Subtopics include: - Life Beyond e-mail (as we know it) - Contextual communication with media objects and design process - Information ergonomics - Challenges of transdisciplinarity - Borderlines of open and closed networks, private and public - Interpretation vs. control, unexpected vs. teleological. In this session, moderators Adam Somlai-Fischer and Tapio Mäkelä conduct an autopsy of contemporary communication & publishing media environment and open up a discussion of what could be done, in practice, to improve the communication intense, spam infested, and highly unsustainable lives of new media practitioners and organisations. We intend to raise conceptual and contextual autopsy debate while drafting modular synthesis of a social & semantic software that could be crafted. We are not here to solve the future of Internet as a whole, but we do find it ironic that the most software literate cultural practitioners cannot improve their every day digital/analogue lives. We also insist raising an approach, that of serendipity, to distinguish also the communication and software design practice from that of the functional mainstream. Schedule We will split into two threads working on parallel topics but with different methodologies, a contextual autopsy approach facilitated by Tapio Makela, and a propositional visual mapping approach facilitated by Adam Somlai-Fischer. Participants would join one thread in the morning – swapping in the afternoon, and joining all together for evening sessions. Contextual autopsy thread Contextual autopsy looks at different communication and social software as they exists, and raises critical discussion around open/closed networks, life beyond e-mail, networks of trust, social software platforms, combined with a curiosity how to imagine our existing communication and media environments differently: if there is critique, there needs to be alternative visions of how we could reach sustainable mesh architectures, information ergonomics, yet when dealing with media art and culture, with an edge, with serendipity, layers for interpretation and debate. Bring your own case examples! Theory bits! Personal narratives. Propositional thread Mostly building visual and textual maps, generating trunks as we go, using paper mind mapping as well as www.zuiprezi.com Nov 20 - Mostly mapping (identifying channels, values, errors, noise, roles, culture, semantics, translations in asynchronous textual one to {one or many} communication) 10:30 – 12:30 INTRODUCTION – participant goals, 2 streams, joint goals Propositional thread 15:00 – 17:00 Contextual autopsy thread Propositional thread 18:00 – 20:00 Combining and documenting what we learned Nov 21 - Mostly planning Proposing viable alternatives 10:30 – 12:30 Contextual autopsy thread Propositional thread 14:30 – 17:00 Joint drafting session |
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Social & Semantic Serendipity: Crafting networked environments for new media arts and culture |