if you are of this generation...

...and you've got a niggling addiction to travel, it's worth passing some time away day-dreaming while reading Nomadology

graf

are you going to san francisco?

well that'd be yes...

the Friends of National Library have given me a travel grant, which will provide funding for a two-week trip to the San Francisco bay area to visit:

• California Digital Library


• BAMPFA, Archiving the Avant-Garde project


• The Internet Archive


• International Symposium of Electronic Arts (ISEA)

the trip will look models for and issues related to the preservation of complex digital objects.

e-scaping sound art

well not so much escaping as taking the piss out of...

episode 15: the Articool Collective (of the Ugly Stick) have a good go at sound art - http://www.theuglystick.com.au/

blooming boom

image: Mitchell Whitelaw - Socket

Mitchell Whitelaw's latest work is based on the concept of the "explosion". http://creative.canberra.edu.au/mitchell/boom/
The idea was conceived around the time that the Australian sedition laws were being reinstated, in December 2005.

In these three works, he explores mappings of points - in non-gravitational space - and relationships to their neighbours (over time).



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unaustralian

Canberra University is hosting the unAustralia conference, December 6 - 8, 2006.

just incase

redfern in autumn

what to do in redfern on a saturday afternoon when you lock yourself out of the car? sit on the street in the sun and read RealTime (thanks realtime!)

commonly creative

there's currently an innovations forum running at the National Library (today is day 2). Brian Fitzgerald from Creative Commons Australia presented a paper that really outlines the changes in creation and use of creative content.

users are the new creators. consumer affordable technology (at least in the first world) means that almost anyone can be a creator these days. it leans on heirachies and begins to break down barriers between who can and who can't...

this in itself raises a whole new set of issues about the mass of content being created and published in a public environment (like this blog for instance). what then do we do with all of this "stuff"?

d' ya know what time it is?

i positively hate re-blogging... having said that it's something i'm tending to do more frequently.

Clockr, however, deserves a mention. It's another really good illustration of new modes of creation in the digital age: sample, remix, etc