The Perpetual Art Machine
aka PAM, is a user generated, user curated video art installation... which allows real-time collaboration with, erm, a computer.
Basically, you can submit a film with keywords/tags onto perpetualartmachine.com. this then goes into their database, and may be then used in a live video installation (the next one is the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival in California). Films are chosen by audience members at the live video installation, who type in keywords, and use a touchscreen to enlarge the films they want to watch.
why not enter your stray cinema film submission?
Digital storytelling
By michelle, 2 years, 10 months ago - No Comments
I found this paper on digital storytelling, as I rummaged around the internet today. It talks about “Storytelling as a powerful means of remembering, reshaping identity and sharing cultural values”, but further “Digital storytelling, which is both a powerful process for reflection and a tool for sharing”
You may like to have a read, but if you don’t have the time, then here are some of the juicy bits…
“Storytelling is rooted in our cultures. The stories we tell shape our lives and our cultures. They help us define who we are and craft our identity. Kineo (2006) says that stories ‘engage the heart before the mind’ and suggests we use stories in teaching and learning. The power of storytelling is in who owns the story, who tells it and who hears it.
While digital storytelling uses technology to tell stories: the story remains the focus. Images audio and pacing add other sensory dimensions to the telling.
Depending on the type of story we tell, sorting through photos and trying to shape a story allows us to re-evaluate the memories of the past. We sort through images, remembering the events, deciding what our story is and who will hear it. We see things we may not have seen before—background images, trees, garden seats—cultural markers that sit in our memory and tell us how we got to be who we are.
Part of the process of creating a digital story involves gathering together images, writing a story, recording the story and any other appropriate audio. Digital stories engage us because we use at least three senses to ‘read’ them: sight, sound and touch. In this way they are more involving.
But digital storytelling, using what is now accessible technology, democratises this process, makes it available to all of us, gives us the opportunity to reflect and to consider who we are, what we want to say and what and how we want to present our story and ourselves. Digital stories fall somewhere between the fixed story that exists in print and the constantly changing story that is an oral story. While on one hand the story is ‘fixed’ on the other we can amend and remake the story as often as we want and upload it to a website everyday should we wish. It offers greater agency.”
In other news, i will start a video blog very soon, with me talking about project goings on. I will try and update this weekly. Is there anything you want to know about Stray Cinema? Please ask questions (in the form of comments) which I will answer in my first video. Thanks :)
free music anyone?
By michelle, 2 years, 10 months ago - No Comments
went to see a band called mestar play on wednesday night, they were great. i have just been to their website & was delighted to find that I could download their old albums for free!
X | Media | Lab
By michelle, 2 years, 10 months ago - No Comments
Someone pointed me towards the X | Media | Lab website the other day. Perhaps you have already heard of it, but if not - and you have your own digital media project, then it's worth taking a peek...
"X | Media | Lab is the internationally acclaimed think-tank and creative workshop for digital media professionals across the emerging digital media disciplines in computer games, animation, digital cinema, interactive content and entertainment, and mobile applications."
They just held a workshop in Mumbai on “Digital Entertainment”, and the next one is going to be in London...
"Running in partnership with the UK’s largest music business event, “London Calling” (June 28-29th), the UK X|Media|Lab will focus on all dimensions of digital media in the music industry. The focus is on the new markets, new technologies, and new revenue streams that are emerging virtually every day – the Music Business 2.0!"
Sounds exciting aye, have a look at their website for more info on how to get involved.
Today's film submission
By michelle, 2 years, 11 months ago - No Comments
I was stoked to find a 15 year old had submitted a film onto our website today. You may have noticed that a reoccurring theme for Stray Cinema is accessibility.
One of our main goals is to make film as a medium to tell stories and communicate, accessible to as many people as possible. Also our idea of making a film open source. That's why I get excited when a 15 year old submits a film onto our website! Take a look at we are slaves of the future by bumblebeenyhappy.
By michelle, 2 years, 10 months ago - No Comments