# Site

## Pages

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- [Assessment](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-baishi/assessments/): Every piece of graded work in the course, what it is worth, and when it is due.
- [Final project — Provenance](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-baishi/assessments/provenance/): Make a convincing object and a convincing history for it — the capstone that turns every earlier studio's craft into one complete case for a fake.
- [Assignment 1 — The Convincing Copy](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-baishi/assessments/the-convincing-copy/): Make a convincing copy of a real style or technique, in any of the course's four materials, and declare exactly what you made it with and from.
- [Assignment 2 — The Tell](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-baishi/assessments/the-tell/): Analyse a provided sample of real or synthetic media and write the case for your verdict, naming the specific evidence it rests on.
- [Lectures](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-baishi/lectures/): What is covered, week by week, and which topics each lecture draws on.
- [What is a copy?](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-baishi/lectures/week-01/): The opening lecture — why a course about fakes is a course about the real thing, and how the twelve weeks are built around one failure at a time.
- [The connoisseur's eye](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-baishi/lectures/week-02/): How an expert actually spots a fake painting — not by magic instinct, but by a trained, describable set of things a forger has to get right at once.
- [Materials don't lie (usually)](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-baishi/lectures/week-03/): The chemistry and physics that catch a forger long after the eye is fooled — pigment dates, paper stock, and the science of an anachronism.
- [Forging the hand — text, signatures and the tell in language](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-baishi/lectures/week-05/): From the Hitler diaries to a forged signature on a cheque — what makes handwriting and prose fakeable, and what in them almost always gives it away.
- [Currency and the state's own arms race](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-baishi/lectures/week-06/): Why banknotes look the way they do — a design history driven entirely by an ongoing contest with forgers, and what that contest teaches about design.
- [Provenance — the paper trail that makes an object real](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-baishi/lectures/week-07/): Why an object's history of ownership is sometimes worth more to its authenticity than the object itself, and how that history gets faked too.
- [Code as forgery — plagiarism, licence-laundering, and a git history that lies](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-baishi/lectures/week-08/): What forging a painting has in common with faking a commit history or laundering a licence, and where the analogy stops holding.
- [Synthetic media I — what a generative model actually learned to copy](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-baishi/lectures/week-09/): A guest lecture on what an image or voice model is actually imitating when it generates something convincing, and why that's a different question to "is it real."
- [Synthetic media II — detection, and its own failure modes](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-baishi/lectures/week-10/): The second guest lecture — how synthetic-media detection actually works today, and the honest limits of a field that is still losing some rounds.
- [The market for authenticity](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-baishi/lectures/week-11/): Why fakes matter economically as well as aesthetically — insurance, provenance markets, and what the demand for authenticity actually prices.
- [People](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-baishi/people/): Who teaches the course, and how to reach them.
- [Anselm Rook](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-baishi/people/anselm-rook/): A working printmaker and letterpress compositor, tutoring the studios that turn material technique into a physical skill.
- [Dr Naledi Osei](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-baishi/people/naledi-osei/): A guest lecturer in digital media forensics, joining for the weeks on synthetic media and computational detection.
- [Dr Petra Voss](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-baishi/people/petra-voss/): The founding convenor, a conservator turned forensic art historian, responsible for the course's shape and its weekly studio programme.
- [Policies and support](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-baishi/policies/): The course-wide rules for late work, extensions, materials safety and the one kind of academic integrity question this particular course actually raises.
- [Getting started](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-baishi/sessions/01-getting-started/): The first studio — setting up the bench, handling the materials safely, and making the first deliberately bad copy of the semester.
- [First review](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-baishi/sessions/02-first-review/): The second studio — a first look at each other's week-1 attempts, and a practice run at giving feedback the connoisseur's-eye way.
- [Materials and marks](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-baishi/sessions/03-materials-and-marks/): Ageing a surface convincingly by hand, and learning by doing it what a lab test would catch that an eye wouldn't.
- [Independent bench time](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-baishi/sessions/04-bench-time/): A studio with no new material — dedicated time on Assignment 1, "The Convincing Copy," with the tutor circulating rather than demonstrating.
- [Copying a hand](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-baishi/sessions/05-copying-a-hand/): A handwriting and signature forgery exercise, and a first live demonstration of stroke-dynamics analysis catching a fake in real time.
- [Assignment 1 work time](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-baishi/sessions/06-assignment-work-time/): The last studio before Assignment 1 is due — bench time and a final materials-and-method note check before submission.
- [The Convincing Copy — crit](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-baishi/sessions/07-the-convincing-copy-crit/): Assignment 1 submissions meet the room, run through the connoisseur's-eye checklist by classmates rather than only by the tutors.
- [Bench time — provenance groundwork](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-baishi/sessions/08-bench-time-ii/): A second open bench-time studio, starting the research and materials gathering the final project's provenance file will need.
- [The Tell begins](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-baishi/sessions/09-the-tell-begins/): Assignment 3 opens — analysing a provided sample of real or synthetic media and writing the case for your verdict.
- [The Tell — work time](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-baishi/sessions/10-the-tell-work-time/): The second and final Tell studio — finishing the analysis and writing the case for your verdict before submission.
- [Provenance work time](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-baishi/sessions/11-provenance-work-time/): Dedicated studio time on the final project, with both tutors circulating to check objects against their claimed histories.
- [Final crit](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-baishi/sessions/12-final-crit/): The last studio of the semester — every final project presented with its provenance file, crit'd by the whole room one more time.