The Double Life contemporary art exhibition opened last night at the RMIT Project Space/Spare Room. With a life in the city and in the country these artist/researchers work with their rural environments. A few pictures from the opening. Curator Lisa Byrne.
An ash stencil on the floor ‘Bastards Neck’ part of Lesley Duxbury’s work.
Talking with the artist Joy Hirst afterwards at dinner Joy referred to the artist Richard Long who has a huge body of work that covers walking, mapping and the landscape.
find a story in the data
visual access to dimensions in that data
remove everything that isn’t telling the story
control their own web experience
empower people to tell their own stories
design the application to tell their own story
using the data as a navigation source
using people’s behaviour as a data source
tools for people to focus data in a way that tells a story – tools that empower users
storytelling; discovery; visual cues; interacting; editing; filtering
A great reference resource for new media. From the about page: AAAARG is a conversation platform – at different times it performs as a school, or a reading group, or a journal. AAAARG was created with the intention of developing critical discourse outside of an institutional framework. But rather than thinking of it like a new building, imagine scaffolding that attaches onto existing buildings and creates new architectures between them.
From the webpage: "Susanne Gaschke‘s book Klick – Strategies Against Digital Stultification describes how the increasing prevalence of the internet and new media influences the culture of knowledge and education. She criticizes an infinite optimism of media, politics and science towards this phenomenon and decries an uncritical handling of the internet. Gaschke characterizes people following the paradigm of new media blindly as ideologists; she calls them ‘digitalists.’ Furthermore, a criticism of modern neoliberal capitalism accompanies her fundamental demand for more pessimism towards the new media."
From the publishers blurb: "The YouTube Reader is the first full-length book to explore YouTube as an industry, an archive and a cultural form. This remarkable volume brings together renowned film and media scholars in a discussion of the potentials and pitfalls of 'broadcasting yourself'. The YouTube Reader confronts prevalent claims to newness, immediacy or popularity with systematic and theoretically informed arguments."
This discussion is dated now but useful in terms thinking about mapping in relation to mashing up data sets and displaying information in differing ways.
Online Video and Participatory Culture By: Jean Burgess and Joshua Green (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA) From the blurb: "YouTube is one of the most well-known and widely discussed sites of participatory media in the contemporary online environment, and it is the first genuinely mass-popular platform for user-created video. In this timely and comprehensive introduction to how YouTube is being used and why it matters, Burgess and Green discuss the ways that it relates to wider transformations in culture, society and the economy."
An example of a workshop that utilises the Korsakow System with a focus on making interactive audiovisual works. From the description: "The Korsakow System can be used to create online interactive, databased film projects of very different nature, and can also be used at a more basic level: as a handy content management system for any video project."
A US real estate example of integrating images with maps. I like the integration of thumbnails with the map and having multiple ways to access data. I particulary like play option which offers a predetermined viewing narrative. I have been thinking about this with what I call "map narratives" i.e. Like a screen captured version of interacting with a map. Also, like the zoom in feature related to an image or in the LP case, video. I am looking for a video to location relationship via the map.
Video of Jeff Veen's presentation, Designing for Big Data. From the post; "I describe two trends: how we're shifting as a culture from consumers to participants, and how technology has enabled massive amounts of data to be recorded, stored, and analyzed. Putting those things together has resulted in some fascinating innovations that echo data visualization work that's been happening for centuries."
A plugin for wordpress and drupal. From the about webpage: "Kaltura allows publishers of all sizes to easily, quickly, and cost effectively enhance their web site with video and interactive rich-media functionalities, including video management, searching, uploading, importing, editing, annotating, remixing, sharing, and advertising."
A review of Madhavi Sunder's presentation on the soon to be released book iP: YouTube, MySpace, Our Culture. From the abstract for the book: "The central argument of this book is that an intellectual property law befitting this new participatory century must lift its gaze beyond the narrow goal of incentivizing the creation of more intellectual products to facilitating critical and autonomous participation in the cultural sphere. Modernity is not simply technology. A modern intellectual property law must promote our capacity to author our own lives."
From the about webpage: "OMG I'm on .TV is post-analog TV station broadcasting in NYC on channel 14. We're broadcasting internet content to your TV, through a low-power TV transmitter. The website acts as an aggregator of online video content. You get to create the shows, vote on the shows, and participate in the whole process."
Comprehensive notes on new QuickTime X update. Long overdue seems like QT has been as it was a number of years ago. Always ahead of itself in regards to what was hidden under the surface, like an electric car put on the backburner.
A curated collection of political remix from the 2008 24/7 DIY video summit.
The best viewing of the curated political remix material is on the 24/7 DIY video summit website down the bottom of the political remix webpage as separate videos rather than in the long presentation video on YouTube.
Political Remix Video is an emerging genre of DIY media production in which creators critique power structures, deconstruct cultural norms and challenge dominate social narratives by transforming fragments of mainstream media and pop culture. These works have their roots in the tradition détournement where artists twist and subvert mass media – re-purposing it to present alternative messages. Political remixers provide critical (and often humorous) perspectives on politics, war, news, economics, culture, gender, sexuality and environmental issues. The form has grown considerably in recently years thanks to the increasing accessibility and popularity online video sharing tools. This program traces the history of the genre and present resent online highlights
View on YouTube the full uncut screening of presentation and curated political videos from ‘24/7 DIY’.
