Seth Keen

• Us Now : Home
  The documentary byline description: 'A film project about the power of mass collaboration, government and the internet'
  (tags: documentary socialmedia educationvideo networkedmedia)
• M/C Journal: "Stigmergic Collaboration: The Evolution of Group Work"
  (quote) The steady rise of Wikipedia.org and the Open Source software movement has been one of the big surprises of the 21st century, threatening stalwarts such as Microsoft and Britannica, while simultaneously offering insights into the emergence of large-scale peer production and the growth of gift economies.
  (tags: collaboration socialmedia)

• Video Praxis in Global Spaces
  (Quoted from the website): Resolution 3: Video Praxis in Global Spaces, brings together international media scholars, video artists, media activists, art professionals, students, and other interested parties in a series of roundtable discussions, workshops, screenings, and other presentations addressing notable aspects of contemporary video. Resolution 3 includes this symposium; Narrowcast: Reframing Global Video 1986/2008, a traveling exhibition; and a forthcoming book.
  (tags: videotheory videoart)

I have been looking into databases lately as part of a chapter in my exegesis on the videodefunct system. In a post by Sean Cubitt titled ‘Further notes on the history of invisibility‘, I noted a reference to databases in relation to the effect they are having on time and space. Quoted from the post:

By contrast, the fundamental cultural formation of the network era is the database, and its principle is no longer geometrical but arithmetic. The database is dimensionless: it has taken the logic of converting time into space (the graph, the calendar) and eradicated space as well. The database is decreasingly visible, hidden behind the screen displaying the results of a specific search. Thus the invisibility of database-driven sites to search engines.

More here in Cubitt’s post ‘Workplace Media’. Connections can be made here to with the mapping project ‘Locative Painting’.

Also, connected with this is ‘Data Management as a signifying practice’, David Gugerli, ETH Zurich
November 13, 2009, Amsterdam

• 24/7 – a DIY Video Summit – Political Remix
  (tags: mashup editingmediatexts politicalsatire)

• Korsakow Overview
  These are lab notes prepared by AM for a korsalow workshop for integrated media one.
  (tags: korsakow integratedmediaone)

• 2012 (and all that) -
  k-film workshop with some video files to try out
  (tags: korsakow integratedmediaone)
• 2012 k-film
  Example of k-film from a recent workshop on how to use korsakow
  (tags: korsakow integratedmediaone)

• Hitotoki — Mapping moments around the world
  Everyday moments added to google maps designed by Craig Mod – from the about web page 'No check-ins. No bullshit badges. We think the most interesting stuff happens in the space between places. Hitotoki is built to help you capture those moments.'
  (tags: mapping locativepainting)
• Books in the Age of the iPad — Craig Mod
  A very design approach to the future of the book in relation to the ipad and the discussion presented – bringing analogue and digital together.
  (tags: ipad narrative storytelling)

Slide presentation given by Jonathan Hutchinson as part of the first lecture launching the PP1 course Tribal Productions and WIL funded Future Makers/Future Markets project.

Jeremy Yuille’s presentation as part of the same lecture on the ABC POOL project.

• Neural Mesh – PHP Neural Network Framework and Admin
  (quote) Why use a Neural Network? Neural Networks are useful when we deal with logic that is not explicitly true or false. When we want our program to learn. When we want to define rules as the program is in use or when programming the rules manually is
  (tags: artists-cloud)

CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS: Video Vortex Reader II

Following the success of the first Video Vortex reader (published late 2008, second edition, 4000 copies in total), recent Video Vortex conferences in Ankara (Oct. 2008), Split (May 2009) and Brussels (Nov. 2009) have sparked a number of new insights, debates and conversations regarding the politics, aesthetics, and artistic possibilities of online video. Since these issues develop with the rapidly changing landscape of online video and its use, we want to open up a space once again for interested people to contribute to this critical conversation in a second issue of the Video Vortex reader.