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Presentation given at The Network as a Space and Medium for Collaborative Interdisciplinary Art Practice, 8-10 Nov 2009, in Bergen, Norway.
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Personal Stories,
The Network as a Space and Medium for Collaborative
Interdisciplinary Art PracticeBergen, November 8-10, 2009
Jill Walker Rettberg, University of Bergen
Image: “iheartlatkes”, (CC) http://www.flickr.com/photos/41520827@N05/3901774629/
Corporate Templates
Literary narrative genres develop from personal narrative practices
Photo: (CC) Lenore Edmanhttp://www.flickr.com/photos/lenore-m/467996341/
Writing girls
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.0/
Image: http://flickr.com/photos/hand-nor-glove/179558293/ by “This Year’s Love”
Personal media are the opposite of mass media.
Lüders, Marika (2008) ‘Conceptualizing Personal Media’. New Media and Society 10 (6): 683-702.
Photo: Jeff Hitchcock (“Arbron”) (CC) http://www.flickr.com/photos/arbron/65785552/
Photo from Flickr, CC by Dean Michaud (DNAMichaud)http://www.flickr.com/photos/dnamichaud/3237424855/
Today’s narrative practices are changing rapidly.
Norway: every month 60% use Facebook; nearly 10% use Twitter (http://www.slideshare.net/PetterB/foredrag-om-delingskulturen)
Miles Hochstein: A Documented Life http://www.documentedlife.com
Eleanor Antin: Carving, 1972.
http://www.everyday.noahkalina.com/
People love it – and make their own versions
Tehching Hsieh, 1980-1981
Thanks to Mark Jeffery for telling me about this.( )
Simple rules seem to encourage everyday creativity.
We follow cultural
templates both in living
and documenting
our lives.
(CC) Carlos Mendozahttp://www.flickr.com/photos/fotodisenocm/385028368/
Preformatted baby journals are examples of normative discursive strategies that either implicitly or explicitly structure our agencies.
Van Dijck, José (2007) Mediated Memories in the Digital Age. Stanford, CA: Stanford UP.
http://corriehaffly.wordpress.com/2007/10/09/do-it-yourself-pregnancy-and-baby-journal/
What happens when these narrative patterns aren’t hand-crafted but are automatically generated?
Image: (CC) Terren in Virginiahttp://www.flickr.com/photos/8136496@N05/2196367188/
trixietracker.com
This is the opposite of the
preformatted baby journal:
our daily (unconscious?)
patterns are visualised
Four ways social media organises representations of our lives:
Facebook Friend Visualiser (TouchGraph)
Trixietracker.com
Flickr.com Archive View
Google search history
“Countries I’ve visited”
Nike’s “Just Map It”
The World as a Blog
Manovich, Lev (2009) ‘The Practice of Everyday (Media) Life: From Mass Consumption to Mass Cultural Production.’ Critical Inquiry 35 (2): 319-31.
Mass cultural production follows templates set up by the professional entertainment industry. Are we even more firmly colonized by commercial media today than in the 20th century?
Image:http://www.bijt.org/wordpress/2005/11/
We’re always trapped in (and inspired by) genres, stereotypes, rituals, patterns.
What would literary narratives following these personal but computationally assisted practices look like?
Or like those marketing campaigns that uses your data through Facebook Connect?
http://www.prototype-experience.com/
Or something better.What do you think?
