[csaa-forum] REMINDER: CCR Seminar Series 08: Ron Burnett and Kaye Shumack - 15 May

[Reena Dobson]

Apologies for cross-postings 

 Centre for Cultural Research

University of Western Sydney

 

invites all to attend

the CCR Seminar Series 2008

featuring

 

Dr Ron Burnett 

(President, Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design, Vancouver, Canada)

 

and

 

Associate Professor Kaye Shumack

(School of Communication Arts, on placement at CCR, UWS)

 

Date: Thursday, 15 May

Time: 2.00pm - 4.30pm

Venue: Gallery Floor, Female Orphan School (Building EZ), Parramatta
Campus

Afternoon tea and cakes provided 

RSVP: Ania Ajiri a.ajiri at uws.edu.au or 9685 9600

Apologies: Kay Anderson k.anderson at uws.edu.au   

 

 

 

Emerging Technologies and Social Networks

Ron  Burnett

Networked cultures have grown and proliferated through the use of
different modes and models of exchange and interchange, built on the
foundations of social action, cultural communications and interactivity
(Blogs, YouTube, Flickr, Current.tv and so on). Internet networks make
it possible for very different communities to be built and maintained
over geographically dispersed areas. As a result ecologies or
environments are built to sustain both the exchange and the
relationships that grow from the networks. In networked peer-to-peer
communications, relationships between people are defined by the time of
connection and not only by expectations about content and interaction.
Some of the central characteristics of social networking are:

*         The ability to pursue many different activities at once and to
be able to share both the process and the outcomes of sharing files and
information over the Internet through decentralized means.

*         It is not enough to just connect to the Internet through
available interfaces. Networked communities are constantly involved in
customizing the interfaces that they use and in designing the way that
they can navigate through various Internet configurations. This is
closely related to the ways in which the open source movement works
(e.g., Linux).

*         Social networks are about the continual construction, decline
and reinvigoration of different types of communities. One of the most
important features of social networks is the way in which ideas spread.
Communities appear, disappear and regenerate and then disappear in quick
succession.

*         Participants in social networks collaborate and this is as
important as the sharing of information and files. Collaboration is
about community building, but also about developing projects and
creating awareness. Artists are using social networks to pursue a
variety of different initiatives. The anti-globalization movement has
used social networks to develop its own news channels. Health
organizations are using social networks to facilitate learning and
education in rural and less developed areas of the world.

 

 

Digital Storytelling as Experience Design: Communication designing for a
convergent media world

Kaye Shumack

The rapid and relentless changes taking place in internet and digital
media are described as democratising processes, providing far greater
access to public media contexts. This is evidenced through emerging
forms of dialogue - including blogs, and pod/vod casting as
'user-generated' content. As well as this greater access to public
communication forums, the parallel availability of affordable softwares
to produce media content continues to rapidly accelerate. In this
convergent media environment, the role of the communication designer is
significantly challenged to embrace a much deeper engagement and
collaboration with social and cultural contexts. Designers have new
opportunities to explore different roles - as cultural activist, as
problem finder, as facilitator, and strategic planner and collaborator.
This presentation suggests some of the ways in which communication
design can build collaborations around both research and teaching. The
current design collaboration with CCR around the Digital Cultural Atlas
(DCA) is discussed, involving the use of an auto-ethnographic research
method with an undergraduate teaching project.

 

 

 

Dr Ron Burnett is President of the Emily Carr Institute of Art and
Design in Vancouver, Canada. He is a film and videomaker, photographer,
web designer and writer who has published three books, most recently,
How Images Think (MIT Press, 2005) and over 150 articles in journals and
books worldwide. He is Chair of the Board of Knowledge Network, BC's
public educational channel, and Adjunct Professor of Film and Video at
York University in Toronto. 

 

Kaye Shumack is based in the School of Communication Arts, and currently
on placement with the CCR. Her research focuses on two areas: art and
design teaching and learning as practice-led research, and theory and
practice of narratives and genres for representations of 'self' and
'others' in communication design practices.

 

 

 

Please note that there is an additional session on 15 May (12.30-1.30)
featuring: 

 

Ali Abunimah 

(author, One Country: A Bold Proposal to Break the Israeli/ Palestinian
Impasse and editor, Electronic Intifada)

Roadmap to Nowhere: Imposing Peace on Palestine/ Israel

 

 

 

Parramatta Campus Map and Directions 
http://www.uws.edu.au/about/locations/maps/parramattamap     

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