Yes, stories are time based, time dependent, and time conditional. Then again, all our technical (audiovisual) media are time dependent, the question then becomes whether this means they are inevitably stories, or can time based media do other things than story? Taras ponders the difficulty of the essay. something I think we should mix up a bit.
Samuel wonders how to document, to do documentary, without the human. A good question. The simplest answer is that technical media are nonhuman indifferent sampling machines. It isn’t any more complicated (or simple) than that. Joss has a similar concern about narrative and correlationism. I don’t think a narrative is necessary, but it seems this needs discussion. Isobel has a drawing of the first part of the project, which is a good idea.
Stories
Yes, stories are time based, time dependent, and time conditional. Then again, all our technical (audiovisual) media are time dependent, the question then becomes whether this means they are inevitably stories, or can time based media do other things than story? Taras ponders the difficulty of the essay. something I think we should mix up a bit.
Samuel wonders how to document, to do documentary, without the human. A good question. The simplest answer is that technical media are nonhuman indifferent sampling machines. It isn’t any more complicated (or simple) than that. Joss has a similar concern about narrative and correlationism. I don’t think a narrative is necessary, but it seems this needs discussion. Isobel has a drawing of the first part of the project, which is a good idea.
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Adrian Miles
Adrian Miles is a Senior Lecturer in New Media and currently the Program Director of the Bachelor of Media and Communication Honours research studio at RMIT, in Melbourne, Australia. He has also been a senior new media researcher in the InterMedia Lab at the University of Bergen, Norway. His academic research on hypertext and networked interactive video has been widely published and his applied digital projects have been exhibited internationally. Adrian's research interests include hypertext and hypermedia, appropriate pedagogies for new media education, digital video poetics, and the use of Deleuzean philosophy in the context of digital poetics. He was the first or second person in the world to videoblog.
March 20, 2017
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