Collaborative Bagman Videos Flow
October 12, 2006
September 25, 2006
Cultural artifacts & Why to have a World to collect them.
A cultural artifact is an object created by man which inherently gives cultural clues about the person who made it and the person who uses it. The artifact may change over time in what it represents, how it appears and how and why it is used as the culture changes over time. Cultural Artifacts (Long Beach Library)
Taking into account this definition and based on the following premises I want to know what are the different cultural artifacts people from different places and origins considered important for them?; What are the meaning they attach to them? How they organized their cultural artifacts within a shared vertically opened and horizontally limited space? What are the different “rules of play” that emerge from sharing, locating and organizing that shared space?
“Artifacts are essential to any museum, on the other hand objects do not speak for themselves. There is, in my view, a clear connection between artifacts and knowledge, and they are equally important. The knowledge we are talking about derive primarily from people, the indigenous voice if you wish, based on the researcher´s first hand observations. It is impossible to contextualize objects in a satisfactory way unless one combines objects and words; which, according to Julie Cruikshank (1992), points to physical manifestations of ideas paired with linguistic expression of ideas. Only then is it possible to view objects in different cultural settings, i.e. contextualizing the objects…”.
September 14, 2006
Some hot Topics for an Interactive Experiment
+) Using a program and a interface that could serve for automatically mixing videos and upload them.
eyespot.com
>) Esthetic Connection: Infinite Pan.
*) Interface Design based on Content
Ex. A central screen and buttons around to display the uploaded videos.
@)Time clip limitation.
%) Interactive Buttons that give access to different content that you could mix on the central screen as a SSM Symbolic Story Machine Showing and Connecting Emotion with :
Button for spaces: Upload videos of Places of the World within a Panorama.
Button for emotions: Show Interesting Close Ups or Pan of yourself or your friends on Happy, Sad, Angry, and other emotional moments.
Button for actions: Showing a Dramatic Or Funny Action
Button for characters: Represent your favorite character dialog.
Ex. Eiffel Tower on a Pan with a Old Woman crying while we listen I will return from a young person representing Terminator2's dialog and with a gun shooting. Or mixing several emotions together or actions and then another option, recombinant narratives based on meaningful moments.