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New Challenges For The Archiving Of Digital Writing, Heiko Zimmermann

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

In his article "New Challenges for the Archiving of Digital Writing" Heiko Zimmermann discusses the challenges of the preservation of digital texts. In addition to the problems already at the focus of attention of digital archivists, there are elements in digital literature which need to be taken into consideration when trying to archive them. Zimmermann analyses two works of digital literature, the collaborative writing project A Million Penguins (2006-2007) and Renée Tuner's She… (2008) and shows how the ontology of these texts is bound to elements of performance, to direct social interaction of writers and readers to the uniquely subjective …

Towards Digital Art In Information Society, Montse Arbelo, Joseba Franco

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

In their article "Towards Digital Art in Information Society" Montse Arbelo and Joseba Franco propose the development of the platform of a Network of Experimental Centers be formed by small groups of people who are qualified and who seek optimal operational effectiveness and who dedicate their resources to the production of digital content and we offer artechmedia <http://www.artechmedia.org> as a base point of departure. Such an international network in a collaborative structure based on national networks would make possible to coordinate existing resources to develop social networks, generate and promote content, engage in forums of discussion and creativity workshops, and …

Mdocs Newsletter-2014-12-09, 1.6, Jordana Dym, Lisa Fierstein, Jennifer Hoffer

MDOCS Publications

No abstract provided.

Tiget Heart : A Short Story, Wai Yin, Catriona O'Neil

Artists-in-Residence Programme : Exhibition Catalogues

As an illustrator, Cat O'Neil's work resolves around telling stories through metaphorical imagery. Tiger Heart is an exhibition of one of these stories, which centres on the topic of street harassment.

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All the works shown in this book is under the copyright of Cat O'Neil. Do not copy or reproduce the work without prior consent (except for review purpose).

La Brigada Ramona Parra; Muralismo Y Cambio Social En Chile / La Brigada Ramona Parra ; Muralismo And Social Change In Chile, Sarah Baumann

Independent Study Project (ISP) Collection

Mi motivación para esta proyecto era mi interés en el poder de murales en Chile, y los cambias sociales que arte callejero pueden iniciar. Arte callejero he tenido un efecto muy grande en la historia y políticos de Chile. Yo quería descubrir más sobre esta historia, y también cómo los organizaciones que hacen murales, cómo la Brigada de Ramona Parra, funciona hoy. Para mi proyecto, yo usé entrevista, guías de arte callejero, observaciones en escuelas de Bellas Artes, y un exposición de murales. En mis resultas, yo encontré que la Brigada de Ramona Parra ha cambiado la escena política en …

Mdocs Newsletter-2014-11-17, 1.5, Jordana Dym, Billie Kanfer, Jennifer Hoffer

MDOCS Publications

No abstract provided.

Mdocs Poster-2014-11-06, Screening Of Fatal Assistance With Director Raoul Peck, Jordana Dym, Sarah Dean

MDOCS Publications

Poster designed by Shane Boissière, '15, and Sarah Dean, '15, for the fall 2014, November 6, visit of Raoul Peck, Haitian film director and head of France's film academy (La FEMIS).

Mdocs Newsletter-2014-11-03, 1.4, Jordana Dym

MDOCS Publications

No abstract provided.

Mdocs Newsletter-2014-10-21, 1.3, Jordana Dym, Lisa Fierstein

MDOCS Publications

No abstract provided.

Mdocs Flyer-2014-10-17, Getting The Story: A Workshop In Digital Audio Recording With Eileen Mcadam, Jordana Dym

MDOCS Publications

Flyer advertising an October 17/November two-part workshop for up to 12 faculty, staff and students. Eileen McAdam offered an introduction to the work of audio storytelling: the collecting, processing, and preserving of cherished stories using the latest digital equipment. In this workshop you will work with portable digital audio recorders and learn basic recording and interviewing techniques. On October 17, participants will learn and practice basic techniques. On November 7, participants will present an interview undertaken independently, and we will talk through lessons learned and next steps. Whether you want to record family stories, use interviews in your research project …

Mdocs Newsletter-2014-10-07, 1.2, Jordana Dym

MDOCS Publications

No abstract provided.

Mdocs Flyer-2014-09-01, Invitation To Participate In Oral History Interview (Fall 2014), Jordana Dym, Jordana Dym

MDOCS Publications

Flyer inviting Skidmore College retirees and Saratoga Springs community members to participate in the Skidmore Saratoga Memory Project (SSMP) by giving an oral history interview as part of Celebration Weekend, 2014, on October 18. Eileen McAdam, of Sound and Story Project of the Hudson Valley, conducted the interview

Postcards Between Friends : Collaborative Drawing And Creativity Pedagogy = 友愛明信片 : 協同繪畫與創意教學法, Carol Archer

Research Expression through Art : Visual Studies Faculty

Postcards between Friends, an exhibition of extraordinary postcards. They're real postcards, complete with stamps, postmarks, and wear and tear, but they're special in three ways. First, they are all hand-drawn. Second, every postcard is a collaboration between at least two people. And third, every postcard has been through the mail at least twice.

The process works like this. One artist starts a drawing and, without adding any verbal instructions or commentary, mails it to another. The second artist finds the postcard in her mailbox, completes the drawing, and mails it back to the sender. The results are surprising because …

The Immersive Medium: Art, Flow, And Video Games, Christopher M. Yalen

Oglethorpe Journal of Undergraduate Research

In this article, the question of whether or not video games could be considered art is explored, as well as what this means for video games as cultural products. Using an interdisciplinary approach, I suggest that there are some games we can consider “art”, and that these games are not only different aesthetically speaking, but are also different from a media-effects standpoint. The article consists of three main sections, an aesthetic review, a content analysis, and a pilot study. In the aesthetic review, I employ different perspectives from aesthetic philosophy in order to come up with criteria for what an …

Mdocs Newsletter-2014-09-23, 1.1, Jordana Dym

MDOCS Publications

No abstract provided.

Mdocs Tri-Fold-2014-09-01, Program, Mary Parliman

MDOCS Publications

The first pamphlet for MDOCS introduced the slogan "evidence-based storytelling" as well as key program components: Storytellers' institute, Skidmore-Saratoga Memory Project, academic year programming and coursework.

Mdocs Flyer-2014-09-01, Project Vis And Mdocs Fall 2014 Events, Jordana Dym

MDOCS Publications

No abstract provided.

Mdocs Series Flyer-2014-09-01, Li113 Workshops, Jordana Dym

MDOCS Publications

List of Fall 2014 LI 113 Workshops including:

"Caricatures in the Round" with artist J.P. Crangle. Workshop includes a performance in caricature drawing and a conversation on character development, followed by a workshop in caricature drawing.

"GoPro Visual Storytelling" where students create a short doc using only a GoPro camera and Adobe Premiere software. Learn to focus on the essential elements of visual storytelling, such as movement, color, pace and rhythm.

"Getting the Story with Eileen McAdam-" This two-part workshop provides an introduction to the work of digital audio storytelling: the collecting, processing, and preserving of cherished stories using the …

Evangelizing The ‘Gallery Of The Future’: A Critical Analysis Of The Google Art Project Narrative And Its Political, Cultural And Technological Stakes, Alanna Bayer

Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Repository

This thesis explores the digitization initiative Google Art Project and the ways in which the Project negotiates its place between rapidly developing Web technologies and the often-contradictory fine art tradition. Through the Project’s marketing and website design, Google constructs a narrative that emphasizes the democratization of culture, universal accessibility and a new progressive future for the art world while obscuring more complex political, social and cultural questions. Bringing together scholarship from various disciplines including library studies, digital studies, art history, and cultural studies this thesis highlights how the Project might open up a space to talk about art publics and …

Story Guided Virtual Cultural Heritage Applications, Selma Rizvic

Journal of Interactive Humanities

Virtual cultural heritage applications, particularly virtual museums, nowadays include various forms of storytelling. Every object, site or artifact is better perceived and understood through the adjoining story. Interactive applications naturally request the storytelling to become interactive as well. This paper describes the concepts of interactive digital storytelling in our virtual museums and cultural heritage presentations and discusses their advantages and drawbacks recognized through user evaluation. We used digital stories not only to introduce visitors with the context and information on the objects, but also to enhance their navigation through virtual environments with purpose of learning and perceiving maximum amount of …

From Banging To Baking: A Documentary On Malachi Chavez And Restorative Partners, Brandon Kuhr

Liberal Arts and Engineering Studies

No abstract provided.

The Laes Pocketbook For Filmmaker Enthusiasts, Steven (Sven) Thien Le

Liberal Arts and Engineering Studies

The LAES Pocketbook for Filmmaker Enthusiasts was written to be an essential tool for Cal Poly students to use when approaching the broad spectrum of film making. This introductory pocketbook tackles many of the confusions and questions that arise when first starting with film making and utilizes the equipment available at Cal Poly to make the film making process simpler for students. Printed out on standard 8.5" x 11" paper, this portable pocketbook is meant to be folded, stapled down the spine, and carried with the student on their filming endeavors.

This pocketbook will go over types of filming equipment, …

Mdocs Tri-Fold-2014-06-01, Storytellers' Institute Skidmore Fellows Application Tri-Fold, Jordana Dym

MDOCS Publications

Tri-fold pamphlet inviting Skidmore students and faculty to apply for the inaugural (June 2015) Storytellers' institute.

Left = 左, Guy Tse, Bellini Yu

Artists-in-Residence Programme : Exhibition Catalogues

Why left 為何 遺棄

Left refers to those people who do not have the right behavior, thinking and life style, and who are, therefore, being discriminated against and forsaken by the society.

左 - 沒有右邊/正確行為、思想和生活的人，因此都被遺棄了。

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A Composed Space, Adam S. Hogan

Graduate School of Art Theses

My practice is invested in expanding our conscious scope—revealing phenomena and observations, and presenting the information to the viewer through auxiliary channels. Using the language of minimalism, cinema, and abstraction I create technologically sophisticated systems to produce spaces of contemplation (a meditative space challenging the ephemeral relationships between our sensorial perceptions, space, and time).

Material, space, and technology become instruments for composition manifesting as silent experimental cinema (created and controlled sonically). My work seeks to illuminate our conscious scope through the succession of frames.

Desire And Fantasy: The Conditions Of Reality Between The Self And The Other, Raleigh M. Gardiner

Graduate School of Art Theses

The human condition is constituted by the fluctuating operations of desire and fantasy, which emerge in response to one's fundamental differentiation between 'Self' and 'Other.' As infants, we exist in an expansive realm of sensational “sameness” with the world around us; but as we develop, we quickly learn to differentiate between our internal and external worlds, and are forced to divide and organize our once primordial experience of unity on the basis of isolated exclusion of difference. As we slip into the structures of our social and cultural reality, we absorb language, and are taught to construct our own identities …

Exodus Hd, Christopher J. Thompson

Graduate School of Art Theses

To express the dramaticism of the themes in my work, I have written the following document in a pseudo-satirical voice, expressing both my interest in science fiction and my own eagerness to accept the profoundness of the Internet’s connectivity in my life. The sensational nature of the writing is both prophetic and personal, conflating manticism with art making. Due to the interlacing of the web’s influence with our individual lives, we must pay tribute to its power and guidance through endorsements of search engines and online marketplaces that have built a new world of convenience. This world of convenience is …

Mdocs Publication-2014-04-22, Skidmore Gets $750k Grant, Anonymous Anonymous

MDOCS Publications

"Skidmore gets a $750K Grant"

The Saratogian

April 22, 2014

Author:

[Sabbatical Report], Joon Sung

Sabbatical Reports

The primary purpose of this sabbatical project was to film. edit and produce short video pieces based on the footage collected in Tokyo, Japan.

The Art / Crime Archive: An Anti-Boredom Space, Paul Kaplan, Brian Goeltzenleuchter, Dan Salmonson

The STEAM Journal

This paper reports on an ongoing web-based project devoted to the study of deviant art and creative crime called the Art / Crime Archive: www.artcrimearchive.org. The Art / Crime Archive (ACA) is a collaborative laboratory, teaching center, and web-based platform devoted to the study of this space. The ACA is organized by an artist, a criminologist, and a computer engineer. The working process of the ACA involves locating, archiving, and discussing visual, audio, and text artifacts that support this shadow space. The work product is a dynamic archive which can be configured for a multiplicity of contexts—art exhibitions, academic …