Read | Write: “Remix and the Rouelles of Media Production”
Networked: a (networked_book) about (networked_art) invites you to Read | Write:
“Remix and the Rouelles of Media Production”
by Mette Birk, Mark Cantwell, Owen Gallagher, Eli Horwatt, Martin Leduc, Eduardo Navas, Tara Zepel
http://remix.networkedbook.org/
ABSTRACT: “Remix and the Rouelles of Media Production” explores concepts of remixing not only in content and form, but also in process. The aim of the collaboration is to evaluate how the creative process functions as a type of remix itself in a period when production keeps moving toward a collective approach in all facets of culture. The emphasis on video remixing is the result of a collaborative rewriting activity among the contributors, who each wrote independent paragraphs that went through constant revisions once combined as a single text. Video was selected as the subject of analysis because members have a common interest in time-based media, and also because video remixing is at the forefront of media production. One of the group goals is that the text becomes a statement of what video could be as a reflective form of the networked culture that is developing at the beginning of the twenty-first century. The text is in constant revision and readers are encouraged to join in its writing.
“Remix and the Rouelles of Media Production” is the result of an ongoing collaboration that started in January 2010, when Owen Gallagher invited Mette Birk, Mark Cantwell, Martin Leduc, and Eduardo Navas to join a Remix Theory and Praxis online seminar. In April, Navas invited Tara Zepell to join the group.
Apology Typology: An Internet Refrain, by Sarah Jacobs
APOLOGY TYPOLOGY records a visit Sarah Jacobs made to her ebook Deciphering Human Chromosome 16: We Report Here. The original Report contained links to over 25o websites collected in the months following publication in the journal Nature of “The sequence and analysis of duplication-rich human chromosome 16” (Vol. 432. December 2004).
However over the years many of the websites have changed, migrated or are no longer available, leaving in their place only a nonchalant expression of regret: an internet refrain.
An interactive version of this project can be seen in the PDF here, by hovering your cursor over the yellow tabs.
This project will also appear in print in a future edition of The Blue Notebook. The original ebook, published by Information as Material, can be seen here.
Processing and Arduino – free online course – Tuesdays, 31 August – 28 September 2010
http://creativelive.com/courses/arduino/
Course: Processing and Arduino in Tandem.
Instructors: Joseph Gray
Length: 5-Weeks
Class Dates: Tuesdays, August 31 – September 28, 2010
Live Video: creativelive.com/live
International Handbook of Internet Research
http://www.springer.com/computer/general+issues/book/978-1-4020-9788-1
Edited by Jeremy Hunsinger, Lisbeth Klastrup, and Matthew Allen
Over 600 pages
With co/authors from: Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, India, North America, South America
From a wide variety of fields and perspectives.
Contents:
Forward:
The New Media, the New Meanwhile, and the Same Old Stories
Steve Jones
Introduction
Jeremy Hunsinger and Matt Allen
Are Instant Messages Speech?
Naomi S. Baron
From MUDs to MMORPGs: The History of Virtual Worlds
Richard A. Bartle
Visual Iconic Patterns of Instant Messaging: Steps Towards Understanding Visual Conversations
Hillary Bays
Research in e-Science and Open Access to Data and Information
Matthijs den Besten, Paul A. David, and Ralph Schroeder
Toward Information Infrastructure Studies: Ways of Knowing in a Networked Environment
Geoffrey C. Bowker, Karen Baker, Florence Millerand, and David Ribes
From Reader to Writer: Citizen Journalism as News Produsage
Axel Bruns
The Mereology of Digital Copyright
Dan L. Burk
Traversing Urban Social Spaces: How Online Research Helps Unveil Offline Practice
Julie-Anne Carroll, Marcus Foth, and Barbara Adkins
Internet Aesthetics
Sean Cubitt
Internet Sexualities
Nicola Döring
After Convergence: YouTube and Remix Culture
Anders Fagerjord
The Internet in Latin America
Suely Fragoso and Alberto Efendy Maldonado
Campaigning in a Changing Information Environment: The Anti-war and Peace Movement in Britain
Kevin Gillan, Jenny Pickerill, and Frank Webster
Web Content Analysis: Expanding the Paradigm
Susan C. Herring
The Regulatory Framework for Privacy and Security
Janine S. Hiller
Toward Nomadological Cyberinfrastructures
Jeremy Hunsinger
Toward a Virtual Town Square in the Era of Web 2.0
Andrea Kavanaugh, Manuel A. Perez-Quinones, John C. Tedesco, and William Sanders
“The Legal Bit’s in Russian”: Making Sense of Downloaded Music
Marjorie D. Kibby
Understanding Online (Game)worlds
Lisbeth Klastrup
Strategy and Structure for Online News Production – Case Studies of CNN and NRK
Arne H. Krumsvik
Political Economy, the Internet and FL/OSS Development
Robin Mansell and Evangelia Berdou
Intercreativity: Mapping Online Activism
Graham Meikle
Internet Reagency: The Implications of a Global Science for Collaboration, Productivity, and Gender Inequity in Less Developed Areas
B. Paige Miller, Ricardo Duque, Meredith Anderson, Marcus Antonius Ynalvez, Antony Palackal, Dan-Bright S. Dzorgbo, Paul N. Mbatia, and Wesley Shrum
Strangers and Friends: Collaborative Play in World of Warcraft
Bonnie Nardi and Justin Harris
Trouble with the Commercial: Internets Theorized and Used
Susanna Paasonen
(Dis)Connected: Deleuze’s Superject and the Internet
David Savat
Language Deterioration Revisited: The Extent and Function of English Content in a Swedish Chat Room
Malin Sveningsson Elm
Visual Communication in Web Design – Analyzing Visual Communication in Web Design
Lisbeth Thorlacius
Feral Hypertext: When Hypertext Literature Escapes Control
Jill Walker Rettberg
The Possibilities of Network Sociality
Michele Willson
Web Search Studies: Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Web Search Engines
Michael Zimmer
Appendix A: Degree Programs
Appendix B: Major Research Centers and Institutes
as described on the backmatter:
This handbook, the first of its kind, is a detailed introduction to the numerous academic perspectives we can apply to the study of the internet as a political, social and communicative phenomenon. Covering both practical and theoretical angles, established researchers from around the world discuss everything: the foundations of internet research appear alongside chapters on understanding and analyzing current examples of online activities and artifacts. The material covers all continents and explores in depth subjects such as networked gaming, economics and the law.
The sheer scope and breadth of topics examined in this volume, which ranges from on-line communities to e-science via digital aesthetics, are evidence that in today’s world, internet research is a vibrant and mature field in which practitioners have long since stopped considering the internet as either an utopian or dystopian “new” space, but instead approach it as a medium that has become an integral part of our everyday culture and a natural mode of communication.
(I don’t know if it was the first of the kind published, but I think it was the first done this way -jh)
Jeremy Hunsinger
Center for Digital Discourse and Culture
Virginia Tech
http://www.stswiki.org/ sts wiki
http://transdisciplinarystudies.tmttlt.com/ Transdisciplinary Studies:the book series
BBC data visualisation project – DataArt
DataArt on BBC Backstage
The BBC and the University of Westminster are pleased to inform you of the online launch of a new public data visualisation project DataArt on BBC Backstage.
http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/data_art/index.php
We believe that data is a vitally new reporting medium that tells us stories about our lives. Often this data is difficult to understand in its raw form of lists of numbers or text, but as we are exposed to it on a daily basis interpretation skills and access to information resources are increasingly important for us all. Converting this data into explorable visualisations helps us to comprehend it in ways that draw upon our innate capabilities to read information as images and patterns. As both a visual medium and a tool for reasoning, these visualisations straddle the disciplines of art, design, science and statistics.
Who is DataArt for?
DataArt aims to reach people who know little about visualisation but want to find out more, those looking at visualisation from an educational perspective and the existing developer community already engaged in producing their own work.
What are we providing?
DataArt provides public access to data visualizations of the BBC’s online resources be they news information from around the world, web articles, music data or video and learning resources.
For our launch we have released 4 visualisations for people to use immediately: Flared Music, 3d Documentary Explorer, SearchWeb, and News Globe. In addition we provide a learning resources section of the website giving further background information to the subject of visualisation including its histories and uses. This area will grow as the project develops and we hope will provide a rich source of educational material.
For more advanced developers we have also provided some initial access to tools, tutorials and computer code you can download and modify. Over the coming months, more visualisations will be released leading to a second phase of the project in November 2010, which sees the release of further source code using a variety of different programming languages and software libraries. All our visualisations are based on BBC data and use sources that are already open to the public which you can use immediately for your own projects. We will also be creating new data sources and hope to provide access to BBC data not currently available to the public.
Further releases will be publicised on our main site and via our facebook presence.
Participate!
We are interested in your thoughts and feedback whether you are a complete novice to the subject area, a student or an advanced practitioner. In the project blog we encourage you to tell us what you think about DataArt, share your experiences and publish links to work you have made with the material we have provided. We’ll also pass on useful tips via the blog to help you get the most out of it. We’d also be delighted to hear your thoughts on via our facebook presence:
http://www.facebook.com/pages/DataArt-BBC-Backstage/108238225894676
The project is funded by the UK Arts and Humanities Research Council and is the result of collaboration between the Centre for Research in Education Art and Media (CREAM), at the University of Westminster, BBC Backstage and BBC Learning.
Transliteracy Research Group blog
This is a reminder to check out the Transliteracy Research Group blog www.transliteracy.com which is updated every week or so by a group of transliteracy researchers and practitioners. The current TRG writers are Tia Azulay, Heather Conboy, Gareth Howell, Anietie Isong, Jess Laccetti, Kirsty McGill, Kate Pullinger, Sue Thomas and Christine Wilks.
Recently we have been writing about:
· transliteracy in China
· a new Master’s module on New Media Narratives
· the launch of the Electronic Literature Directory
· an MA in Performance Writing at UCF/Arnolfini
· a discussion of Site Specific Stories using Layar on the iPhone
· a link to a video ‘Transliteracy as Blueberry Smoothie’ by Brian Hulsey
· an account of telling stories of belief and disbelief in Africa
· and a clever way to test your level of transliteracy in A Quick Code…
There’s also a community, Transliteracy Notes, transliteracy.ning.com/ for the discussion of ideas and projects. And you can follow all kinds of threads via the Twitter hashtag #transliteracy http://twitter.com/#search?q=transliteracy
Transliteracy is attracting interest from many disciplines and we welcome your involvement. Do drop in to comment or participate at www.transliteracy.com
Innovation and the E-volution of E-books by John Warren
A paper by John Warren originally published in the The International Journal of the Book that discusses the e-book phenomenon. The third example he discusses is the digital fiction Inanimate Alice created by Kate Pullinger and myself.
http://www.rand.org/pubs/reprints/RP1411/
Outline:
E-books are beginning to emerge from their incunabula stage. While some may think of an e-book as just an electronic image of a paper product, others have used the electronic format to broaden the spectrum of publishing in the digital age. This paper examines three innovative examples that demonstrate the potential and challenges of electronic publications. The first is an online resource providing information on the U.S. health care system, descriptions of policy proposals, and an interactive microsimulation model that estimates the effects of commonly proposed policy changes. The second example is a digital novel utilizing text, sound, images, and gaming in storytelling. The third is a survey of efforts to create digital textbooks with online study resources. Each case study provides insight into the possible future of the e-book.
TINT Arts Lab Opens its Doors with its First Season
TINT are pleased to present our newly opened Arts Lab! Bringing TINT a signifying step forward to realising our core aims in fostering a strong, sustainable and questioning media arts community!
The TINT Arts Lab is a platform that offers invited artists a space to present a new project in the form of a self contained blog. Its motivation is to nurture an open and public discussion of the projects concept, context, development, presentation and documentation between the artists, a core team of commentators, which include Michael Demers, Martha King, Susan Elizabeth Ryan, Greg J. Smiths and Pau Waelder and also the interested media arts community (that’s you!). Please don’t shy away to express your own thoughts. Critical but fair feedback to the artist’s projects and the arts lab in general is highly appreciated. The arts lab is in its first season and we see it in a beta phase.
Born out of curiosity it shall remain an open platform in constant change. A probe that will help to learn more about media arts and its motivations, modes of production, documentation, and reception in an age of crowd-sourced networked complexity.
Last week the Arts Lab has opened its doors, ready to run its first season. Please join our residents in their open ended journey towards a new piece of work:
This Belongs To by Glittermouse
Jonestown Periphery by Aaron Oldenburg
Mechanical Components by Stuart Dunbar
The Unemployed by Jody Zellen
Colour Data Processing by Lossless Processing + Error
On the Materiality of the Image by Eleana Louka
Relation Alterations by Lauren McCarthy
Virtual Assistance by Andrew Norman Wilson
Please find more information on the arts lab website: http://lab.tintarts.org.
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About TINT
TINT is an UK based interdisciplinary media arts organisation setup in January 2009. Dedicated to art which is derived from, and reflects upon the intersections of technology and culture. As an artist run organisation our core intentions are concerned with the support of artistic collaboration, acting as a point of juncture for artists working within the fields of science and technology. We assist in pursuing and establishing collaborations with scientists, theorists, artists and other practitioners. Our program of exhibitions, events and residencies support an experimentation of media and interactive arts, encouraging audiences to participate, explore and create!
info@tintarts.org | http://tintarts.org
Paths of Memory and Painting by Judy Malloy
Introduced at the University of California at Berkeley Center for New Media Roundtable in February 2010 and exhibited this June at the Electronic Literature Organization Conference, Judy Malloy’s Paths of Memory and Painting — http://www.well.com/user/jmalloy/luminous_landscape/paths.html — is a new media poetry trilogy that is composed of a series of composite screens of narrative poetry. The reader views multiple paths through narrative information as parallel trails of lexias lead to different parts of a narrative told by Dorothy Abrona McCrae, a Bay Area Figurative painter.
In Part I, _where every luminous landscape_, the main narrative thread takes part in the San Francisco Bay Area in the years beginning with World War II. But the narrator also relates other aspects her life and work, recollects the lives of California artist adventurers, and describes her paintings of historical artists and writers. The interface is a complex narrative array of eight lexias, that each lead to further development of the story yet at the same time can be read contingently in the array.
Part II, _when the foreground and the background merged_, is composed of three scenes that all take place at the same dinner with an Army officer in Berkeley in 1944. Told in a series of side-by-side lexias that move at a separate pace, the work allows the reader to follow different directions in the conversation, as well the narrator’s memories of her own work and the work of other artists.
Part III is a closing text-based trio sonata with the same name as the trilogy, _paths of memory and painting_. Written in three part contrapuntal composition, Part III follows the memories, experiences and thoughts of the narrator as she sits in a cafe in Berkeley in the present time and concludes with a coda that brings the reader back to the array with which — in _where every luminous landscape_ — the work begins .
Using an innovative series of arrays of lexias and complex yet related narrative information, Paths of Memory and Painting — http://www.well.com/user/jmalloy/luminous_landscape/paths.html — is a poetic hypernarrative that takes the reader on a journey of recollected art experience. The reading experience suggests successive text-paintings that chronicle the changes in a painter’s work, beginning with her early work as a landscape painter.
Judy Malloy
home page: http://www.well.com/user/jmalloy/
Narrabase Notebook: http://www.well.com/user/jmalloy/blog/poet_blog.html
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