My work is a practice-research PhD. While no-one seems overly clear about what practice-research is, I am working with a bit of Ian Bogost and Alien Phenomenology, with a bit of Mark Amerika and remixthebook and a dash of object-oriented photography. What I will be handing in will be a series of JPEG-enabled eBooks and …
Author Archives: praxis
Tweets for the week :: 2011-10-30
The Internationale Daily is out! http://t.co/C3qqxkR8 ▸ Top stories today via @saddleblaze @monoskop @brightabyss @paulctayla # a bit of Steampunk for the meeja archaeologists amongst us http://t.co/ujhOx6ZB # Tablet publishing http, the new blogging? http://t.co/FNfJAntL # John Cage Tribute album. Highlight: Frank Zappa's rendition of 4'33" [MP3s]: http://t.co/7Fw8TpF8 /via @ubuweb # http://t.co/FdyVzIwh Ya gotta love …
Sterile zone: no objects within 2.0m of the Fence
Well this about sums up the project. “No objects permitted within 2.0m of the Fence”… well that ain’t possible. I’ve spent the morning photographing them and being one. Oh and so has JPEG. I love the idea of a zone without objects as “sterile” too!
Object-oriented (pinhole) photography
My decision to use digital pinhole was part historical, part philosophical and part aesthetic. Pinhole has a long history in imaging. Eric Renner traces it back long before the image could be ‘fixed’ photographically to naturally occurring apertures in nature through fourth Century BC reference in China to ‘Aristotle’s Problem’ the question he raises in …
Tweets for the week :: 2011-10-23
The Internationale Daily is out! http://t.co/C3qqxkR8 ▸ Top stories today via @pennywilson @internationale @onticologist @digitaldigs # Thing of the day: 21.10.11 http://t.co/GhUUiyjj # Phonography as the next photography? http://t.co/wT9LZUM5 # Amazon move closer to (HTML5) standards. #protocol http://t.co/pVf1Fde7 # One rings vs both hands. Occupy content street. http://t.co/FJUfRlZ2 #birkbeckmedia # What with this and 2012, …
Holding deleted data, I object
The Guardian reports that an Austrian law student has lodged complaints with the Irish data commissioner after finding out that Facebook had kept 1,200 pages of data of his activities on the site, data which he had deleted. These included: “rejected friend requests, incidences where he “defriended” someone, as well as a log of all Facebook …