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[EI] Final Project: Play, Draw and Point - Development

Inspired by the works of Blast Theory, a UK-based performance group that creates interactive performances that engage the public community in site-specific locations, we were assigned to re-create similar collaborative performances using Singapore as our stage. We will be using the social media, Instagram as a secondary platform. The performance that we create aims to stretch art into life, breaking Read more →
On Location Performance: Strangers Art - Play, Draw & Point


fiInspired by the works of Blast Theory, a UK-based performance group that creates interactive performances that engage the public community in site-specific locations, we were assigned to re-create similar collaborative performances using Singapore as our stage. We will be using the social media, Instagram as a secondary platform. The performance that we create aims to stretch art into life, breaking Read more →
Alternative Social World


Social broadcasting is a revolutionary phenomenon which strays away from the notion of one-to-many streaming mode. Instead, it allows for many-to-many interactive experiences that bonds artists and audiences in live third space networks. Contrary to traditional media, social broadcasting promotes direct collaboration, interaction and interconnectivity as it utilises the idea of DIWO (Do It with Others). It works towards an Read more →

Social Broadcasting: An Unfinished Communications Revolution


“Social Broadcasting: An Unfinished Communications Revolution” – this is what the symposium is themed around. Having attended all three days of the symposium, I have come to understand that although it is a relatively short sentence, it is one that is chock full of meaning. Immediately, three key phrases stand out to us: 1) Social Broadcasting 2) Unfinished and 3) Read more →

Communication Through Social Broadcasting, A Preface


… if the first computer was the abacus, the ultimate computer will be the sublime aesthetic device: a parapsychological instrument for the direct projection of thoughts and emotions. -Gene Youngblood
Yes, it is obvious that in today’s world, technology and the “screens” have taken over the world instead of the evil ones… or is the Read more →

Annie Abrahams successfully took the minor keys of the internet and composed an internet piece with a perfect harmony, a harmony of disorientations.I liked very much, as a composer, how you situated her work in a musical context, achieving a balance and harmony of discordances brought about by the inconsistencies of the network. That is great! I wish I had thought of that myself... Through the Internet we are brought into a new kind of space, which you allude to at the close of your essay. The "unfinished" nature of the communications revolution is simply as you stated: it is up to the next generation of netartizens to move the project to the next stage. Who knows what the Internet will be like in 50 years, or if there will still be an Internet as we know it today. Artists such as Annie Abrahams and Jon Cates are giving us a glimpse into the future by demonstrating the human elements of our relationship to technology, by unveiling the glitches and errors, blood and multiplicity of identity, noise and latencies. All of these are what make the Internet human, ultimately communications is a human exchange and the telematic element is how that exchange is mediated through technology, which you expressed so very well. Excellent!
Symposium

Maria Chatzichristodoulou on telematic
Maria Chatzichristodoulou also known as Maria X broadly defines telematic as a use of a telecommunication network to establish links between two different places at the same time.
Maria then began highlighting key art movement the Fluxes during 1960 to the 1970s. Some of the key work she highlighted was Hole in Read more →

Communication Revolution


Social Broadcasting: An Unfinished Communications Revolution
Gene Youngblood is a media, arts and politics theorist that holds the belief that media itself needs to be democratic. The publication of his book, Expanded Cinema, in 1970 led to the impact of communication technologies on the democratic process and the capacity to participate. Youngblood announced the need for a “communication revolution” Read more →

Revolutionary Revolution?

When it comes to social broadcasting, we can see the many changes that it has come to adapt and grow throughout the years. Many artists have experimented with the medium, using it to produce works and attempting to push the boundaries where it involves a greater audience and it becomes a work which encourages active interaction. Although it may seem Read more →


Art of Networked Practice Online Symposium: Hyperessay
I attended Symposium Day 1 and 2, and it was really quite eye opening. The Art of the Networked Practice Online Symposium was an event, a gathering across the globe that presents the artistic works and technological breakthroughs that incorporates art as a practice. The symposium was completely free and brings people from across the gobe together. Granted, many of Read more →

3 years ago, I mused that, someday, A Level History would cover the rise of the Internet as a full-fledged topic. It's an important historical event, after all. There'd be so many possible subtopics, and all the Gen Z kids would love it. Still waiting though.

Social Broadcasting: An Unfinished Communications Revolution. This is the theme of the symposium, and a phrase saturated with meaning. As quoted by Packer,
Gene Youngblood signals the need for “a communications revolution… an alternative social world” that decentralises the experience of the live broadcast through the creative work of collaborative communities’. (link)
And yet, this complete upheaval of the way we communicate Read more →
