Belay: 23 January 2011 (For other belay points and the idea behind them, see here). I am looking at a way of accounting for the relationship between the jpeg compression protocol and the new photographic and imaging practices of sharing, publishing, streaming, archiving and remixing online, by understanding jpeg as a ‘scopic apparatus’ – a …
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Tracing an image: chasing protocol
It began, as so many media journeys do, with a search. I Googled “2012 olympics factory” and clicked on the image tab to be presented with a mosaic of imag(in)ings, some from Flickr, some from Blogs and some from news organisations. I screengrabbed the page (which was compressed and encoded as an image file by …
Belay: 16 January 2011
Rock climbers belay. As they head higher, they add an anchor point (a ‘save as’, a ‘snapshot’, a ‘back-up’) in the rockface. Should they fall, they only fall back as far as the belay point. As I head towards summer 2012 (my submission not the Games) hopefully making progress 5(00) at a time, I’m going …
Like Keyser Söze, it just slips out of sight/site.
I teach a postgraduate class at Birkbeck, University of London which explores issues around journalism in an age of the Live Web. In the first session, as a way of the students getting to know each other, and for me to know them, I get the class to interview each other and publish a story. …
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Draft: The software studies problematic
Yesterday I wrote: “Later with the birth of software studies, code, algorithms and protocol were elevated as worthy of attention. Software art made them cultural and auratic. Whether they were being deconstructed as ideological or power-full in Fuller’s account of Word or constructed as problematic in Manovich’s identification of the ‘new media object’, they were …
Experiment #6
http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&hl=en&msa=0&msid=116490497337977452597.00048551e795e19387452&z=13 Google Maps/Flickr http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&hl=en&msa=0&msid=116490497337977452597.00048551e795e19387452&z=13