http://folksonomy.co/?rss=301 Folksonomy.co is a structured repository of digital culture and creative practice. en-au Creative Commons License: (cc), Simon Perkins Mon, 08 Apr 2013 12:14:50 +1000 Mon, 08 Apr 2013 12:14:50 +1000 Constellations 2.0 http://folksonomy.co/?member=159 60 http://folksonomy.co/Folksonomy.gif http://folksonomy.co/ http://folksonomy.co/?permalink=3267 Chasing Ice is the story of one man s mission to change the tide of history by gathering undeniable evidence of our changing planet Within months of that first trip to Iceland the photographer conceived the boldest expedition of his life The Extreme Ice Survey With a band of young adventurers in tow Balog began deploying revolutionary time-lapse cameras across the brutal Arctic to capture a multi-year record of the world s changing glaciers As the debate polarizes America and the intensity of natural disasters ramps up globally Balog finds himself at the end of his tether Battling untested technology in subzero conditions he comes face to face with his own mortality It takes years for Balog to see the fruits of his labor His hauntingly beautiful videos compress years into seconds and capture ancient mountains of ice in motion as they disappear at a breathtaking rate Chasing Ice depicts a photographer trying to deliver evidence and hope to our carbon-powered planet http://folksonomy.co/?permalink=3267 Mon, 08 Apr 2013 12:14:50 +1000 http://folksonomy.co/?permalink=3099 Landfill Harmonic tells the story of Los Reciclados - The Recycled Orchestra - a youth orchestra in Cateura Paraguay whose instruments are made out of the very trash that the town is built on WHEN FAVIO CHAVEZ AND LUIS SZARAN came to Cateura to start a music school they realized that they had more students than instruments Thanks to the resourcefulness of Cola a Cateurian garbage picker an orchestra came together now featuring violins cellos and other instruments artfully put together from trash Los Reciclados de Cateura now an independent orchestra recently performed in Brazil and Colombia under Chavez s direction Nina Mashurova 12 December 2012 Matador Trailer for Landfill Harmonic The project is being created by Alejandra Nash Founder and Executive Producer Juliana Penaranda-Loftus Producer Rodolfo Madero Executive Producer Jorge Maldonado Co-producer Graham Townsley Director Jennifer Redfearn Consulting producer Tim Fabrizio and Neil Barrett Directors of Photography and Monica Barrios Production Consultant http://folksonomy.co/?permalink=3099 Sun, 23 Dec 2012 19:41:52 +1000 http://folksonomy.co/?permalink=3033 John Baldessari s 1987 work titled The Fallen Easel is made up of nine framed panels containing fragmentary images that seem to add up as a complex non sequitur The lone diagonal panel shows a grayscale screen print of an easel laying on the ground while other panels show faces and hands that are sometimes obscured by ovals of bright flat colors Clearly we see a rebus of sorts but its substitution of picture-fragments for a syllogistic circuit remains just outside of the grasp of routine readability Mentally reassembling them does not help and the narrative context that would enable the work to be analyzed in the manner of a dream is missing We can only conclude that the relationship between the work s diverse elements is one of an evocative and visually stylish provisionality but we remain haunted by it for it keeps us coming back in search of the key that will unlock its beguiling mystery of allegorical displacements and substitutions Yes this is an update of a kind of surrealism but there is something else going on here as well something pertaining to the typical psychological distance created by mass media imagery striped of its pretense of narrative coherence All at once the linked histories of Surrealism Pop Art Conceptual Art and Postmodernism flash before our eyes We are not in Kansas anymore but is unclear exactly where we are or where anything else is for that matter Mark Van Proyen November 2009 art ltd magazine Fig 1 John Baldessari 1987 The Fallen Easel colour lithograph and screenprint in five parts printed on paper and aluminium plates Collection of Jordan D Schnitzer Photo courtesy of Legion of Honor Museum http://folksonomy.co/?permalink=3033 Sun, 18 Nov 2012 11:05:28 +1000 http://folksonomy.co/?permalink=2937 Literary theory and narratology have been helpful to understand cybertexts and videogames Aristotelian Poetics Laurel 1993 Russian formalism Porush and Hivner and poststructuralism Landow 1992 are some of the different perspectives that have been used to study the subject Some authors see cybertexts and videogames as a new form of or as an expansion of traditional narrative or drama The fact is that these computer programs share many elements with stories characters chained actions endings settings However there is another dimension that has been usually almost ignored when studying this kind of computer software to analyze them as games The problems of using a game perspective are many Basically traditional games have always had less academic status than other objects like narrative And because of this game formalist studies are fragmented through different disciplines and not very well developed In this paper we will propose to explore videogames and cybertexts as games Our intention is not to replace the narratologic approach but to complement it We want to better understand what is the relationship with narrative and videogames their similarities and differences Gonzalo Frasca 1999 Frasca Gonzalo 1999 Ludology Meets Narratology Similitude and Differences between Video games and Narrative Originally published in Finnish in Parnasso 1999 3 365e71 http://folksonomy.co/?permalink=2937 Mon, 08 Oct 2012 18:09:18 +1000 http://folksonomy.co/?permalink=2837 The writerly text is a perpetual present upon which no consequent language which would inevitably make it past can be superimposed the writerly text is ourselves writing before the infinite play of the world the world as function is traversed intersected stopped plasticized by some singular system Ideology Genus Criticism which reduces the plurality of entrances the opening of networks the infinity of languages Roland Barthes p 5 1 Roland Barthes 1970 S Z translated by Richard Miller Blackwell Publishing 2 A British one penny coin from 1903 which has been defaced by Suffragettes Crown copyright http://folksonomy.co/?permalink=2837 Sat, 21 Jul 2012 22:01:30 +1000 http://folksonomy.co/?permalink=2731 As a young academic I am reliably informed that the landscape of scholarly communication is not what it was 20 years ago But despite all that has changed it seems that we still largely rely upon the same tired and narrow measures of quality and academic impact - namely citation counts and journal impact factors As someone who has used the internet in almost every aspect of their academic work to date it s hard for me to ignore the fact that these mechanisms in predating the web largely ignore its effects By holding up these measures as incentives we appear to have our eye firmly fixed on the hammer and not the nail adjusting our research habits in order to maximise scores and ignoring issues such as why we publish in the first place Matthew Gamble 28 July 2011 Times Higher Education http://folksonomy.co/?permalink=2731 Sun, 29 Apr 2012 17:11:15 +1000 http://folksonomy.co/?permalink=2472 For Isabel Greenberg the winner of this year s Observer Jonathan Cape Comica graphic short story prize it is a case of third time lucky I d entered twice before she says And once I d been a runner-up But to win is such a nice thing I m so happy about it Everyone tells you when you leave art school that it is going to be hard but you never really know quite how hard until you re out there It can be a bit depressing How will she spend her pound 1 000 prize money I m not sure I should do something really sensible like buy myself a copy of Photoshop She laughs Or maybe 500 bottles of Winsor amp Newton ink Greenberg who is 23 graduated from the University of Brighton where she studied illustration last year She is now working as a freelance illustrator and trying to finish her first graphic novel Her winning entry Love in a Very Cold Climate tells the story of a marriage - only this couple a south pole dweller and a north pole dweller will never be able to touch one another surrounded as they are by a magnetic force field It s beautifully drawn of course from first to last frame but it s also exquisitely written In particular the judges admired the way Greenberg handles time somehow capturing a shared lifetime in just four pages Rachel Cooke 6 November 2011 http://folksonomy.co/?permalink=2472 Sun, 06 Nov 2011 06:49:59 +1000 http://folksonomy.co/?permalink=2360 Dekonstruktion sollte nicht nur gemeint sein sondern sprachlich inszeniert werden was im Falle von Glas sogleich in der Gestaltung des Buches sichtbar wird Zwei Spalten stehen auf jeder Seite einander gegen uuml ber links die Auseinandersetzung mit Hegel rechts der Genet-Teil wobei beide Textkolumnen keine weiteren Kapitelunterteilungen aufweisen mitten im Satz beginnen und enden Es gibt Anekdoten uuml ber einen wochenlangen Streit der Konstanzer Universit auml tsbibliothek mit dem Buchh auml ndler uuml ber angeblich fehlende Seiten am Anfang und Ende des Buches Auch der fortlaufende Text der beiden S auml ulen wird h auml ufig durch Zitate unterbrochen die wie Bl ouml cke in sie eingesetzt sind Kein Wunder also dass die Theoretiker des Hypertextes dieses Buch neben Finnegans Wake von Joyce als wichtigen Meilenstein ihrer Vorgeschichte feiern Man kann gewisserma szlig en zwischen den Textebenen hin- und hernavigieren ein fester Bezug e etwa horizontaler Natur zwischen der Hegel- und der Genet-Passage oder zwischen Anfang und Ende e l auml sst sich dennoch nicht ausmachen Michael Wetzel Zeit Online 2 Jacques Derrida 1974 Glas http://folksonomy.co/?permalink=2360 Tue, 19 Jul 2011 22:46:07 +1000 http://folksonomy.co/?permalink=2263 In the wake of post-modernist practice computer-based media has resisted definition and for good reason definitions are confining They reduce the range of potential in the object defined by drawing attention away from what lies outside the wall of definition This is a particular concern with new media because one of its attractions is its fluid multifarious character its permeable walls Digital media s peculiar nature challenges traditional categories this in itself is an aspect of its radical character But there is value in proposing and discussing alternative definitions of digital media even if these definitions are contingent bracketed by circumstances In fact it may be best to regard them as contingent because our experience with digital media is so fresh and where it leads so unclear The definitions of today will inevitably be replaced tomorrow as new applications for digital media emerge over time Definitions are meant to establish a shared vocabulary that can focus argument and often covertly to achieve a politically motivated purpose The purpose of our project is overt If as Marshall McLuhan suggests we literally construct the world we inhabit through the design and deployment of our media technologies because they enable certain behaviors while discouraging others then the social and political ramifications of how we define and address the emerging digital media are undeniable By identifying a subject s key characteristics we begin to say what it is and what it is not For digital media this is particularly critical if the digital arts community does not lead the discussion about how to define digital multimedia and the types of behaviors it should or shouldn t encourage other interests like governments and corporations will force a definition upon us Ken Jordan 2002 Fig 1 The Apple-1 Computer customised with an after-market wooden enclosure with carved name and keyboard 2 Ken Jordan 2002 Defining Multimedia http://folksonomy.co/?permalink=2263 Sun, 15 May 2011 18:02:19 +1000 http://folksonomy.co/?permalink=2238 For Lyotard performativity involves a system logic that reduces questions of justice to questions of efficiency and has no interest in the unknown because it falls outside the system as currently constituted Against this he sketches the outline of a politics that would respect both the desire for justice and the desire for the unknown 1984 67 This involves turning away from performativity and towards the other possible legitimating criteria consensus and paralogy Lyotard argues that consensus the criteria preferred by Habermas is inadequate 1984 60 It rests on a belief that it is possible to find a metalanguage that could translate all of the heteromorphous classes of utterance into one another and the assumption that it is possible for all speakers in scientific games to agree about this meta-language and that consensus is the goal of science 1984 65 Against this Lyotard argues that consensus is only a particular state of discussion not its end Its end on the contrary is paralogy 1984 65e6 Campbell Jones p 512 Campbell Jones 2003 Theory after the Postmodern Condition Organization 10 3 503-525 Jean-Fran ccedil ois Lyotard 1984 The Postmodern Condition A Report on Knowledge Minneapolis University of Minnesota Press Fig 1 China s Pang Qing and Tong Jian perform in the pairs short programme during the Cup of China figure skating competition in Beijing November 5 AP Photo Alexander F Yuan http://folksonomy.co/?permalink=2238 Sat, 07 May 2011 22:52:47 +1000 http://folksonomy.co/?permalink=2099 On the way to postmodern the struggle to reform modern capitalism s dark side fragmented into a thousand strands An era approach is rejected - dating the arrival of postmodernism is impossible as is the construction of a linear episodic narrative moving from the premodern to the modern and then to postmodern Instead postmodern methods theories and worldviews proliferate as do modern and premodern ones There are numerous postmodern approaches ranging from naive postmodernism McPostmodernism that hails the arrival of postindustrial and complex adaptive organizations Baudrillard s and Lyotard s versions of radical breaks from modernity to others seeking more integration with critical theory Some claim to have moved beyond postmodern to something called postpostmodern that would include hybrids postmodern variants with modern and premodern language heteroglossia the coexistence of many voices at the same time in tension with each other and various dark side postmoderns looking at global reterritorialization postmodern war postcolonialism and the ills of capitalism David M Boje 2007 1 Postmodernism - by David M Boje 2007 To appear in Yiannis Gabrielos Thesaurus London Oxford University Press forthcoming http://folksonomy.co/?permalink=2099 Fri, 18 Feb 2011 09:25:36 +1000 http://folksonomy.co/?permalink=2061 The V amp A has been collecting computer-generated art and design since the 1960s More recently the Museum acquired two significant collections of computer-generated art and design and together these form the basis of the UK s emerging national collection of Computer Art The Museum s holdings range from early experiments with analogue computers and mechanical devices to examples of contemporary software-based practices that produce digital prints and computer-generated drawings The earliest work in the collection dates from 1952 and is a long exposure photograph of electronic beams on an analogue computer by artist Ben Laposky More recently the V amp A has acquired a large digital inkjet print from 2008 which is nearly two metres long and was created using pixel mapping software designed by American artist Mark Wilson The collection consists predominately of two-dimensional works on paper such as plotter drawings screenprints inkjet prints laser prints and photographs as well as artists books from around the world Early practitioners of computer art were working in Britain France Germany and Spain as well as the United States Japan and South America Victoria and Albert Museum Fig 1 Herbert W Franke Oscillogramm 1956 http://folksonomy.co/?permalink=2061 Mon, 17 Jan 2011 12:58:49 +1000 http://folksonomy.co/?permalink=1873 The complexities already evident in L anti-oedipe are compounded by Deleuze and Guattari s deliberate refusal to propose a central narrative or theme for the book A Thousand Plateaus Capitalism and Schizophrenia They refer to the sections in Mille plateaux as plateaus a term they derived from the anthropological work of Gregory Bateson Bateson had used the term to describe the libidinal economy he found in Bali which differed from that in the West with its emphasis on climax Deleuze and Guattari intended that the sections of their book should not reproduce the climactic and dissipative character of Western discourse as manifested in the traditional book format with its culminations and terminations They hoped rather that each plateau would operate as part of an assemblage of connecting parts to be approached by the reader in whichever order they chose As this might suggest Mille plateaux is a complex and difficult book though at the same time extraordinarily compelling Charlie Gere Gere Charlie 2002 Digital Culture Reaktion Books ISBN 1861891431 1861891431 pbk http://folksonomy.co/?permalink=1873 Wed, 28 Apr 2010 23:53:55 +1000 http://folksonomy.co/?permalink=1854 The WWW Virtual Library VL is the oldest catalogue of the Web started by Tim Berners-Lee the creator of HTML and of the Web itself in 1991 at CERN in Geneva Unlike commercial catalogues it is run by a loose confederation of volunteers who compile pages of key links for particular areas in which they are expert even though it isn t the biggest index of the Web the VL pages are widely recognised as being amongst the highest-quality guides to particular sections of the Web The WWW Virtual Library http://folksonomy.co/?permalink=1854 Tue, 13 Apr 2010 22:04:43 +1000 http://folksonomy.co/?permalink=1800 Take a look at Walt Disney s vision for the city of the future the Experimental Prototype Community Of Tomorrow or Epcot No city of today will serve as the guide for the city of tomorrow serves as a guiding principle as varied ideas from shopping mall living to freeways to pedestrian safety to high speed transit are considered Disney himself says the city of tomorrow must abandon the old cities and their problems and be built on virgin land from scratch From its cosmopolitan convention center to its theme-park shopping districts Disney envisioned his 50-acre city core completely enclosed and climate controlled like a shopping mall hermetically sealed from the natural world Outside of this air-conditioned environment of shops and offices apartments then parks and schools then suburban houses radiate in a fantasy of controlled zoning where every use is separated from every other use Despite being conceived as a modern utopia based around the automobile Epcot envisions a future of mass transit for the daily commute Freeways will not be EPCOT s major way of entering and leaving the city declares a confident narrator Instead an electrified monorail and people mover will connect the city and suburb radiating in all directions from the core It was envisioned that the primary use of the car would be for weekend pleasure trips Repeatedly the dangers of automobile traffic for pedestrians are cited The pedestrian is in fact declared king as transportation uses like Epcot s zoning are completely separated The pedestrian is free to walk and browse without fear of motorized vehicles Children and bikes have separate paths in the suburbs for walking or riding to school Electric vehicles travel on elevated roadway s through Epcot s downtown while underground transit carries workers in and out of the city Separate facilities for cars and trucks are provided further underground Disney did eventually build a prototype city but the end result was far from what was envisioned for Epcot The town of Celebration Florida chose not to abandon the cities of the past but to embrace the patterns that make them so interesting to experience New Urbanism has been brought in to create a mixed-use town center and compact living Celebration was just as carefully planned as the Epcot of old but the end result is quite different Branden Klayko 20 November 2009 Broken Sidewalk http://folksonomy.co/?permalink=1800 Sat, 20 Feb 2010 16:04:15 +1000