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PUBlicIMAGenING
Submitted by zB on Mon, 12/15/2008 - 09:24project PUBlicIMAGenING deals with re-factoring of surveillance video systems from its current surveillance and anti/counter critique to an observation and commons oriented setup. Research is set out to articulate and investigate processes of (hegemonic) image acquisition done through video surveillance (through it's technical design, aesthetics and economic/power relations). It is set to do so in order to meet the urgent need for setup of systemic observation installations in public spaces (with openly accessible images), benefiting general public (empowering activists, academics, urbanists, researchers, designers, artists, performers and all sorts of enthusiasts of urban living discoveries...)
The project will aim to establish a discourse of a proactive engagement also through designing a prototype media system for the collective production of observation images of public space (over a long time periods), producing visual material that would support different perception modes (focused on subtle environmental changes).
Promoting and engaging with this discourse in public space (with posters and installations) and in an academic environment (publications, events).
Production aspects of the project (dependant on external support) are set to experiment with slow-cam setups and development of a website that would document/support project development and tools as CompilingMovies as integrated visual media.
work(shop) of Michelle Teran
Submitted by zB on Tue, 05/19/2009 - 13:09In past months I have been researching work of artist Michelle Teran, that resulted in an extensive interview on her work, methods and positions when working with social and media networks within urban environments
(http://MichelleTeran.interview.pr0be.info/)
Michelle Teran will conduct 2 day WORKSHOP as a part of Imaginary Property event City Lab starting on Thursday 21st at noon in Annex (workspace of Jan van Eyck Academie) and concluding it with public action on evening of Friday 22nd (could be as late as 23:59 ;-)
It will include technical tutorial, discussion, city research, experiments with different media technologies and setups, mapping walks and maybe something else...
WALLED GARDEN: WORKSHOP with ARDUINO & Social Theory
Submitted by zB on Thu, 11/20/2008 - 11:36 WALLED GARDEN
communities & networks post web2.0 - conference...transformed from usual VirtualPlatform.nl conference formats into a series of Workshops and Presentations...
With my late application, I was directed to workshop flwr pwr: Tending the Walled Garden, mentored by Matt Ratto (Scandinavian in Canada) - without knowing what it is about.
20081119 session#03
Submitted by zB on Wed, 11/19/2008 - 10:14oups...me running late... seems that morning is/will be dedicated to Pad.ma which was partialy presented last night (video should be available soon) at the public event at OKNO...this time presentation is more of a discussion on exames from practice/life/media...pad.ma licence (free-software-licence with tech spin on Low-Res)...
20081118 session#02
Submitted by zB on Tue, 11/18/2008 - 15:12...continuing a bit slower (practical work brings tech issues) in using utilities like ffmpeg2theora, ffmpeg, dvgrab... using HD source material, linux pipes...also discussing different container options (ogg for web video and matroska for Blue-Ray and DVD ripping due to a number of features it became popular in Anime community). Somewhat less dynamic ;)
20081118 sesion#01
Submitted by zB on Tue, 11/18/2008 - 11:02Host institution is wonderfull flamish cultural center PianoFabrique...
With (very) short delay and (very) few participants missing workshop started off with quite serious and detailed overview of licensing policies, economic relations, technological limitations and much more from the digital video world (from perspective of open source developer/producer/user)... as (somewhat) expected Jan Gerber of (0xdb and pad.ma fame) is showing some of the amazing examples of what future version of web browsers (primarily Firefox and Opera) with support natively video+svg+JavaScript ...this will enable us to do/see - AMAZING NEW WEB of VIDEOS and not just web pages ...while avoiding embedded propertary technologies/content (flash & other plugins)!
Presentation of http://MetaVid.org/ was also impressive demo of what can be done using semantic wiki data JavaScript applets and SMILE (the fact that SMILE is back in big style - brings SMILE back to my face ;-)
Open Source Video Workshop @ ConstantVZW.org
Submitted by zB on Tue, 11/18/2008 - 10:47Open Source Video is a project of Constant, a Brussels based organisation for Arts and Media. 17-23.11.2008 for the second time international workshop is organized to mediate know-how transfer in this field both between int. software/service developers/maintainers/educators and (primarily local) content producers/users.
IMP researchers Lilia Perez and Željko Blaće joining this workshop and will be on/off blogging/reporting...
precarious ways...
Submitted by zB on Thu, 10/16/2008 - 12:21precarious ways and unstable media seem to go hand in hand with each other... personalities of the scene often directly reflect or illustrate this lack of consistency.
keeping track of first steps...
Submitted by zB on Mon, 09/29/2008 - 10:44It has been almost a full month since I officially became a junior researcher of design department at www.JANvanEYCK.nl Academie in Maastricht - The Netherlands. Together with 3 other researchers (Eleonora, Lilia & Kim) and advising researcher Florian Schneider (?link) - forming a group around the topic of Imaginary Property (IMP for short, though at JvE we are regarded as "imaginary designers").
before impressions fade away...
Submitted by zB on Mon, 09/29/2008 - 10:39just some personal notes on preJvE WORK!
