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BigBrother as Morality Play?
Leaving aside for a moment the utterly barren and bimboesque human landscape that is this year’s Australian series of Big Brother, those of us in cultural and media studies will be more than familiar with the arguments for and against viewing reality TV shows like Big Brother as spaces for the exploration of everyday ethics…
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60 second story
The 60 Second Story Competition is an excellent idea, especially in encouraging people to use the video recording capabilities of mobile phones. Reminds me of my MMS haiku idea (3 images, 3 captions with correct no. of syllables and all – voila!) Anyway…. We need more stories in our lives, yet we don’t have much…
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CFP: M/C “Scan”
‘scan’: an upcoming issue of M/C Journal of Media and Culture The scan is both the quick glance and the measured study, it is a survey of the exterior and an interrogation of hidden interiors. Practices of scanning are a response to the increased number of things to consider and the reduced amount of time…
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Archaelogy of the Voice
Ever since MIT4 last week, I’ve been exploring a recent epiphany to do with the sonic characteristics, and not only the visual ‘construction’ of digital stories In this article from 1997, performance theorist and archaeologist Mike Pearson reflects on some of the issues raised by the Centre for Performance Research, Aberystwyth’s (then) recent conference on…
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distractions
I’ve been quiet because we have all been derailed by this for the last two days. Thankfully, I get to leave that headspace this afternoon when I get to help a handful of Creative Writing students begin the process of constructing their digital stories out of an assemblage of voices, images, and lived experiences.
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Out and about in Boston
I have copious session notes to blog from the conference, but I can’t cope with rewriting them right now (Axel, you are the master of conference blogging – I will have to just sit at your feet and learn). Plus, this is not really a laptops-out-during-sessions type crowd, and having an iBook makes you look…
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Leavin’ on a jetplane (again)
I’m off to the States for MIT4 tomorrow, but I’ll be back next Tuesday – I think I’m spending more time in airports and planes than on the ground, but it will be worth it. I’m gonna try a bit of live blogging from the conference, since there is apparently good wireless coverage.
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A New Pluralism: Photography’s Future (Conference announcement)
This looks pretty interesting: Society for Photographic Education 43nd National Conference A New Pluralism: Photography’s Future March 23-26, 2006 in Chicago, Illinois For fifty years we have been living in a world inundated and defined by photographic imagery while photography has been taught in relative isolation in academia. SPE members recognize the necessity to address…
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stupid internet explorer
So apparently, this template is all wonky in Explorer on Windows, with text disappearing into the margins etc, even though it looks fine in every other f***king browser. I only discovered this when viewing it from a PC on campus. So, dear readers, can you leave a comment if it looks wrong from where you…
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hopefulness
I hope one day I get Anne as a panel chair/moderator, because in her role as moderator of the final session at Floating Points 2 (on networked art in public spaces) she’s going to ask the panel members this most wonderful question: Isabelle Stengers has described the creative enterprise as an “adventure of hope” –…