marcus bastos

Professor da PUC-SP. Doutor em Comunicação e Semiótica.

Personal Items by mbastos — Për herë të fundit modifikuar 03/05/2007 14:00

contains personal workarea items for mbastos

Professorial trend spotter predicts end of written word by mbastos — Për herë të fundit modifikuar 17/05/2005 10:05

As voice technology proliferates the era of the text may fade, author muses

The Shape of Locative Media by mbastos — Për herë të fundit modifikuar 22/10/2005 17:29

As the discourse around locative media art gets into gear, Simon Pope sets some new co-ordinates, and salvages some old ones, to navigate this emergent genre

Collective Thinking by mbastos — Për herë të fundit modifikuar 17/05/2005 10:05

Artigo de Kristof Nyiri sobre como a palavra escrita está sendo substituída pela conversa (no âmbito da telefonia celular) e pelas imagens compartilhadas (fonte: Ann Light, na lista WRITING AND THE DIGITAL LIFE)

Cross-media Storytelling by mbastos — Për herë të fundit modifikuar 18/05/2005 14:23

blog que aborda: multi-channel, multi-platform, multi-modal, cross-media, a-cross media, X media, distributed narrative, participatory culture, participatory design, narrative, games, worlds, franchises, convergence, branding...

A Cultura da Reciclagem by mbastos — Për herë të fundit modifikuar 19/03/2006 20:58

Este artigo foi sendo escrito a cada nova versão, durante o período de um ano. Abaixo, o link para a terceira reciclagem, publicada no RIZOMA, site editado por Ricardo Rosas.

TV do Software Livre by mbastos — Për herë të fundit modifikuar 31/05/2005 14:04

Veja o FISL 6.0 ao vivo e outras produções e eventos sobre Software Livre via internet

The Great Firewall of China by mbastos — Për herë të fundit modifikuar 19/03/2006 21:00

Google is doing business with a communist China notorious for internet censorship. Not only techno-libertarians should worry, says Becky Hogge.

Lecturer censored by mbastos — Për herë të fundit modifikuar 19/03/2006 20:59

Lecturer censored in Spanish University (UPV) for defending P2P networks

Transfer of open source principles to diverse collaborative communities by mbastos — Për herë të fundit modifikuar 18/05/2005 14:23

Jill Coffin Digital Media, Georgia Institute of Technology Abstract Open source culture and practice emerged as computer hackers networked to take control over the means of production, ownership and distribution of their skilled labor. As a movement, free software hackers developed organizational and dialog structures to support their ethos. Their ontology is often encoded into the schemas of the software they produce. In turn, this freely distributed software facilitates adoption of open source principles along with its code. This talk traces the instantiation of open source principles within three non-hacker networked communities using open source software to organize, communicate and collaboratively accomplish their goals. I discuss the adoption of open source traits within these communities, including: • widespread and inclusive membership based upon participation; • open dialogue; • distributed, asynchronous, networked collaboration; • a foundational artifact or project from which to organize participation; • foundational developers and early adopters to set the ethos of the project; • collaborative, perpetually clarified living artifacts; • a community-wide sense of project ownership; • a mechanism for institutional history; • a hybrid political system including meritocracy; • a benevolent dictator; • consensus as a decision-making tool; • playfulness (taking the serious humorously and humor seriously); • upholding the right to fork. I conclude with a brief slide show of some innovative results emerging from the three communities. Examples include flame-spewing cognitive firewalls, the emergence of a democratic fork from within the Burning Man benevolent despotism, and a cost-effective cholera treatment for third-world healthcare providers.

NEW FORMS FESTIVAL 2005 (Vancouver, BC, Canada, from 15/09/2005 00:00 to 24/09/2005 00:00) — by mbastos

INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL OF MEDIA ARTS / CALLOUT 05: ECOLOGIES Experiments with Technology to Explore Our World

Nowhere to Run by mbastos — Për herë të fundit modifikuar 19/03/2006 20:59

Stewart Home reviews two new publications dealing with the Situationist International and other political currents of the 1960s: Art-Ist magazine's Situationist International special issue and Dancin' In The Streets!, a collection of texts from Rebel Worker and Heatwave.

mez = mc2 by mbastos — Për herë të fundit modifikuar 25/05/2005 14:01

mezangelle is a poetic-artistic hybrid language developed by Australian-based Internet artist mez (Mary-Anne Breeze). Mezangelle mixes, often on the low level of syllables and morphemes, English, ASCII art, fragments from programming language source code, markup languages, regular expressions and wildcard patterns, protocol code, IRC shorthands, emoticons, phonetic spelling and slang.

6 propostas para os próximos minutos by mbastos — Për herë të fundit modifikuar 19/03/2006 20:58

artigo inédito

comp_05@turbulence by mbastos — Për herë të fundit modifikuar 25/05/2005 18:58

mais dotbr no Turbulence: Mídia Tática premiado na Comp_05

Writing and the Digital Life by mbastos — Për herë të fundit modifikuar 02/10/2005 17:19

WDL is a collaborative transdisciplinary blog about the impact of digital technologies upon writing and lived experience. We talk about writing and reading in the context of 'new and old' media, transliteracy, craft, art, process and practice, social networks, cooperation and collaboration, narrative and memory, human computer interaction, imagination, nature, mind, body, and spirit.

Community Memory by mbastos — Për herë të fundit modifikuar 26/05/2005 18:08

Lista de discussão sobre a história do ciberespaço

Rosalind (@ furtherfield.org) by mbastos — Për herë të fundit modifikuar 26/05/2005 18:13

Rosalind, an upstart new media art lexicon, has just been born following a sheltered 9 month gestation.

Webopedia by mbastos — Për herë të fundit modifikuar 26/05/2005 18:00

Dicionário e motor de busca sobre computadores e internet.

Novo Ministro das Comunicações, TV Digital e Software Livre: Futuro nebuloso? by mbastos — Për herë të fundit modifikuar 21/07/2005 14:38

Hélio Costa, novo ministro das Comunicações, quer sepultar as pesquisas para um padrão brasileiro de TV Digital. Inclusão digital com software livre também corre risco, por Rafael Evangelista

Stars Fading on the Web. An Interview with Olia Lialina. by mbastos — Për herë të fundit modifikuar 13/07/2005 11:46

Artificial has previously explored how stars are used in digital artworks(http://www.artificial.dk/articles/netstars_eng.htm). With remarkable frequency, digital artists have used stars as aesthetic elements in their works. Coincidentally, stars on the web also turned out to be a great interest of Russian artist Olia Lialina - especially the outer space backgrounds that once adorned so many pages on the early web. Olia has dealt with these digital stars in both her texts and artworks. Today these stars are fading, as the host pages eventually become redesigned and the stars removed. The disappearing stars are thus poetic examples of the state of transience that web expressions are born into. Thomas Petersen talked to Olia about her peculiar interest, which resulted in a discussion about the ephemeral nature of web expressions and how to archive them. Olia Lialina is a pioneer of net.art, especially known for the often remixed piece 'My Boyfriend Came Back From the War'. She is currently professor of New Media at Merz Academie, Stuttgart.

Berners-Lee on the read/write web by gbeiguelman — Për herë të fundit modifikuar 10/08/2005 09:58

In August 1991, Sir Tim Berners-Lee created the first website. Fourteen years on, he tells BBC Newsnight's Mark Lawson how blogging is closer to his original idea about a read/write web.

Novo Ministro das Comunicações, TV Digital e Software Livre by gbeiguelman — Për herë të fundit modifikuar 21/07/2005 14:45

Hélio Costa, novo ministro das Comunicações, quer sepultar as pesquisas para um padrão brasileiro de TV Digital. Inclusão digital com software livre também corre risco

Tivo.. cable programming over IP? by mbastos — Për herë të fundit modifikuar 19/02/2006 15:23

I wish Google would buy Tivo. It would seem to be symbotic for both companies -- since Tivo is trying to get into broadband video delivery, and Google is trying to collect a corpus of video for Google Video. Plus, Tivo would elevate above PVR and into (i know, I know, but it's different this time) set-top box, going beyond the TV recording focus. Plus, the companies would then fare better against MS's assaults on both fronts.

A fórmula do desvio by mbastos — Për herë të fundit modifikuar 04/12/2005 13:57

Crítica ao consumo por artistas contemporâneos ignora o ataque de Maio de 68 ao capitalismo por Jacques Rancière

Duas ou três idéias sobre a internet by mbastos — Për herë të fundit modifikuar 05/03/2006 15:49

por Marcelo Coelho

We are all McLuhan's now by mbastos — Për herë të fundit modifikuar 11/01/2006 11:32

Twenty-five years after Marshall McLuhan's death, his ideas about life and meaning in a media-saturated world are proving to be remarkably prescient. In many ways, he is more important than ever, writes. Jan. 1, 2005. 01:00 AM | OLIVIA WARD

Geert by mbastos — Për herë të fundit modifikuar 25/10/2005 09:10

The media activist and internet critic Geert Lovink is co-founder of the Nettime mailing list (http://www.nettime.org), one of the most active communities on the internet, and of Next Five Minutes (http://www.next5minutes.org), the first festival completely devoted to tactical media. Lovink is PhD at the Melbourne University. He was editor of the Dutsch digital culture magazine Mediamatic (http://www.mediamatic.nl) and helped to organize foruns, festivals and conferences such as Fiberculture (http://www.fibreculture.org), digitalcity.nl (http://www.dds.nl) and Ars Electronica (http://www.aec.at). Author of several books and essays, his most recent entrerprise is the Institute of Networked Cultures (http://www.networkcultures.org) — a mix of school and incubator, settled in Amsterdam, in the Politechinical School —, which develops projects and research about the internet. During his stay in São Paulo, he was interviewed by Eduardo de Jesus (Critic and Curator, PUC-MG), Guilherme Kujawski (Journalist, Itaú Cultural), Lucas Bambozzi (Multimedia Artist), Patrícia Canetti (Critic and Media Activist, Canal Contemporâneo), Paulo Hartmann (Media Activist and Artist, Memefest.org), Priscila Arantes (Critic, PUC-SP), Raquel Rennó (Critic, MediaLab Madri), Ricardo Rosas (Writer, Media Activist and Webeditor, Rizoma.net) and Roberta Alvarenga (Writer, Trópico). The interview was translated and edited for Trópico magazine (http://p.php.uol.com.br/tropico/html/textos/2668,1.shl), that graciously authorized the publication of this unedited version at NetArt@Fapesp.

The fluxus performance workbook by mbastos — Për herë të fundit modifikuar 11/08/2005 11:54

 

Tipografia Digital by mbastos — Për herë të fundit modifikuar 11/08/2005 15:05

 

Websites as graphs by mbastos — Për herë të fundit modifikuar 28/05/2006 17:27

Everyday, we look at dozens of websites. The structure of these websites is defined in HTML, the lingua franca for publishing information on the web. Your browser's job is to render the HTML according to the specs (most of the time, at least). You can look at the code behind any website by selecting the "View source" tab somewhere in your browser's menu. HTML consists of so-called tags, like the A tag for links, IMG tag for images and so on. Since tags are nested in other tags, they are arranged in a hierarchical manner, and that hierarchy can be represented as a graph. I've written a little app that visualizes such a graph, and here are some screenshots of websites that I often look at.

urban screens by mbastos — Për herë të fundit modifikuar 08/07/2006 15:46

URBAN SCREENS is a concept developed by Mirjam Struppek. It investigates how the currently commercial use of outdoor screens can be broadened with cultural content. We address cultural fields as digital media culture, urbanism, architecture and art. We want to network and sensitise all engaged parties for the possibilities of using the digital infrastructure for contributing to a lively urban society, binding the screens more to the communal context of the space and therefore creating local identity and engagement. The integration of the current information technologies support the development of a new integrated digital layer of the city in a complex merge of material and immaterial space that redefine the function of this growing infrastructure. URBAN SCREENS defined as various kinds of dynamic digital displays in urban space such as LED boards, plasma screens, information terminals but also intelligent architectural surfaces being used in consideration of a well ballanced, sustainable urban society - Screens that support the idea of public space as space for creation and exchange of culture and the formation of public sphere by criticism and reflection. Its digital nature makes these screening platforms an experimental visualisation zone on the threshold of virtual and urban public space.

Creative Writing by mbastos — Për herë të fundit modifikuar 15/09/2005 14:53

Online MA in Creative Writing & Technology. Advance information about this course, due to start at De Montfort University, Leicester, UK in Autumn 2006 (subject to validation)

Interviews with new media artists and writers by mbastos — Për herë të fundit modifikuar 01/06/2006 12:00

Interviews with new media artists and writers by Simon Mills Between 1995 and 2004 the frAme: Online Journal of Culture & Technology published a broad range of work by an eclectic mix of writers and artists who were working with new media. This was a significant period in the history of new media. Internet usage, especially the world wide web, was becoming widespread and many were creatively experimenting with and discussing the implications of utilising the emerging networks and technologies. As a site of dissemination of some of that work, frAme remains a record of the creative engagements artists were making during that time. framed marks the closing of the journal and augments it as a record of this period by interviewing many of the artists and writers it published with regard to their practice, both past and present, and to enquire with them about the current state of new media art and writing. The project launches with the first 4 of over 20 interviews. framed is supported by Arts Council England and Nottingham Trent University.

Surge by mbastos — Për herë të fundit modifikuar 11/01/2006 11:38

free103point9 and Rhizome are pleased to announce an online exhibition of web-based projects selected from an open call for submissions. Surge includes works by artists 31 Down, Abe Linkoln and Marisa Olson, Angel Nevarez and Alex Rivera, NYSAE (New York Society for Acoustic Ecology), Jim Punk, and Leslie Sharpe. The featured projects employ new media tools to both conceptually and formally address different possibilities for transmission art online. Some consider the nature of signals as they move through the ether; others appropriate forms of wireless transmission, such as the military’s aerial ‘drone’ or the programming language AsCii, to propose new kinds of digital communication. A public presentation in conjunction with the exhibition will take place at Participant, Inc. in New York on March 28, 2006.

Remix and Remixability by mbastos — Për herë të fundit modifikuar 16/11/2005 10:49

artigo de Lev Manovich

PlayStation 3 Delayed, Over $800? by mbastos — Për herë të fundit modifikuar 19/02/2006 15:34

Posted by Zonk on Saturday February 18, @03:52PM from the not-a-good-weekend-for-sony dept. Sony PS2 (Games) AWhiteFlame writes "Cnet is reporting that a research report issued by Merrill Lynch suggests that the Sony PlayStation 3's American release may be postponed until 2007. From the article: 'The analyst firm proposed the idea that high costs and Sony's decision to use an 'ambitious new processor architecture--the Cell' is making it look like the company might not be able to meet its goal of getting the PS3 out in the U.S. this year.' Sony did not immediately respond to a request for comment." The official report (pdf) would also seem to indicate that the console will be somewhere in the neighborhood of $900 when it launches.

emotionmap by mbastos — Për herë të fundit modifikuar 02/03/2006 22:00

 

Creating a Backboneless Internet? by mbastos — Për herë të fundit modifikuar 19/02/2006 14:49

Posted by Cliff on Friday February 17, @08:40PM from the tricky-part-is-finding-the-right-medium dept. Privacy The Internet Peter Trepan asks: "The Internet is the best thing to happen to the free exchange of ideas since... well... maybe ever. But it can also be used as a tool for media control and universal surveillance, perhaps turning that benefit into a liability. Imagine, for instance, if Senator McCarthy had been able to steam open every letter in the United States. In the age of ubiquitous e-mail and filtering software, budding McCarthys are able and willing to do so. I Am Not A Network Professional, but it seems like all this potential for abuse depends upon bottlenecks at the level of ISPs and backbone providers. Is it possible to create an internet that relies instead on peer-to-peer connectivity? How would the hardware work? How would the information be passed? What would be the incentive for average people to buy into it if it meant they'd have to host someone else's packets on their hard drive? In short, what would have to be done to ensure that at least one internet remains completely free, anonymous, and democratized?"

The artist and his 'models' by mbastos — Për herë të fundit modifikuar 27/04/2006 11:06

By Jean-Claude Moineau

Espaço em branco para sua expressã by mbastos — Për herë të fundit modifikuar 21/05/2006 14:56

Em 1973, o artista francês Fred Forest, Prêmio de Comunicação da 12ª Bienal de São Paulo, realizou intervenções na então "Folha da Tarde" em prol da liberdade de expressão. Foi detido e teve que prestar esclarecimentos às autoridades de Segurança do regime militar. Agora, ele volta ao país para uma retrospectiva de sua obra. Os tempos já não são de autoritarismo. O Brasil é uma democracia, e a Constituição garante a liberdade de expressão. Como há 30 anos, o artista pede aos leitores que se manifestem em texto ou imagens no espaço ao lado e enviem o resultado por correio (Paço das Artes, av. da Universidade, 1, Cidade Universitária, 05508-040, São Paulo, SP) ou para www.folhaembranco.org. O material enviado será mostrado durante a exposição "Circuitos Paralelos: Retrospectiva Fred Forest", de 22 de maio a 16 de julho, no Paço das Artes.

The Surprising Truth About Ugly Websites by mbastos — Për herë të fundit modifikuar 21/03/2006 10:41

by Mark Daoust

"Knitoscope Testimonies" by Cat Mazza by mbastos — Për herë të fundit modifikuar 16/03/2006 12:05

March 15, 2006 Turbulence Commission: "Knitoscope Testimonies" by Cat Mazza http://turbulence.org/works/microRevolt [Requires Flash Player. To view testimonies at 180x120 ratio, pop-ups must be enabled] "Knitoscope Testimonies" is the first web based video using "Knitoscope" software, a program that translates digital video into a knitted animation. Knitoscope is a moving image offshoot of microRevolt’s freeware knitPro. The title "Knitoscope" is based on Edison’s early animation technology the kinetoscope, which was a "coin operated peep show machine…watched through a magnifying lens." The "Testimonies" in this piece are from various professionals who work against sweatshop labor: Erica Zeitlin works in legislative policy change in Los Angeles; Roian Atwood develops new business models at "American Apparel"; Eric Frumin is the Director of Health and Sanitation for UNITE HERE; and Jim Keady is the founder of "Educating for Justice." More Testimonies will be uploaded during the weekend of the "Sweat Free Communities Conference" (April 7-9, 2006) in Minneapolis, MN. "Knitoscope Testimonies" is a 2006 commission of New Radio and Performing Arts, Inc. (aka Ether-Ore) for its Turbulence web site. It was made possible with funding from the Jerome Foundation. BIOGRAPHY Cat Mazza is an artist who lives in New York. She is the founder of microRevolt which is responsible for a series of art projects that combine knitting, machines, and digital social networks to educate about the sweatshop crisis. microRevolt projects have exhibited as part of the 2005 Performa Biennial in NYC, Futuresonic in Manchester UK, FILE in São Paulo and received a “Digital Communities” award at Ars Electronica. The work has been reviewed in MIT Press, the Eyebeam Journal, Knit Knit, Financial Times Deuschland, and Bust Magazine. Mazza received her BFA from Carnegie Mellon University and MFA from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. For more information about Turbulence, please visit http://turbulence.org Jo-Anne Green, Co-Director New Radio and Performing Arts, Inc.: http://new-radio.org New York: 917.548.7780 • Boston: 617.522.3856 Turbulence: http://turbulence.org New American Radio: http://somewhere.org Networked_Performance Blog: http://turbulence.org/blog Upgrade! Boston: http://turbulence.org/upgrade

Music for Defective Hard Disk by mbastos — Për herë të fundit modifikuar 17/11/2006 13:16

Sound track generated from sounds of a defective hard disk. A sensor is placed on the hard disk that records sounds like vibrations. By Gregory Chatonsky. MP3.

C-Theory interview with Katherine Hayles. by mbastos — Për herë të fundit modifikuar 21/05/2006 14:56

Hayles is a noted postmodern literary critic and theorist as well as the author of, among others, _My Mother Was a Computer: Digital Subjects and Literary Texts_, _How We Became Posthuman: Virtual Bodies in Cybernetics, Literature and Informatics_ (winner of the Rene Wellek Prize for the best book in literary theory for 1998-1999), and _Writing Machines_. She is currently the Hills Professor of Literature in English and Media Arts at the University of California Los Angeles, where she has taught since 1992.

notes for a liberated computer language by mbastos — Për herë të fundit modifikuar 20/07/2006 01:06

http://r-s-g.org/LCL/

Googlism for Net Art by mbastos — Për herë të fundit modifikuar 17/07/2006 08:44

 

emigre: todas capas online by mbastos — Për herë të fundit modifikuar 11/07/2006 12:43

Todas as capas da emigre estão na Internet. É uma parte importante da história do design contemporâneo online para quem quiser conhecer.

Música Open Source by mbastos — Për herë të fundit modifikuar 14/11/2006 09:42

 

Cell Phone: Art and the Mobile Phone by mbastos — Për herë të fundit modifikuar 05/01/2007 14:09

 

RFID song by mbastos — Për herë të fundit modifikuar 04/01/2007 13:39

 

Identidades vazias by mbastos — Për herë të fundit modifikuar 10/01/2007 08:36

Artigo em que Slavoj Zizek sustenta que eleger a internet como exemplo democrático é esconder diferenças sociais, institucionais e psicológicas entre as vidas "real" e "virtual".

Turbulence Spotlight: "carrizoprime-net" by Christina McPhee by mbastos — Për herë të fundit modifikuar 24/07/2006 11:10

A montage of performance and observation on seismic memory. Shot on location at the San Andreas Fault, Soda Lake, and Wallace Creek, in the Carrizo Plain National Monument, California, 2002-2006. BIOGRAPHY Christina McPhee traces new media landscapes at the peripheries of human landscapes, where the psychic terrain of trauma meets environmental instability and generative chaos. "La Conchita mon" amour, a new video installation with digital large format photography on the mudslide-torn beach town of La Conchita, California, will open at Sara Tecchia Roma, New York in October 2006. "Carrizoprime," a new HD video, premiered at Cinemascope, SCOPE|Hamptons Art Fair, in July 2006. McPhee recently created the theatrical video installation for Pamela Z's "Wunderkabinet," a multimedia opera based on stories from the Museum of Jurassic Technology (Los Angeles) in debut at the LAB, San Francisco (2005). Her digital prints won a James A. Phelan Award from the San Francisco Foundation in 2003. McPhee's writings on media theory and practice are published with Ctheory, Neural, drunkenboat, and for the "empyre: soft-skinned space." She works with Terry Hargrave and his architectural design studio at California Polytechnic State University.

Velhice Transviada by mbastos — Për herë të fundit modifikuar 04/08/2006 19:08

artigo de Bernando de Carvalho sobre a Mostra que Godard montou no Centres Georges Pompidou Para quem não tem UOL o link é : http://netart.incubadora.fapesp.br/portal/Members/vera_bighetti/textos/document.2006-08-04.4869605602/document_view

Sarai Reader #6: Turbulence by mbastos — Për herë të fundit modifikuar 12/01/2007 09:48

livro publicado pelo Sarai, com análise das turbulências e transformações que marcam o início do século XXI

Videoblogues by mbastos — Për herë të fundit modifikuar 23/01/2007 11:44

 

Leonardo Electronic Almanac Chats by mbastos — Për herë të fundit modifikuar 22/01/2007 15:21

 

On Mobile Media by mbastos — Për herë të fundit modifikuar 09/02/2007 14:23

Versão em inglês de artigos publicados na revista online do Arte.Mov http://www.artemov.net English version of articles published at the Arte.Mov online magazine http://www.artemov.net

Future Histories of the Moving Image (University of Sunderland, from 16/11/2007 00:25 to 18/11/2007 00:25) — by mbastos

An international conference to be held at University of Sunderland 16-18 November 2007 Keynote Speaker: Professor Patricia Zimmermann (Ithaca College, New York), with other keynotes to be confirmed As is now widely acknowledged, with the advent of digital technology the nature of moving image production, distribution and exhibition has changed dramatically. In particular, a rapidly increasing number of people are now accessing an increasing volume and range of moving image material online. This technology is also changing the way in which we analyse and document current and historical moving image practices, as there has been a recent proliferation of digital archive and database projects relating to film, video and television practices. It is timely therefore to examine the changing ways in which we are circulating and interrogating moving image culture. We would particularly welcome papers that address the following areas: - What impact does the increasing reliance on database resources have on the nature of the histories we produce and write? - History as database vs history as narrative. - Implications of the proliferation of online critical writing (from refereed academic journals through to personal blogs) and its dissemination, with the blurring of the traditional distinction between professional and amateur writer. - The role and implication of immediate online distribution/exhibition of works - What impact is digital distribution having on theatrical exhibition? - Issues arising from the perceived need on the part of major producers/broadcasters to develop content for multiple platforms. - The implications of multiple producers being able to disseminate a wide range of material to multiple niche audiences (giving the idea of 'narrowcasting' a new meaning). - Revival/development of found footage production practices with the availability of digital archives such as Library of Congress Internet Archive (including the Prelinger Archive) and BBC Open Archive initiative. - Questions relating to the increasing accessibility online of moving image material in relation to intellectual property and the development of the Creative Commons copyright licence. - The creative influence of database logic on film structure. The conference will also host an open workshop - with participation by the Arts Council England, the Tate and the British Film Institute - which will address the issues of securing the sustainability and maximising the use/visibility of the growing number of film and video database/online research resources. The workshop is funded by the AHRC Networks and Workshops Scheme. Please send proposals of 200-300 words for papers of approx. 20 minutes, together with a brief biographical note by 30 May 2007 to the conference organisers (Steven Ball, Julia Knight and Stephen Partridge) at futurehistories@sunderland.ac.uk Future Histories of the Moving Image is a joint conference organised by the Univeresity of Sunderland, the British Artists' Film and Video Study Collection (University of the Arts, London) and the Visual Research Centre REWIND project DJCAD at the University of Dundee, in collaboration with Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies. All papers delivered at the conference will be considered for publication in the journal.

002_de-re-/con-struct(ur)ed_LANG(U)agE by mbastos — Për herë të fundit modifikuar 23/04/2007 10:34

The faculty to speak and the reflection about one's language are inherent characteristics of human beings. According to Ferdinand de Saussure's thesis human language can be divided into three fundamental aspects: the biological preconditions for speaking (langage), the fixed system of rules and signs (langue) and the act of speaking itself (parole). The supposition that the language-system and the speechact are linked reciprocally and that there is no backflow into the system without speaking, it gets clear that the human language withdraws itself from an immediate observation. It can only be examined in the course of the reconstructing its process of appearance, that is, its articulation. Is language thus an exclusively virtual product, the existence of which begins and ends up with its realization?

Telemig Celular arte.mov - 2º Festival Internacional de Arte em Mídias Móveis (Palácio das Artes / Belo Horizonte, from 15/11/2007 19:00 to 18/11/2007 22:00) — by mbastos