This brings me in to the second article. ThoughtMesh is a reflection of the Web 2.0 culture that is occuring right now. Authors Jon Ippolito and Craig Dietrich explain what ThoughtMesh is and how it relates to difference. ThoughtMesh is an intertwined search engine used to look for keywords in articles providing much more useful results than a search engine. That is because it utilizes Web 2.0 culture. Web 2.0 culture is based of the great increase of online interaction with blogging, video uploading sites such as YouTube and social networking sites such as Facebook and MySpace. People help decide what ThoughtMesh's results are through interaction. This is highly comparative to the Act/React exhibit and works like Baghdad in No Particular Order Part 1 and especially Part 2. The advancements of technology and the differences of mediums over time help compliment each other and now so more than ever because the internet brings every art medium together.
Tuesday, October 28, 2008
Field Report 2 - Vector Journal
To start I will first discuss the introduction of the current issue named Difference. The introduction is written by Tara McPherson. The introduction discusses technology change and how art has changed due to technological advances. I thought this was most appropriate to the discussions we have been having with Milwaukee Art Museum's Act/React exhibit. The author talks about the digital era that we are in and how that compares to history and how like piece of art and documents compare. Difference is talked abut in a few different aspects. Difference as a change through time, difference as in changing manipulating the present, and difference as a omniscient point of view of changes occurred and occurring. This is highly reflective of everything we have viewed and discussed in class. Every film is a discussion of the change from beginning to end. Every film is compared from the change in time between that film and another.
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Jake - first off: was I confused? Did you switch journals from what you originally posted? Or was I way off? Apologies. I had you down for reading Cine File and so commented on your original post. Apologies for being form another planet, if that was the case.
In response to any post where you announced you were reading Vectors I would have applauded the selection. It is a fine, rich, loaded, most contemporary and applicable journal. So glad you are giving it a look and exploring it so.
The posts here are good starts - I appreciate the efforts to link the readings to work seen, to ideas in the class, to each other. I'd like to read you go further or at least extend or clarify your thinking more. For instance: can you give amore specified example of how a film in class relates to one of the varied definitions of difference you mention. The sentence "Every film is a discussion of the change from beginning to end is provocative but I am not sure what you mean.An example would have helped - to illustrate the point, to sharpen your thinking (and that of this reader.)
Similarly, could you relate the interactivity of ThoughtMesh to Paul Chan's work,or that of an Act/REact exhibit? Tell me more - again, it would help clarify point and take your own thinking further. Try that out for the next round of blogs.
But again - these are good starts. You just need to go further - which is easily done. And again - sorry for any confusion about your journal selection.
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