Re: [-empyre-] moovogs - sounds like a shoe



At 8:59 -0400 24/6/02, parrishka wrote:
k.. i'm imagining.. and i'm freaking out...
maybe i just produce too slowly.
it takes me a good long time to write my blog posts- and I shed tears any time i
have to do site redesign b/c i'm so visually impaired.


i want to beleeeeeeeve!

but i don't!

ok, if we're ever at the same conference let's run a how to vog workshop, and you can be the person who shows everyone how to do it, ok? :)





 oh, i'm hoping to have vogs in a moo (i wanted to take this guest
 spot into a moo actually to show and have a real time conversation
 about vogs, still happy to do it if people interested). and yes, to
 be moosavvy there is alearning curve, and it's another medium that
 privileges text literacy too (moos are a very sophisticated sort of
 literacy particularly the punning that goes on).
 >

wheee!
and that's a very interesting point.
Well, let me qualify- MOO'ers privilege the textuality of MOOs- hence the "GUI
MOOs are a sell-out" rhetoric.

yeah yeah, and i like the speed of a text client, but i love using the encore xpress engine in a browser, and that's what i use with students. though you've made me realise how much i take the text side for granted. so next time i'll start them in a text only client and then move them into the browser.


and before i hijack this into a discuss about MOOs, this all comes back to
perception.
We generally don't think of text as a visual medium- despite all that ascii art.
(and this is part of why, as John Cayley argues, poets tend to make good digital
literary art, cause poets have been concerned with the materiial/visual/aural
quality of the word for some time..)

well, not sure i'd agree with john on that one. he makes good work, but there's a lot of good writing that i think gets dragged into kitchness by the visual design and/or graphic work. some can do it, most can't.



MOOvogs would be fascinating.
especially b/c you could play with the notion of a screening- a temporally based
communal experience of the work.

yep, i've always wanted to make a viewing room in a moo but just haven't gotten off my bum to do it. i guess i should. would be viewing on demand but you could easily set it up so that it was a communal viewing. :-)


though of course if they were multilinear vogs, who knows where or what the communality lies?

cheers
am
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+ lecturer in new media and cinema studies [http://hypertext.rmit.edu.au/vog/vlog]
+ interactive desktop video developer [http://hypertext.rmit.edu.au/vog/]
+ hypertext rmit [http://hypertext.rmit.edu.au]
+ InterMedia:UiB. university of bergen [http://www.intermedia.uib.no]






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