C.R.A.M.P. - Collaborative Research And Media Practice
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Below are a range of projects being explored and critiqued by 'Integrated Media' student groups. ( Read more about CRAMP ).
A Swarm Of Angels
http://www.aswarmofangels.com/
What happens when a digital cinema fanatic decides to change the way cinema is made?
A film gets funded, produced and shared via the internet, with participants from all over the world!
However, it isn't all smooth sailing, and issues such as copyright, digital rights management and ownership will all have an effect on what happens to the "Swarm".
Here's why.
Now The Movie
http://www.nowthemovie.com
"The kind of motion picture I am interested in will be like creating the modern LP record. It will be mixed into ways of thinking rather than cut linearly"
FRANCIS FORD COPPOLA
Phototag
http://www.phototag.org/
A community photography project where cheap disposable cameras are retrofitted with shiny new packaging, artwork, instructions and return postage. Each camera is then passed along to friends and strangers with the request that they take one picture and pass it along to someone else. This project utilises digital and analogue technologies to develop a creative community.
V/VM 365 Remix Project
http://www.brainwashed.com/vvm/micro/vvmt365/index.htm
The creator has described this as “The best of the worst of the worst of the best”. Come experience this innoative project that sees one man create a piece of audio for you to downlaod and mash up as you see fit, for every day of this year!
Garbage Scout
http://garbagescout.com/
If you like to snoop around garbage and dig up something good, snap a picture of it with your camera phone, add a description + location and email it to GarbageScout. It will be added on a Yahoo Maps for others to go and fetch it (treasures include so far: a rowing machine, a mirror, candy canes an electric heater, etc).
The project is to develope our research skills and be able to make use of accessable resources. We would also apply some of the theories in the book "Small pieces loosely joined" together with the concepts of Garbage Scout. Finally through research we will hopfully develop new ideas and concepts adding on our own ideas, as well as predicting how might this project will develope in the future.
World Changing
http://www.worldchanging.com
Are the tools for changing the world's environmental issues already here, just needing someone to put the pieces together? WorldChanging believes so. The collaborative blog invites contributors to spread the word, providing short summaries and links to useful environmental information that can have a positive effect for the future.
Participatory Culture
http://participatoryculture.org/
Participatory Culture in simple terms is the new trend of open source Internet Television. In this particular case we talk about Democracy and its three components, The Democracy Player, Video Bomb and Broadcast Machine. This is developed by The participatory Culture, who are a non profit organisation who are trying to tackle the idea of corportaions owning the mass media, thier reply is Democracy, which helps Independent users on the web to interact and experiment.
Broadcast Your Podcast
http://www.broadcastyourpodcast.com/
BYP enables and encourages podcasters to break out of the net and into local radio space.
Relevance: The concept behing Broadcast Your Podcast is a low tech solution to overcome the high tech barriers of today. The creators of BYP offer an opportunity for podcasters worldwide to break out of the privileged global media sphere and into their own local context. BYP is trying to bridge the gap between old and new media by bringing the net to a local radio. This project is significant in exploring the methods of broadcasting old media with a mix of new media. The project looks into the idea of social networks in the BYP concept.
The Echo Chamber Project
http://www.echochamberproject.com/about
The Echo Chamber Project is an open source, investigative documentary which examines how the television news media became an uncritical echo chamber, to the Executive Branch, leading up to the war in Iraq. By developing collaborative techniques for producing this film, this project can potentially provide some solutions for incorporating a broader range of voices and perspectives into the mainstream media.
This project is significant in the sense that it examines(and will hopefully be able to support through its continual findings)the importance of means other than broadcast media for transmitting news, that is, through social networks. This is important in helping to shape our understanding of the importance and benefits of social networking, not only in regards to the delivering of news, but also in regards to networked information sharing in general.
Carp Caviar Vlog Remix
http://bottomunion.com/blog/?cat=16
a fairy tale on...
A collaborative video blog (vlog) remix project sponsored by Bottom Union which is established by Erik Nelson. Video bloggers all around the world can contribute by contacting Carp Caviar hotline and get themselves published.
Relevance
Due to the rise of video blogging, Carp Caviar is established and since it is published on the network, it invites video bloggers to participate and come along. It becomes one of the example that fits most into the requirement of contemporer media which involves active participation of the audiences and has revolutionized video production on network.
DiggVsDot
http://www.diggvsdot.com
( leading to explorations in differences between digg & slashdot models )
Relevance?
The Echo Chamber Project
http://www.echochamberproject.com/about
The Echo Chamber Project is an open source, investigative documentary about how the television news media became an uncritical echo chamber to the Executive Branch leading up to the war in Iraq. By developing collaborative techniques for producing this film, then this project can potentially provide some solutions for incorporating a broader range of voices and perspectives into the mainstream media.
Relevance?
1000 Journals
http://www.1000journalsfilm.com/
The 1000 Journals project is an ongoing, collaborative art experiment that attempts to follow the journey of 1000 journals that are passed hand to hand throughout the world. The goal of this project is to share creativity through collaborative art and to provide a form of interaction amongst the contributors and readers alike.
The concept of social networking is evident in this experiment where contributors and readers from around the world interact via the 1000 journals website by leaving their contact details for possible future interaction and projects, posting scanned images of their journal entries and comments on their experiences in this experiment.
The Eros Affair
http://www.notquiteroyal.net/theaffair/about.html
Live Journal erotic story 'remix' community
Exploring online communities and online interactivity in relation to slash fiction contributors.
Artificial Eye : The World in VJ Vision
Vjing and the politics of new media
http://www.prototypen.com/blog/vjblog/
Artificial Eye is a project that not only puts "the world in vj vision" but also contributes to a culture, a niche that is spreading through the internet, the online vjing culture is a growing one since the peak of video blogs.
Wooster Collective
http://www.woostercollective.com
A global contributor celebration of Street Art
(Terry, Loretta & Luke)
Relevance:
Collaboration, Culture and Community. These ideas are relevant to Networked Online Media (Web 2.0), within Wiki's, Hypertexts and Blogs. Here there is a virtual community of open culture, were anyone and everyone can view content, create content, and interact between these.
The concept of 'Street Art' indeed shares all of these components. Street art is Public, for all to see. There is also a lot of similar interaction between participants, through tagging and other forms of street art. This link between Integrated Media and Street Art is the relevance of our assignment to the course.
Videoville Wiki
http://www.videoville.org/wiki/
Community filtering of music videos, comments, discussion, music video resources.
Relevance?
Other projects relevant to 'Collaborative Research And Media Practice'.
( Please add to this list )
Virtual Palestine
http://virtualpalestine.cat.org.au/
A cyber space for young Palestinians from all around the world. This site is bi-lingual and is published in both Arabic and English. a virtual space which can serve as a meeting point, art gallery, debate forum, and newspaper all rolled into one. The aim of the website is to develop technical skills, cultural pride and personal confidence among participating young people by encouraging expression of ideas and exploration of native culture within a diasporic community.
made by http://www.virusmedia.com.au
Relevance?
Open Source Radio
http://www.radioopensource.org/be-a-source/open-source-chris-lydon-explains/
Open Source is a conversation, four times a week on the radio and any time you like on the blog. We designed the show to invert the traditional relationship between broadcast and the web: we aren’t a public radio show with a web community, we’re a web community that produces a daily hour of radio. This means that we rely on our listeners and readers — whom David Sifry calls “the people formerly known as your audience” to help us produce the show.
"Broadcast media can’t just be a bullhorn anymore; it has to be an invitation, or it misses out on some of the best stuff happening around it."
Relevance?
Bio Mapping
http://biomapping.net/
Bio Mapping which is one of my favourite projects ever! People are sent in the streets with a Bio Mapping tool to record their Galvanic Skin Response, a simple indicator of emotional arousal in conjunction with their geographical location. Using Google Earth, Bio Mapping indicates by the height of each track point the individuals' physiological arousal at that geographic location. Bio Mapping is a research project which explores new ways that we as individuals can make use of the information we can gather about our own bodies. Instead of security technologies that are designed to control our behaviour, this project envisages new tools that allows people to selectively share and interpret their own bio data.
Relevance?
Escape from Woomera
http://escapefromwoomera.com/
Escape From Woomera is a modification of the PC game Half-life. It was developed in 2003 by an Australian-based group of professional game developers, digital media artists and an investigative journalist.
Relevance?
Nothing So Strange
http://www.nothingsostrange.com
A documentary-style drama about the assassination of Bill Gates, released on an "open source" basis, allowing all of the "source" footage of the movie to be used without restriction, in personal or commercial projects, but keeping the actual film as created by the filmmaker under copyright.
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Bull
http://www.rushkoff.com/bull.html
Douglas Rushkoff's EXIT STRATEGY aka BULL
The book was online for over a year as an "open source novel." This meant that online readers could add their own footnotes and annotations to the text, in the voices of their own future anthropologists. 100 of these footnotes have been included in the US release of the book.
Relevance?
Metafilter
http://www.metafilter.com
As it says.
Relevance?
Brave New Films
http://www.bravenewfilms.org/
Enabling remixing of the Outfoxed movie and others...
Relevance?
VJ Central
http://www.vjcentral.com
Relevance?
The cramp06 tag @ del.icio.us highlights further collaborative research and practice links gathered by student groups.
