In response to your comment and question:
> I find it strange that we are still talking in such binary terms. Given the
> interconnectedness of the world at large, these distinctions surely must
> give way to more useful terms. What are they?
I am not sure how useful this term is but I increasingly see "glocal"
(global + local) used to describe the intersection.
Best,
Robert Thill
On 4/16/09, greg giannis <greg.giannis@vu.edu.au> wrote:
> Hi,
> I have been following part (only so many hours in a day!) of the discussion
> and have found it very interesting.
> I am an artist and educator in australia. I work in the area of media art
> and teach in a visual art dept and a multimedia dept.
>
> I will answer some of the initial questions raised drawing from my own
> experiences:
>
> Is (new) media a tool which reinforces people's creativity and how it is
> expressed in terms of social behavior?
>
> In many of my classes I introduce media art as a way of showing the range of
> creative possibilities that have been made possible with new media. This has
> proven to be very successful as it has inspired many students to think
> outside of the square when creating work. An example: a class is introduced
> to the simplest way (that I know) of adding peripheral input devices to a
> computer. They are then required to create an interactive installation that
> makes use of a simple input device, other than a mouse or keyboard, for
> example a pressure pad. The range of projects that resulted from this simple
> strategy surprised me, and the students were truly engaged in a manner that
> I had yet to witness. They created unique works, and worked in groups that
> seldom fell apart.
>
> Is new media just a tool or an art form?
>
> New media has provided an amazing array of new tools for artists and others
> to work with. But as an art form, it is a very difficult one to define,
> constantly in flux and embedded with the technologies that dominate our
> cultures.
>
> How are democracy and social connectivity via new media related?
>
> My current project "peripato telematikos" <http://www.peripato.net> uses
> mobile phones, the internet, walking strategies, and a custom web interface
> to create collective and individual subjective mappings. The project has
> been run in a number of workshops where participation and interest was
> strong. Comments from the participants indicated that the whole process was
> an empowering one for them. Technologies were demystified and made to appear
> more accessible. The use of the mobile phone in these types of works, is
> often an attempt to increase access to the creation of works through the use
> of a highly ubiquitous device. Furthermore, through the creation of these
> works social connectivity increased although this was not an original
> intent; it just happened as a consequence of the way the projects have been
> run. A paper outlining this project can be found here:
> http://www.peripato.net/texts/paper.pdf
>
> Are global and local systems two separate entities, or is it about one
> place?
>
> I find it strange that we are still talking in such binary terms. Given the
> interconnectedness of the world at large, these distinctions surely must
> give way to more useful terms. What are they?
>
> Thanks
> Greg Giannis [giannis.greg@gmail.com]
>
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