Feb 2, 2012 0
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
Dec 3, 2011 0
A riff written for a post-industrial media e-publication in a public google doc which is open for additions.
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Reflexivity is the norm, rumblings came from the ipad autocorrect feature
This riff is written in the cloud, on a blog, google doc, ipad, powerbook, scribled in a notebook… morning, day and night
Wear amateur shoes, drop the formal training, seek uninhibited creativity
Think everyday technologies, everyday practices, everyday routines, everyday experiences, everyday life, everyday places, everyday languages, vernacular
Making starts in post-production and is stuck in post-production
There is no script. A scoping document, a hunch, a probe perhaps?
The recording device can be a webcam, a mobile phone, a (?)
Sketch with anything that will write, an iphone, ipad, point-in-shoot, DSLR, a video camera
Sketch in the format being used
Develop tactics for recording and making, rather than strategies
A social media tool is a content producing and storytelling device
Systems are the foundation to creation
Interactive systems, content management systems, social media systems, storytelling systems
Make lots of works often to discover something special
Sketch, sample, test, experiment, a prototype
Remix, mash-up, appropriate, reappropriate
Reverse engineer
Riff… @#$%^*&
The in-between counts, accidents are the aim
NOISE, DIRT, GRUNGE
A post-industrial narrative is distributed, fragmented, networked
Designing media elements, story units, micro-narratives, bits
The trick is connecting/reninventing social media services and tools
Reflect, reflect, reflect, material thinking needs to be articulated
Iterative design and production, a progressive process
Production is design, design is production
Artefacts, unfinished soft in a perpetual state of BETA
What do I call the digtial artefacts made? Multimedia, new media, multi-platform, cross-media, networked, integrated. These terms are evolving, shifting, fashionable, unfinished, fly by night, tied to personal preference, the changing context
Roles are undefined, fluid, amorphous
Peer production, collaboration, the collective
There is no director, the auteur is null and void
Coordinator, facilitator seem more apt
The DOP becomes a coder, interaction designer, information architect
Who am I? A screen producer, digital media producer, transmedia producer, social media producer, media artist, new media artist, media designer… cross-dresser
Copyright is not protected, sharing produces a different type of economy
Is crafting code more important than the creative vision?
Is innovation the new cultural capital?
Yes, I have ordered these ramblings into themes, tagging and categorising are part of the repertoire
This is an open document, comments please…
NO END
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Carter, P 2004, Material thinking: the theory and practice of creative research, Melbourne University Publishing, Carlton, Vic.
Certeau, Md 1984, The practice of everyday life, University of California Press, Berkeley.
Gane, N & Beer, D 2008, New Media: The Key Concepts, Berg, New York.
Maslin, S 2011, Rekindling Venus: Transmedia Practices, School of Media and Communication, RMIT University, Public Lecture.
Moggridge, B 2010, Designing Media, The MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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Schon, D 1983, The Reflective Practitioner, Ashgate, London.
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