Archive for June, 2006

Disagreement: The Aestheticisation of Politics

Thursday, June 22nd, 2006

Call for Papers. Submissions due: 10 July 2006

The 2006 Under Construction lecture series is co-sponsored by The University of Auckland’s NICAI and AUT University’s School of Art and Design

Thanks to Albert Refiti for the information. Details about the cfp (in PDF format) may be accessed through: Interstices8. PDF document

The Image and the Forum

Monday, June 5th, 2006

The image and the form forum

Just when I was preparing a presentation for a workshop in sound (to take place in Helsinki this month), I took a sidetrack to implementing an “image archive” in Korakora.org.

Fireworks in Vigan City. Photo by Fats Lasay

(Photo: As soon as Reyna Elena entered the cathedral in Vigan, fireworks erupted. We sat under a mango tree beautifully pregnant with fruits - the one tree that I thought was so embarassed with such display of fertility in the plaza.)

At the moment, there is only one image in the archive. Later, there will be more - but work can continue only much later when I have returned from the sound workshop and have more or less settled again here in Quezon City.

Anyway, the intention behind using a forum/discussion format for an image archive is - as I have pointed out in the Korakora/EDU website - to explore the place of the image in the on-line learning environment. Visual aids abound in our media and our education systems, but what do they really do? How do we really use them and create them, and why? Can they become a centerpoint for open debate and discussion rather than deception and manipulation?

I have by the way managed to finish the presentation for the Art Camp: Diwa: Striking the balance in sound space. However, I intend to work on it some more on the road. Although the camp is from June 12-20, I am leaving tomorrow for Wales. I look forward to the journeys.