http://folksonomy.co/?rss=305 Folksonomy.co is a structured repository of digital culture and creative practice. en-au Creative Commons License: (cc), Simon Perkins Sun, 12 May 2013 15:41:06 +1000 Sun, 12 May 2013 15:41:06 +1000 Constellations 2.0 http://folksonomy.co/?member=2 60 http://folksonomy.co/Folksonomy.gif http://folksonomy.co/ http://folksonomy.co/?permalink=3303 Narrativism as represented by Hayden White and Frank Ankersmit can fruitfully be analyzed as an inversion of two brands of positivism First narrativist epistemology can be regarded as an inversion of empiricism Its thesis that narratives function as metaphors which do not possess a cognitive content is built on an empiricist picture view of knowledge Moreover all the non-cognitive aspects attributed as such are dependent on this picture theory of knowledge and a picture theory of representation Most of the epistemological characteristics that White and Ankersmit attribute to historical narratives therefore share the problems of this picture theory The article s second thesis is that the theories of narrative explanation can also fruitfully be analyzed as inversions of positivist covering-law theory Ankersmit s brand of narrativism is the most radical in this respect because it posits an opposition between narrative and causal modes of comprehension while simultaneously eliminating causality from narrativist historical understanding White s brand of narrativism is more of a hybrid than is Ankersmit s as far as its theory of explanation is concerned nevertheless it can also be fruitfully interpreted as an inversion of covering-law theory replacing it by an indefinite multitude of explanatory strategies Most of the striking characteristics of both White s and Ankersmit s narrativism pre-suppose positivism in these two senses especially their claim that historical narratives have a metaphorical structure and therefore no truth-value These claims are had to reconcile with the factual characteristics of debates by historians this problem can be tracked down to the absence in metaphorical narrativism of a conceptual connection between historical narratives and historical research Chris Lorenz 1998 Wiley-Blackwell Lorenz C 1998 Can Histories Be True Narrativism Positivism and the MetaphoricalTurn History and Theory 37 3 309-329 http://folksonomy.co/?permalink=3303 Sun, 12 May 2013 15:41:06 +1000 http://folksonomy.co/?permalink=3205 This newscast from KRON in San Francisco in 1981 has been making the rounds recently It s labeled primitive Internet report but what it presents is actually one example of the many pre-Internet efforts that the newspaper industry made to try to plan for an online future - and stake out its own turf in that forthcoming world In the video you can hear Dave Cole say of the Electronic Examiner he was demonstrating We re not in it to make money At the end the announcer points out that an entire edition of the paper takes two hours to download at a 5 hour cost - making this telepaper little competition for the paper edition For the moment at least the reporter declares over the image of a sidewalk news vendor hawking the afternoon edition this fellow isn t worried about being out of a job Though the piece does say that Engineers now predict the day will come when we get all our newspapers and magazines by home computer its underlying message is - Don t worry This crazy computer stuff isn t going to change anything much for now And indeed it took 10 years for any sort of online service to become even remotely popular Almost 30 years later newspapers are still in business some are even still sold by guys on sidewalks It has taken this long for the technology to transform the newspaper biz in a big way But even as the downloads sped up and the connect-time costs dropped the industry held onto that approach instead of coming to grips with the fundamentally different dynamics of a new communications medium What had made sense in the early days over time became a crippling set of blinders The spirit of experimentation that the Examiner set out with in 1981 dried up replaced by an industry-wide allergy to fundamental change Let s use the new technology editors and executives would say but let s not let the technology change our profession or our industry They largely succeeded in resisting change Now it s catching up with them Scott Rosenberg 29 January 2009 http://folksonomy.co/?permalink=3205 Sun, 17 Feb 2013 17:15:48 +1000 http://folksonomy.co/?permalink=3200 Kinetica Art Fair 2013 February 28th - March 3rd 2013 Ambika P3 35 Marylebone Road NW1 5LS London UK The Kinetica feature exhibition and events programme is themed on Illusion and Reality and the thin veil that divides what is real and perceived The exhibition will focus on perceptions of reality with works by 19 international artists exploring the many dimensions of illusion The exhibition aims to challenge ideas on what is real perceived or imagined and focuses on transformation metamorphism visual paradox vibration nature the subliminal and the subconscious The exhibition includes a huge interactive light sculpture from Dutch artist Titia Ex an exoskeleton hybrid of man-animal-machine by Christiann Zwanniken and a giant three dimensional zoetrope by Greg Barsamian The boundaries between reality and illusion will be explored in a series of live performances using the Musion holographic projection system and features an international line-up including the award-winning audiovisual collective Origamibiro a fusion of 3d imaging and quantum mechanics in danceroom Spectroscopy a hypnotic audiovisual experience from Simulacrum and multi-sensory Polish collective INIRE The Musion Academy will present a further series of captivating performances including Analema Group AV3 IEOIE and Paul Prudence Key figures and eminent pioneers in the fields of new media art and neurosciences have been invited to participate in a daily programme of Talks which also features presentations by experimental artists exhibiting at the Fair Kinetica Museum UK http://folksonomy.co/?permalink=3200 Tue, 12 Feb 2013 19:48:04 +1000 http://folksonomy.co/?permalink=3170 Social networks such as Facebook and on-line gaming are changing people s view of who they are and their place in the world according to a report for the government s chief scientist The report published by Prof Sir John Beddington says that traditional ideas of identity will be less meaningful It states that the changing nature of identities will have substantial implications for what is meant by communities and by social integration The study shows that traditional elements that shape a person s identity such as their religion ethnicity job and age are less important than they once were Instead particularly among younger people their view of themselves is shaped increasingly by on-line interactions of social networks and on online role playing games The study found that far from creating superficial or fantasy identities that some critics suggest in many cases it allowed people to escape the preconceptions of those immediately around them and find their true identity This is especially true of disabled people who told researchers that online gaming enabled them to socialise on an equal footing with others Pallab Ghosh 21 January 2013 BBC News http://folksonomy.co/?permalink=3170 Mon, 21 Jan 2013 10:53:47 +1000 http://folksonomy.co/?permalink=3105 But as a strategy and a form the interview-oriented film has problems of its own the film-maker with intertitles making patently clear what has been implicit all along documentaries always were forms of re-presentation never clear windows onto reality the film-maker was always a participant-witness and an active fabricator of meaning a producer of cinematic discourse rather than a neautral or all-knowing reporter of the way things truely are David MacDougall p 260 1985 MacDougall David The Voice of Documentary in Movies and Methods Volume II Bill Nichols ed Berkeley University of California Press 1985 Fig 1 Dana Perry and her son Evan Scott Perry at age 3 HBO documentary Boy Interrupted http www hbo com documentaries boy-interrupted http://folksonomy.co/?permalink=3105 Fri, 28 Dec 2012 02:14:45 +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=3085 Since its start in 1983 the European Union s Common Fisheries Policy CFP has failed to prevent overfishing Over 25 years short-term economic interest and political expediency has landed European fisheries in deep crisis European Marine Programme of the Pew Environment Group http://folksonomy.co/?permalink=3085 Thu, 13 Dec 2012 21:47:22 +1000 http://folksonomy.co/?permalink=2968 THE BIG PICTURE is the theme of the August 30 to September 3 2012 Ars Electronica Festival Occupying the focal point is the effort to identify all-encompassing images that capture the world that s coming to be Big Pictures that do justice to the progressive globalization and interrelatedness of our world ones that capture its contradictions and flaws as well as ways in which people are coming together By showcasing inspiring best-practice examples from art and science this year s festival is a call for a new open-minded way of considering the development of a viable vision of our future - how such a Big Picture ought to be composed and how it might become reality Ars Electronica Festival 2012 Fig 1 work of Seiko Mikami Desire of Codes http://folksonomy.co/?permalink=2968 Mon, 22 Oct 2012 16:10:51 +1000 http://folksonomy.co/?permalink=2956 Les Statues meurent aussi co-directed with Alain Resnais This 30 minute short film has a chequered history of censorship that at one time elevated it to a somewhat mythical status 2 and which prevented it from being brought into the wider public eye until some 16 years after it was completed After its first screening at the Cannes Film Festival in 1953 and in spite of winning the Prix Jean Vigo in 1954 Les Statues meurent aussi was banned in France by the Centre National de la Cin eacute matographie between 1953 and 1963 owing to its controversial anti-colonialist stance 3 While a truncated version was made available in 1963 the unabridged film only became available in 1968 Les Statues meurent aussi was commissioned by the literary review and publishing house Pr eacute sence Africaine which was set up in 1947 in Paris as a quarterly literary review for emerging and important African writers Founded by the Senegalese thinker Alioune Diop it housed the writings of some of the most important francophone thinkers in the latter half of the 20th century such as Aim eacute C eacute saire Ousmane Sembene L eacute opold S eacute dar Senghor in addition to French metropolitan writers such as Jean-Paul Sartre and Albert Camus The journal also translated groundbreaking works by Chinua Achebe and Wole Soyinka into French for the first time Having emerged so soon after the new French Constitution of 1946 had declared a French Union Pr eacute sence Africaineos publications signalled a new post-colonial status for French and francophone thought embracing what was then a key notion that of n eacute gritude 4 It is this notion that the second half of Les Statues meurent aussi engages with most deeply and perhaps most controversially especially as it strives to connect the death of the statue with the rise in the commercialisation of African art for the pleasure of the colonial classes Indeed it is against the backdrop of a France that had so recently lost its colonial power but which still retained many of the quasi-Manichean distinctions between white Western culture and black African culture that and in spite of their claims to the contrary Resnais and Markeros film projected its passionately anti-colonial anti-racist even anti-capitalist audio-visual collage It is little wonder then that such a film should have been censored until the late 1960s by which time it might have lost some of its topicality but none of its political vigour Jenny Chamarette 14 September 2009 Senses of Cinema 1 Sarah Cooper Chris Marker Manchester University Press Manchester and New York 2008 As Cooper points out Les Statues meurent aussi is available as an extra on the French DVD release of Resnaiso Hiroshima mon amour Arte France and Argos Films 2004 2 See Roy Armeso entry on Les Statues meurent aussi in his The Cinema of Alain Resnais A Zwemmer A S Barnes London and New York 1968 p 34 3 This is heavily documented in scholarship on Marker and Resnais In particular see Cooper p 12 Emma Wilson Alain Resnais Manchester University Press Manchester and New York 2006 pp 22-4 Nora M Alter Chris Marker University of Illinois Press Urbana Chicago 2006 pp 58-9 4 For further details see V Y Mudimbe ed The Surreptitious Speech EPr eacute sence AfricaineE and the Politics of Otherness 1947-87 Chicago University Press Chicago 1992 pp 3-4 http://folksonomy.co/?permalink=2956 Sat, 20 Oct 2012 22:57:07 +1000 http://folksonomy.co/?permalink=2950 lectures presented by filmmaker Peter Greenaway as the 2010-2011 Avenali Chair in the Humanities at the Townsend Center for the Humanities Townsend Center for the Humanities Fig1 Lecture presented by filmmaker Peter Greenaway 13 September 2010 http://folksonomy.co/?permalink=2950 Wed, 17 Oct 2012 14:26:44 +1000 http://folksonomy.co/?permalink=2938 This diagram was meant as a challenge to the prevailing art world hegemony It was created to prove the argument that graffiti and street art were already at the center of the art world whether they were officially recognized or not Utilizing the same graphic vocabulary as Alfred H Barr Jr the first director of MoMA for the cover of the catalog for Cubist and Abstract Art exhibition in 1937 to create an impression of authority equivalent to his diagram The Feral Diagram picks up chronologically where Barr left off thereby subverting and redirecting the officially recognized historical trajectory Six years after the first draft of this diagram the acknowledgement of graffiti and street art as important movements within the fine art community if not the most important movements at the beginning of the new millenium has come to light with major museum retrospectives a never ending stream of books on the subject websites products etc Daniel Feral 2011 Flickr Fig 1 revised Feral Diagram 2 0 version http://folksonomy.co/?permalink=2938 Mon, 08 Oct 2012 19:20:24 +1000 http://folksonomy.co/?permalink=2930 This website is designed as a social mirror to show the prevalence of casual homophobia in our society Words and phrases like faggot dyke no homo and so gay are used casually in everyday language despite promoting the continued alienation isolation and - in some tragic cases - suicide of sexual and gender minority LGBTQ youth We no longer tolerate racist language we re getting better at dealing with sexist language but sadly we re still not actively addressing homophobic and transphobic language in our society Let s put an end to casual homophobia Speak out when you see or hear homophobic or transphobic language from friends at school in the locker room at work or online Use NoHomophobes to show your support And visit one of our resource websites to get more involved NoHomophobes com http://folksonomy.co/?permalink=2930 Sat, 06 Oct 2012 10:44:57 +1000 http://folksonomy.co/?permalink=2882 This article discusses a particular project that attempted to make art-historical research evocative as well as analytical by employing rich interactive multi-media This reliance on evocative material extended techniques practiced by television drama-documentaries and considered their legitimacy and potential within academic art history what might evocative research mean 3 Esche-Ramshorn Christiane and Stanislav Roudavski 2012 Evocative Research in Art History and Beyond Imagining Possible Pasts in the Ways to Heaven Project Digital Creativity 23 1 pp 1-21 http://folksonomy.co/?permalink=2882 Wed, 08 Aug 2012 08:41:26 +1000 http://folksonomy.co/?permalink=2847 Annotate That is a free unique annotating service Share web pages images or documents with others and add your comments using annotations Simply click on the web page or medium to make your annotation We Create Digital http://folksonomy.co/?permalink=2847 Sat, 28 Jul 2012 13:28:01 +1000 http://folksonomy.co/?permalink=2844 dOCUMENTA 13 is dedicated to artistic research and forms of imagination that explore commitment matter things embodiment and active living in connection with yet not subordinated to theory These are terrains where politics are inseparable from a sensual energetic and worldly alliance between current research in various scientific and artistic fields and other knowledges both ancient and contemporary dOCUMENTA 13 is driven by a holistic and non-logocentric vision that is skeptical of the persisting belief in economic growth This vision is shared with and recognizes the shapes and practices of knowing of all the animate and inanimate makers of the world including people C Christov-Bakargiev dOCUMENTA http://folksonomy.co/?permalink=2844 Wed, 25 Jul 2012 22:58:15 +1000