http://folksonomy.co/?rss=552 Folksonomy.co is a structured repository of digital culture and creative practice. en-au Creative Commons License: (cc), Simon Perkins Sun, 17 Mar 2013 10:46:37 +1000 Sun, 17 Mar 2013 10:46:37 +1000 Constellations 2.0 http://folksonomy.co/?member=2 60 http://folksonomy.co/Folksonomy.gif http://folksonomy.co/ http://folksonomy.co/?permalink=3238 Students get plenty of teacher interaction Finland and New York City have the same number of teachers But Finland has nearly half the number of students Standardized testing is kept to a minimum before a New York student reaches high school he or she will have taken 10 standardized tests Collectively US students take 100 million standardized tests a year Finland s only standardized test is taken when students are 16 years old Kids have more time to be kids an average us 5th grader has 50 minimum of homework per day Finnish students rarely do homework until their teens And while us elementary students average 27 minutes of recess students in Finland get about 75 minutes a day Finland knows good teachers are essential teachers in Finland are all required to have a Master s degree which is fully subsidized by the state OnlineClasses org 21 January 2013 http://folksonomy.co/?permalink=3238 Sun, 17 Mar 2013 10:46:37 +1000 http://folksonomy.co/?permalink=3223 CityViewAR is a mobile Augmented Reality application that allows people to see how the city was before the earthquakes and building demolitions Using an Android mobile phone people can walk around the city and see life-sized virtual models of what the buildings looked like on site before they were demolished and see pictures and written information Hundreds of 3D models of key city buildings have been made available from architect Jason Mill of ZNO while the Christchurch City Council and Historic Places Trust have provided photographs and building histories CityViewAR is based on the HIT Lab NZ Android AR platform which uses the GPS and compass sensors of mobile phones to enable virtual information to be overlaid on live video of the real world Android AR makes it easy for Android developers to build their own outdoor AR applications The software was previously used for showing individual buildings but this is the first time that it has been used to show dozens of buildings at once and the first time in world that mobile phone AR has been used for earthquake reconstruction HIT Lab NZ 2011 http://folksonomy.co/?permalink=3223 Sun, 10 Mar 2013 19:30:08 +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=3120 Neat Places is an essential guide to the distinctive restaurants caf eacute s bars shops and galleries in New Zealand Well Christchurch Wellington and Oamaru for starters Our aim is to unveil the treasured places and celebrate the spirit of this eclectic mix of towns with more to come Whether you re a local or just visiting you ll find something here that tickles your fancy Marcia Butterfield Fig 1 Neat Places designed by Matt Powell http fauxpar se http://folksonomy.co/?permalink=3120 Fri, 04 Jan 2013 00:09:51 +1000 http://folksonomy.co/?permalink=3116 Binding handcrafted books for me is not merely a way of turning back the clock but a way of addressing contemporary issues both environmental and social as well as aesthetic Michael O Brien Bookbinder A Step Back In Time short documentary about Oamaru s iconoclastic bookbinder Michael O Brien Director Moss Bowering-Scott Research Libby Dallison Executive Producers Richard Bell and Steve Bloxham New Zealand Broadcasting School CPIT Uploaded to YouTube on 16 August 2010 http://folksonomy.co/?permalink=3116 Wed, 02 Jan 2013 16:56:12 +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=3092 Given the accessibility of media devices available to us today and utilising van Leeuwen s concept of inscription and synthesis as a guide this thesis explores the practice of re-presenting a domestic material object the Croxley Recipe Book into digital media Driven by a creative practice research method but also utilising materiality digital storytelling practices and modality as important conceptual frames this project was fundamentally experimental in nature A materiality-framed content analysis interpreted through cultural analysis initially unraveled some of the cookbook s significance and contextualised it within a particular time of New Zealand s cultural history Through the expressive and anecdotal practice of digital storytelling the cookbook s significance was further negotiated especially as the material book was engaged with through the affective and experiential digital medium of moving-image A total of six digital film works were created on an accompanying DVD each of which represents some of the cookbook s significance but approached through different representational strategies The Croxley Recipe Book Archive Film and Pav Bakin with Mark are archival documentaries while Pav is more expressive and aligned with the digital storytelling form Spinning Yarns and Tall Tales a film essay engages and reflects with the multiple processes and trajectories of the project while Extras and The Creative Process Journal demonstrate the emergent nature of the research The written thesis discusses the emergent nature of the research process and justifies the conceptual underpinning of the research Sasha McLaren 2008 McLaren Sasha 2008 Material Synthesis Negotiating experience with digital media MA thesis The University of Waikato Aotearoa New Zealand http://folksonomy.co/?permalink=3092 Mon, 17 Dec 2012 20:01:30 +1000 http://folksonomy.co/?permalink=3072 During November 2012 there were over 120 comments posted largely by expat and returned Kiwis in a KEA group LinkedIn discussion on How do employers view those coming home after an extended period of time The comments centred around a theme that NZ employers appear fearful of hiring expats and donot recognise the skills and global connectivity opportunities which they can bring Reading through the comments one can identify many factors which matched those contained in material released on my website two years ago looking at the cultural impediments to growth of the New Zealand economy So taking on board the strongly expressed hopes by many contributors that something would be done to highlight this issue of expat under-utilisation I have prepared this paper which will be referenced in the BNZ Weekly Overview The material will also form a backgrounder to comments to be included in my talks around New Zealand during 2013 Tony Alexander BNZ Chief Economist 30 November 2012 http://folksonomy.co/?permalink=3072 Sat, 08 Dec 2012 19:52:45 +1000 http://folksonomy.co/?permalink=3062 Mobile phones have evolved rapidly from a communication device to a creative and educational tool The current mediascape can be described as a dynamic ecosystem that has seen the emergence of new media aesthetics and formats such as iPhoneography and mobile-mentary mobile documentary filmmaking For communities world-wide mobile technologies provide access to a vast amount of new services Mobile phone users or rather pro-d-users artists designers filmmakers and independent creatives can define new modes of mobile media practices transcending the realm of established disciplines and transforming the contemporary mediascape The participatory turn in media culture collaboration co-creation and crowd-sourcing creates new opportunities and challenges for visual communication design Mobile devices enable us to see the world from new viewpoints and angles Mobile Innovation Network Aotearoa 2012 http://folksonomy.co/?permalink=3062 Mon, 03 Dec 2012 17:12:03 +1000 http://folksonomy.co/?permalink=3048 Video 9 Published on YouTube 23 Nov 2012 by Peter Jackson WingNut Films Film premiere 28 November 2012 Wellington New Zealand Release Date 13 December 2012 UK http://folksonomy.co/?permalink=3048 Sun, 25 Nov 2012 13:00:41 +1000 http://folksonomy.co/?permalink=2958 The International Mobile Innovation Screening 2012 will showcase an international screening programme of mobile short films Simultaniously the MINA Mobile Innovation Network Aotearoa Mobile Creativity and Innovation Symposium opening reception will take place at the New Zealand Film Archive in Wellington Te Anakura Whitiahua on the 23rd November 2012 MINA reception 6 30pm and mobile film screening 7pm-8pm The 2nd International Mobile Creativity and Mobile Innovation symposium hosted at Massey University Wellington on 24th 25th November will provide a platform for filmmakers artists researchers and industry professionals to debate the prospect of wireless mobile and ubiquitous technologies in a changing art and design environment and the transforming creative industries MINA Aotearoa New Zealand http://folksonomy.co/?permalink=2958 Sun, 21 Oct 2012 01:33:19 +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=2936 The Conversation is an independent source of analysis commentary and news from the university and research sector - written by acknowledged experts and delivered directly to the public Our team of professional editors work with more than 3 900 registered academics and researchers to make this wealth of knowledge and expertise accessible to all We aim to be a site you can trust All published work will carry attribution of the 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More which opened 5 August 2012 in Gallery C3 Te Ara Hihiko Massey University Campus Wellington New Zealand The show was curated by Annette OoSullivan Matt Clapham and John Clemens Typography forms a strong component of the Visual Communication Design programme and this existing knowledge is built upon in the Screen Printing for Design and Contemporary Letterpress papers There was a celebration of disciplines on show with students from many areas of the College of Creative Arts Graphic Design Textiles Illustration Fine Arts and Photography included Many students are attracted to these papers as they provide an experimental space to explore ideas and techniques that can be applied at a later stage to other projects Although based around traditional printmaking techniques students also employ digital technologies and equipment such as laser cutters to answer the project briefs Nick Kapica 20 August 2012 Design Assembly Fig 1 Hannah Milner Our Darkest Day wooden type printing digital printing http://folksonomy.co/?permalink=2899 Sun, 09 Sep 2012 14:08:58 +1000 http://folksonomy.co/?permalink=2898 Martin Trusttum from CPIT s Faculty of Creative Industries likens his ArtBox project to a game of Tetris It s just like Tetris but in slow motion They are cubes and eventually they will come together to form a precinct ArtBox will be located on the corner of Madras and St Asaph streets on the old Southlander Tavern-Jetset Lounge site opposite Anton Parsons sculpture Passing Time It is a rare collection of mobile and flexible modules designed by Sydenham-based F3 and will offer about 18 spaces suitable for galleries and studios It offers a practical timely solution to the many low-cost premises used as galleries and studios destroyed by the February 2011 earthquake Vicki Anderson 07 September 2012 Stuff co nz http://folksonomy.co/?permalink=2898 Sun, 09 Sep 2012 09:47:37 +1000