A useful overview of practice by D. Schon in a section reflecting on practice.
The word “practice” is ambiguous. When we speak of lawyer’s practice, we mean the kind of things he does the kinds of clients he has, the range of cases he is called upon to handle. When we speak of someone practicing the piano, however, we mean repetitive or experimental activity by which he tries to increase his proficiency on the instrument. In the first sense, “practice” refers to performance in a range of professional situations. In the second it refers to preparation for performance. But professional practice also includes an element of repetition. A professional practitioner is a specialist who encounters certain kinds of situations again and again…As a practitioner experiences many variations of a small number of types of cases he is able to “practice” his practice. He develops a repertoire of expectations, images and techniques. He learns what to look for and how to respond to what he finds. As long as his practice is stable, in the sense that it brings him the same types of cases, he becomes less and less subject to surprise. His knowing-in-practice tends to become increasingly tacit, spontaneous and automatic, thereby conferring upon him and his clients the benefits of specialization.
Schon, D 1983, The Reflective Practitioner, Ashgate, London. pp. 60
A practitioner’s reflection can serve as a corrective to over learning. Through reflection he can surface and criticize the tacit understandings that have grown up around the repetitive experiences of of a specialized practice, and can make a new sense of the situations of uncertainty or uniqueness which he may allow himself to experience.
Schon, D 1983, The Reflective Practitioner, Ashgate, London. pp. 61
I have been organising a vlogging workshop/presentation at Montevideo in Amsterdam. A summary of the workshop came together today.
Videodefunct and Showinabox: Hitting vlogging with a hammer
date: Thursday Jan 17 from 12.00 – 17.00
place: Workspace in the Netherlands Media Art Institute, Keizersgracht 264 Amsterdam
A workshop presented in two parts that looks at knocking vlogging into shape and bashing it into oblivion. The videodefunct collective focus on poetic approaches towards the way video is presented and curated by inverting the blog interface. Showinthebox aim to improve vlogging accessibility and aesthetic control with a user-friendly toolkit. Both projects use the open source blogging application WordPress and question whether vlogs need to move beyond the constraints of blogs.
1200 – 1400 Videodefunct (Keith Deverell and Seth Keen)
1400 – 1600 Showinthebox (Jay Dedman & Ryanne Hodson)
1600 – 1700 Vlogging panel discussion
links
http://greyspace.com.au/blog/
http://keithdeverell.net
http://www.videodefunct.net/
http://www.videodefunct.net/pedestrian/player/
http://www.videodefunct.net/theInvertedPedestrian/
http://www.videodefunct.net/banter
http://www.videodefunct.net/theDrunkenTruth/
On the ARTNODE site they used this simple method to provide the user access to a video interview in parts. Each part relating to the interview question. The answer link leads to the video excerpt on a separate page. An abstract is also provided with each interview which covers briefly their background and the premise of the interview. I note they also use quotes in text from the interviews as an introduction into each interview. The full video interview is also provided as a straight linear run of the entire interview.
These are screenshots of the set-up from the website. These screenshots are of the Alex Galloway interview which is one of six in a series with specialists critiquing digital art.
An audiovisual work the artist Adriene Jenik refers to as “speculative distributed cinema”. Part of the description from the web site promoting the work:
SPECFLIC 2.0 portrays characters in a future library in simultaneous story-layers that provoke the audience to consider the future of reading, writing, the book object and storytelling.
The main story frame represents a near-future 2030 world in which audio-visual media dominate, even as written communication and reading retain important, though narrow functions. The factorial explosion of information and information flows has catalyzed new forms of categorization of material and the next generation of students and scholars is developing within this constantly reconfigure-able info-sphere.
Audio podcast – worth a listen – I like the concept. MediaBerkman, Berkman Center for Internet & Society Audio/Video Podcast, Messiness as a Virtue:
David Weinberger hosted another evening in his Web of Ideas series. This week’s topic is “Messiness as a Virtue” — an open discussion on the importance of orderliness in knowledge.
His blog. And a post ‘Web of Ideas: Messiness as a virtue’, with comments on the presentation.
Video Networks; Garrett Lynch and Frédérique Santune
Video Networks is a research project consisting of the development of an electronic interface system for enabling the creation of networked or connected video based art works and the works produced with this system. It’s purpose is to explore the potential of creating works which are cinematic in nature yet break away from fixed linear narratives to explore concepts such as montage, collage, mixing, rhythm, looping, non-linearity in combination with simple interactivity in real time.
