Taxi-to-Praxi notes: summarizing the morning session
Armin Medosch: Collecting good points of practice
- Facilitating shared, open and free platforms
- How much work and/or investments are required?
- What drives people to participate?
- Drupal: every item of information a node
Jaromil: Proposal for ‘solid knowledge’
- Co-operation among people active in education
- Try to compile an ontology of possible knowledge paths
- What makes knowledge solid? 4 points for educational institutions;
- Notions (actual items of knowledge) – these are increasingly getting available for all
- Maieutical (Socrates, making ideas having birth in students) – still there?
- Heuristics (the choices where to look, the direction of discovery) – how are these changing? For good, for bad? What to do about it?
- Infrastructure – unevenly distributed
What is meant by solid knowledge? “Producing something that will be useful in 20 years”; something that has durability and is not based on short-term profit and/or exclusivity.
Questions of heuristics and infrastructure: How do I choose programming language – and why do I choose it? Why are certain languages neglected and others taken up?
Lindsay Brown: How does one find categories of knowledge to illustrate and generate methodology?
- Compiling other artists’ work as examples to be inspired by…
- …then incorporating this inspiration into actual experiments
- Thenextlayer.org as a means for this categorization;
- Heterogeneous types of data (images, film, text etc.)
- Enabling participation with multiple users
- Ideal for re-edits and amendments
so far so good...
cel crabeels
Its been a very interesting day, maybe a little bit to 'techie' for me, but on the other hand very worth while due to the diversity of viewpoints in the individual presentations and talks. The Next Layer, so it seems to me, is a fantastic tool for a lot of things, social networking, exchange, artistic collaboration, dissemination of knowledge, politics, archiving and documenting... I subscribe to Lidsay’s conclusion in her recent post ‘Danger: Lest Taxi to Praxi be Forgotten’ The major theme is one of ownership and dissemination of knowledge. My thesis proposal to incorporate other participants (artists, writers, academics...) within a theme of Documentary research is set up as a collaborative research effort. The use of tools and technologies that incorporate multiple contributors/collaborators will inevitably question the notion of authorship and intellectual property. The use of a platform like thenextlayer seems demanding to me. Users/contributors need to have a clear social and artistic engagement towards the content of a project, its not just about developing a new tool. They have to poses a certain amount of media literacy skills and they have to make it 'work'. The biggest challenge in setting up a platform is to get people involved and participating. I will put it to the test and try to find out if I’m able to do so and make it work as an integrated part of my research and artwork.
Meanwhile I'm communicating my findings out of this workshop with the university of Leuven. The first issue will be how to embed a collaborative open source culture into to my PhD research and into the broader university context.
Some other things on my mind, documentary strategies as methodology? can intuition be a methodolgy ?
So far so good, Cel.
My presentation was somewhat incoherent, those who are interested can have a look at my Dan Graham docuvideo. It’s available on youtube, its only suitable for preview due to poor quality.
part 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pfFQl_tCfE0
part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bb3P5EP7Trg
part 3: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XUnkLy71xnU
part 4: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=63IuDSM176w
part 5: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MStY7sSrql4
some more linking:
http://www.khib.no/khib/ku_fou/konferanser_seminarer/sensuous_knowledge
http://astide.wikidot.com/
http://www.aecinfo.org/
http://www.herts.ac.uk/artdes1/research/res2prac/confhome.html The conference will examine how instrumental is this difference in the production and consumption of research in a wide range of subjects including fine arts, design, performing arts, architecture, etc.
http://www.mahku.nl MaHKU Utrecht Graduate School of Visual Art and Design: Research Department, Ma Design, Ma Fine Art
http://www.cascoprojects.org Casco, Office for Art, Design and Theory
http://www.expodium.nl Expodium, Platform for young art
http://www.scienceguide.nl/article.asp?articleid=105056