Flatpack 3 2009

How do you document a moving image festival that happens in the dark with copyrighted material? It’s easy, when it’s an engaged and creative festival like Flatpack 2009 from 7 Inch Cinema. Assorted bloggers have been helping to fill the gaps in our memory: > http://www.flatpackfestival.org/blog/flatpack-collective-memory/ and souvenir photos are making their way online: > [...]

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ICA Feedback

James Harkin, the Director of Talks at the ICA, in London, and the man who has spearheaded the Feedback sessions there, has published a piece (I think it’s an excerpt actually) from/based on his new book, Cyburbia, called Our new home Cyburbia. In the article, he outlines the notion of cybernetic feedback as being intrinsic [...]

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Art criticism

Charlotte Frost is a media arts critic and PhD student (last I heard, she had just written up her PhD and was getting ready to defend it). She has been researching the way the arts are discussed and contextualised using contemporary technologies (mainly the Internet). She has worked with other writers on a number of [...]

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The Influence and Impact of Web 2.0

The Influence and Impact of Web 2.0 on e-Research Infrastructure, Applications and Users. The number of Web 2.0 services and applications, widely used by Internet users, academics, industry and enterprise, are growing rapidly, which demonstrates Web 2.0′s solid foundations. These technologies and services are based on the open standards that underpin the Internet and Web, [...]

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Updated Terms of Service from Facebook

Facebook have just recently updated their Terms of Service. Facebook are claiming ownership to your content, even after you have removed it from the site. In more detail,Amanda L. French, Ph.D. who writes about “Digital humanities, poetic form, 19th- and 20th-century British and Irish literature” on her blog, has neatly summed up some of the [...]

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Mamajules: Stitching Blog

Julia Negus is one of the directors of Theatre Absolute that she runs with Chris O’Connell Along with Chris o’Connell, Julia Negus is a director of Theatre Absolute, based in Coventry. She has also recently finished her degree in Surface Decoration (graduating in November 2008). Julia has been keeping a blog where she talks about [...]

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Convergence

Media Convergence, bringing together several strands of media that compliment one another and service the overall narrative or theme, offers an interesting way to model the idea of Ice Cubes as fulfilling some of the brand awareness aspects of the research brief. It has been used with several TV programs, for example Lost, which exists [...]

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A Fresh Start

When we think about using Web 2.0 technologies, we are faced with the challenge of trying to see something that is right before our eyes. A familiarity and comfort of engagement that stops us from seeing clearly. In trying to research these tools/toys, it seems we have to go back to first principles and start [...]

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