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Intellectual Craftsmanship - John Barker about C.W.Mills and methodology

Author/s: 
John Barker

John Barker is both a novelist and an author of non-fiction essays about political, social and cultural issues. Barker's essays, published in magazines such as Variant or Mute Magazine, bristle with historic depth and accuracy of information, woven into critical narrations written in a dense prose. This evident richness of background research is maybe a result of Barker being inspired by the research methodology of a great of the 20th century, C.W.Mills. In this guest contribution, written specifically for thenextlayer.org and the taxi-to-praxi workshop, John Barker introduces us to Mills' concept of intellectual craftsmanship.

Methodocity

Publication Type  Journal Article
Citation Key  Ref
Year of Publication  2008
Authors  Slager, H.
Journal Title  Lier en Boog, Artistic Research
Pages  12-31(20)
Publisher  Rodopi
ISSN Number  0925-8191
Key Words  art; research; methodology

Babylon by Bus - Jaromil, the lyrical programmer activist

Jaromil Naufrago

Denis 'Jaromil' Roio is the main author of the GNU/Linux Live CD Dyne:bolic as well as of a number of audiovisual tools. He is also an artist who has been part of international exhibitions such as CODeDOC II by the Whitney Museum Artport and speaker on conferences such as Ars Electronica. Inspired by Richard Stallman's "free as in free speech" approach as well as liberatory politics, Jaromil seeks to transgress borders between art and code, social activism and research and development. This text is an introduction and overview about Jaromil's life and ideas, based on an interview conducted in June 2006 in Amsterdam. At the taxi-to-praxi research workshop on 21st of April he talked about Solid Knowledge.

The Culture of Open Sources

The Culture of Open Sources is a study of the creative methodologies of Free and Open Source Software developers who either write code for creative applications or support artistic and social goals as sysadmins. This research is based on qualitative research with about 20 developers so far with whom long biographic and interviews have been conducted.

Solid Knowledge

Author/s: 
jaromil

Solid Knowledge
As privatisation of educational structures progresses, the Academy assumes corporate and business mind-set, while we assist to a shift of the educational mission in society from inclusive to exclusive. The influential play of industries has permeated most academical disciplines, in particular regarding the adoption of technologies. The choice of educators has become biased by logics of short term profit, rather than Solid Knowledge.

Almost Documentary: Celcrabeels' introduction to taxi-to-praxi

Author/s: 
celcrabeels

Dear all, I have thought about the questions put to us by Taxi to Praxi. I will elaborate a bit.

How do you define practice-led artistic research?

One has to look at the context, the Bologna Process aims to create a European Higher Education Area by 2010. Due to this process the Belgian Academy’s and University’s recently are merging into one structure. This evolution has created a need for 'PhD candidate researchers in Fine Art ' in the Belgian. academic world.

Apropos Open Source Methodologies

When we first started to circulate the call for taxi-to-praxi some of the reactions which I got in private email were of the kind "open source methodology, what's that supposed to be?" - "there is no such things", " etc. Since that moment I thought aha, we are on to something and I should write something about it. This is now not the all conclusive article, but a forum posting, improvised and unfinished.

It would be easy now to come up with references to the so called "hacker ethics". you can get the basic idea from this wikipedia entry http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hacker_ethic

The Next Layer as a Medium for Practice-led Research

Author/s: 
Armin Medosch
hadzi
Lindsay

Taxi to Praxi
This text expands on some of the topics mentioned in the original call for participation for the taxi-to-praxi workshop. It explains some of the motivations and the general ideas behind the research day but is by now way a complete summary of all the topics we would like to address. Currently to this text have contributed Lindsay Brown, Adnan Hadzi and Armin Medosch. If you feel that you would like to add something, please feel free to rewrite this text or create a new one. To create a new revision, do the following: Once you are in the edit section with this article open, apply your changes and then go to the bottom and click "create new revision". You can also use the text field "Log Message" to explain your revisions.

Firth of Forth looking over to Burntisland

An ambiguous photo of the Forth looking over to Burntisland on the Fife coast. Somewhere under this area of water lies the ill-fated HMS Saucy.

Firth of Forth looking over to Burntisland
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