by Scott on January 27, 2008
Lecture/discussion with Lev Manovich, media artist/lecturer/theorist and co-author/creator of Soft Cinema and author of The Language of New Media, and Sean Cubitt, media theorist/historian and author of The Cinema Effect and Digital Aesthetics.
Remixing, Coding, Remapping, and Recombination of visual manifestations are revolutionizing the narrative form of film - new societal phenomena, like the VJ scene, generate immersive viewing spaces and new forms of moving image distribution. The domain of video, film, computer and net-based installations stands on the threshold of a material revolution: do they bring a new aesthetic? Revolutionary possibilities in camera and projection techniques offer increasingly faster development cycles that also allow for innovative image languages. New historical perspectives of the cinematic revue coalesce with innovative interpretations of our visual consumer culture and foretell future developments. What can be expected … what are the consequences?
Hi and Lo-fi Windows Media streams available
by Scott on January 27, 2008
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by Scott on January 16, 2008
The Pirate’s Dilemma looks quite awesome. Absolutely next up on the reading list.
The Pirate’s Dilemma tells the story of how youth culture drives innovation and is changing the way the world works. It offers understanding and insight for a time when piracy is just another business model, the remix is our most powerful marketing tool and anyone with a computer is capable of reaching more people than a multi-national corporation.
Complete with a handy slide presentation:
by Scott on January 14, 2008
Making Your Media Matter
February 7-8, 2008
American University, Washington, DC
Making Your Media Matter is a conference for established and aspiring filmmakers, non-profit communications leaders, funders and students looking to learn and share cutting-edge practices for creating media that matters.
by Scott on January 12, 2008
by Scott on December 10, 2007
The recent Facebook kerfluffle (1, 2, 3, 4, 5) over it’s “Beacon” technology, has brought new light to some interesting projects on data portability—
VRM: Vendor Relationship Management.
VRM, or Vendor Relationship Management, is the reciprocal of CRM or Customer Relationship Management. It provides customers with tools for engaging with vendors in ways that work for both parties.
CRM systems until now have borne the full burden of relating with customers. VRM will provide customers with the means to bear some of that weight, and to help make markets work for both vendors and customers — in ways that don’t require the former to “lock in” the latter.
Dataportabilty.org: Developing standards, protocols and formats for data portability.
Standardized Data Portability is the next great frontier for the web. As users, our identity, photos, videos and other forms of personal data should be discoverable by, and shared between our chosen tools or vendors.
AttentionTrust: Owning your data.
AttentionTrust is a not-for-profit organization that puts the user in control of their Attention data. Until now, only companies on the other side of our clicking captured the value.
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by Scott on June 27, 2007
, discusses his new book, A Whole New Mind: Why Right-Brainers Will Rule the Future.
