This micro-project explores social broadcasting as the organization of distributed media flows, spaces, locations, images, and sound aggregated in the immediacy and simultaneity of their performance.
As an in-class assignment, each student will broadcast via Facebook LIve and their feeds will be aggregated in real-time on to a Web-based interactive video wall. Despite the differentiation between our live broadcasts, we will be constructing a simultaneous event that can be viewed and documented into a single work.
Each student will choose a location in ADM, to be captured over a precisely 15 minute duration. The 15 minute broadcasts will begin in the classroom, then diverge to the various locations, then converge once again back in the classroom. If you happen to see another student during the 15 minute duration, you can capture them as well, in order to incorporate what we will refer to as “cross-streams,” in which two or more artist-broadcasters are interacting with one another.
After the 15 minute broadcasts are completed, we will review the results. Each student will write a blog post (due the following week), describing their impression of seeing the aggregation and how it altered their original perception of the location they chose. In our socially-mediated, distributed lives, how does this project comment on how we experience the aggregation and juxtaposition of places, friends, events, media, etc., in the third space environments we inhabit each and every day? Use the category “Micro-Project” for your post.
Steps for performing the project:
- Request to join the OSSNTU Facebook Group Page
- Open the Facebook app on your mobile phone
- Be sure you are on an NTU wireless network, although cellular is fine, it just uses data
- Check your Facebook privacy settings to be sure your Facebook page is public (select settings in drop down menu on upper right side)
- Make sure your phone is in horizontal mode
- Click on the “Live” button under the status update
- Check to be sure your broadcast is Public (default)
- Add a description
- Uses effects if you like
- Press red camera button to go live
- I will grab your URLs and paste into the interactive video wall grid
- After 15 minutes, click on “Finish” and then “Post” to archive the video
- After completing the performance we will review the feeds and their aggregation
Here are the results of the Real-Time Aggregation Project