DISTRIBUTED OBJECTIVITES OF IMAGINING: The generative scholarship driving "Networked"

DISTRIBUTED OBJECTIVITES OF IMAGINING:The generative scholarship driving Networked

TARA ZEPELUniversity of California, San Diego

Networked Humanities: Art History in the WebESF Research Conference9-14 October 2010

ART FUTURE

NOW

Art history in the web

Fertile ground for aesthetic practice

Benefit from digital tools

+ Relationship between

thinking/making/doing

http://networkedbook.org

distinctly networked…

increasingly mobile…

reputably collaborative…

TODAY’S TECHNO-CULTURAL LANDSCAPE IS:

Innovative + Dynamic

generative

“…authorship, publication, refereeing, collaboration, participation, customizing, interdisciplinary, credentialing, expertise, norms, training, mastery, hierarchy, taxonomy, professionalism, rigor, excellence, standards, and status.”

- Davidson, “Humanities 2.0” (2008)

WEB 2.0 SCHOLARSHIP is GENERATIVE SCHOLARSHIP

Are we entering an age in which data can write scholarship?

WEB 2.0 SCHOLARSHIP is GENERATIVE SCHOLARSHIP

How do answers reshape cultures of scholarship and creation?

What does this mean for the role of the researcher? The scholar?

“A networked book is an open book designed to be written, edited, and read in a networked environment. It is also a platform for social exchange, and is potentially linked to other books and other discussions.”

- Wikipedia, “Networked Book” (as of Oct 2010)

NETWORKED: a (networked_book) about (networked_art)

Remix and the Rouelles of Media ProductionDeseriis › No End In SightUlmer › The Learning ScreenVarnelis › The Immediated NowHelmond › LifetracingFreeman › Storage in Collaborative Networked ArtMunster › Data UnderminingLichty › Art in the Age of DataFlow

NETWORKED IN THE NETWORK (AS PLATFORM)

1. Real-time asynchronous collaborative creation

2. Subversive questioning of existing expectations

NETWORKED: a unique advantage

“Networked proposes that a history or critique of interactive and/or participatory art must itself be interactive and/or participatory; that the technologies used to create a work suggest new forms a ‘text’ might take.”

THESIS 1:

Collaborating in the Network (as Platform) is a form of

Aesthetic Expression

Aesthetic experience changes what you know and how you know (or

see) it.

THESIS 1: Aesthetic Expression

users add value (in data)

THESIS 1: Aesthetic Expression

THESIS 2:

Collaborating in the Network (as Platform) requires

Aesthetic | Cognitive Extension

COMMENTS

TEXT

EDITS

SOCIAL NETWORK

FACEBOOKGROUP

CLOUD

USERS ADD VALUE(IN DATA)

SERVER

WIKI

RSS/WEBSITES

COMMENTPRESS

SOFTWARE

GROUPS

meaning in (or in-between) the data

THESIS 2: Aesthetic | Cognitive Extension

THESIS 3:

The Value of Pattern over Prediction: Playing with networked-data is an

Aesthetic Experience

THESIS 4:

Collaborating in the Network (as Platform) is a form of

Aesthetic Reflection

Contact Information:

TARA ZEPELUniversity of California, San DiegoPhD Student, Art History, Theory & Criticism

[email protected]://artfuturenow.com

ART FUTURE

NOW

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DISTRIBUTED OBJECTIVITES OF IMAGINING: The generative scholarship driving "Networked"

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