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Australian Creative Resources Archives
Australian Creative Resources Archives – Proposal for the pilot phase: The Australian Creative Resources Archives (ACRA) is a pilot project which will build into a nationally distributed, standardised, high-bandwidth digital archive that makes ‘waste’ materials from Australian cultural production processes available to researchers, the education sector more generally, and to commercial content developers. This waste […]
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headmap: world-aware technologies
I can’t believe I haven’t noticed headmap on my travels before. They do cool things there. Manifesto/blurb: headmap: the space, the social network, thinking tools and the network interface in the same field of view. The boundaries between what is interior and what is exterior intersecting tangibly in front of your eyes. …there are notes […]
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Urban Rebranding: Creative Cities for the Creative Class
In Junk for Code, Gary Sauer-Thompson reflects on the Weekend Australian’s latest article in its Australian cities series, in which Adelaide is characterised as the “thinking person’s city”: a city of ideas, education (the grandmother of all sandstone universities is there), but more importantly of cosmopolitanism. As a Brisbane native, not only can I only […]
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plug: adhocarts.org
adhocarts.org- Mission: “Adhocarts.org was inspired by the need to create support and opportunity for independent artists, culture producers and creative workers across disciplines. […] Adhocarts.org works to promote the design of alternative culture that counters mainstream modes of living and concepts manufactured and promoted by large corporate entities and governments. Adhocarts.org accomplishes this by exploring […]
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Open content and value creation
First Monday has an article by Magnus Cedergren that is related to the stuff about sonic proliferation I have been writing about lately. The abstract of his paper Open content and value creation says: “The borderline between production and consumption of media content is not so clear as it used to be. For example on […]
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New Media Ethnography
US new media researchers might like a one day jaunt to Miami for the (ahem, US) National Communication Association’s “Ethnography and Computer-Mediated Communication: Studying Cyberculture” pre-conference. Miami Beach, FL, Wednesday, November 19th, 2003.