Archive for the ‘media’ Category

How The net is documenting a watershed Moment

Monday, December 1st, 2008

Just who is collecting what is of great concern to Mr. Macdonald of the Museum of the City of New York. From mayoral papers to fliers of the missing, the artifacts from this event will be of potential interest to historians, he said, and ”it would be unfortunate if museums, libraries and archives viewed this as a competition.”

Leonie Oortgijsen

Manifesto from the unstable Media

Wednesday, November 19th, 2008
WE STRIVE FOR CONSTANT CHANGE; FOR MOBILITY.

WE MAKE USE OF THE UNSTABLE MEDIA, THAT IS, ALL MEDIA WHICH MAKE USE OF ELECTRONIC WAVES AND FREQUENCIES, SUCH AS ENGINES, SOUND, LIGHT, VIDEO, COMPUTERS, AND S0 ON. INSTABILITY IS INHERENT TO THESE MEDIA.
QUANTUM MECHANICS HAS PROVED, AMONG OTHER THINGS, THAT THE SMALLEST ELEMENTARY PARTICLES, SUCH AS ELECTRONS, EXIST IN EVER-CHANGING FORMS. THEY HAVE NO STABLE FORM, BUT ARE CHARACTERIZED BY DYNAMIC MOBILITY. THIS UNSTABLE, MOBILE FORM OF THE ELECTRON IS THE BASIS OF THE UNSTABLE MEDIA.
THE UNSTABLE MEDIA ARE THE MEDIA OF OUR TIME. THEY ARE THE SHOWPIECES IN OUR MODERN HOMES. WE PROMOTE THEIR COMPREHENSIVE USE, INSTEAD OF THE OFTEN PRACTICED MISUSE OF THESE MEDIA.
WE LOVE INSTABILITY AND CHAOS, BECAUSE THEY STAND FOR PROGRESS. WE DO NOT SEE CHAOS AS SURVIVAL OF THE FITTEST, BUT AS AN ORDER WHICH IS COMPOSED OF COUNTLESS FRAGMENTARY ORDERS, WHICH DIFFER AMONG THEMSELVES AND WITHIN WHICH THE PREVAILING STATUS QUO IS ONLY A SHORT ORIENTATION POINT.
THE UNSTABLE MEDIA MOVE WITHIN THE CONCEPTS OF “MOVEMENT-TIME-SPACE”, WHICH IMPLIES THE POSSIBILITY OF COMBINING MORE FORMS AND CONTENTS WITHIN ONE PIECE OF WORK. THE UNSTABLE MEDIA REFLECT OUR PLURIFORM WORLD.
UNSTABLE MEDIA ARE CHARACTERIZED BY DYNAMIC MOTION AND CHANGEABILITY, THIS IN CONTRAST WITH THE WORLD OF ART WHICH REACHES US THROUGH THE PUBLICITY MEDIA. THIS HAS COME TO A STANDSTILL AND HAS BECOME A BUDGET FOR COLLECTORS, OFFICIALS, HISTORIANS AND CRITICS.

ART____MUST____BE____DESTRUCTIVE____AND____CONSTRUCTIVE.

posted by Konstantina Roussou on Wed 19 November ‘08

Web 2.0: an introduction

Thursday, October 30th, 2008

yeh, it was me, janne, did not know what to write about it. just thought it had it all.

next week – web 2.0?

Wednesday, October 29th, 2008

http://www.deviantart.com/ : olivier

http://www.instructables.com/ : jannemarein

http://www.mediamatic.net/ : kristina (petrasova)

http://flickr.com/ : maartje

http://youporn.com/ : paula

http://www.last.fm/ : marlon

http://facebook.com/ : daphne

http://www.artreview.com/ : dina

http://marktplaats.nl/ : claudia

http://citeulike.org/ : leonie

http://themepark.nl/ (is this correct?) : dennis

http://newyork.craigslist.org/ : maaike

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photographic/media archiving

Thursday, September 25th, 2008

[in relation to conversations during the break]

“Photography is memory, the trace of an original. In a postmodern age,…the past has become a collection of photographic, filmic or televisual images. We, like the replicants [in the movie Blade Runner], are put in the position of reclaiming a history by means of its reproduction.”

“Ramble City: Postmodernism and Blade Runner” Giuliana Bruno (1987)
http://www.mat.ucsb.edu/~g.legrady/glWeb/Projects/slippery/Slippery.html


from an interview with George Legrady:
Geert Lovink: How did you come up with the idea of putting your collection of Cold War items on a CD-rom?

George Legrady: I didn’t want to carry all the material in my head anymore. All these objects, film footage, images, stories needed to be contextualized and brought together into a concrete form so that they could exist on their own and be made accessible to a viewing audience.
http://www.mediamatic.nl/magazine/8_2/Lovink-Legrady.html

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Tuesday, September 9th, 2008

mort en direct
nothing to do with collecting?
the ‘completion’ of a collection has been compared with the death of the subject (who collects)

La Mort en direct is film directed by Bertrand Tavernier – 1980
sciencefiction movie about media representation of death

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THE ORDER OF THINGS; An Archaeology of the Human Sciences

A ‘system of elements’ - a definition of the segments by which the resemblances and differences can be shown, the types of variation by which those segments can be affected, and, lastly, the threshold above which there is a difference and below which there is a similitude - is indispensable for the establishment of even the simplest form of order. Order is, at one and the same time, that which is given in things as their inner law, the hidden network that determines the way they confront one another, and also that which has no existence except in the grid created by a glance, an examination, a language; and it is only in the blank spaces of this grid that order manifests itself in depth as though already there, waiting in silence for the moment of its expression. -MICHEL FOUCAULT