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| | ====== VJ12 Lectures notes ====== |
| | [[vj12 | VJ12 Brainstorm]] | [[Vj12 Press Release | VJ12 Press Release]] | [[Vj12Expo | VJ12 Expo, video programme, readinglist]] | [[VJ12BookNotes | Vj12 Book's notes]] | [[VJ12LecturesNotes | Vj12 Lectures notes]] |
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| ====== Saturday 28/11/2009 ====== | ====== Saturday 28/11/2009 ====== |
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| ===== Morning intro ===== | ===== Morning intro ===== |
| | One theme of the festival, grey literature, is an invitation to discover, play and worry about the numerous documents, commentaries and \\ traces which organise electronic communication in the background. \\ Yesterday, during the talks, we discussed, with Ivan Monroy Lopez, Claudia Borges, Adam Hyde and his impersonator, various aspects of computer manuals, how they can be made collaboratively, how they offer hospitality in a world of code contrasting somehow with the harshness of the workplace, but also how they prescribe use or contain surprisingly a poetic potential. Another key theme of the presentations was the relationship between guidelines, reference documents and the organisation of communities. We have heard from Christophe Lazaro how the Debian community was dealing with an enormous flow of text (code, licenses, guidelines, etc). And how these disparate elements were connected through a social contract. And we discussed strategies and stratagems. How to use games, elements of surprises and situations to do away with the fear, learn from the animals or refuse to internalize institutional expectations, avoid the trap of power, - with Dominique Roodthooft. How to learn to love user errors and ambiguity with Andrew Goffey and Matthew Fuller. But also to expand our understanding of 'media' to include strategies and stratagems operating below the representation: scripted situations like call centers, or the leaking of information in the media (intentional or not).\\ \\ This morning, we will move to the questions identity, authenticity, trust, data and documents. But to take us there, Michael Moss, research professor in archive studies in the Humanities Advanced Technology and Information Institute, Glasgow (anong so many things), will also tell us about shoes, cabbages and sealing wax.\\ \\ Our inspiration to start thinking about Grey literature came for one part from the French literary critic, Gerard Genette and his book Seuils in wich he develops the idea of the paratext\\ "More than a boundary or a sealed border, the paratext is, rather, a threshold." \\ "a zone between text and off-text, a zone not only of transition but also of transaction: a privileged place of pragmatics and a strategy, of an influence on the public, an influence that ... is at the service of a better reception for the text and a more pertinent reading of it". \\ "a fringe of the printed text which in reality controls one's whole reading of the text"\\ \\ Jürgen Pieters, professor in General Literature Science at the University of Gent, will look with us at the case study of the Ooghen-troost text by Dutch poet Constantijn Huygens (1647). In his talk, he will specifically address the theories of the American literary scholar Jerome McGann and will relate his work to the notion of paratext by Gerard Genette.\\ \\ Anne James Chaton is sound poet. He has directed several magazines and six books, published by Al Dante. With the duo Kristoff K. Roll he co-directs the festival of sound art "Sonorités", which he founded in Montpellier in 2005. He has given numerous lectures in France and abroad. He has worked with dutch rock band The Ex, released an album (The Journalist) with guitarist Andy Moor and collaborated on the album Unitxt by musician Alva Noto.\\ \\ |
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| ===== Michael Moss ===== | ===== Michael Moss ===== |
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| | ===== Anne-James Chaton ===== |
| | ===== Afternoon intro ===== |
| | to introduce this afternoon, I would like to use the active archive software installed for Verbindingen-Jonctions, developed by Michael Murtaugh. This software is used to organise and make accessible the videos selected for the festival. I propose you to look together at the short film "The Google Optout Village".\\ \\ We had already the chance to have Alexandre Dulaunoy for a lecture in the seventh edition of VJ. Today, Alexandre comes to discuss with us the questions surrounding Goodiff. Before giving the mike to Alexandre, I would like to show an image ofsomething that stroke me several years ago and that explains my interest in the work of Alexandre. Years ago a small and sympathetic company called Ludicorp released a web platform where users could upload images, Flickr. At the time, Flickr was an important vector for spreading the use of open licenses for creative content like the Creative Commons. One could read in their terms of services:\\ A few years after, when Yahoo bought flickr one can find instead:\\ \\ \\ Are we in the golden age of privacy? our digital every day life is full of privacy by-products: privacy policies, privacy settings, privacy language, privacy reports, privacy rankings, privacy films, privacy tools, privacy legislation, privacy conferences, privacy festivals ,...\\ Want to know more? Let's follow Seda Gurses. Seda Gürses is doing her PhD on privacy, requirements engineering and social networks at the K.U. Leuven. She is also an active member of de- center kuenstlerherde, a media initiative based in Kreuzberg, Berlin. And she is the person whose permanent questioning is helping us to redefine constantly our preconceived ideas about data, privacy and property. |
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| ===== Alexandre Dulaunoy ===== | ===== Alexandre Dulaunoy ===== |
