http://folksonomy.co/?rss=419 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=2 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=3264 The strengths of qualitative research methods lie in their usefulness for understanding the meaning and context of the phenomena studied and the particular events and processes that make up these phenomena over time in real-life natural settings 5 When evaluating computer information systems these contextual issues include social cultural organizational and political concerns surrounding an information technology the processes of information systems development installation and use or lack of use and how all these are conceptualized and perceived by the participants in the setting where the study is being conducted 6 Bonnie Kaplan and Joseph A Maxwell p 31 2005 Kaplan B and J Maxwell 2005 Qualitative Research Methods for Evaluating Computer Information Systems Evaluating the Organizational Impact of Healthcare Information Systems J Anderson and C Aydin New York Springer 30-55 http://folksonomy.co/?permalink=3264 Sun, 31 Mar 2013 16:10:25 +1000 http://folksonomy.co/?permalink=3232 In 2005 visitors packed into the expansive boulevard leading up to St Peter s Square as Pope John Paul II s body was carried into the crowd for public viewing in the days following his death Taken nearly two years before the iPhone debuted the photo is striking now for its appearance straight out of another era For anyone who has ever been to a concert the photo at bottom taken Tuesday night as Pope Francis made his inaugural appearance on the Vatican balcony seems almost ordinary The two taken together reflect a world changing even as some ancient traditions stay the same Carlo Dellaverson 13 March 2013 NBC News Fig 1 Luca Bruno AP The faithful gather in 2005 near St Peter s to witness Pope John Paul II s body being carried into the Basilica for public viewing Fig 2 Michael Sohn AP St Peter s Basilica at the Vatican on March 13 2013 http://folksonomy.co/?permalink=3232 Fri, 15 Mar 2013 09:43:55 +1000 http://folksonomy.co/?permalink=3220 Ralph Hotere 1931-2013 was one of New Zealand s leading abstract artists well known for his enigmatic black painted surfaces stripped with luminous lines of color He was not a strict formalist or wary of content When an aluminium smelter was proposed for the Aramoana wetland he famously nailed protest works on local telephone poles painted on corrugated iron And although his message was never explicit his black paintings emerged at the height of the Civil Rights movement and suggested themes of historical crisis war nuclear testing the Cuban Missile Crisis and Apartheid With an understated gravitas unusual in protest art Hotere demanded that his work speak for itself Although Hotere did not want to be pigeonholed as a M amp 257 ori artist his works were steeped in the spiritual world of his ancestors He was one of the first generation of M amp 257 ori artists in New Zealand who with quiet perseverance forged a path for subsequent generations of artists by establishing a distinctive visual vocabulary that would be influential to both M amp 257 ori and Pakeha European artists alike Andrew Clifford 1 March 2013 ArtAsiaPacific Magazine Fig 1 Ralph Hotere with his Black Phoenix installation at the Dunedin Public Art Gallery in 2000 Photo by Stephen Jaquiery http://folksonomy.co/?permalink=3220 Sun, 10 Mar 2013 09:17:54 +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=3147 The International Visual Sociology Association IVSA is a nonprofit democratic and academically oriented professional organization devoted to the visual study of society culture and social relationships IVSA membership is open to any person regardless of occupation citizenship or residence The organizational membership represents a wide spectrum of disciplines including sociology anthropology education visual communication photography art journalism and related fields http://folksonomy.co/?permalink=3147 Sat, 12 Jan 2013 11:47:58 +1000 http://folksonomy.co/?permalink=3115 team s of students of mixed disciplines worked together to understand and map a problem-space identified by the client They then defined a solution-space before focussing on a particular opportunity outcome The range of projects included incremental innovation opportunities represented by the Lego and Hasbro projects through radical Philips work to truly disruptive work with Unilever The studies confirmed stereotypical view points of how different disciplines may behave They showed that design students were more but not completely comfortable with the ambiguous aspects associated with phase zeroo problem-space exploration and early stage idea generation They would only commit to a solution when time pressures dictated that this was essential in order to complete the project deliverables on time and they were happy to experiment with and develop new methods without a clear objective in mind In contrast the business students were uncomfortable with this ambiguity and were more readily able to come to terms with incremental innovation projects where a systematic approach could be directly linked to an end goal The technologists were more comfortable with the notion of the ambiguous approach leading to more radical innovation but needed to wrap this in an analytical process that grounded experimentation Meanwhile the designers were unclear and unprepared to be precise when it came to committing to a business model Mark Bailey 2010 p 42 Bailey M 2010 Working at the Edges Networks Art Design Media Subject Centre ADM-HEA Autumn 2010 http://folksonomy.co/?permalink=3115 Wed, 02 Jan 2013 00:58:24 +1000 http://folksonomy.co/?permalink=3112 Melvyn Bragg continues his exploration of the idea of culture by considering its use in the discipline of anthropology In 1871 the anthropologist Edward Tylor published Primitive Culture an enormously influential work which for the first time placed culture at the centre of the study of humanity His definition of culture as the capabilities and habits acquired by man ensured that later generations saw culture as common to all humans and not simply as the preserve of writers and philosophers Melvyn Bragg 2013 The Value of Culture Culture and the Anthropologists Radio broadcast Episode 2 of 5 Duration 42 minutes First broadcast Monday 01 January 2013 Presenter Melvyn Bragg Producer Thomas Morris for the BBC Radio 4 UK http://folksonomy.co/?permalink=3112 Tue, 01 Jan 2013 12:55:18 +1000 http://folksonomy.co/?permalink=3108 Did you have a mentor when you were starting out I worked with some great illustrators when i started We shared a building with the Central Illustration Agency and so met and listened to a few of them Brian Grimwood Simon Spilsbury Robert Shadbolt Geoff Grandfield At the time illustration was being battered a bit because everything was going digital But as we always say - good art will always find a way What s your process for writing a treatment We like to try new things whenever we can so it s about getting the idea and pushing to see what we can do with it And we like to get something drawn or made or modelled quite quickly One piece of art will always inspire you to the next step we find Do you often collaborate in the early stages or do you work alone There are 20 of us at 12foot6 and we all do slightly different things so everyone has to rely on everyone else - all we ever do is collaborate Pencil amp Paper or iPad it s a bit hard to send an email with a pencil and pen But i know what you mean We find there is a pretty simple rule in animation in fact with any work I think - you get out what you put in Put good art in and you stand a good chance of coming out with something you ll be happy with Use whatever tools you like as long as it works Millie Ross 13 07 2012 Jotta The Animation Illustration agency 12foot6 was started by Dave Anderson and Tom Mortimer Their name was derived from their collective heights i e 6 foot 3 2 http://folksonomy.co/?permalink=3108 Sun, 30 Dec 2012 14:47:11 +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=3095 Propaganda 2012 is a 95-minute video that presents itself as a North Korean educational video intending to inform the citizens of the Democratic People s Republic of Korea about the dangers of Western propaganda The video s uploader known as Sabine reiterates a statement she gave to the Federal Police regarding the movie s origins She explains how the film was given to her by people claiming to be North Korean defectors whilst she was visiting Seoul Although the origins of Propaganda 2012 are contentious its power lies in the fact that much of its content attempts to avoid invented history Considering the media buzzwords associated with the alleged country of origin Propaganda 2012 turns a mirror onto the Western world and seeks to criticise its entire history and culture e from the genocide and imperialism of its past to the interventionism and consumerism of the modern era The movie s overall attitude seems to express an intention to educate shock and caution its audience into realising that people in the West are governed by a super-rich ruling class The one per cent who do not offer them true democracy but instead seek to invade and assimilate as many countries as possible whilst distracting their population with a smokescreen of consumerism celebrity and reality television This message is spread across the video s 17 chapters which each attempt to focus on specific examples of Western indoctrination and oppression The film is regularly punctuated by commentary from an anonymous North Korean professor and quotes from Western thinkers such as Noam Chomsky and Richard Dawkins Propaganda 2012 is certainly a film where the audience takes from it what they bring to it and a variety of emotions can be induced upon viewing Laughter cynicism outrage contemplation and reflection would all be adequate responses to the video s tough and often graphic portrayal of the complex world in which we are living Yet perhaps the most important thing to remember when watching the film is that the video is available to view uncensored on a largely unregulated world wide web and merely represents an extreme end of the vast spectrum of free expression Therefore during this festive end to an austere year enjoy Propaganda 2012 as an interesting and beguiling alternative voice that cries loudly against the dangers of religious consumerism and reminds us to remain humble and reflect on those less fortunate than ourselves Kieran Turner-Dave 17 December 2012 Independent Arts Blogs http://folksonomy.co/?permalink=3095 Wed, 19 Dec 2012 11:38:00 +1000 http://folksonomy.co/?permalink=3024 Sven Birkerts a modern-day Luddite is feeling uneasy about all this rapid cultural change He longs for the slow elegance of print culture So much so in fact that the cover of his new book The Gutenberg Elegies The Fate of Reading in an Electronic Age features a fuzzy caramel-colored snapshot of a naturally-lit library which houses the endangered species of digital modernity a leather armchair draped with an afghan droopy lace curtains and shelves of softened leather hard-backs coveting thick yellowed pages and the tidy immutable thoughts of yesterday s literary prophets Birkerts is terrified that his warm dusty paradise is being ransacked and the remaining rubble is merely forgotten or misunderstood in a world distracted by garish pulsing iconography Amanda Griscom 1996 Amanda Scott Griscom 1996 Trends of Anarchy and Hierarchy Comparing the Cultural Repercussions of Print and Digital Media Brown University http://folksonomy.co/?permalink=3024 Mon, 12 Nov 2012 17:34:16 +1000 http://folksonomy.co/?permalink=3022 International Conference Workshops and Exhibition University at Buffalo The State University of New York 3-5 May 2013 Call for Paper Abstracts DEADLINE 12 November 2012 What new lines of inquiry and emergent relations between urbanity and digital media are found in non-Western cities in post-Capitalist cities in cities hosting civic turbulence or crossing international boundaries What urban-medial relations are taking shape differently in urban milieux that may have been heretofore overlooked These cities are deserving of more attention than ever before as sites of population growth of new cultural and social formations of new entanglements between urban life and contemporary media communications and information technologies and more MediaCities promises to expand our understanding of both media and the city today and to articulate new sites of practice and working methods for an expanding field Areas of interest may fall broadly into several themes with the assumption that others will appear in the process of proposals and discussion leading up to the event always expanding our lexicon and mental maps of MediaCities globally These themes are Other Urbans Uncommons Zero Growth Cities Media Geographies and Bordervilles Jordan Geiger Fig 1 Reuters Sheng Li 2011 ethnic Dong minority woman uses her mobile phone to take a picture of herself after a Kam Grand Choir gathering in Tongguan village of Liping county Guizhou province http pixtale net 2011 10 21st-century-china img33 http://folksonomy.co/?permalink=3022 Mon, 12 Nov 2012 10:55:59 +1000