Douglas Engelbart (1925-2013), whose vision of collaboration using computer technology to help solve the urgent and complex problems of all of humanity, died on July 2, 2013. His comrades believed that his ideas were never fully realized due to his ideas and generosity of spirit. For example, he resisted patenting the "mouse" he'd invented and it eventually fell into the public domain. The robotic rigidity of institutions is also to blame -- most powerful technology companies in American relegated him to R&D. Ted Nelson, professor and inventor of the first hypertext project, delivered Engelbart's eulogy on December 9, 2013. In his tearful delivery, he said the "...real ashes to be mourned are the ashes of Doug’s great dreams and vision, that we dance around in the costume party of fonts that swept aside his ideas of structure and collaboration...Perhaps his notion of accelerating collaboration and cooperation was a pipe dream in this dirty world of organizational politics, jockeying and backstabbing and euphemizing evil." Engelbart articulated his ideas for collaboration publicly in what is known as The Mother of all Demos delivered on December 9, 1968, nearly half a century ago. Some of what he described is still in the process of being realized in commercial forms such as Skype, Google Docs, and more.
Tuesday, September 15, 2015
One of the Greatest Men of All Time
Douglas Engelbart (1925-2013), whose vision of collaboration using computer technology to help solve the urgent and complex problems of all of humanity, died on July 2, 2013. His comrades believed that his ideas were never fully realized due to his ideas and generosity of spirit. For example, he resisted patenting the "mouse" he'd invented and it eventually fell into the public domain. The robotic rigidity of institutions is also to blame -- most powerful technology companies in American relegated him to R&D. Ted Nelson, professor and inventor of the first hypertext project, delivered Engelbart's eulogy on December 9, 2013. In his tearful delivery, he said the "...real ashes to be mourned are the ashes of Doug’s great dreams and vision, that we dance around in the costume party of fonts that swept aside his ideas of structure and collaboration...Perhaps his notion of accelerating collaboration and cooperation was a pipe dream in this dirty world of organizational politics, jockeying and backstabbing and euphemizing evil." Engelbart articulated his ideas for collaboration publicly in what is known as The Mother of all Demos delivered on December 9, 1968, nearly half a century ago. Some of what he described is still in the process of being realized in commercial forms such as Skype, Google Docs, and more.
Monday, June 1, 2015
I'm a Believer NEW MEDIA WORK I'm a Believer I'm a Believer I'm a Believer
Monday, June 8, 2015 - 3:00-5:30 PM
Warch Campus Center Cinema
For a long time
people assumed that the reserves of belief were limitless. All one had to do was
to create islands of rationality in the ocean of credulity, isolate and secure
the fragile conquests made by critical thinking. The rest, considered
inexhaustible, was supposed to be transportable toward other objects and other
ends, just as waterfalls are harnessed by hydroelectric plants.
page 179
Lucy Bouman What do you believe in?
A video
project exploring what immediately comes to peoples' minds when asked what they
believe in, including footage from interviews in the studio as well as from the
outside world.
Rachel Wilke The Lawrence Confessional
Bringing
up hook-up culture at Lawrence University is known to be taboo. In this short
video, students confess a personal hook-up story in order to break the stigma
that hooking-up on campus is wrong and should be kept secret. However, there is
a twist in the end.
Steven Alexander & Htee T. Moo “Elements”
A series of photographs and videos that explore four of the astrological
elements as we interpret them.
Hannah Ganzel Frenzy
These two videos, "feeding
the masses" and "cleaning up after the masses", displays both
the unending consumption of food and disposal of shit. It also displays
the position of the people who work as cogs in the machine.
Olivia Rowe #Meninism
A documentary-style film that combines the efforts of a fictionalized "meninist" with real interviews and social media posts about the feminist and meninist movements. The film aims to highlight misunderstandings and generate discussion about both causes.
Olivia Rowe #Meninism
A documentary-style film that combines the efforts of a fictionalized "meninist" with real interviews and social media posts about the feminist and meninist movements. The film aims to highlight misunderstandings and generate discussion about both causes.
Michael Hubbarb Memory
Split
Ben Meunier returns in another starring role as a confounded young man haunted by flashes of distant memories and lurching anger as he wanders off through a dense, grassy field into unfamiliar territory.
Ben Meunier returns in another starring role as a confounded young man haunted by flashes of distant memories and lurching anger as he wanders off through a dense, grassy field into unfamiliar territory.
Ridley Tankersley June
1st, 2015
A short collection of clips from a 15-hour digital video
cataloging the entirety of my day with its routines and irregularities.
This video examines life through amateur videography and positions its place in
the art world.
Finn
Bjornerud "This
is Lawrence: Leisure"
A short video project that uses montage to blur the lines
between reality and fiction concerning the activities of Lawrence students in
their spare time. The kids are rowdier than you think.
Noah Gunther Learn to Skate
Learn to feel again in the age of manipulation and mirrors.
What did you eat so far today? Imagine it's all on a plate in front of you but
half-digested, like it is in your stomach. Now imagine that you're being
digested. Climb up the stomach walls. Free yourself! Free yourself with Learn
to Skate!
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| Molly Froman |
Wednesday, April 29, 2015
I'm a Believer
“I don't believe in art. I believe in artists.”
―
Marcel Duchamp-Page 178 "The Practice of Everyday Life" by Michel De Certeau
Then I saw her face, now I'm a believer
Not a trace of doubt in my mind.
I'm in love, I'm a believer!
Neil Diamond wrote this song. He had his first big hit earlier in 1966 with "Cherry, Cherry," which got the attention of Don Kirshner, who was looking for material for The Monkees. Kirshner was sold on "I'm A Believer," and as part of the deal, allowed Diamond to record the song as well. Diamond's version was released on his 1967 album Just For You. The Monkees version benefited from exposure on their television series.
This was The Monkees second single, after "Last Train To Clarksville." It was released during the first season of their TV show.
The Monkees sang on this, but did not play any instruments. The producers used session musicians because they were not convinced The Monkees could play like a real band. This became a huge point of contention, as the group fought to play their own songs.
Neil Diamond had intended the song to be recorded by the Country artist Eddy Arnold, and was surprised when record executive Don Kirshner passed it instead to The Monkees.
Mojo magazine July 2008 asked Neil Diamond if he resented at all the Monkees' success with this song at a time when his own recording career was less successful. He replied: "I was thrilled, because at heart I was still a songwriter and I wanted my songs on the charts. It was one of the songs that was going to be on my first album, but Donny Kirshner, who was their music maven, hears 'Cherry, Cherry' on the radio and said, 'Wow, I want one like that for The Monkees!' He called my producers, Jeff Barry and Ellie Greenwich - 'Hey, does this kid have any more?' And they played him the things I had cut for the next album and he picked 'I'm A Believer,' 'A Little Bit Me, A Little Bit You' and 'Look Out (Here Comes Tomorrow),' and they had some huge hits. But the head of my record company freaked. He went through the roof because he felt that I had given #1 records away to another group. I couldn't have cared less because I had to pay the rent and The Monkees were selling records and I wasn't being paid for my records."
from http://www.songfacts.com/detail.php?id=2135
Wednesday, April 15, 2015
Sophie Calle Space
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| In bed with Sophie Calle: The artist's parody of Brigitte Bardot in 'Days lived under the Sign of B, C and W' |
-Page 118 The Practice of Everyday Life by Michel DeCerteau
First official Sophie Calle's work of art:
In 1979, Sophie Calle asked several (23) persons, friends, strangers, neighbors, to come and spend eight hours in her bed in order to keep this bed occupied twenty-four hours a day. These people had to accept to be photographied and to answer some questions. She took photographs of the sleepers and noted the important elements of these short meetings: subjects of discussion, positions of the sleepers, their movements during their sleep, the detailed menu of their breakfast she was preparing for them... The whole set of these series of photographs (23) was exhibited at the XIth Biennale de Paris in 1980, fiirst Sophie Calle's show who then decided to "become an artist."
A conversation about "self-burial" between artist Sophie Calle and a man without identity. In this video the two artists meet for the first time, to discuss an artistic idea which they have discovered that they share: arranging and attending your own funeral.
Wednesday, April 8, 2015
Rock My Religion
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| Dan Graham! |
Figurative, 1965, Offset printed periodical
13 x 19 ½ inches [framed]
Edition of unknown size
Published within Harper’s Bazaar (March 1968)
Collection Specific Object / David Platzker, New York
on Vimeo
INVISIBLE INTUITIVE INTERPOLATED
"This knowledge is not known. In practices, it
has a status analogous to that granted fables and myths as the expression of
kinds of knowledge that do not know themselves. In both cases it
is a knowledge
that subjects do not reflect. They bear witness to it without being able to
appropriate it. They are in the end the renters and not the owners of their own
know-how. Concerning them it occurs to no one to ask whether there is
knowledge; it is assumed that there must be, but that it is known only by
people other than its bearers. Like that of poets and painters, the know-how of
daily practices is supposed to be known only by the interpreter who illuminates
it in his discursive mirror though he does not possess it either. It thus
belongs to no one.
It passes from the unconsciousness of its practitioners to the reflection of
non- practitioners without involving any individual subject. It is an anonymous
and referential knowledge, a condition of the possibility of technical or
scientific practices."
-The Practice of Everyday Life by Michel De Certeau
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| Novartis Campus, Associates in front of Dan Graham’s “Curve and Straight Line”; Basel, Switzerland |
Saturday, March 28, 2015
Articulating Everyday Life
The Practice of Everyday Life
Michel de Certeau
General Introduction
This essay is part of a continuing investigation of the ways in which users-commonly assumed to be passive and guided by established rules-operate. The point is not so much to discuss this elusive yet fundamental subject as to make such a discussion possible; that is, by means of inquiries and hypotheses, to indicate pathways for further research. This goal will be achieved if everyday practices, "ways of operating" or doing things, no longer appear as merely the obscure background of social activity, and if a body of theoretical questions, methods, categories, and perspectives, by penetrating this obscurity, make it possible to articulate them.
This essay is part of a continuing investigation of the ways in which users-commonly assumed to be passive and guided by established rules-operate. The point is not so much to discuss this elusive yet fundamental subject as to make such a discussion possible; that is, by means of inquiries and hypotheses, to indicate pathways for further research. This goal will be achieved if everyday practices, "ways of operating" or doing things, no longer appear as merely the obscure background of social activity, and if a body of theoretical questions, methods, categories, and perspectives, by penetrating this obscurity, make it possible to articulate them.
Jonas Mekas
A Walk
1990, 58 min.
Filmed on Dec. 15, 1990. On a rainy day, I have a walk through the early Soho.
I begin my walk on 80 Wooster Street and continue towards the Williamsburg bridge,
where, 58 minutes later, still raining, my walk ends. As I walk, occasionally I talk
about what I see or I tell some totally unrelated little stories that come to my
mind as I walk.
This video was my early exercise in the one-shot video form. There are no cuts in this video.
from jonasmekas.com
Wednesday, March 11, 2015
ALLATONCENESS NEW MEDIA WORK
Monday, March 16, 2015 - 3:00-5:30 PM
Warch Campus Center Cinema
New
media projects by 11 ART 240 Digital Processes students responding to Marshall McLuhan’s ideas of the global village from his seminal book The Medium is the Massage. Writes
McLuhan, “Ours is a brand-new world of allatonceness. “Time” has ceased,
“Space” has vanished. We now live in a global village…a simultaneous
happening…we have had to shift our stress of attention from action to reaction.”
Alex Koszewski- you have two minutes
A photography project about media attention exploring reactions and expectations of people towards being the sole subject of an unexpected photo shoot.
Lucy Bouman- I have no Yik and I must Yak
A series of photographs with text, exploring the stupidity and the futility of the anonymous social platform Yik Yak.
Willa Johnson- Glitch and Glamour
A project exploring the glamour of the old and the glitching of the new.
Jamie DeMotts- Claustrum
Featuring a Fox River Fish
A short film in an air apocalypse about the snapshotting of identity exploring the relationship between nature and people using dystopian mood to portray a human constructed elsewhere.
Olivia Rowe- Confession
A film about a girl trying to confess to the person she likes exploring anxiety and love through a variety of digital (and non-digital) mediums.
Hannah Ganzel- Ach Mein Gott
This music video focuses on how much emphasis our culture puts on women as objects of desire.
Amanda Bourbonais- OnlyOnYouTube
A YouTube channel dedicated to deconstructing and rebuilding viral YouTube videos, exploring the connectivity of viral videos and YouTube itself as a medium, creator, and distributor.
Michael Hubbard- Never Lighter
A short experimental pseudo-horror film featuring Ridley Tankersley as a college student who has become too entangled with the distraction of his computer and is slightly detached from reality. Meanwhile, another college student played by Ben Meunier takes notice that his social life has also become mired in the occasional folly of modern technology.
Zach Ben-Amots- Hysteria
Hysteria assigns a colorful visual reflection of a soundscape entirely made up of laughter. This abstract stop-motion video was inspired by T.S. Elliot's poem of the same name.
Ridley Tankersley and Noah Gunther- Pepperoni Beer Donuts
Pathetic trash students play toilet instruments while being drowned by perfect audio-video hero machines exploring enlightenment in the age of THE INTERNET.
Alex Koszewski- you have two minutes
A photography project about media attention exploring reactions and expectations of people towards being the sole subject of an unexpected photo shoot.
Lucy Bouman- I have no Yik and I must Yak
A series of photographs with text, exploring the stupidity and the futility of the anonymous social platform Yik Yak.
Willa Johnson- Glitch and Glamour
A project exploring the glamour of the old and the glitching of the new.
Jamie DeMotts- Claustrum
Featuring a Fox River Fish
A short film in an air apocalypse about the snapshotting of identity exploring the relationship between nature and people using dystopian mood to portray a human constructed elsewhere.
Olivia Rowe- Confession
A film about a girl trying to confess to the person she likes exploring anxiety and love through a variety of digital (and non-digital) mediums.
Hannah Ganzel- Ach Mein Gott
This music video focuses on how much emphasis our culture puts on women as objects of desire.
Amanda Bourbonais- OnlyOnYouTube
A YouTube channel dedicated to deconstructing and rebuilding viral YouTube videos, exploring the connectivity of viral videos and YouTube itself as a medium, creator, and distributor.
Michael Hubbard- Never Lighter
A short experimental pseudo-horror film featuring Ridley Tankersley as a college student who has become too entangled with the distraction of his computer and is slightly detached from reality. Meanwhile, another college student played by Ben Meunier takes notice that his social life has also become mired in the occasional folly of modern technology.
Zach Ben-Amots- Hysteria
Hysteria assigns a colorful visual reflection of a soundscape entirely made up of laughter. This abstract stop-motion video was inspired by T.S. Elliot's poem of the same name.
Ridley Tankersley and Noah Gunther- Pepperoni Beer Donuts
Pathetic trash students play toilet instruments while being drowned by perfect audio-video hero machines exploring enlightenment in the age of THE INTERNET.
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