So far so good,

celcrabeels — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 13:09:49 +0200

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

Solid Knowledge

jaromil — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 13:43:22 +0200

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.
Notions are rapidly becoming universally available. Heuristic, maieutic and infrastructure functions provided by Academies are best satisﬁed by the global action of free software communities horizontally sharing methods, experiences, working implementations, on distributed and versioned R&D platforms.
As components can be combined and redistributed, copied and modiﬁed (GNU GPL) students learn a knowledge that is durable, free from “intellectual properties ” restricting their rights to produce and redistribute creations. This situation will provide an advantage for new generations, as it does for developing countries.

Biography
Jaromil¹ is a developer and media artist inspired by the GNU free software movement: he follows the ideal of creating FOSS for freedom of expression, to let people communicate, freed from consumerist speculations and the need for expensive hardware.
Related essays: J. Bosma on net-art² , A. Broeckmann on software art³ , N. Emmenegger on Virtual Borders and Migrant Cyber-Tactics⁴ , F. Cramer on Digital code and literary text⁵ .
Among open source software he created and maintains are: MuSE⁶ (for running a web radio), FreeJ⁷ (for vee-jay and real-time video manipulation), HasciiCam⁸ (ASCII video streaming) and dyne:bolic⁹ (eﬃcient live-CD widely employed for media production and broadcasting). These creations are redis-tributed by the Free Software Foundation¹⁰ and several other educational institutions worldwide.

Based in Amsterdam, Jaromil is currently active on FOSS R&D for the NIMK`,¹¹ , adjunct lecturer (year 2008/09) for the Media Design MA at PZwart / WDKA¹² in Rotterdam and the Digital Environment Design MA at NABA¹³ in Milano. Jaromil is a featured artist in CODeDOC II¹⁴ (Whitney Museum Artport), Read_Me 2.3¹⁵ (runme.org¹⁶ software art), negotiations 2003¹⁷ (Toronto CA), I LOVE YOU¹⁸ (MAK Frankfurt), Netarts¹⁹ (Machida Tokyo), Rhizome²⁰ , Data Browser 02²¹ (engineering culture), Crosstalks²² (Vrĳe Universiteit Brussel) and in several other publications²³

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Search?search=Jaromil
http://www.medienkunstnetz.de/themes/public_sphere_s/media_spaces/
http://runtimeart.mi2.hr/TextAndreasBroeckmann
http://www.republicart.net/art/concept/airerev_en.htm
http://cramer.plaintext.cc/essays/digital_code_and_literary_text/digital_code_and_literary_text.pdf
http://muse.dyne.org
http://freej.dyne.org
http://ascii.dyne.org
http://dynebolic.org
http://www.fsf.org/
http://www.nimk.nl
http://pzwart.wdka.hro.nl/mdma/staﬀ/
http://www.master-naba-d3d.net/
http://www.aec.at/en/festival/programm/codedoc.asp
http://www.m-cult.org/read_me
http://www.runme.org/feature/read/+forkbombsh/+47/
http://rhizome.org/discuss/view/8978
http://www.digitalcraft.org/iloveyou/
http://www.netarts.org/mcmogatk/2003/
http://rhizome.org/query.rhiz?words=jaromil&submit.x=0&submit.y=0
http://www.data-browser.net/02/
http://crosstalks.vub.ac.be/
http://books.google.com/books?q=jaromil+dyne

taxi to praxi

So far so good,

Solid Knowledge