http://folksonomy.org.uk/?rss=591 Folksonomy.org.uk is a structured repository of digital culture and creative practice. en-au Creative Commons License: (cc), Simon Perkins Fri, 03 Sep 2010 22:58:43 +1000 Fri, 03 Sep 2010 22:58:43 +1000 Constellations 2.0 http://folksonomy.org.uk/?member=2 60 http://folksonomy.org.uk/Folksonomy.gif http://folksonomy.org.uk/ http://folksonomy.org.uk/?permalink=1953 Buzz is a long forgotten MTV experiment from 1990 In 1988 Mark Pellington developed an idea for a non-linear collage program he called Buzz Created in partnership with MTV Europe producer director Jon Klein Buzz was an ambitious 13-part global series commissioned by MTV and channel 4 UK It was hailed by critics as ground-breaking adventurous television This is episode 1 of the 4 episodes that have managed to survive on an old VHS tape to be digitized for your edification in this modern digital age Black Flag Party YouTube Channel Fig 1 Buzz Episode 01 Segment 01 Fig 2 Buzz Episode 01 Segment 02 Fig 3 Buzz Episode 01 Segment 03 http://folksonomy.org.uk/?permalink=1953 Fri, 03 Sep 2010 22:58:43 +1000 http://folksonomy.org.uk/?permalink=1950 The SoundMap is a partnership project of the British Library and the Noise Futures Network It uses widely available mobile technology in a novel way to capture and aggregate research-quality audio samples Your recordings will be studied by experts from the Noise Futures Network and we shall post an overview of the research results once sufficient data has been collected and analysed Britain s sonic environment is ever changing Urbanisation transport developments climate change and even everyday lifestyles all affect our built and natural soundscapes The sounds around us have an impact on our well being Some sounds have a positive or calming influence Others can be intrusive and disturbing or even affect our health By capturing sounds of today and contributing to the British Library s digital collections you can help build a permanent researchable resource The British Library Board http://folksonomy.org.uk/?permalink=1950 Thu, 26 Aug 2010 09:42:54 +1000 http://folksonomy.org.uk/?permalink=1946 The ongoing femicides in the border town of Ciudad Juarez a real and socially relevant and current ongoing news story is something that I will attempt to present using comic art adapting Kafka s story to use as a foundation for visual treatments of real horror The themes of metamorphosis alienation and the collapse of a family unit are shared in Kafka s text and the news coverage of Ciudad Juarez Mexico The comics medium will be used to communicate with the audience and have them interact with the issue I first heard of the situation in Juarez from my Spanish teacher while in Guadalajara Mexico and the story stayed with me A very different Mexico was depicted closer to the border than what I had seen in my experiences of travelling around the country The ugliness of the murders is heightened by the ongoing corruption that surrounds them I feel confident that I can now give the story a worthy visual treatment something that has been lacking in recent film treatments of the situation For years young women have been preyed on by rapists and murderers while commuting to factories on the outskirts of the city The killings continue and to use imagery from Kafka the men who commit these crimes are like vermin or cockroaches David Valente 2010 Fig 1 Valente D 2010 Sister Midnight Nottingham Issuu Fig 2 Screen-shots from the music video for The Drive In 2001 Invalid Litter Dept USA Grand Royal Virgin 6 07 Sister Midnight is a comic book created by David Valente as part of his MA in Illustration at Nottingham Trent University UK The comic book was developed through a process of experimentation and discovery where Franz Kafka s Metamorphosis was used as a study for exposing contemporary social issues in Ciudad Ju aacute rez Mexico lt div gt lt object style width 630px height 440px gt lt param name movie value http 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issuu com valentepencil docs sister midnight mode embed amp layout http 3A 2F 2Fskin issuu com 2Fv 2Flight 2Flayout xml amp showFlipBtn true amp pageNumber 5 target blank gt Open publication lt a gt - Free lt a href http issuu com target blank gt publishing lt a gt - lt a href http issuu com search q noir target blank gt More noir lt a gt lt div gt lt div gt http://folksonomy.org.uk/?permalink=1946 Mon, 02 Aug 2010 10:57:57 +1000 http://folksonomy.org.uk/?permalink=1941 The eminent art expert Bernhard Berenson called this sheet the most beautiful drawing in the world It is thought to be a study for the angel in the Virgin of the Rocks in the Mus eacute e du Louvre Paris Web Gallery of Art Fig 1 Leonardo da Vinci c 1483 Silverpoint and white highlights on prepared paper 181 x 159 mm Biblioteca Reale Turin http://folksonomy.org.uk/?permalink=1941 Mon, 26 Jul 2010 08:45:01 +1000 http://folksonomy.org.uk/?permalink=1937 This is my final project for motion graphic design which is a Flash animation that depicts an origin myth of the self-created hero Hundred Pacer The name Hundred Pacer derived from a kind of very venomous snake that exists in mountain areas of Taiwan called Hundred Pacer snake and the protagonist Hundred Pacer was an ordinary Paiwanese Indigenous girl until her and her father were killed by the mudslide and the snake God chooses her to revive in passing down the power The story was inspired by the Typhoon Morakot happened in August 2009 which killed nearly 500 people and destroyed half of Taiwan at that time Jonghsiang Kwan 2010 http://folksonomy.org.uk/?permalink=1937 Sun, 18 Jul 2010 00:04:10 +1000 http://folksonomy.org.uk/?permalink=1936 The Victoria Line that opened between 1968 and 1971 provided the opportunity to produce a new and consistent look across the whole line from the trains themselves to the stations and platforms All aspects of design were overseen by Misha Black the Design Consultant for London Transport 1964e1968 who previously had a similar role with British Rail He employed the talents of the The Design Research Unit DRU e a collective of designers artists and architects who designed all aspects of the VIctoria Line Each platform was designed with a very muted colour scheme described by some of the press at the time as the late lavatorial style 1 P58 The tiled designs in each seat recess provided much needed colour and decoration and gave each stop its own visual identity The results were a mixture of direct inspiration from the station name and references to historical details of the local area Ian Moore Design Assembly 3 May 2010 Fig 1 Stockwell by Abram Games - a semi-abstract swan representing the nearby pub of the same name http://folksonomy.org.uk/?permalink=1936 Wed, 14 Jul 2010 21:51:38 +1000 http://folksonomy.org.uk/?permalink=1927 Hands On is a step by step guide to using object-based learning Aimed at those involved with the education of early years and primary school groups the guide demonstrates how this form of learning can be carried out using everyday or museum objects The guide points out that working with real objects and paintings for example in a museum or gallery sparks the imagination helping children develop their powers of observation and interpret the world around them Museums Galleries Scotland 2 Hands On guide bookmarked PDF 11Mb http://folksonomy.org.uk/?permalink=1927 Fri, 02 Jul 2010 12:14:37 +1000 http://folksonomy.org.uk/?permalink=1926 The Second City is a 1930 s Chicago inspired street scene This was created for a client who was looking for a proof of concept with a view to presenting it to games publishers All assets were modelled and textured by myself from an extensive catalogue of reference photography This is a fly-through video recorded in Fraps straight from the UDK viewpoint Breakdowns of meshes and lighting can be seen Thanks to Robert Antill for the work he did in After Effects on this Philip Howlett http://folksonomy.org.uk/?permalink=1926 Fri, 02 Jul 2010 11:29:54 +1000 http://folksonomy.org.uk/?permalink=1920 Creation whether in art research teaching or entrepreneurship requires craft Sociologist Richard Sennett 2008 suggests that to be at its best the craftspersonos deft use of tools and materials combined with an intuition developed from years of practice create reciprocity that animates the form Sennett argues that the craftsperson engaged in a continual dialogue with materials does not suffer the divide of understanding and doing The craftsperson must be patient avoiding quick fixes Good work of this sort emphasizes the lessons of experience through a dialogue between tacit knowledge and explicit critique Sennett 2008 Liora Bresler 2009 Bresler L 2009 University Faculty as Intellectual Entrepreneurs Vision Experiential Learning and Animation Visual Arts Research 35 1 Summer 2009 http://folksonomy.org.uk/?permalink=1920 Fri, 25 Jun 2010 16:58:39 +1000 http://folksonomy.org.uk/?permalink=1913 The Archigram Archival Project AAP is a purely digital resource displaying digital versions of works held in many different collections The main collections are the Archigram Archive held and run by Dennis Crompton and the Ron Herron Archive held and run by Simon Herron but work from other personal Archigram collections and public collections has also been made available through this current project The AAP focuses on the main Archigram period of 1961-1974 but includes all the projects both before and after these dates which have been included in the project list of the Archigram Archives at the time of doing the project The main omissions from the Archigram Archival Project website are the films television programmes and audio-visual material which for technical or copyright reasons cannot be included at this stage Centre for Experimental Practice Department of Architecture at the University of Westminster http://folksonomy.org.uk/?permalink=1913 Sun, 13 Jun 2010 01:31:58 +1000 http://folksonomy.org.uk/?permalink=1912 Michel Foucault s reflections on power uniquely parallel a position accepted by a significant segment of philosophers of technology that is that technology is not simply an ethically neutral set of artifacts by which we exercise power over nature but also always a set of structured forms of action by which we also inevitably exercise power over ourselves According to this position technology can be associated with diverse human behaviors with distinctions among them often less clear than for either artifacts or cognitions Technological activities inevitably and without easy demarcation also shade from individual or personal into group or institutional forms Mitcham 1994 209 The elaboration of the theoretical origins justification and cultural impact of human institutions is one of the hallmarks of the analysis of power undertaken by Foucault His work therefore could make a valuable contribution to the discussion of the position in the field of the Philosophy of Technology of those who view technology primarily as activity Jim Gerrie Techn eacute 7 2 Winter 2003 2 Gerrie J 2003 Was Foucault a Philosopher of Technology Techn eacute Research in Philosophy and Technology 7 Winter 2003 http://folksonomy.org.uk/?permalink=1912 Fri, 11 Jun 2010 15:01:28 +1000 http://folksonomy.org.uk/?permalink=1910 Welcome to monstermedia10 com here you can find out more about the 2010 Nottingham Trent Multimedia Summer Exhibition and it s graduates Jonathan Hearn has produced this fantastic time lapse video of multimedia students preparing the exhibition space Wil Thomas The 3 RGB monsters represent the Multimedia pathways of Moving Image red Interactive Media green and Virtual Environments blue http://folksonomy.org.uk/?permalink=1910 Mon, 07 Jun 2010 19:20:03 +1000 http://folksonomy.org.uk/?permalink=1892 Scientists in the US have succeeded in developing the first synthetic living cell The researchers constructed a bacterium s genetic software and transplanted it into a host cell The resulting microbe then looked and behaved like the species dictated by the synthetic DNA The researchers constructed a bacterium s genetic software and transplanted it into a host cell The resulting microbe then looked and behaved like the species dictated by the synthetic DNA Dr Craig Venter likened the advance to making new software for the cell The researchers copied an existing bacterial genome They sequenced its genetic code and then used synthesis machines to chemically construct a copy Dr Venter told BBC News We ve now been able to take our synthetic chromosome and transplant it into a recipient cell - a different organism As soon as this new software goes into the cell the cell reads it and converts into the species specified in that genetic code The new bacteria replicated over a billion times producing copies that contained and were controlled by the constructed synthetic DNA This is the first time any synthetic DNA has been in complete control of a cell said Dr Venter Victoria Gill BBC News http://folksonomy.org.uk/?permalink=1892 Thu, 20 May 2010 22:50:16 +1000 http://folksonomy.org.uk/?permalink=1891 The proposals for a new approach to the assessment and funding of research - set out last year in the Higher Education Funding Council for England s consultation paper on the research excellence framework - have sparked more than a few rows Much of the conflict has revolved around whether or not the economic and social impact of research should feature in the regime that will replace the research assessment exercise Our starting point should be to remember that the RAE was deeply flawed It was dominated by vested interests was embarrassingly subjective and seriously undervalued those scholars who bridge the worlds of academe and practice The REF is then a major step forward from the RAE not least because it broadens the definition of research To suggest as the REF does that research is a process of investigation leading to new insights effectively shared invites all scholars to think afresh about how they communicate their research findings and to whom Yes there are challenges in research impact assessment New thinking around say research possibilities is needed But once academics recognise that research findings should be shared we have made a significant step forward By definition we are now discussing research impact or at least potential research impact However the intellectual argument relating to research impact rather like the debate about the expansion of university public engagement activities goes much deeper than a discussion of how scholars can improve the manner in which they communicate with different audiences - important as this is Rather it concerns a reshaping for some disciplines at least of the way scholarship is conceived It heralds a move towards the notion of engaged scholarship Many UK academics - medics are a classic example - are already actively engaged with stakeholders outside the campus in the process of defining research questions and co-producing new knowledge This is not to suggest that all scholars should be engaged scholars - indeed that would be a bad thing But the research impact debate can open up the possibility of broadening the definition of scholarship Robin Hambleton 4 February 2010 Times Higher Education http://folksonomy.org.uk/?permalink=1891 Thu, 20 May 2010 21:57:25 +1000 http://folksonomy.org.uk/?permalink=1873 The complexities already evident in L anti-oedipe are compounded by Deleuze and Guattari s deliberate refusal to propose a central narrative or theme for the book A Thousand Plateaus Capitalism and Schizophrenia They refer to the sections in Mille plateaux as plateaus a term they derived from the anthropological work of Gregory Bateson Bateson had used the term to describe the libidinal economy he found in Bali which differed from that in the West with its emphasis on climax Deleuze and Guattari intended that the sections of their book should not reproduce the climactic and dissipative character of Western discourse as manifested in the traditional book format with its culminations and terminations They hoped rather that each plateau would operate as part of an assemblage of connecting parts to be approached by the reader in whichever order they chose As this might suggest Mille plateaux is a complex and difficult book though at the same time extraordinarily compelling Charlie Gere Gere Charlie 2002 Digital Culture Reaktion Books ISBN 1861891431 1861891431 pbk http://folksonomy.org.uk/?permalink=1873 Wed, 28 Apr 2010 22:53:55 +1000