This a term that has been used now since 5 or 6 years ago to
underline the Global way of thinking and the Local way of acting. We
have used it to designate the Project Glocal Youth and to ilustrate
some interesting examples of local-global media appropriations by
youngsters from different parts of the world:
http://atirateaomar.blogspot.com/2009/04/why-glocal-youth.html
best wishes.
Vítor
Citando robert.thill@gmail.com:
> Dear Greg,
>
> 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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