Seth Keen

A TED video presentation titled Jane McGonigal: Gaming can make a better world – sourced via the book Reality Is Broken: Why Games Make Us Better and How They Can Change the World by Jane McGonigal. I can see connections here with online interactive video. But, more more importantly what is useful is the reverse psychology approach towards the attitude taken towards gaming.

The ‘Purrumbete Verandah’ video has been curated into the Berlin Director’s Lounge. From the website:

PLACENESS Australian video artists respond to the notion of place and explore through the physical and mnemonic how locations impact on the ways in which art and land coexist within the image. – curated by Shaun Wilson

What I am reading, published 2012. It is filling holes which is useful.

I think pages works with scrivener and I know I should be in the cloud with my references. But, yes the juggernaut got underway before the cloud came into its own, so catch up time after the big one is done and dusted.

Other tutorial video with Evernote: Applied Insight: Using Scrivener, EndNote and Evernote for Academic research on the Mac OSX

Grayson’s k-film/online documentary ‘Live Audio-Visual performance in Australia‘.

I am on a train and an iPad is being passed around as a camera device. An app that allows you to create special effects as you record is being used to share images. Those type of effects would be applied in post-production usually. The iPad is a social camera device in post-production.

IMG_0019, a photo by keen_seth on Flickr.

‘Remixthecontext: the transmedia artist in network culture’ presentation by Mark Amerika at the State Library on the 15th November. Organised by The Centre for Creative Arts, La Trobe University.

Keynote notes of the lecture on Mark’s blog.

The blurb sent out to describe the presentation:

Remix is a widespread practice of recombining existing material to make something new —including covers, sampling, mash-ups, smash-ups, cut-ups. Mark Amerika looks at how new media artists, many of whom identify with the historical avant-garde, are expanding the forms of remix art to foreground an anti-disciplinary [anti-authoritarian + interdisciplinary] approach to both contemporary practice and theory. Amerika will discuss his experimental art, theory, and pedagogy, including his recent projects Immobilité and remixthebook.

The presentation was followed by a conversation between Dan Angeloro (Soda_Jerk) and Mark Amerika.

remixthebook.com

Comment:
Amerika used the term ‘transmedia producer’ – then critiqued transmedia as term used for marketing – what (quote) ‘…commercially minded academics have called convergence’
Thought: Social media networking is a form of remixing a message passing on bits, re-appropriated the original…

Norie quotes from introduction:
Art making machine
Social media networking culture

Mark Amerika quotes from presentation:
Remixology
Remix the remix into self-contained parts
Data of everyday life
Performance art practice
Digital fields of distribution
Applied remixology
Riff reading
Situate our practices into everyday life
Novel togetherness
Social network media performance
Open source practice
Socially relevant aesthetic effect
Transmedia Narrative
Social media performance
Hybridised social media performance practice
DIY amateurism
Being in production is a ruse
We are always in post-production
Manipulate the data of everyday life
Intuitive medium engaged in creative media act
Subtitles are the interior monologue
Mobile phone video recording technology – lens brush
Hand-held choreography
Painterly rhythms
Institutional straight jackets
Meta-media mystik
Port my sensibility through it
Lost your flow

IMG_0020, a photo by keen_seth on Flickr.

Soda jerk notes:
Audiovisual samples
Space idea – Sun Ra, Astro Boy, Kraftwerk
After rainbow – video work
Post-production set
(quote) ‘Remix is the new LSD’
Role of the accident

References:
Blood and Guts in High School by Kathy Acker
Duchamp 1957 speech ‘The Creative Act’
Subtitles
On the Foreignness of Film, edited by Atom Egoyan and Ian Balfour
Streaming Museum, Director, Nina Colosi
koja essen sonic book (? need correct spelling)
Situationist film
Craig Baldwin found footage movement

Cowbird From the website about (big plans):

Cowbird is a simple tool for telling stories
 and a public library of human experience.

We are a small community of storytellers, interested in telling deeper, longer-lasting, more nourishing stories than you’re likely to find anywhere else on the Web.Cowbird allows you to keep a beautiful audio-visual diary of your life, and to collaborate in documenting the overarching “sagas” that shape our world today. Sagas are things like the Japanese earthquake, the war in Iraq, and the Occupy Wall Street movement — things that touch millions of lives and define the human story.

Our short-term goal is to pioneer a new form of participatory journalism, grounded in the simple human stories behind major news events and universal themes. Our long-term goal is to build a public library of human experience, so the knowledge and wisdom we accumulate as individuals may live on as part of the commons, available for this and future generations to look to for guidance.

Alexander Galloway Video Lecture on Deleuze and Computers, Dec 2011