Cross Media Rhetorics - aesthetics of mobile communication and wireless communities

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Cross Media Rhetorics

- aesthetics of mobile communication and wireless communities

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Aesthetics of mobile communication [digital rhetorics E2006 / session11]

PresentationCourse introduction

Lecture – part 1

Exercise

Break

Lecture – part 2

Cases

Discussion

Introduction to next exercise

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“I specify now that rhetoric is the functional organization of discourse, within its social and cultural context, in all its aspects, exception made for its realisation as a strictly metalanguage”

(Paolo Valesio, 1980)

“Rhetorics in the most general sense may perhaps be identified with the energy inherent in communication”

George Kennedy, 1992)


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What does the photoblog want? - Kris R: Cohen

Conventional photography:

•From photography to photograph

•Representation and the extension of the Real

•1) choice of subject; 2) capturing; 3) viewing as image


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Photoblogging:

•[digital] photos and short text commentary to cronical

daily - and everyday life - events.

• And by using a personal [photo] web log.

•Pursuing aesthetics of “real life” by “shooting from the

hip” Or resistance against intentionality.


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“The picture of moblogging gets more interesting when we include the doing of; [...] doing as a product and site of meaningful activity in its own right”

(Kris R. Cohen, p.887)

“Photoblog, photoblogger, photography: that particular hour, a particular state of mind, the look of the city” No element in the preceding lists leaves off neatly before another. They shuffle and entwine. So that the resulting photograph is both a thing and an experience”



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Collapse:

• of the separated activities of photoblogging with the

activities of photography

• But without collapsing; space, time and the desires of

both activities.


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Motivation:

• photoblog as motivation for taking pictures

• the blog comes to enrich the moment of taking photos,

without being why the photos are taken.

•There by motivation derives from the juggling between

to temporalities


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“Photoblogs incorporate, and are in turn incorporated by at least four disparate entities: (1) the self of photoblogger, (2) a potential audience for the self’s activities, (3) those activities themselvs, (4) the technologies that operate in and around these entities”



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“Photoblogs incorporate, and are in turn incorporated by at least four disparate entities: (1) the self of photoblogger, (2) a potential audience for the self’s activities, (3) those activities themselvs, (4) thttp://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/d/df/Moblog.pnghe the technologies that opetare in and around these entities”


Moblog

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moblogging


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Mobile Technosoma - Ingrid Richardson

“Significantly, over the past two decades, many of the distinctions between mass media and communications technologies have converged to become “network media”[...] Such a shift means that ‘audiences’ become ‘users’ (or agents), effecting changing relationships between individuals and society, private and public domains, temporal and spatial perception, location and presence, embodiment and interface”

(Ingrid Richardson - 2005)


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Handheld and itinerant media devices:

• have become “multifunctional, sociotechnical devices,

portable and interactive technospaces which enfolds

(and unfolds) an assortment of media forms”

• Medium specificity (Bolter and Grusin, 2000):new

media ‘remediate’ mature media and cultural forms.


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Phenomenology of mobil media:

• the use of mobilphone screen in not subjected to a

‘dedicated’ practice (as cinema and tv) but always

surrounded by spactial topography and physical or

social activities.

•Thus Richardson argues for the mobile devices have

specific technology - body (and we might add) - social -

contextual relations.

•(Don Ihde) Body and technolgy comes to form a

collusive - integrated - entity

•(de Certeau) “[pedestrians] make possible the space of

the city” a practice surely altered by mobile phones.


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“Yet the ability to experience teleprecence as part of our mundane and everyday practices is but one instance of our ready incorporation of tools and media into our corporal schematics, and as extensions of our bodies and perceptions”

(Ingrid Richardson - 2005)


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Distributed aesthetics

“Rather than try to define the terminology [...] of distributed art theories and practises we have proposed instead a descriptor for the aesthesia of contemporary networked encounters. Distributed aesthetics, then, concerns experiences that are sensed,lived and produced in more than one place and time”

(Lise Gye - et. al. - 2006)


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Distributed aesthetics

Relational aesthetics:

•(Nicolas Borriaud) ”Relational aesthetics adresses the

concept of art being defined by social interaction, by co-

ordinated or impromptu acts of participation that may or

may not require specific locations in and times at which

to occur” (Darren Tofts - 2006)

•With the advent of a culture of digital connectivity, the

audience becomes more distributed. Hence a new more

inclusive concept of distributed aesthetics.

•Further this concept is not limited to artistic pratices

alone.

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Cases:

Simpletext, !Alerting Infrastructure!(Jonah Bruckner-Cohen)

Mogi (Newt games)

Uncle Roy All Around You (Blast theory)

Interactive Architecture (Graffiti Research Lab)

Txtual Healing (Paul Notzold)

Asphalt Games (Elizabeth Goodman, Michele Chang)

Milkproject (Esther Polak, Ieva Auzina and RIXC)

Yellow Arrow (Counts Media)

http://www.mogimogi.com/

http://www.mogimogi.com/

http://www.blasttheory.co.uk/bt/work_uncleroy.html

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