Media in Public – 29/03/11 – Assignment Catchup, User Studies, Technologies

Housekeeping

  • Anything further that needs to be said about project development – or are you ok?  What are your questions?
  • Funds – have you submitted your fees forms?

Readings

April 5th Class:

April 26th Tutorials:

Details »

Published on March 28, 2011 2:51 pm.
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Media in Public – 22/03/11 – Readings & Assignment CatchUp, Research Methods

Housekeeping

  • Last week – more (surprise) feedback from Michael!  How was that for y’all?
  • Anything further that needs to be said about project development – or are you ok?  What are your questions?

“Refractive Index”

Project development – £500 pounds

Another one of Jamie’s stupid 80s/90s movie clips

Readings

Details »

Published on March 21, 2011 7:34 pm.
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Media in Public – 22/03/11 – Readings & Assignment CatchUp, Research Methods

Housekeeping

  • Last week – more (surprise) feedback from Michael!  How was that for y’all?
  • Anything further that needs to be said about project development – or are you ok?  What are your questions?

“Refractive Index”

Project development – £500 pounds

Another one of Jamie’s stupid 80s/90s movie clips

Readings

Details »

Published on March 21, 2011 7:34 pm.
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Media in Public – 15/03/11 – Feedback, Readings & Energy

Housekeeping

  • City Council brief- what do we think?
    • Have a bit of feedback from the City?
    • Shall we help each other – go through the projects and give comments?
  • Feedback from Sarah / Michael

“Refractive Index”

Another one of Jamie’s stupid movie clips

Readings

Details »

Published on March 14, 2011 10:19 pm.
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Media in Public – 15/03/11 – Feedback, Readings & Energy

Housekeeping

  • City Council brief- what do we think?
    • Have a bit of feedback from the City?
    • Shall we help each other – go through the projects and give comments?
  • Feedback from Sarah / Michael

“Refractive Index”

Another one of Jamie’s stupid movie clips

Readings

Details »

Published on March 14, 2011 10:19 pm.
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Media in Public – 08/03/11 – City Council Visit

Housekeeping

  • City council – Michael Crilly (michael.crilly@newcastle.gov.uk) – Sarah Doggett (sarah.doggett@newcastle.gov.uk)

Today’s presentations

  • Ben Thompson – night-time visitors in the city centre – creation of a “Bat-Phone” style system
  • Encouraged to control the phone or “big button”
  • Skateboarding – target audience and development of the
  • taking the audience as central – skateboarding
  • taking the interface as central – lighting
  • Joanne Montgomery – walking tour allowing people to understand when they’re near a piece of artwork
  • geocaching – gps drawing – minute war – degree confluence – shutterspot
  • dead drops – heresay – banksy
  • app and/or object to be used with map – full experience prototype
  • new to Newcastle – target audience?
  • keys – what do they get you into…? physical keys…

Details »

Published on March 8, 2011 12:10 pm.
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Media in Public – 29/02/11 – Favourites, Soundwalks, Ubiquity, Devices

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Housekeeping

City Council brief- what do we think?

Readings – Did you read this?

    • Public Screens and the Transformation of Public Space
    • Michel-Foucault-Panopticism
    • Temporary Autonomous Zones – Original Text – Hakim Bey
      • Pirate Utopias – temporary areas of ‘insurgency’ that liberate the mind/space/time/imagination
      • Could we imagine creating spaces like this with mobile technologies?
      • An ‘uprising that does not engage with the state’
      • Satori
      • “The first century without terra incognita, without a frontier” – psychospatial-frontiers
      • “Gaps in the calendar” – psychotemporal-frontiers
      • The Net (all info) & The Web (support system for TAZ?) – parasitism and contradiction, ‘riding the beam’ – “Living off the surplus of social overproduction”
      • The flesh as a terminal, machines as ambassadors, information is mediation
      • “Life’s penetration by the marvelous”
      • Arditi and D’Annunzio
      • Parties, festivals: “Let us admit that we have attended parties where for one brief night a replublic of gratified desires was attained” – more reality and force than the U.S. government? Details »

Published on March 1, 2011 10:00 am.
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Media in Public – 22/02/11 – Favourites, Sound & City Council Visit

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Housekeeping

  • Rock Art Sessions
    • Brief – let’s see a few…
    • Reponses to the brief
    • (Field trip?)
    • Paleolithic Projection? Thomas Zummer, 1995

     

  • Lalya Gaye’s Presentation – thoughts? reactions?
  • Stories/insights from your public space excursions of any kind this week:
    • What are the information sources intend for me in this space? What other information is there?
    • What are the energies required to sustain this space?
    • What aspects of this space are public? Private?
    • What is being hidden? What is being revealed?
    • What aspects of the space limit or constrain?
    • What aspects of the space encourage or provoke?
    • Why is this space here?
    • What are you encouraged to do here?

     

  • A few notes from Jamie recent activities…

Published on February 22, 2011 10:30 am.
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Media in Public – 22/02/11 – Favourites, Sound & City Council Visit

thomaszummer.jpg

Housekeeping

  • Rock Art Sessions
    • Brief – let’s see a few…
    • Reponses to the brief
    • (Field trip?)
    • Paleolithic Projection? Thomas Zummer, 1995

     

  • Lalya Gaye’s Presentation – thoughts? reactions?
  • Stories/insights from your public space excursions of any kind this week:
    • What are the information sources intend for me in this space? What other information is there?
    • What are the energies required to sustain this space?
    • What aspects of this space are public? Private?
    • What is being hidden? What is being revealed?
    • What aspects of the space limit or constrain?
    • What aspects of the space encourage or provoke?
    • Why is this space here?
    • What are you encouraged to do here?

     

  • A few notes from Jamie recent activities…

Published on February 22, 2011 10:30 am.
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Media in Public – 15/02/11 – ROCK ART Wrap Up & Lalya Gaye!

Housekeeping

  • FIRST HOUR (11AM) – about Rock Art brainstorm ideas with Deborah Maxwell from ICCHS. Review of your project response from last week – you were to prepare a one-page graphic A3 summarising one idea in response to the Rock Art project we about last week.
  • SECOND HOUR (12AM) – Lalya Gaye Artist Talk and projects (Research Assistant, Social Inclusion for the Digital Economy – Creative Group)

To Do

  • ASSIGN EX3A: Choose a public space media project (by an artist or designer other than yourself) to look at in class next week. It can be in any domain (public art, gaming, mobile services) but must use technology and take place in urban space and involve the general public.

Published on February 15, 2011 1:00 pm.
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Media in Public – 15/02/11 – ROCK ART Wrap Up & Lalya Gaye!

Housekeeping

  • FIRST HOUR (11AM) – about Rock Art brainstorm ideas with Deborah Maxwell from ICCHS. Review of your project response from last week – you were to prepare a one-page graphic A3 summarising one idea in response to the Rock Art project we about last week.
  • SECOND HOUR (12AM) – Lalya Gaye Artist Talk and projects (Research Assistant, Social Inclusion for the Digital Economy – Creative Group)

To Do

  • ASSIGN EX3A: Choose a public space media project (by an artist or designer other than yourself) to look at in class next week. It can be in any domain (public art, gaming, mobile services) but must use technology and take place in urban space and involve the general public.

Published on February 15, 2011 1:00 pm.
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Media in Public – 08/02/11 – Rock Art Mobile Project

Rock Art: An Introduction

Rock art – ancient carvings ‘pecked’ onto natural stone surfaces – forms a hugely significant part of the heritage of the North East of England. The abstract motifs, often referred to as ‘cup and ring marks’, provide a tangible and iconic link to our prehistoric ancestors which extends beyond the basic activities of everyday survival, to hint at a much richer, creative, and potentially spiritual dimension to their lives. Mostly found in situ, on outcrops and large, earth-fast boulders, rock art also reflects the intimate relationship that Neolithic and Bronze Age people had with the natural landscapes they inhabited between 6000 and 3500 years ago. The purpose or meaning of the cups and rings remains shrouded in mystery and continues to challenge archaeologists. The open, dynamic, debate around British rock art together with its physical availability, primarily above ground, makes rock art an accessible and ‘democratic’ part of the historic environment. Details »

Published on February 8, 2011 5:49 pm.
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Media in Public – 01/02/11 – Introductions

Housekeeping

  • Tuesday, 11AM-1PM, Space 7, Culture Lab
  • Media in Public – Schedule Page (top of this blog)
  • Media in Public blog posts – assignments, reading materials, notes from week to week. Comments welcomed!
  • Project collaborators – City Council Heritage Office
  • IMPORTANT – Next week’s session will meet at the Great North Museum main entrance!!!! Details »

Published on February 1, 2011 9:37 am.
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MMME – WEEK 9 – User studies

Just before you finalise your projects, this is an opportunity to look at some user studies methods and some interesting examples of heritage ‘interpretation’.

Memory aid: http://prezi.com/wo_dtkfhkz8-/

Published on May 13, 2010 11:00 am.
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MMME – Week 8 – Reading Catch-up and (Individual) Project Discussions

Rationale

Moving into a final set of weeks for your submissions – so instead of trying to cover new ground we’ll just use this week to catch up on a few readings for discussion, and bring in any new references you would like to share with the class. The final hour of the session will be spent on individual project and module submission questions.

Readings from Prior Weeks

Published on May 6, 2010 9:01 am.
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MMME – Week 7 – Project Discussions

Rationale

Thanks to those who presented project ideas last week! The ideas expressed were excellent, and they were all very well communicated for the most part. Today we’ll go through each project and see what we can do to improve them, as well as brainstorm ways of presenting the ideas effectively for Final Presentations on May 27th.


Discussions

  • Summarize the idea in one sentence
  • What are the strengths of each of these approaches
  • How might your own project compliment Details »

Published on April 28, 2010 11:47 pm.
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MMME – Week 5 – lalya/mobile processing/android

Housekeeping

  • Thanks to everyone who helped with AV last week!
  • Reschedule of Midterm presentations – THURSDAY APRIL 22 – 11AM (Please re-read the brief and check the handbook for req’ts)

Rationale

This week we have Lalya Gaye visiting with us!

Details »

Published on March 18, 2010 11:40 am.
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MMME – Week 4 – project research/soundwalks/

Housekeeping

  • Thoughts from last week – comments on visitor(s)
  • Materials that Ben dropped off…
  • LET’S TALK – next event TBC march 16th
Review of Last Week
  • Your research assignments – research projects of general public media projects and telephone projects
  • Audio phone service descriptions – what services did you try and what did you love/hate about them? Details »

Published on March 3, 2010 8:29 pm.
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MMME – Week 1 – intro/media/space

Housekeeping

  • Mobile Media and Media Ecologies blog posts
  • Thursdays, 11AM-1PM, Space 7
  • Project collaborators – City Council Heritage Office
Review of Last Week Details »

Published on February 10, 2010 12:38 pm.
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MMME – Mobile sound and music

Some perspectives of sound

  • Noises and musical sounds [Helmholtz, 1885/1954].”The sensation of a musical tone is due to a rapid periodic motion of the sonorous body” and “the sensation of noise to non-periodic motions”.

    Helmholtz, H. L.F. (1885/1954) On the Sensations of Tone, Alexander Ellis, trans., New York: Dover Edition.
  • Sonorous objects (“objets sonores”) [Schaeffer, 1954]
    Instead of distinguishing sounds as noises and musical tones nor with reference to their sources, he attempts to separate signals from source, and to restrict itself to describing the differences among sounds themselves.

    “The sonorous object (i.e. sound) is not the instrument that was played”.

    Schaeffer, P. (1966) “Acousmatics.” In Audio Culture: Readings in Modern Music. Ed. C. Cox and D. Warner. New York: Continuum, 2004, pp. 76-81.

  • Musical listening and Everyday listening [Gaver, 1993] Details »

Published on October 6, 2009 4:08 pm.
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