Posts Tagged: collaborative practices

Holmes Wilson on Universal Subtitles: Collaborative, Volunteer Subtitling for any Video on the Web Using Free Software

By Rania (Ourania) Dalalaki, March 13, 2011

By Ourania (Rania) Dalalaki The importance of subtitles is an undeniable fact for Holmes Wilson, co-founder of the Participatory Culture Foundation. Through the foundation’s  latest open source, software-based project Universal Subtitles, the creative staff of the foundation argues that subtitles urgently need to support the vast universe of online videos. What is Universal Subtitles? Universal [...]

“There should be more room for fun in art” – Animated Gif Mashup Studio Workshop with Evan Roth

By Anna Jacobs, March 13, 2011

By Anna Jacobs Last Thursday (10-03) I attended a workshop about animated gif mashups led by the artist Evan Roth. Twenty minutes before the start of the workshop the room was already filled with enthusiastic students, no doubt because of Evan’s well-documented reputation when it comes to lively workshops. The audience included a variety of [...]

Online Video Art: Roel Wouters and Conditional Design

By caroline, March 13, 2011

In his presentation on online video art and the design of fluid digital environments, graphic designer and project director Roel Wouters introduced the audience to interactive projects which include dynamic media such as web video and animation to install crowdsourced performances. With his collegues Luna Maurer, Jonathan Puckey and Edo Paulus he has published the Conditional Design Manifesto, which is based on the work of his collective called Conditional Design and emphasizes the idea of following processes in the digital realm rather than its products.

Evan Roth: Freedom, Art & Gifs

By marc, March 11, 2011

Artist Evan Roth received a degree in architecture from University of Maryland and a MFA from the Communication, Design and Technology school at Parsons The New School for Design. His work focuses on tools of empowerment, open source and popular culture. Roth describes his own work as a middle zone between open source and pop [...]
by Carlos García Moreno-Torres Since its birth in the early...

About FanFilms and crowd sourcing

By cgmt87, September 29, 2010

by Carlos García Moreno-Torres Since its birth in the early 20th century, cinema has probably caused a more visibly active reaction from audiences than any other form of art (fan conventions, discussions, reviews, seminars, remakes, parodies…). This bounty of responses is most likely due to cinema’s proximity to popular culture (its far-reaching stretch across a [...]