Jan 31, 2010 0
Video Vortex 5 report
The ‘Full video report of Video Vortex V’ on the Climatics Platform/Brussels
Video Vortex V was held at the Atomium in Brussels
Jan 26, 2010 0
links for 2010-01-26
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Jill Walker Rettberg video on blogging which is really useful for networked media.
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(Quoted from the overview of this book part of the Phaidon Themes and Movement, art book series): 'The first comprehensive international survey of art in the myriad forms of electronic media, including light, robotics, networks, virtual reality and the web.'
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A critical perspective on materiality that I think is worth following up more. (quote from blog post on the book Time-Critical Media) 'But definitely new German media studies and archaeology has a lot to say to the problems of materiality of technical media.'
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(quoted description of selection of essays from Utrecht University): 'The rich selection of essays gathered in this volume are a survey of cutting-edge research in the field of new media studies as well as a sampling of the type of research performed at the New Media and Digital Culture program at the Department of Media and Culture Studies at Utrecht University. The blending of these two perspectives is undoubtedly one of the most attractive aspects of this book, which demonstrates a strong sense of pedagogy and clarity in each of its contributions, while craving for presenting new insights in a scientific domain that is strongly opened to contextual and cultural analysis, yet for the same reason also difficult to handle or at least to circumscribe.'
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(quote from blog post on Wolfgang Ernst's talk): 'Ernst’s talk on media archaeology as a method and a theory really introduced the various radical implications that his brand of doing media archaeology has. I have already before pointed towards the points about “operative diagrammatics” or media history that his take on the past and present media encompasses, and the talk outlined well the positions — even provocative – where he wants to place media studies. What the audience was left with was a number of positions and claims/challenges to tackle.'
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(quote): The Dead Media Research Lab begins with the 250 million media technologies that are discarded each year and proposes creative research into the intelligent repurposing and reuse of these devices. The lab's goal is to rethink and challenge the mindset of “planned obsolescence" of consumer electronics. In addition, the lab believes that studying historical forms of media is useful in understanding the dynamics of how older communication technologies shift, change and remediate over time.
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This is a good example of a user-generated content for an online video project. Useful for the PROD! project and developing approaches towards online video aesthetics with students in this studio course.
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'Archived Blogosphere' using numerous screenshots lined up like a videowall.
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Anne Helmond writes about Michael Stevenson's essay on the history of the blogosphere.
Jan 19, 2010 0
links for 2010-01-19
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A commercial tool for placing information and links inside the video frame.
Jan 19, 2010 0
More endnote notes
Just caught up on few more tips on endnote:
edit – paste special changes a pasted font into the font of the reference a new reference
Amalgamating documents with separate bibliographies:
1. Have one endnote library for all
2. make a back up copy of the documents
3. open all the ones to be brought together
4. unformat from the toolbar all the documents (make sure the cursor in is on a neutral space so that all the references are unformatted)
5. cut n paste the chapters chronologically into a master document
5a. Format bibliography on master doc in toolbar
6. Checks for double references in library (these can be removed in the body of text using reference ‘record no’ added to the library interface) preferences > display field > record no (you trace each individually if needed…
Submitting
A bibliography/style can be edited (customised) i.e. edit > output styles > bibliography > author lists
(a customised version is changed to a copy of the original and needs to be selected as the new style)
note: check evernote on iphone
Jan 17, 2010 0
links for 2010-01-17
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This service includes YouTube videos. (quote from wikipedia) 'WikiMapia is an online map and satellite imaging resource that combines Google Maps with a wiki system, allowing users to add information, in the form of a note, to any location on Earth.'
Jan 13, 2010 0
links for 2010-01-13
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A collection of new writing on the concept of material thinking. (quoted from the volume 3 editorial by Nancy Feitas) 'Material thinking as a concept is without firm definition despite evidence in many fields of art and design that the intellectual exercise itself, its effects and concrete results, are sensed and trusted. The evidence is to be found in all kinds of artistic and design artefacts throughout history. Material thinking skill is acquired experientially, through practice and contemplation. Historically, this specialised knowledge that comes from the handling and forming of materials has been shared between specialists, passed down from master to apprentice, even closely guarded by professional guilds. The intellectual experience of material thinking has always been tangible to practitioners, even if it has not been communicated outside of the studio.'
Jan 12, 2010 0
links for 2010-01-12
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Amazon digital book reading device (quote from review): 'The DX, arriving just months later, solves real problems of the first generation. Internally, it has native PDF support, which allows for reading of the vast bulk of formal business literature, not to mention a bazillion easy-to-download copyright-free (free-free!) works of actual literature. Externally, the DX’s larger 10-inch screen makes it better suited to handle the content, not just PDFs but textbooks, whose heavily formatted pages would look shabby on the smaller Kindle’s 6-inch screen.'
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Documentary on why open video is needed
Jan 11, 2010 0
Quick Writing Process notes
This book Writing Under Pressure: The Quick Writing Process by Sanford Kaye is very useful. The author knows his stuff and has been teaching writing at a high level for many years. Here is some quick overview notes on the process which I plan to expand as I learn more. The approach is like documentary editing where you produce more in the raw draft and then cut back.
quoted from p. 12
How much does the reader know?
How much has the writer learned?
How much does the writer want to learn?
How much does the writer want to tell?
BEGINNING – introduction with overview of proceeding points to be discussed
MIDDLE - key points of the thesis being explored progressing to the strongest point, the opposing point is placed at the beginning of this section.
END – the conclusion of the thesis being examined (i.e summary, critique, other options, broader context and implications)
Raw draft – the idea again is to have more material than is needed as editing is the key here. The process of picking out the best marterial that conveys the argument and loosing material that gets in the way. Notes could be made using something like comments in Word covering all the changes to be made.
Jan 7, 2010 0
links for 2010-01-07
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Top internet art works from the senior editor of Rhizome Ceci Moss.
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Top 10 internet art projects for 2009 from the associate editor of Rhizome.
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Quoted form the summary of the project: 'I've become very curious about the maps people have in their minds when they enter the internet. So I've been asking people to draw me a map of the internet as they see it.'
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quote from summary of exhibition: 'The National Museum of Contemporary Art (EMST) in Athens, Greece, has committed itself to curating a number of recent exhibitions of internet art. Their current show, "Tag Ties and Affective Spies,'
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quote from about: 'Let your images finally be. Give'em a title, add any stupid notes and organize them into delirant subverTags: become part of an insignificant, collective, visionary escape from common sense.'
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Found via Rhizome top 5-10 http://rhizome.org/editorial/3187 – Short video clips are loaded one after the other in this work titled Bits.
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(quoted from post): "In recent years, the work of Gilbert Simondon has received greater attention both in France and internationally following the re-publication of his work over the past decade. The importance of Simondon’s thought to the work of French philosophers including Gilles Deleuze and Bernard Stiegler has become increasingly discussed and analysed both in France and in the English-speaking world. At the same time, Simondon’s work has been taken up on its own terms, recognized for the unique contributions that he made to the philosophy of technology, phenomenology and social philosophy. Forthcoming translations of his major works into English will surely instigate a long-overdue introduction of his work within a much broader international community of scholars.'
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Has a journalism and media section – http://www.youtube.com/education?lg=en&b=108&s=edu&t=m
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(quoted from about page): 'As more and more high quality educational content becomes available online for free, we ask ourselves, what are the real barriers to achieving a world class education? At Academic Earth, we are working to identify these barriers and find innovative ways to use technology to increase the ease of learning.'
Jan 4, 2010 0
links for 2010-01-04
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(quote): 'Well these latest goggles won’t open your world to some type of Virtual Reality experience like the Vuzix, but they will make your TV screen seem bigger than ever. The iTVGoggles are video glasses that project a big screen in front of your eyes making you feel like you are alone in a movie theater.'