Sunday, February 20, 2011

Re: [Yasmin_discussions] Next Step Pubishing: some examples, and questions

Dear Annick.
Television has also been seen as a «publishing» device, or at least a
public service vehicle, another question is if Television is doing it?
Vítor

Citando Annick Bureaud <bureaud@altern.org>:

> Dear Salvatore, Dear Yasminers,
>
> Reading Salvatore email and looking at the links he suggested, I was
> wandering if the words "publisher" and "publishing" were not
> changing meanings (or recovering an original meaning ?).
>
> Publishing is "making things public", it has been attached to
> printed matters for many years, it is interesting that it needed
> "new electronic media" to be detached from the printed format.
> Television has not been seen as a "publishing" system, which it is.
>
> So, I suspect that my question tonight is : can we define new names
> to label the different forms of "making things public" ?
>
> Annick
>
>
>
> xDxD.vs.xDxD wrote:
>> Dear Yasminers,
>> some pointers to interesting developments that can show possible scenarios
>> for next step publishing processes, and the ways in which new forms of
>> expression can open up interesting questions and spaces
>>
>> first of all Manifest.AR
>> http://www.manifestar.info/
>> and their interventions in MoMA and at the Venice Biennial, through which
>> they explore reappropriation of spaces and interesting possibilities to
>> create spaces for expression "on top" of other ones
>>
>> and then the first steps towards enhancing the experience of books:
>> http://www.bookbusinessmag.com/article/atria-books-employs-new-smart-phone-technology-add-digital-experience-physical-books/
>> Atria books add tags to books allowing readers to access authors' other
>> works and additional materials such as video and documentation: publishing
>> books inside books
>>
>> and interstitial publishing can create revenues such as at Windermere Real
>> Estates
>> http://blogs.msdn.com/b/tag/archive/2010/04/20/real-estate-windermere-tag.aspx
>> in which microinformation is published directly on the houses for sale,
>> allowing potential buyers to see house interiors, open dialogues, etc
>>
>> moving onto totally different domains, the "Selective Memory Theatre"
>> creates artificial memory mechanisms by using Fickr as a global brain,
>> trying to mimicking the ways our brains work
>> http://www.fastcodesign.com/1663245/selective-memory-theatre-uses-flickr-to-mimic-the-brain-video
>> this is an interesting concept for generative publishing mechanisms
>>
>> and, remaining in the human body, the beautifully poetic project "Eye am
>> You" by artist Jarashi Suki
>> http://works.jarashi.tv/
>> suggests how devices can be built to publish small, intense, narratives onto
>> bodies
>>
>> and even the disappearance of user interfaces can bear new spaces full of
>> information that build languages made of gestures
>> http://news.designlanguage.com/post/1611663345
>>
>> or as in the proximeter developed at the information ecology lab at MIT
>> http://eco.media.mit.edu/static/proximeter/index.html
>> the present and past of our social clouds become publishable gestures
>>
>> and one last example: Sukey
>> http://sukey.org/
>> this is a realtime mobile application created and used by student movements
>> to publish the urban scenario during protests, including positions of the
>> police, of the crowds of protesters, and with tools specifically designed to
>> publish escape routes, safety areas, and collaborative, emergent urban paths
>> across the city.
>>
>> all these examples, among the hundreds that start filling websites and our
>> mailboxes every day, suggest interesting questions on important issues such
>> as citizenship, privacy, property and on the re-encoding of our time and
>> space.
>>
>> for example: what is the form of a publisher who choses to create a
>> "publication" like the proximeter? how does it deal with privacy? what
>> business model does it enact? how can these publications scale to become a
>> part of our lives, allowing us to live in more informed, aware ways?
>>
>> or, in the case of Sukey: how can these tools be shaped to provide
>> opportunities for peer to peer organization? and to create autonmous
>> information spaces?
>>
>> Salvatore
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