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One of my most vivid grade school memories is the sound the meatloaf made when it landed on the plates in the hot lunch line. Ick. Needless to say, my experiences with school lunches were not participatory. (Unless you count finding ways make the nuns think that you had eaten your food, which I don’t). […]  A large part of this weeks readings and viewings were focused on tactical communication using art. Art is by it’s very nature the best possible example of participatory media particularly in that it stems from the human need to communicate and connect. I am certain we could have a decent discussion regarding whether or not […] “They are working and inventing because they like it! Economics has become a spiritual thing. I must admit it frightens me a bit; they don’t seem to see the difference between working, and not working. It’s all become a part of one’s life.”
The above quote, taken from David Byrne’s 1986 mockumentary art opus […] When I tour people around the Portland Japanese Garden, I always love to point out the paradox of the sand-and-stone garden, that Japanese garden of empty spaces and abstract composition that people somewhat precipitously think of as the Zen garden (A garden is only properly called Zen when there’s a Zen Buddhist monastery around). […] I was just browsing NPR news and came across this link I wanted to share: http://www.npr.org/2013/10/21/236383017/air-the-storycorps-theme-cue-the-tears I had never heard of StoryCorps, or listened to any of their stories, so I just listened to a few of them and they are great! StoryCorps is an oral history project where two people get together and interview […] It was great video conferencing with the teams this week and talking about how the term projects are developing. If teams want to, please post your sites for any preliminary feedback before we meet again on November 2. Crowd-sourcing feedback in a safe place is only going to give you momentum and inspiration. It is […] Although I was intrigued by several concepts in the assigned reading, the only one I found relevant to the videos was Lewis Hyde’s dichotomy of value and worth. In his book The Gift, he explains that we use the former describes commodities and latter describes gifts (although I think he’s cutting corners with this […] I would suggest that we are now beginning to venture beyond our comfort zones, and begin to see new emerging participatory media models from completely different perspectives that are outside our own western frames of reference. The questions and critiques coming up around both these organizational sites (…as aggregators, archives, people’s histories, video evidence) are […] One interesting conversation that will never take place is one between novelist H.G. Wells and someone like human rights advocate Kelly Matheson of WITNESS (c. early 21st century). In the book “Digital Culture,” Wells was quoted as pre-figuring the Internet (although his limited 20th century horizon was focused only on the then-emerging medium of photography) […] Social change. Influence. Making a difference. These are the themes that, in my mind, bind all our Week 1 readings and viewings together. Storytelling that affects change. One of the main purposes of Scribe’s Community Visions project and Precious Places videos is to give voice to people and communities that have not had a voice […] |
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