one more..

"Feeling like the world is becoming less friendly? Social theorist Jonathan Zittrain begs to difffer. The Internet, he suggests, is made up of millions of disinterested acts of kindness, curiosity and trust."

TED talks

interesting talks about internet and democracy.. or lack of. TED talks are my favorite past time besides netflix.com.

"TED Fellow and journalist Evgeny Morozov punctures what he calls "iPod liberalism" -- the assumption that tech innovation always promotes freedom, democracy -- with chilling examples of ways the Internet helps oppressive regimes stifle dissent."



"At TEDU 2009, Erik Hersman presents the remarkable story of Ushahidi, a GoogleMap mashup that allowed Kenyans to report and track violence via cell phone texts following the 2008 elections, and has evolved to continue saving lives in other countries."



"Physicist Lee Smolin talks about how the scientific community works: as he puts it, "we fight and argue as hard as we can," but everyone accepts that the next generation of scientists will decide who's right. And, he says, that's how democracy works, too."

Watch all at once:

YOUTUBE'S IN THE RED

"[YouTube's] increasing popularity in poor countries, where the hopes of recouping mounting costs with ad revenues are slim, exacerbates the problem."

privacy in the digital age?

this month's Adbusters is all about internet technology and how it's changing the way we live our lives...and such and so on... it's something like a compare/contrast format that address the "natural world."

you can read some of the articles online, but the design of the actual publication is pretty cool.

ALSO...

found this article on Yahoo! about some trouble caused by a photograph uploaded to the state department's flickr page.

the Obama's apparently posed for a photograph with daughters of the Spanish prime minster, which isn't allowed.

read the full scoop here. SPAIN > FLICKR

hope you're learning lots in class.

peace.

-t

Derrion Albert

DANCE WAR

Apparently there's the start of the first internet dance battle on youtube. I thought it was cool and related to us talking about video and video responses on youtube. Apparently the beginning of the story starts with 3 guys at Judson University making a goofy dance vid and some girls from Liberty University thought they would respong with their own rebuttal. The real gem of the videos though is the last and latest video from Judson where they got 80 guys from their freshman dorm to trump the girls' video. You can see it here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JPPO7h3q9Q0

Sophie is my Kitty

What makes Trecartin Whitney Worthy and Ear Pwr internet trash?

Thoughts?

Tweet your way to a better vocabulary...

Artwiculate is a twitter-based Word of the Day competition that helps clever people look clever and helps the rest of us learn new words.

According to the site: To play, just use today’s word in context in one of your tweets. That’s it. Your tweet will appear here where people can tell you if they like it. You’ll get points if they like it or retweet it.

Points mean kudos. Oh, and if you follow @artwiculate, we’ll tweet you with today’s word and store your profile here so you can see your vocabulary improve over time.

hope you find it interesting: jessika

THE END OF SOLITUDE

An interesting article from the Chronicle of Higher Education about the corrupting influence of today's communication technologies on our capacity for alone time. "If Lionel Trilling was right, if the property that grounded the self, in Romanticism, was sincerity, and in modernism it was authenticity, then in postmodernism it is visibility."
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"To see the internet only as a extension of the possibility of communication is an extreme oversimplification, seen from an Existential point of view the internet gives the possibility to be alone with other people." - Jens Haaning, 1999

From my personal library

Here is the AutoTune the News I was talking about:



Versatility of the Arts:



Some interesting gestures:

Oi! AM I the only one out here?

Hey folks,

I am considering changing the first project from a linear video project to a collaborative project where 2 students conduct a video call and response on you tube. What do you think?

SL

Foucault and Chomsky in 1971

Since we are reading Marx this week, it would be great for you to watch this dialogue between 2 contemporary philosophers. It's wonderful.

CHOMSKY VS FOUCAULT - 1971
Uploaded by unzip. -

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x32axv_chomsky-vs-foucault-1971_politics

Notes from class:

I've really enjoyed all the drawings you guys did for the worksheet. I think we should show them in class on Thursday.

Here are my notes from last class, maybe everyone can post theirs too? So we can keep track of the things we come up with.

Tanner could you post that link of the video responses between the autistic and mentally challenged girl and boy? I am dying to see that.

NOTES

Regarding Trecartin's videos: We agreed that the videos provoked anxiety in the viewer by their shrillness and sensory overload. 

We debated the difference between watching it on Ubu and on youtube. E.J. pointed out that he didn't think it strange that one part was missing from youtube since parts of things are always missing from youtube and these days one just accepts that some information goes missing. We agreed that ubu was more of a conventional cinematic viewing experience.

We talked about how I-Be-Area while the length of a feature film, it is shown in no particular order on youtube. ( let's think more about what this means for narrative).

We talked about copy paste culture. We discussed how the way the videos are created and shown is designed into the piece. How they are easily multipurposed to fit in many different media environments such as youtube, galleries, installations etc.

We talked about how the viewer has to find moments to latch onto in the videos because so much goes by so quickly and there is never any context established for the viewer. Someone described it as "non-linear trash".

I thought that any political critique of form was only incidental, not conscious.

After class I was thinking about Eisenstein, Warhol, and filmmaking as a sculptural practice. You could say Eisenstein employs an additive process as a filmmaker and Warhol uses subtractive methods of making a film.

Also, I want to reiterate that art is not meant to be entertainment. So it's not fair to expect an artist's work to appeal to your sense of what should be. The artist has the right to impose his or her vision. So if the film is 8 hours long, you must watch it to the end or you cannot say you have seen it.

Add your notes!

THE PROVIDENCE SCENE

Some art and music out of Providence RI that give some context for Trecartin's work--


Lightning Bolt, Black Dice, Whack Attack at Fort Thunder, 1997.


Design for the Paper Rad art collective DVD.

PERILS OF THE INTERNET

4 Awkward Moments in Facebook "Likes"

HIT THE BOOKS

Bruce, there are lots of resources out there to help make blogging painless, lucrative, even fun.

I recommend ProBlogger: Secrets for Blogging Your Way to a Six-Figure Income by Darren Rowse and Chris Garrett.

While I haven't, strictly speaking, "read" ProBlogger: Secrets for Blogging Your Way to a Six-Figure Income, Cathy Stucker AKA IdeaLady.com tells us "reading this book from cover to cover will give you a solid education in blogging."

i dunno how to blog

did it work? did i blog?

managing your online afterlife:

interesting article in TIME magazine about the digital legacy: your internet persona outliving your physical person. I'll bring the article in to class but here are some links in the meantime:

http://deathswitch.com/

http://legacylocker.com/



-karen

Oops Worksheet #1!

Worksheet #1 asks you to examine 2 videos. I forgot to write down that I mean

 the Trecartin videos and Bumfights. You can refer to other bum fight videos you find on the web but please describe as much as possible and provide a link.

 

Sorry bout that. 

Ryan Trecartin

part 3 is missing from YouTube and the video quality is awful.

watch the Ryan Trecartin videos on ubuweb.com.

-T

Helvetwitter

Hey guys,
Looking for a nicer way to view Twitter?
I thought this Helvetwitter app was pretty great. You install it on your Twitter and volia! Twitter is stripped down to it's basics and you can view everything in Helvetica!
I thought it was pretty neat - Jessika

Boring notes from class!

LOL Kute Kat pix. Here are some notes from class as I think folks said some very perceptive things and we should keep track of them as they could be the foundation of some grand new media theories!

Regarding the application of Laura Mulvey's ideas to Hitchcock's vertigo and to bumfights:

We agreed that both media are organized around the objectification of one human by another. That the controlling gaze works in almost the same way in each clip.

Where they differ:

Bumfights has an uncertain narrative structure versus Vertigo's cinematic narrative.

Bumfights invokes a safe experience of dangerous "real life" spontaneity, whereas Vertigo is acknowledged as fiction.

I know we said much more, what am I missing?

apparently 75% of the internet has to do with cats.

karen

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