Archive for February, 2009
February 28, 2009 at 1:42 am · Filed under uncategorized
Delighted to report that I will be blogging live - en direct but in English only =( - from the Canadian Conference of the Arts‘ upcoming National Cultural Strategy workshop on March 12, 2009. The CCA’s Policy Analyst, Jessica Litwin will be setting me up with a blogspot site to give a glimpse of what’s going on (and a little bit of what I think of it, maybe) for folks unable to make it to Ottawa for the discussion. Be online and please comment! My dream is for there to be enough online discussion to warrant giving these otherwise less audible voices a chance to pipe in at the roundtable. Save the date, mark your calendars!
I’ll post the link as soon as I get it…
February 27, 2009 at 12:05 am · Filed under uncategorized
http://mashable.com/2009/02/21/social-media-better-people/
This article by Peter Cashmore briefly points to the many ways in which our public actions and conversations are vulnerable to capture and re-presentation by more than just CCTV… for example, if anyone with a cellphone can catch you in the act of doing something socially distasteful, then broadcast and ultimately humiliate or shame you via YouTube or some other social media network, then will web 2.0 social media become the omnipresent Big Brother, the ever attentive eyes and ears that ultimately train us to become better (nicer on the outside) people?
(initially posted by yours truly to http://metropolis347.blogspot.com/)
February 25, 2009 at 5:49 pm · Filed under uncategorized
TK is hard at work on some r&d grant applications for PaCuBox. Just saw some beautiful mock-ups for a new website that should be launched soon.
PaCu stands for participatory culture. The PaCuBox series is a public gallery system that TK and Rachel Vulliens developed at the Canadian Film Centre’s New Media Lab a few years ago. The system allows anyone to sign up for a ‘residency’ of 3 months during which time they can present and share any artistic or cultural expressions they wish in a PaCuBox. The box itself is designed to withstand the Canadian outdoor weather, and is intended for installation in “dead” or little-used space such as fences, telephone poles etc. A built-in solar panel collects energy to light the box when night falls.
There’s been talk of wanting to install this gallery system in Vancouver during the 2010 Olympics - kind of a mini-expo of art made by the people! Hoping the new website launches soon so you can see it. I see much fit in many upcoming opportunities.
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Yesterday I accepted an offer to work in Montréal for the next two months on the Culture Days project. I`m very excited, very keen, but trying to keep things hush hush until my partner-in-crime is done with his grantwriting. (Shh, he doesn’t know.) Won’t be a big deal - just gotta postpone some projects for a little while… right?
Meanwhile I also have a grant app to write but it’s a small one and it’s mostly a matter of modifying existing information so I don’t need to go into deep undercover for several days, just several hours.
Happy about PaCuBox progress, happy about my writing progress, happy about joining the Culture Days project… Somewhat unhappy about having to do my taxes right now. Ah well, dinner at the Keg Mansion next week should make up for it…
February 21, 2009 at 1:17 pm · Filed under uncategorized
Sarolta has done a soft-launch of their new website: http://www.MIXandMATCH.tv which does a much better job of showing off the browser-based video editor they’ve created.
Their Video Factory has proven to work with Brightcove’s technology. Brightcove is a leading content-management system for video hosting and playback; they serve many of the major media companies out there - including A&E, Fox, Biography, Showtime, Universal Music, Sony BMG and others.
Video Factory is also now the official content creation tool for two digital signage companies in the US.
Great stuff happening. If you’re interested in video editor apps, user-generated video content, an internship, or anything else to do with Sarolta’s Video Factory, drop me a line.
