Week 4: Lecture
28 May 2008
Avatars?
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Week 4: Second Life
28 May 2008
Places to visit: Simulations: Museums: Abyss Museum : http://slurl.com/secondlife/Gun/82/43/81 Photographic objects: http://slurl.com/secondlife/Odyssey/216/209/40 Svaga ecosystem: http://slurl.com/secondlife/Svarga/7/124/22 Emerging narratives and aesthetic Forms Hyperformalism: Dan Coyote, Code as visual art: http://slurl.com/secondlife/uvvy/85/209/26 Lars New Art center: http://slurl.com/secondlife/Otherwhen/7/194/21 Reactive Art Collective: Code as visual and behavioural art: http://slurl.com/secondlife/Vaoetere/72/213/24 ALife SL Internship, Alternate spacial designs: http://slurl.com/secondlife/Dowden/14/35/62 Physical-virtual Hybrids, Alternative interfaces: http://slurl.com/secondlife/Odyssey/220/218/551 … More Week 4: Second Life
Examples: synthetic media
21 May 2008
Gaming activism: http://www.paxwarrior.com/home/index.php 911: http://www.selectparks.net/911survivor/911game.html Undersiege: http://www.underash.net/ Medieval unreality: http://maia.enge.li/gamezone/lindart/index.html
Examples: GPS
21 May 2008
Visualization: universe: http://universe.daylife.com/ Natural interactions: http://naturalinteraction.org/index.php?d=24&m=02&y=07&category=1 http://www.localprojects.net/lpV2/projectoverview.php
Examples: distributed multimedia
21 May 2008
Screen based interactivity Breathing earth: http://www.breathingearth.net/ Ecological Foot print: http://www.ecofoot.org/ Egypt: http://www.eternalegypt.org/EternalEgyptWebsiteWeb/HomeServlet?ee_website_action_key=action.display.context&language_id=1
Examples: content sharing
21 May 2008
Telecommunication narratives web cams: http://www.earthcam.com/ You are tv: http://www.youare.tv/video_list.php?keyword=Documentary Photovoice: http://photovoice.org/html/whoarewe/ Garage cinema: http://garage.sims.berkeley.edu/marc.cfm
Examples: social networking
21 May 2008
Small stories/micro-documentaries: wikis, vlogging documentary works Citizen storyteller Robert Greenwald: http://www.robertgreenwald.org/ Alternet.com http://www.alternet.org/
Examples: distributed database narratives
21 May 2008
Urban Sensing
21 May 2008
Interesting I wonder what the implications of moving from participatory research to a participatory sensing framework are going to be. Is decentralized sensing an emerging dominant hierarchical structure? As the authors explain: Persuading individuals to engage in such constant self-surveillance and then subsequently to share that data pose nontrivial hurdles entirely independent of the privacy … More Urban Sensing
Multiple presents: how search engines rewrite the past
21 May 2008
Well, here is a great example of pluralist theory in practice. Not only does our culture now focus on the idea of pluralist perspectives, but now with synchronous information and communication systems, we are entering multiple timeframes. As the authors explain: ‘the concept of a single time axis which is moving forward like an arrow … More Multiple presents: how search engines rewrite the past
Simon Penny: mind-body relationship in a mediated world
21 May 2008
Simon Penny’s position in this article reminds me of the transhumanists philosophy positions. The crisis he articulates when he discussed our cartesian approach to media has lead to the emergence of new ideas pertaining to mediated communication. My research is starting to see the coexistence of multiple philosophies in networks. The following diagram gives a … More Simon Penny: mind-body relationship in a mediated world
kac reading: shift in image
14 May 2008
According to Kac: The role of the image, Virilio says, is “to be everywhere, to be reality (19).” He distinguishes three kinds of logic of images, according to a clear historical development. For Virilio, the formal logic of the image is the one achieved in the eighteenth century with painting, engraving and architecture. In traditional … More kac reading: shift in image
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