the work I was about to submit for the assessment, and therefore the final award itself.

In my opinion this was unacceptable.

He revealed in further correspondence, that he had done this deliberately, and my complaint to the Course-Coordinator about his behaviour led to my immediate dismissal from the course, together with a demand for the full payment of fees.

Naturally I wasn’t in agreement with this, especially as the student handbook specified a protocol regarding the complaint’s procedure, which the University broke in its entirety.

What followed was an extremely stressful 2 year struggle with the University, who were dishonest about everything, even fraudulently misquoting its own message transcripts in an attempt to deny all responsibility for a situation wholly of their own creation.

They finally settled out of court.

I will be putting together a few posts detailing the lengths I had to go to, in the hope that it will be of help to others unfortunate enough to find themselves in the same situation.

The 360° project work:

  • 06 – Experiment with YouTube
    YouTube After discovering that Google has removed the VR capabilities from the IOS iPhone versions of its Apps, I looked around for alternatives, and stumbled upon a solution on YouTube, ironically ...
  • 05 – Experiment with YouTube
    YouTube After discovering that Google has removed the VR capabilities from the IOS iPhone versions of its Apps, I looked around for alternatives, and stumbled upon a solution on YouTube, ironically ...
  • 04 – Experiment with YouTube
    YouTube After discovering that Google has removed the VR capabilities from the IOS iPhone versions of its Apps, I looked around for alternatives, and stumbled upon a solution on YouTube, ironically ...
  • 03 – PhotoShop Experiment
    Experiment This is the initial experiment to see if photoShopping elements into a pre-existing photo-sphere would even be feasible. Photo-Sphere: Museumsinsel
  • 02 – Original 360° Photo-Spheres
    Museumsinsel Paul Löbe Building Photo-Spheres on Google Street View I have many photo-spheres on Google Street view, in total they have been viewed over 4,500,000 times, one itself over 750,000 times, but as ...
  • 01 – Background to the project
    The project would use Homer’s Odyssey as a framework on which to hang an episodic journey through Berlin, much in the same way that James Joyce used the epic poem ...

Project research:

Relevant UNI course work:


 
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