Publishing Platforms

Presentation of three on-line publishing projects from the same administrative area, South Dublin County.

Mediation of cultureLocal government; the big picture, the noise project Artists generated project -civic engagement

digital culture publishing

'de-territorialised‘ space for publishing

Mirroring of mediums - digital publishing and the growing status of independence among artists

The Noise ProjectA creative interactive webspace for young people ages 13 to 25 in South Dublin County. http://www.noisesouthdublin.com/

The Big Picture (Connect project)The Big Picture is an Interactive Exhibition Centre for the County where visual and relevant multi-media content will be exhibited for public interaction on council developments. http://connect.southdublin.ie/connect/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=190&Itemid=280

A=AGHT

A=AGHT is a semi-utopic virtual space/town whose rules, population and culture are generated by a facilitated exchange between youth from New Orleans and Tallaght.

(how is this exchange happens) Adult artists and cultural workers from both cities

developed projects that encourage youth participants to explore historic moments, social grievances, ethnic and racial disparities in order to invent a place of creative resolve.

• http://www.aequalsaght.org/

Publishing Voice(cheap shots at polarisation)

Rigid + overtly structuredAuthoritarian autocratic

Heavily Filtered

Text base publishingUnengaged Thematic tied/ single issue

Fluidity Group Democratic Open communication (Real or performed )

Multi-platform(way cool)

Mash-up Film media audio ... (strong emphases on cross representation documents)

Who is publishing who

Art and Art making as publication (on-line)Creation increasingly enclose spheres with highly

regulated and mediated exchangesMirroring other platforms –(bebo, youtube, flicker,

snagit) utilising a discourses of creativity, self- publishing.

Implications of medium for participants. Personal creative freedom - retaining authorship -

individualised platforms .

About 200 million blogs

5 of top 10 websites are social media sites

120,000 new blogs launched every day

YouTube = 10% of all Internet traffic

1.5 million blog posts per day (17 per second)

Sources: Universal McCann: Wave.3: Power to the People, 2008; various

Key points • On-line publishing - social network platform as public art, public

engagement, or places of free creative exchange.

• Direct and indirect methods of communication and engagement, the perceptions of autonomy – generated for distinct personal or organisational rationales

Performance of engagement - Service provision as virtual experience • Publishing as facilitation - • On-line publishing platforms - mediation of civic engagement

through selected and self selected communities of young people. • Self determined/artist lead publishing project in the context of

wider cultural strategies employed as publishing methods by a local government.

User generated content quickly conceptually different rational for engaging

Publishing as bridge, dynamic,

Vs absorption, reviewed a programmatic, project based

Information capturing – the documentation of publishing revert to publishing static

(the fixed object – singularity)