Content tagged with theory
[Tom Moody] More 8 BIT: Q and A with Paddy Johnson
interview between paddy johnson (art fag city) and internet art personality, critic and artist tom moody about the movie 8-bit. -sd
More on the movie 8 BIT, opening this weekend at MOMA. The interview below is cobbled together from email questions Paddy Johnson sent
Submitted by seandockray on 4 October 2006 - 2:16am.
[purse lip square jaw] On mess and method and designing for debate
a little long and confessional, but some interesting thoughts along the way about the why of object-making. also, see the latour link at the very beginning (there are so many fascinating essays on latour's website). -sd
I've read Latour's awesome Socratic explanation of ANT many times, but today Jean focussed on something that I still need to get a better handle on in my writing:
Professor — I would leave aside all ‘underlying frameworks’, if I were you.
Submitted by seandockray on 3 October 2006 - 4:07am.
[Redefining Craft] New Media & Eric Clausen, Bay Area Blacksmith
Linked below is a pleasant, yet nostalgic, article and slideshow that features Oakland, CA based craftsperson Eric Clausen, who is producing exceptional work in the decorative/functional (and traditional) genre of blacksmithing.
Surprisingly, what strikes me about this piece is not at all what one would initially anticipate from a guy like me that regularly writes about craft issues (but maybe not so out of the ordinary for a self-proclaimed provocateur). After viewing the slideshow that is associated with this article, I am compelled to comment.
Submitted by seandockray on 30 September 2006 - 1:07pm.
[DIY Media] DIY and new ways to play
The discussion surrounding DIY seminar talks by Mimi Ito and Howard Rheingold last week raised some compelling questions about how to imagine a non-dichotomized architecture for media creation and circulation (as Julian Bleeker put it in his comments below). DIY is not simply an obscure hobby of media activists and enthusiast, or a phenomenon that exists exclusively in opposition to mainstream production practices. DIY, we seem to agree, is an ethos that is increasingly seeping into the mainstream. And as John Seely Brown pointed out, assumptions about leisure and entertainment might be in the process of shifting by virtue of new production practices associated with DIY.
Submitted by seandockray on 19 September 2006 - 5:26pm.
[DIY Media] Mizuko Ito on amateur cultural production in the new networked age
Mimi Ito’s talk is entitled "Amateur Cultural Production in the New Networked Age." She is a cultural anthropologist who studies new media use, particularly among young people in Japan and the US. She is currently co-leading a multi-year project on Digital Kids and Informal Learning, with support from the MacArthur Foundation. As part of this project she is conducting case studies of anime fandoms in Japan and the English-speaking online world. She is a Senior Fellow at the Annenberg Center for Communication.
Submitted by seandockray on 16 September 2006 - 12:19am.