INFO DAY FOUR WORKSHOPS NEW MEDIA
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INFO DAY FOUR WORKSHOPS NEW MEDIA
Vzw CARGO asbl and iMAL invite you at the info day of the Four Workshops New Media on
Saturday the 5th of June from 14h till 17h
in the office of iMal in Centre Dansaert, Aalststraat 7, 1000 Brussels
The info day introduces candidate-participants into the four workshops new media,
organised by CARGO with the support of VAF, Vlaams Audiovisueel Fonds.
The workshops present a special context of methods, tools and practices, which
stimulate making media in networked environments (web, tools, interactive
installations, modules, game-structures en weblog/cam community platforms). Treated
subjects are multimedia, video, audio, web (all-in), wireless computing and
communication, surveillance. Each workshop takes 5 days during the month September
in Oostende (Belgium).
More info about the workshops and mentors on www.cargoweb.org/forum
Registration on www.becoming.be/workshopform.php
Programme infoday:
– Presentation and demo of the new webtool www.becoming.be by Dominique Callewaert
(also online from the 5th of June).
– Explanatory remarks on the general intent of the four workshops.
РIntroduction into the four workshops by the mentors (Nicolas Malev̩, Stefaan
Decostere, Bart Goossens, Jeroen Peys, Yves Bernard en Jensen Dehaes).
– Discussion with the mentors; questions, suggestions and remarks.
Description of the 4 workshops:
WORKSHOP 1 : OPEN CONTENT
What we hope to find with www.becoming.be, is not just new prototypes for making
media online, but essentially a tool, with which we can contribute better and more
actively and creatively to already existing systems, around which fellowships are
being formed. Open content is essentially about creation and close communication, in
environments of communal computing.
Your mentor : Nicolas Malevé.
Please try this context : www.becoming.be
WORKSHOP 2 : MEDIACREATION IN NETWORK CONTEXT
We think that the strength of having an audiovisual work on the Web does not come
out of a well designed and accessible presentation of the final (eventually
streamed) result, but out of online prototypes, that offer entries for visitors to
get into the ways and procedures that finally resulted in the final work.
More mentors : Stefaan Decostere, Bart Goossens and Jeroen Peys.
Invest this context : mEYEtime, as site and as surveillance (game) platform.
WORKSHOP 3 : NARRATIVE STRUCTURES IN RICH INTERACTIVE ENVIRONMENTS
The latest technological tools (sms/gsm, wireless computing/communication) point to
the development of new types of interactions in an enhanced media and network
environment. This is the context for the development of innovative playgrounds which
explore new patterns for sharing content, for exchanging experiences and practices,
and for interacting together. What type of scenarios, how to create dynamic
interactions triggering “interesting” behaviors and exchanges, how to design system
of rules for these specific worlds embedded in the physical realities?
Your mentor : Yves Bernard.
Develop this context : mEYEtime, extended with interactive modules.
WORKSHOP 4 : ENHANCED TV
Imagine a world where there are two kinds of media power : one comes through media
concentration, where any message gets authority simply by being broadcast on network
television; the other comes through grass-roots intermediaries, where a message
gains visibility only if it is deemed relevant to loose network of diverse publics.
Broadcasting will place issues on the national agenda; bloggers will reframe those
issues for different publics.
Your mentor : Jensen Dehaes.
Challenge the context : local tv, radio, docside CANVAS (with some reserve).