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April 26, 2010 at 10:41 am · Filed under Events, Theory, Thoughts
Here is a letter from Avi Santo, coordinating editor of In Media Res. Check out the dance and technology theme week that I will be participating in as a curator this week.
Hi all,
Welcome to a special theme week devoted to Dance and Technology.
Please feel free to respond to the contributors’ comments.
http://mediacommons.futureofthebook.org/imr
This week’s In Media Res line-up:
Monday, April 26, 2010 – Stamatia Portanova (Birkbeck University of London) presents: “Movement-Objects”
Tuesday, April 27, 2010 – Ashley Ferro-Murray (University of California, Berkeley) presents: “Moving Digitally: between sensors and tone”
Wednesday, April 28, 2010 – Erin Manning (Concordia University) presents: “When Tables Dance: Technicity in Motion”
Wednesday, April 28, 2010 – Nora Zuniga Shaw (Ohio State University) presents: “What else, besides the body, might physical thinking look like?”
Thursday, April 29, 2010 – Alanna Thain (McGill University) presents: “All the Single Babies: Adorable/ Automaton?”
Friday, April 30, 2010 – Antonin de Bemels (Independent Artist) presents: “Scrub solo 3: soliloquy”
Please check out these wonderful contributions and offer your thoughts via a comment.
http://mediacommons.futureofthebook.org/imr
ABOUT IN MEDIA RES
In Media Res is dedicated to experimenting with collaborative, multi-modal forms of online scholarship.
Each day, a different scholar will curate a 30-second to 3-minute videoclip/visual image slideshow accompanied by a 300-350-word impressionistic response.
We use the title “curator” because, like a curator in a museum, you are repurposing a media object that already exists and providing context through your commentary, which frames the object in a particular way.
The clip/comment combination are intended to both introduce the curator’s work to the larger community of scholars (as well as non-academics who frequent the site) and, hopefully, encourage feedback/discussion from that community.
Theme weeks are designed to generate a networked conversation between curators. All the posts for that week will thematically overlap and the participating curators each agree to comment on one another’s work.
Our goal is to promote an online dialogue amongst scholars and the public about contemporary approaches to studying media.
In Media Res provides a forum for more immediate critical engagement with media at a pace closer to how we typically experience media.
In Media Res is a publication of MediaCommons. MediaCommons is a strong advocate for the right of media scholars to quote from the materials they analyze, as protected by the principle of “fair use.” If such quotation is necessary to a scholar’s argument, if the quotation serves to support a scholar’s original analysis or pedagogical purpose, and if the quotation does not harm the market value of the original text — but rather, and on the contrary, enhances it — we must defend the scholar’s right to quote from the media texts under study.
For more information, please contact In Media Res’ coordinating editor, Avi Santo at asanto@odu.edu
Best,
Avi Santo
March 19, 2010 at 1:28 pm · Filed under Events, Uncategorized
I have been working on a lecture event for Janet O’Shea and Erin Manning. I hope some of you in the area can join us!
December 8, 2009 at 3:05 pm · Filed under Artworks, Events
Dear friends,
This Friday, December 11 at 6pm PST I will premiere my latest dance-tech piece, “Fragment 3.” I am writing to invite you all to participate in my performance by uploading material of your own to CiTu’s “The Art Collider (TAC),” which is an interactive networking system that I will use throughout my performance.
Please find instructions for easy ways to connect via Connect and Participate site. I would recommend “Live Camera” if you want to input live video, or “Flowmixer” to input prerecorded and/or mixed material. Then, you can simultaneously connect to other footage from the system by opening up links from other live projects. TAC is a fairly new project that is still in the final development stages, but the system seems to be working quite well. I will project a sampling of any material in the network throughout my performance.
Please find a description of my project below and I look forward to seeing you on the network!
“Fragment 3″ is the third fragment in a process-based series that choreographer Ashley Ferro-Murray has been working on since Fall 2008.
Exploring the space between digital spectrality and digital saturation, this piece moves through various networks as it leads an audience through various iterations of digital choreographies. Wireless accelerometers used throughout the choreographic process inspire the conceptual context of this piece. These sensors are deleted are not worn in performance to explore the body in movement as it exhibits a digital tone in the absence of digital technology. In contrast to the spectral presence of the sensors, the performance space itself is saturated with digital interface. A live video feed of the real-time performance will be input into French digital installation artist Maurice Benayoun’s online network for artistic collaboration, The Art Collider (TAC). Simultaneously, Ferro-Murray projects real-time images from other artists using TAC.
In association with BCNM (Berkeley Center for New Media).
All the best,
Ashley
December 5, 2009 at 7:38 pm · Filed under Events, Theory
Jane McGonigal provides an amazing and seemingly unintentional response to Hubert Dreyfus’ earlier remarks.
McGonigal explains how the average young person who is a gamer will spend 10,000 playing games by the time they reach the age of 21. This is also the same amount of hours that they will spend in secondary school. Incidentally, in Outliers Gladwell argues that 10,000 hours is the amount of time to spend on something in order to get mastery.
So, McGonigal asks, rather than working on fictional problems on games, what if we could harness the collective 3 billion hours spent gaming a week on real-world problems. Jamais Cascio with Institute for the Future has a phrase: Super-Empowered Hopeful Individuals. With Cascio, McGonigal works at the Institute for the Future to build games that deal with real world problems such as the world without oil.
For Jane’s slides visit: slides@avantgame.com
December 5, 2009 at 7:23 pm · Filed under Events
Jane McGonigal, Director of Game Research & Development at Institute for the Future and graduate of my program is about to speak at the Future of the Forum!
December 5, 2009 at 7:21 pm · Filed under Artworks, Events, Thoughts
Marc Davis, Chief Scientist and Co-Founder of Invention Arts looks at how digital networks make the invisible visible and the impermanent permanent as we know when peoples whereabouts overlap with devices like an iPhone, for example.
How does this relate to artists such as William Kentridge who look to make the invisible visible in art projects such as Parcours D’atelier: Artist in the Studio? Kentridge uses art products to make the invisible visible. How, then, does his product relate to those social networking processes that we’ve been exploring all day?
Also, as Davis uses game theory to understand the scale of social interaction with his projects that work with geo-tagged photographs etc, I wonder how we can use performance theory as it relates to game theory to understand connections between social media and art pieces that engage similar concepts.
December 5, 2009 at 7:08 pm · Filed under Events
Lars Rasmussen, co-developer of Google Wave explains the program as he skypes in from Australia. They have constructed the protocol as an open protocol so that using wave doesn’t mean that you’re committed to Google data centers. I think the open-source nature of this technology is telling and important. This is one thing that we haven’t talked about too much today, but that seems incredibly important in the larger discussion about the future of the forum.
Oops! We lost him on skype…
December 5, 2009 at 6:38 pm · Filed under Events
…from the current panel.
- Anonymity might not be possible on the Internet, while we still need to manage how we craft our profiles and present them online. In relation to this morning’s discussion on identity, Wales said “anonymity is not a threat to Wikipedia.” How would these panelists respond to this topic?Dick Costolo predicts less anonymity in future forums, which he explains can be a good thing because it requires more responsibility. However, he acknowledges that in the situation of an authoritarian government it becomes easier to identify who said what.
- Advertising needs to be re-thought, or even re-invented. Laura Sydell references ethical issues regarding the Internet and advertising.
- Social meeting as working from the bottom up. Seth Goldstein argues that you have control of your action, but you don’t have control of the information your actions produce. So maybe there wont be a bottom up revolution.
- Conversation about professional artists in relation to online activity. Does art have to be online??? Or at least connected to online sources?
- How can the panelists give back to those who do not have access to the technologies that they develop? Or work with?
- What has social media done during the recession? The correlation seems fairly unclear.
- Question from the audience: “How is video going to rock this world?” It could insure the open furtur of media as it is a way to fact check and to present various positions looking at the same thing. This could relate to Ieva Jusionyte’s point earlier. In this thread, Sydell argues that if a news organization is going to survive it will actually need to rely increasingly on credibility.
December 5, 2009 at 5:53 pm · Filed under Events
Thinking about aesthetic models, Greg Nieymeyer is playing google jockey for the current panel.
3:00-4:30 pm: ROUNDTABLE: The Future of the Forum
Moderator: Professor Shannon Jackson, TDPS, UC Berkeley
Dick Costolo, COO, Twitter
Seth Goldstein, Co-Founder and CEO, SocialMedia
Reid Hoffman, Founder, LinkedIn
Laura Sydell, Journalist, National Public radio
Check it out live: http://bcnm.berkeley.edu/fotf/live.html
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