Obama, Master of Media Convergence

Here's a kind of strange example of media convergence in which the Obama campaign has put an election night photo set on Flickr that is faux amateur. Notice the apparent lack of color correction (most likely enhanced), the awkward framing, and the 'candid' poses.

http://flickr.com/photos/barackobamadotcom/sets/72157608716313371/

Monkey Town!

http://www.monkeytownhq.com/


I'm excited that we'll get a chance to design pieces for Monkey Town's four channel surround screen space and have a screening in December. Our screening is December 17th at 10pm.


TECH

They have:
• VGA and S-Video splitters
• 3 runs of S-Video cords on the Floor as well as one VGA cord
• 6 DVD players
• 1 miniDV deck
• a couple VHS players
• they can also hook-up computers

if anyone has any equipment, they're welcome to bring it in earlier, any time after 5pm.

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Additional tech questions from Meredith D. with answers (thanks Meredith!)
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(Q) Do you still have the DVD synchronizer (and it still works with
exactly two chapters on each of four dvds)?

we don't have the synchronizer, but we can synchronize to frame accuracy.
leaving a 5 second slug at the beginning is helpful.

(Q) Do you have the 5.1 sound system?

yes.

(Q) I imagine you have a sound board

we have a 12-channel mixer.

(Q) If people have work that runs off their lap top, they need to bring
their own VGA adaptor (or S-Video or HDMI)?

no HDMI connection, though we do have DVI converters.

Lawrence Lessig REMIX lecture this Sunday

Part of Evan Korth's Computers and Society lecture series

Sunday, November 9, 2008
6:00pm - 7:00pm
Warren Weaver Hall, Room 109
251 Mercer Street

The content industry has convinced industry in general that extremism in copyright regulation is good for business and economic growth. That's false. In this talk, Professor Lessig describes the creative and profitable future that culture and industry could realize, if only we gave up IP extremism.

http://remix.lessig.org/

micro projector!!

Shazam! A Projector Is Shrunk
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/05/technology/personaltech/05pogue.html?partner=permalink&exprod=permalink

Craig Baldwin lecture/screening: "The Collage-Essay"

The Second Annual Experimental Lecture
NYU Cinema Studies, NYU MIAP and NYU UGFTV

Tuesday, November 18, 2008
7:00pm - 9:00pm

Room 648, Tisch School of the Arts, NYU
721 Broadway
Contact: 998-1600

Join San Francisco film aficionado and visionary Craig Baldwin(Tribulation 99: Alien Anomalies Under America;Sonic Outlaws;O No Coronado!;Spectres of the Spectrum) for a wild ride through his three-decade career in alternative film, stopping along the way for: dead media, arti-factuality, cinema povera, availabilism, ventriloquism, obsession, fetishism, Situationism, and micro-cinemas.

Craig Baldwin uses footage found on the fringes of popular consciousness to undermine and transform the traditional documentary, infusing it with the energy of high-speed montage and a provocative commentary that targets subjects from intellectual property rights and rampant consumerism to American imperialism, the military-industrial complex, and the origins of Scientology. He will screen clips from throughout his career, as well as never-before-seen out-takes and forgotten detritus from his basement cine-cave. Baldwin's most recent film,Mock Up on Mu(2008), had its New York City premiere at the 2008 New York Film Festival and will premiere in Europe soon at the Rotterdam International Film Festival.

Sylvia Schedelbauer and Alison Kobayashi Nov. 10th

Flaherty NYC, Nov. 10, 7:30 pm
The November Flaherty NYC program will feature the New York City debut of works by German-Japanese filmmaker Sylvia Schedelbauer, whose films negotiate the space between broader historical narratives and personal, psychological realms mainly through poetic manipulations of found and archival footage, and Canadian-Japanese filmmaker Alison Kobayashi, who plays the part of every character in her rich narratives inspired by found objects that contain traces of private experiences. Alison Kobayashi will participate in a post-screening discussion moderated by Pamela Cohn.

http://www.flahertyseminar.org/rffs_flah_NYC_Nov.asp

Doug Goodwin coordinates

Here's some background on the artist Doug Goodwin who will be visiting class on Friday:

Lossless is a recent project currently showing at the Carpenter Center at Harvard that Doug collaborated on with Rebecca Baron.

Lossless Wiki

Doug's site

bio

Most Public Display of Nonlinearity

Not to be too overt in class about my leftist media bias, but I must say that it has been interesting trying to follow the trajectory of Govenor Palin's thought process. You've all seen or heard reference to the Katie Couric interviews, I'm sure. Here are a couple of links highlighting Palin's rhetorical nonlinearity. Both could have been projects for this class. (Wink wink)

Sarah Palin Debate Flow Chart (from the Daily Kos)

PalinSpeak.com

weeks updated!

check out the "weeks" section. it's been updated to reflect last week's push back of reading and topics. project 2 is still due week 8, however.

PrOjEcT 1s

are up:

http://post-post.net/nonlinear08/project1s.php

SleepingForgetfulCreativityMonsters

Project One.

http://ima.hunter.cuny.edu/~knafoe/NonLinear01/

uploading to your web acct.

General:
http://fm.hunter.cuny.edu/support/

Connecting for uploads:
http://fm.hunter.cuny.edu/support/gradlogin.shtml

Your URL:
http://fm.hunter.cuny.edu/support/AccessingYourWebsite.shtml

Crimson Storms, 2008

Here's a link to my video from the other day's class. Can you all post your work as well?


Crimson Storms, 2008 from Dylan Gauthier on Vimeo.

excellent and fun nonlinear film

Zazie dans le Métro. . .done in 1960, directed by Louis Malle. The dialogue is very funny and observant...plays with time, fantasy, anxiety, ideas of 'modern society' all in a very spastic time-line. Just watched it this week.

The Greenroom: Reconsidering the Documentary and Contemporary Art

Highly recommended

CCS Galleries and Hessel Museum of Art,
September 27, 2008 - February 1, 2009

[from their website]:
The Greenroom: Reconsidering the Documentary and Contemporary Art is the inaugural event of a long-term CCS Bard research project on "the documentary" that will include a large-scale exhibition in the CCS Galleries and Hessel Museum of Art, as well as related screenings and discussions throughout the year.

The research project will investigate the heritage of documentary practices in contemporary art, in relation to the history of film, documentary photography and television as well as to video art. The project aims to situate these contemporary documentary practices within current cultural production, and will explore their role within mainstream media. Artist and theoretician Hito Steyerl will collaborate with the Center on all aspects of the project., which will begin in March 2008 and run for approximately three years.

Documentary art works have played a defining role in art production of the late 20th and early 21st century. At the same time their status in an art context has been questioned. In the context of globalization, the representation of the real became once again an important problem in the field of art. Political and economical upheavals prompted a renewed interest for social reality and its documentary mediation. Furthermore, the failure of mainstream media to deal with current events in apropriate ways made documentary art practices take up a compensatory position. By merging with art traditions such as video-, performance- and conceptual art, documentary forms were reinvented and reinvigorated. A wide range of recent documentary works attests to a new diversity of forms, ranging from conceptual mockumentaries to reflexive photo essays, from split screen slide shows to found footage video reportage. Although innovative documentary art forms abound, little has been discussed and even less has been written about the contemporary boom of documentary forms. The Greenroom will address urgent questions about the history of documentary art forms in the context of globalising media and an expanding art world. It will investigate the relationship of fact and fiction, media and mediation, the question of archive and copyright, and the shifting role of documentary forms in the age of digital reproduction.

Beehive

Another good site:

http://beehive.temporalimage.com/bee_core/index.html

ALT-X

This is a really good site for Net Art and ebooks:

http://www.altx.com/home.html

Exit Art's Signs of Change exhibition

As long as we're on the topic of political art...

SIGNS OF CHANGE: SOCIAL MOVEMENT CULTURES 1960s to NOW

September 20 - November 22, 2008

Opening: Saturday September 20, 7-10pm

http://www.exitart.org/site/pub/exhibition_programs/signs_of_change/index.html


Screenings!
http://www.exitart.org/site/pub/exhibition_programs/signs_of_change/film_screenings.html

Baader-Meinhof Syndrome

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baader-Meinhof_Phenomenon

from Meredith D. Thanks Meredith!

nonlinear '08 blog born

I'll add everyone in the class so you can all blog.

Also check out some nonlinear bookmarks at http://delicious.com/n0nlinear/. (please note that the "o" is actually a "0" or zero). Many of the links will be to things referenced in class. More will be added...