Scott Fisher

Blogging meets lifelogging...or something.

Dandelife is a social biography network. What's that? Well you all know what a social network is. Dandelife is a social network built around the telling of your life's stories. You can use Dandelife to create your own personal biography and then share that with the rest of the world. Imagine all your own notes on all the people you've met, the places you've been, the events you've gone to and the stories you could tell about them all. That's your Dandelife. To get you started you may want to see the co-founder Kelly Abbott's Dandelife since he's got a good start: http://www.dandelife.com/kga245 . If that weren't enough, Dandelife works with Flickr and Youtube. So if you have your photos online at Flickr, and you regularly upload videos to Youtube, then you can keep doing that. Then come to Dandelife to combine those images and movies with stories about the people, places, things and events in them.

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Title: Database Art
Speaker: Andreas Kratky
Time: Wednesday, October 12, 6-8pm
Location: USC's Robert Zemeckis Center for Digital Arts (RZC), Room 201 Zemeckis Media Lab (ZML)
3131 South Figueroa Blvd./2nd Floor

Abstract: Databases are the most common device to handle the permanently growing flood of information. This system for the organization of data can be diverted from its normal goal to achieve maximum efficiency for creative uses. Artistic and idiosyncratic ordering structures allow us to create dynamic and recombinant structures to support a multitude of different approaches to narrative forms. The possibility to create multilayered and associative experiences makes this approach fascinating and universal. The experimental field ranges from a tightly crafted narrative to the point where narrative breaks away and forms an aleatoric pathway.

Andreas Kratky will show some examples from his recent work exploring the concepts of database as an artistic device. Among other examples he will show excerpts from the award-winning DVD-Rom “Bleeding Through – Layers of Los Angeles 1920-1986” and “Soft Cinema” published this year by MIT Press.

UPDATE: Backchannel log here: Download file

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