Like the past 5 symposiums I drifted between an avid listener and abuser of social media. One second I would enjoying the banter between Betty and Adrian (making sure to keep an eye on Elliot) and then a split second later I would be giggle at Kenton’s wit in a facebook message. I made this admission because I feel somewhat guilty but also because it’s networked media and I feel that there could be some future potential in linking the two things together. I’m aware that many other students blog during the symposium and I wonder what would happen if were all to share our questions and information on Mediafactory. Adrian could be live posting links to particular articles or examples of hypertexts instead of just showing them on the projector. Whilst Elliot elaborates upon an idea, Betty could link everyone to a blog post she saw earlier in the week that was particularly relevant (whilst we were obviously still listening to Elliot).
For the sake of this post I hope that this doesn’t already happen and I look like a fool. For my own sake I hope that it does and come week 7 Symposium I’ll be part of the Mediafactory party (instead of laughing at Kenton’s message).

Any idea that seems to be undercurrent in all of the symposiums is that culturally we demand our narratives to conclude or to end. This goes hand in hand with the media form. It isn’t possible to have a book without a last page or a film without a final shot. This is an issue of the medium itself as opposed to the story or content. When thinking about this in film I always remember the Falls Festival 2012/13 where Sampology mixed video and music together for his set. DJs in a sense re propagate music to create something new, songs purely becoming  chunks of a greater piece. This notion is overtly simplistic but reminiscent of hypertext with a piece being constructed of numerous parts that viewed on their own would be contained works. What I guess I’m getting at is that if we started to think of video in a similar sense it would be a step towards a media that did not have to have a final shot. Instead of editing video we thought of it as mixing, bringing in footage from differing works as a means to convey an idea or mood. This thought was also inspired by the discussion of hyper videos and being  able to view different aspects of a video on demand, the viewer dictating its structure.
Just imagine that every creative commons stock footage clip was linked to another/multiple clip(s) that created some form of meaning or narrative.