Monthly Archive for April, 2009

Bookmarks for April 29th through April 30th

Published on April 30, 2009 in Lifes Little Pieces. Closed

These are my links for April 29th through April 30th:

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A Twibe

Published on April 30, 2009 in Lifes Little Pieces. 0 Comments Tags: , .

Just joined a transmedia twibe, mainly to get a sense of how twibes work. I’m not sure transmedia is really my thing since it seems to be mainly around games/narratives/works that fall into what I clumsily think of as ARGs and the like. Cross media come all media distributed things. Christy Dena’s neck of the woods (and when on earth did the ‘woods’ get a ‘neck’?)

Not sure how this works yet. Do posts get a hashtag? Do you visit the twibe page to see the conversation? Is it all tweets from all the members or is there some way in which they get filtered thematically? How? Or is it just a way to find other people to then follow who may be in your field?

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Bookmarks for April 24th through April 29th

Published on April 29, 2009 in Lifes Little Pieces. Closed

These are my links for April 24th through April 29th:

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Crimson Blood

Published on April 28, 2009 in Lifes Little Pieces. 0 Comments Tags: .

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The other morning, while at a local park with the kids, we discovered an injured crimson rosella. It obviously couldn’t fly, so I managed to get a light shawl come shift out of the car and captured the very distressed bird (that bit anything and everything with ferocious intent, so fingers were kept well away). It looked like it might have been hit by a car (or a bike), so we got into a shopping bag, kept it quiet and eventually delivered it to an animal hospital. The first photo is not the victim, while the second is what we wrapped her in, and if you look real close you can see the blood.

rosella bloodYou must get an interesting view of people working at the hospital. Outside there are street smart tough men, the sort of people you don’t want to meet after a few drinks – tatts and a lot of bling – shamefaced in their tears as their beloved pet has been euthanised or otherwise pronounced dead.

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Manifesto, First Draft

Published on April 27, 2009 in Lifes Little Pieces. 0 Comments Tags: , .

In the integrated media subject I’m teaching students are writing manifestos which they will then follow (more about that another time). Partly in response to this, and partly because I have not made anything for too long, I’ve started to develop my original vogma manifesto into an interactive work. This is the first prototype where I’ve worked out the structure, but have not yet actually recorded any content. Though you can’t tell from the work it is actually a QuickTime movie that is ten seconds long. Each of the propositions is a link that, when clicked, takes you to a new chapter in this movie (each second is a chapter). The second version of this one will have audio (I think) on each screen as well, which will be commentary.

The prototype is at http://vogmae.net.au/works/2009/prototypeOne/prototypeOne.html

Tags: practice, vog

Closures

Published on April 24, 2009 in Lifes Little Pieces. 0 Comments Tags: , , , .

Just received an email: Jumpcut is closing. Part of the prioritisation efforts at Yahoo! which I guess translates into it is not making any money (is anyone who hosts a ton of video content?). This comes hot on the heals of the disappearance of the Ezedia suite of QuickTime tools. Video software development, outside of edit systems for traditional practice, remain a poisoned chalice. LiveStage Pro, eZedia, VideoClix. All gone.

What does this tell us? That we are perhaps at a similar point to where we were with hypertext systems in the early 1990s. Storyspace, Intermedia, even possibly HyperCard. Some were brilliant, so far ahead of everything else (HyperCard for example) that only a very few ‘got it’. Some argued for why hypertext mattered, but most outside of industrial style systems (eg help systems for computers and custom systems to manage things like military documentation) could see little use. Then along came HTTP, HTML, and, well, here we are. So I remain sadly optimistic that something will appear, somehow (and it certainly is not YouTube), and software will start popping up all over the place to let us make video that is deeply, joyfully intertwingled and network savvy.

Tags: hypertext, practice, tools, Vogging

Bookmarks for March 18th through April 21st

Published on April 21, 2009 in Lifes Little Pieces. Closed Tags: .

These are my links for March 18th through April 21st:

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Video Vortex 4 Schedule

Published on April 18, 2009 in practice. 0 Comments Tags: , , .

Straight off the email:

VIDEO VORTEX 4, SPLIT-CROATIA, MAY 21-23 2009

OPENING EVENING: THURSDAY 21 MAY 2009

17:30 Afternoon Screenings Preview at Kinoteka Zlatna Vrata, Split

19:00 Opening evening at Multimedia Cultural Center, Split
Word of Welcome by Geert Lovink, Miranda Veljačić and Dan Oki
Introduction speech by Lev Manovich (to be confirmed)

20:00 Exhibition opening (with food buffet)

21:00 Performance: Emile Zile – Post-It Kino

(Buses to the hotel at 22:30 and 23:00)

DAY ONE: FRIDAY 22 MAY
Conference at Multimedia Cultural Center, Split
(Buses to the Conference at 9:00 and 9:20)

9:45 – 11:30 SESSION 1: Tele-image Research Strategies
Moderator: Sabine Niederer
Presentations by:
- Andreas Treske
- Nathalie Bookchin
- Dalibor Martinis
Discussion

COFFEE

11:45 – 13:45 Session 2: The Database
Moderator: Tomislav Medak
Presentations by:
- Maarten Brinkerink
- Kuros Yalpani
- Albert Figurt
- Alejandro Duque
Discussion

LUNCH

14:30 – 16:15 Session 3: Video Art meets Web Aesthetics
Moderator: Leila Topić
Presentations by:
- Vera Tollmann
- Vito Campanelli
- Sarah Késsene
Discussion

COFFEE/TEA

17:00 SCREENINGS
Presented by Dan Oki
- Lemeh42, Study on human form and humanity #1, (2′00″).
- Cornelius Onitsch, *AV*, (5′00″).
- Ivana Runjic, Show me your hard disk and I will tell you who you are, (7′00″).
- Nathalie Bookchin, Parking Lot, (15′00″).
- Shelly Silver, In Complete World (53′00″).
Q&A

20:00 CONFERENCE DINNER
(Buses to the hotel leave at 22:15 and 23:00)

DAY TWO: SATURDAY 23 MAY 2009
Conference at Multimedia Cultural Center, Split
(Buses to the conference leave at 9:00 and 9:15)

09:30 – 11:15 Session 4: Online Video Theories
Moderator: Geert Lovink
Presentations by:
- Jan Simons
- Gabriel Menotti
- Amir Soltani
- Stefan Heidenreich
Discussion

COFFEE

11:30 – 13:30 Session 5: Online Video Narratives
Moderator: Brian Willems
- Jasmina Kallay
- David Clark
- Valentina Rao
- Paul Wiersbinski
Discussion

LUNCH

14:15 – 16:15 Session 6: Politics of the Moving Image
Moderator: Petar Milat
Presentations by:
- Sasa Vojkovic
- David Teh
- Ana Peraica
- Antanas Stancius
Discussion

COFFEE/TEA

16:30 – 18:00 Session 7: Social Cinema
Moderator: Dan Oki
Presentations by:
- Perry Bard
- Evelin Stermitz
- Dagan Cohen
Discussion

Evening: 19:00 CONFERENCE DINNER

21:00 PERFORMANCES
- Cym, 30′00″
- Surprise Act

22:00 VIDEO VORTEX PARTY
(Buses to the hotel leave at 24:00 and 02:00)

Tags: practice, Theory, Vogging

Immobilité Gone Local

Published on April 17, 2009 in practice. 0 Comments Tags: , .

Mark’s feature length film Immobilité (shot on a Nokia) is getting a 15 minute window of fame at Fed Square on Monday.

Tags: Network Literacy, practice

Sound of

Published on April 16, 2009 in Lifes Little Pieces. 0 Comments Tags: .

I’m not sure I’ve ever embedded a YouTube clip before, YouTube just rubs me all up the wrong way. But this I just find joyous. Yet another moment where the distinction between intervention, art, the avant garde and contemporary media collapse. Probably quite relevant in relation to Sherman’s Vernacular Video if we transpose The Sound of Music and popular dance as a vernacular form and this is the YouTube cinema of attractions.

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