Animation, demoscene, Budleigh Salterton

Got back from holiday and it is time again for Sundown. This has happened too quickly so this post is an attempt to gather some thoughts.

Previously I have done stories for OhmyNews but the English site is dormant. there is a discussion on citizen journalism so I may relate to that. I regard Sundown as a major event  for South West England or whichever part I seem to live in.  So blog format could try out some ideas and become a story later. More is possible with video.

During Animated Exeter I tried to make connections demoscene / computer animation / music video. Not sure what will happen next year. There is an interest in early computer animation. What to call it? James Whitney as an example, if only because featured on Ate Bit blog

So there is a demoscene connection. I also found a blog post about Decode  / Recode , current at time of Kinetic Animation

shown at Animated Exeter

decode_recode
by Paul Grenfell

I still have a DVD by Paul Gillard. This is a music video. It may be a bit long. But I see music video as the future for whatever this sort of animation is called. 

I notice there will be dj music both evenings. I will check out links later.

There is current interest in locations and social networking. It usually seems to me that the Town Hall is a disconnect from Budleigh as such. There may be a visit to the beach but the art in Budleigh is likely to be in a frame.

I have been thinking about a Secure Digital Frame. This would include a screen and some device that displayed but could not be copied. The approach is nothing like the demoscene but might interest artists who need an income. The context would be free content regarded as promotion. Dangerous ideas, just as trying to cobble bits of blog into an e-book.  

Experimenting with YouTube

Not sure what is happening after the Experimentality event. The blog seems to have stopped. My two videos are not getting much attention. I think there may be some cultural issues around why the social media are not better used. The logos are on the website design but somehow there is not much response.

http://www.lancs.ac.uk/experimentality/

Print has still got a massive influence on how universities operate. Much of the conference was based on reading from text. Thing is though there was only one copy in most cases. The practice of distributing paper has been discontinued but there is no news on a book. Video would help.but maybe the format for a conference could change. Put the text online ahead of the event then there is more time for conversation.

I do have more stuff to load but at the moment it is in a bit of an empty space.

Bron explains what the conference is about. Comments could be as video or text on YouTube or to this post. It seems to me the issues are similar in the IAS projects I have followed. Modernity as in protection science or knowledge economy. How to balance critique and application?

Can't find other content online from the Lab. If the conclusion is pro critique then surely it should be in public? Link suggestions welcome.

Meanwhile I have searched out an old box of VHS that includes BBC series on philosophy from Bryan Magee. I was wondering about the copyright issues on loading this to YouTube when I discovered it is already there. In chunks of less than ten minutes obviously.

Edwards Deming is working on a version of this in Plan - Do - Check/Study - Act

I don't think UK academics often refer to American Pragmatism. Links welcome.

YouTube is full of surprises so comments etc. could make some connections.

John Warnock in Nottingham UK

Catching up with email and links I found news that John Warnock was awarded a degree at Nottingham University on July 20th and he not only turned up but  also gave a seminar on 'The Changing Media Landscape' . As noted on the university website - "The Document Engineering Lab, part of the University of Nottingham's School of Computer Science, has collaborated with Adobe Systems Inc. for almost 20 years on a variety of topics including techniques for increasing the accessibility of electronic documents."

I cannot find much reporting on this visit. Andrew Marr mentions the seminar in a BBC article about journalism. Apparently Warnock "predicted a cascade of new iPad-like tablets in many sizes arriving by the end of this year, producing turmoil for cinemas (which will mostly go), bookshops (ditto), and broadcasters."  My guess is that he went further than Document Engineering and into video etc. Maybe more will be published about what was said. I realise video can be part of a document but most of the work I have come across from Nottingham relates to documents as text.

What strikes me is that Charles Geshke and John Warnock were invited as Champions of Print to attend IPEX, a print show in Birmingham UK earlier this year. They decided not to go and explanations included the suggestion that they are semi retired or reluctant to travel. My story for OhmyNews claimed that Adobe had a low priority for IPEX 2010. I realise the PDF Print Engine is significant but there was no stand as in previous years. It could be that the chance to talk about a cascade of iPad-like tablets is more interesting. 

Andrew Marr could write more about this. Or introduce more devices into the BBC studio on a Sunday morning. He still features piles of newspapers and a shelf of books.

Links for "Digital Era" previous post

Here are the links from previous post. Detailed works starts now. By the way, Spin 2 excellent and there was no rain. 

Ray Connolly, the original source of the view that things are changing, also wrote-

"from the point of view of authors, these are potentially exciting times"

Copyright Ray Connolly. There is no longer a Technology section in the Guardian but occasionally they get someone in to make sense of things.

John Naughton on Amazon Kindle etc. He used to be in the Media bit as part of business but now the Discovery section also includes some information tech. This link was by far the most difficult to find. He cautions about whether Apple can save classic publishing but I am not sure the rest of the Guardian tales this in.

"Digital Era" official - Publishers Association

The Guardian 27 Aug has a response from Ursula Mackenzie, chair of the Trade Publishers Council, The Publisher's Association to an article by Ray Connolly in which he claimed that authors can now self publish and self publicise.

More on this later. By the way, just done recce of Heavitree Park and Spin 2 are doing a sound check.

Guardian 30 Aug reports an HMV shareholder who did not wish to be named - 

"Although Waterstones accounts for around a quarter of HMV's tirnover, it has a perfectly viable business without books. The day of reckoning is fast approaching."

So something is happening. It is an event that the Guardian prints this sort of opinion.

Working out management theory on how HMV should transition may be interesting from an academic point of view but the move away from print culture has its own momentum. I will later look back on ideas around the learning organisation and networked learning. It seems to me that social media currently challenge forms of academic publishing.

"Game over for Sony" claims John Naughton in the Observer yesterday. Apparently wireless connectivity is essential. But I find SD cards are ok. Cable to PC also works. In Exeter W.H.Smith now stock the Samsung devices as well as Sony. The Apple kit is for video and music. I am also interested in continuous text. I think Sony may well continue with these products. (Otherwise John Naughton views pretty sound, just that a blogger can add something as well as a link.)

Links tomorrow. Don't want to miss Spin2..

Coming out of summer drift

I do realise this is a bank holiday. Still, I have been intending to make some notes about what is happening and where I was before the summer. Just back in Exeter from trip to Dunbar via Lancaster. In general it seems that things are moving on anyway, whatever the plan was. So phase one could be just to catch up with news.

Spin 2 may be in Heavitree Park this afternoon. Not much publicity but there is one poster display about it. So this series of posts may be postponed. Next, some clippings.

garden photo from Lancaster,would this work in a gallery?

135a

Thinking about art in galleries and howoften it is possible to photograph stuff.
 
On Lancaster campus yesterday I saw this garden near the Nuffield Theatre.
 
I guess this is ok to take a photo and make it public. The garden is partof an artwork about time.
 
Meanwhile in Exeter,Nexus continues with a garden theme. Could there be more networking online that promoted such events?
 
 
 
The garden changes over time so links to more photos welcome.

Update on websites from slides for Check / Study

https://docs.google.com/present/edit?id=0Acvq4rInS0KMYWg3OHdmcDNybTZ4XzM1OWNna3JwOGc0&hl=en

The list of websites on these slides shows not much change at the moment

Cloudworks has been updated to use tabs so there is more space for comments and for a list of events on the front page. You can still find the flow of events if that is more interesting. I think they may have been right to start without the events when building up interest. The object in a network may be just the latest comment.

Critical Management has not got much content. I only go on about this while meaning to be helpful. CMS7 is in 2011, not soon as i had previously thought. I really do not see how papers proposed this year about Web 2 etc. will make much sense after another year. Drafts or blog bits and pieces could have a role. How to find them?

Not much change at the CQI. The blog is easy enough to read.

Print definitely part of Communication

Printweek confirms that since IPEX 2010 the printing industry is now part of something wider, probably known as Communication as in the London College.

6th August page 9 a quote from Mark Lund, Chief Executive for the Central Office of Information( COI)-

Digital media offers the exciting potential of greater engagement with citizens at lower cost.

Not that print is about to vanish. In 2009/10 digital marketing amounted to £44.1m of £532m total.

Printweek also reported that the COI will increasingly look to "owned" and "earned" media channels rather than the traditional "paid for media".

Owned media include websites, blogs Twitter etc, and "earned" media includes viral marketing where the conversation is of enough interest to citizens to generate its own momentum. 

Where is Haymarket in all this? Page ads in print? My guess is that keeping up with what Haymarket actually works on will usefully complement the news pages of Printweek.