Tuesday, January 23, 2007
I've yet to scrutinise much of this material. I have been impressed by "Urban Tapestries". The DIFFUSION books are awful for on-screen rteading: they are designed to be printed out and folded up, which is not very green and does not IMHO bring me into any "producer" role; rather a more harassed consumer. Still thwere is material on design, modernity, and lots more...
Proboscis http://proboscis.org.uk/about.html
"is an artist-led studio which combines artistic practice with commissioning, curatorial projects, design and consultancy. Collaboration is at the core of our creative practice and ethic: Proboscis works across disciplines and practices, working with associate artists, writers, curators, critics, designers, technologists, filmmakers, scientists and theorists to explore social, cultural and creative issues...Our work includes large scale collaborative artworks such as Mapping Perception, long term media works such as Urban Tapestries and DIFFUSION Generator, multi-project initiatives involving in depth research and a high level of public participation such as Social Tapestries, smaller scale artworks, interventions and films such as Topographies and Tales, experimental forums and events such as Human Echoes – A Dialogue on Cultures of Listening and large scale curatorial initiatives such as Navigating History.
Sine 2001 Proboscis has created a number of projects that explore the relationships between individuals, communities and the environments they inhabit. Our work has developed from an initial focus on the geographies of place to the social relationships that underpin it. Our projects have become rooted in deeper engagement with specific situations and contexts with our interventions taking place over longer periods of time. For participatory work Proboscis uses co-creative approaches – encouraging people to participate in making and sharing ideas through artistic processes and works: examples are the Urban Tapestries mapping platform, the DIFFUSION Generator (utilising the DIFFUSION eBook format), the Endless Landscapes, the StoryCubes, the Sound Scavenging kits and the Feral Robots for environmental sensing...."
eBooks are shareable paper books that are free to download, print and make up …. Proboscis regularly commissions new writing and creative publications which broaden discussion and debate around themes relating to our own projects and research…. Readers are encouraged to share the eBooks electronically or as material objects. DIFFUSION aims to bridge analogue and digital media by taking the reader away from the computer screen and engaging them in the process of making with their hands. Through the physical act of making the eBook, a dynamic is created that blurs the distinctions between producers and consumers.
Proboscis is building a web service enabling people to create their own DIFFUSION eBooks without the need for graphic design expertise or access to professional DTP software. A private beta test of the system begins in November 2006. We aim to launch the Generator to the public in Spring 2007.
Much material downloadable, under headings like:
- LIQUID GEOGRAPHY
- SOCIAL TAPESTRIES
- SPECIES OF SPACES
- PERFORMANCE NOTATIONS
- LIQUID GEOGRAPHY
Among the MANY documents (etc) available are:
·
Social Tapestries: Creative Lab documentation
· Otto von Busch & Karl Palmas
Design Management: a reinterpretation on the theme of Modes of Production and Design Hacking
· Dr Andy Pratt
It's space Jim, but not as we know
· Gair Dunlop & Daniel Norton
This is Tomorrow
· Matt Locke
P2P & Mobility: Rethinking the Roles of Networks in Content Distribution
