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Rendezvous: A Collaboration Between Art, Research and Communities
Through the evolution of digital technology, social networks and Internet, cultural memory has been transformed, both in relation to how memories are represented, and how they may be engaged with or re-experienced. Exploring these transformations, this paper will introduce Rendezvous, a practice-based research project developed in collaboration with communities of individuals aged over 65 – communities for whom reminiscence has become central; here, achieved through art as a social practice in contributing to their quality of life. I will consider how digitally materialised micro-narratives in media art practice transition between one medium to another and locate within the field of cultural memory. This will question how the narrated self is materialised and mediated as a renewed experience in digital media art practice. I will also ask how digital media art can be a transitional location experience for collective remembering and, ultimately, how digital media art can intervene in the changing practice of memory.
Elisabeth Nesheim - 27.08.2012 - 13:59
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Of People Not Machines: Authorship, Copyright and the Computer Programmer
Authorship of computer programs merits close attention, on one level, because it illustrates what is one of my more general observations about the relationship between ideas of authorship in law and the "digital arts": its complexity. The sphere of "digital arts" is characterised by a multiplicity of creative practices and consequently a diversity of ideas about “authorship”, which resist simplistic conclusions as to what the challenge of the digital should mean for law. At the same time, the status of computer programmers as authors draws attention to what for modern lawyers is likely to be an unexpected and counter-intuitive observation about certain aspects of the relation between digital art and law: far from always a source of challenge, the discourses of authorship in the "digital arts" can also provide the law with assistance. Indeed, as we will see, in humanising technology and exalting the computer programmer as a creative poet, certain discourses of digital art can in fact provide coherence and legitimacy to legal concepts of authorship, rather than challenging them.
Elisabeth Nesheim - 27.08.2012 - 14:08
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Spatial Remediations
This paper "Spatial Remediations: Navigating the social constructs of the interactive documentary image in Inside/Outside, The Unknown Territories Project, and Estuary" introduces three original works that use features of interactive documentary arts to explore social constructions of places and their attending narratives. The three interactive projects that are introduced are Inside/Outside, The Unknown Territories Project, and Estuary. The paper asks how tools of layering, compositing and navigation through documentary imagery in photography and film contribute to an understanding of the connection between social relationships and a sense of space.
Elisabeth Nesheim - 27.08.2012 - 14:54
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The New Gamified Social
How many friends do you have? How many followers? How many people have liked your recent post or video? How many shares or how many re-tweets did that post have? And then ultimately what is the total score? How influential are you?
These are questions that might not be openly asked but are always on social media users’ minds. Constantly looking after their “scores” and checking on the popularity of others’, users today clearly show that in the social networking world numbers matter. Numbers reveal how sociable users are, how popular their sayings are, how interesting their everyday life appears to be. High scores depend on the content, or rather the virtuosity of the user behind the content; on the way moments, actions and thoughts are captured, expressed and uploaded, in proper timing with a readiness for timely interaction.
Elisabeth Nesheim - 27.08.2012 - 15:07
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Where is E-Lit in Rulinet?
Almost two decades of Russian literary Internet (Rulinet) evoke observations about the directions it is taking and the communities shaping it. Runet (Russian language Internet) started as a literary phenomenon in the early 1990’s (Gorny 2007) with Dmitry Manin’s Bout Rimes and Roman Leibov’s ROMAN (Novel), Zhurnal.ru, Moshkov Library. The initial reason for this was technical – a low bandwidth internet meant it was necessary to engage audiences through textual means. A secondary reason was the emergence of Runet at a particular point in Russian history (according to different sources, simultaneously, or following, the collapse of the USSR) and in a particular Russian cultural context of literaturecentrism.
(Source: Author's introduction)
Elisabeth Nesheim - 27.08.2012 - 15:11
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Re-reading the Digital: An Inquiry Through Practice
Digital reading is not the same as reading a book, for several reasons. The main focus of this short piece brings together two of them: varying and implicit but usually hidden technological relationship/s; and a new and more complex construction of the reading Subject/ivity.
Elisabeth Nesheim - 27.08.2012 - 15:14
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Authorial Scholarship 2.0: Tracing the Creative Process in Online Communities
The age of letter writing is coming to an end, just as an era of e-mail, blogs, online groups, and social networks is emerging as a new mode of communication. The work of scholars interested in what writers have to say about their work has simultaneously become easier and more challenging, depending upon the technologies used by these writers. How do we conduct authorial scholarship in an age of digital media? This paper address this question through a case study: Flores' own research on Jim Andrews and his work, focusing on the challenges and affordances offered by the current media ecology.
Elisabeth Nesheim - 27.08.2012 - 15:18
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Players Only Love You When They’re Playin': Community as Algorithm in Programmable Poetics
Players Only Love You When They’re Playin': Community as Algorithm in Programmable Poetics
Elisabeth Nesheim - 27.08.2012 - 15:27
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Out of Place: Digital In-Grouping
Since the maturation of the mobile network and a pervasive immersion into social media, the concept of community has been irrevocably dislocated from traditional geographical interactions. Establishing what adequately characterises born or predominately digital groupings is being investigated and discussed in academic, public and civic arenas. Both the positive and negative positions have been voiced. Our "always on, always-connected" status (Antonelli 2008) has created a close and some would argue dependent psychological relationship with our technologies (Charles 2011). If we consider that these technologies have significantly changed our practical reality, a reality where human experience and technical artifact have, for many, become inseparable, and that we now live within a "life mix" (Turkle 2012) or pressured "cycle of responsiveness" (Perlow 2008) then traditional concepts of how community is enacted using (deleterious or not) technologies merits review.
Elisabeth Nesheim - 27.08.2012 - 15:31
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Stringing Disturbances in Poetic Array Spaces: Reading by Close Reading
Stringing Disturbances in Poetic Array Spaces: Reading by Close Reading
Elisabeth Nesheim - 27.08.2012 - 15:34
