politcamp graz 2008

assembly Das Designfestival in Graz

may of 30th - june of 6th 2008

assembly, the styrian design festival, is happening for the 5th consecutive time already. It was initialized to offer national along with international designers a presentation platform. Consistent development and realization secured a continual growth of participants and visitors alike. Throughout the years interesting contents and developments were offered to the audience. This year assembly set its goal to revive Annenstrasse (which used to be THE shopping street besides Herrengasse) starting at Kunsthaus and extending all the way to central station. Temporary shops and an extensive surrounding program are planned to achieve this objective. Furthermore assembly will be one of the leit-projects for the title ‚city of design’ which will be awarded by UNESCO.

Designzone Annenstraße, GrazFashion Design – Product Design – Graphic Design – Architecture - Art

www.assembly-festival.at

gill egender

eGender: Gill Kirkup: Viewing the elearning landscape through the lens of gender

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Gill Kirkup (Institute of Educational Technology Open University, Milton Keynes):
In Universities we are busy dealing with the impact of elearning tools and pedagogies on our students and our staff and our knowledge domains. We know that elearning can create opportunities; we worry that it also creates barriers. But who benefits and who is disadvantaged is not yet clear. In this new higher education landscape the complexities of gender can be overlooked because our attention is fully occupied with new structures, technologies, practices, markets, and too few resources. Women students, on the other hand, don’t cause us worry; overall they appear to be performing well. However, it is possible to lose the gender equality gains that have been achieved in the last thirty years in the complexities of change. In this lecture I will argue that the new elearning landscape needs to be examined through the lens of gender. I will review what is known about women’s access to, and use of the technologies of elearning, and relate this to what we know about gender and higher education. I will discuss how gender mainstreaming principles can be integrated into good practices in the design and delivery of elearning, to increase the opportunities for all.


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'krocha'

well 'krochen' is the brand-new youth phenomenon in austria, to be geographicaly more precise 'wr. neustadt' and the suburbs of vienna, but spreading around. but against the common assumption this penomenon was not born in viennas suburbs, but this culture found a very special apperance in this region. in other european countries this style is known as jumpstyle or hardstyle and first appeared in belgium.

the jumpstyler are my no. 1 media konstruct 2008!
i think it is just amazing how fast this style flooded europe and parts of asia

devices

in contrast to interfaces i will use the term devices for super-cool technics like an iphone/ipod touch, nokia communicator etc... which provides internet access where ever you are, which means you are carrying the web in your pocked (i guess a quote by an apple engineer)
most of these include some calendar applications, e-mail apps and webbrowser and much more, so actually you are able to surfe the net - just like on a laptop - on the bus, in classroom, at a friends place, in a bar or on the toilett, reading news, latest blog entries, check dates or lecture information and even download documents - brave new world!!!

to stop infiltrating your consumers mind .... there could also occure some technical challanges - as you need data for all sorts of operating systems ....

some studies show, that people who are useing this kind of devices are more active in microblogging or blogging anyways....

interfaces

interfaces are a 'super-hero' topic for me ;)
i don't really know how these things work - from a technical perspective and i guess this makes it much more interesting to me.
if i'm talking about interfaces i now mean gadgets to make music with, so this could be a simple touch-pad in all different sorts of apperance, but the more interesting 'instruments' are interfaces responding to light, vibrations and body movements..... like a theremin ... wow!!!

i am working on a relation to our main content - besides technological development blablabla..

just click on the pic and find some damn cool examples!

e_gender & e_education lectures

these lectures are a result of the project called delta 3 in 2006/2007.
participants in this project were the academy of fine art in vienna (akademie der bildenden künste) , vienna university of technology (technische uni, wien) and the university of natural resources in vienna (boku wien).

starting point for these lectures are the different dimensions of e-learning, namely:
technology, didactics, design and useability


so you can imagine that this is a rather scientific approach to the topic of e-learning, e-gender and e-education - and also quite callanging, as it employs many different theoretical aspects and brings them together in a spoken statement of 90min .....
unfotunately not all the slides are available online and also the video material shows only the lecturer, so it is even more difficult to keep trak with all this weird assumptions and world constructions and out-of-space realities.

but it is defenitely worth listening and/or looking at these lectures.
so if you have a nerve click on the picture and enjoy!









and here you can find some slide-shows.

cast your art

cast your art is an austrian art platform (organised as a bolg) focused on austrian artists or events happening in austria. the aim is to open the space of art for interested people.
by subscribing the weekly podcast episodes you will get insights of the work of an artist and his/her interpretation his/her art - which might be the most interesting part anyhow.

get a glimpse of there work just right now!

donaufestival - krems

here you can find one of the most amazing festivals in austria:
the 'donaufestival' in krems.......
it started rather small, was constantly growing the last years and probably found its peak two years ago with festival day curated by mike patten (former singer of faith no more).
but the festival is not only about amazing music its about art and all its spectacular, breathtaking versions of contemporary performance, theater, music etc.
i guess this festival is transforming this small, beautiful city of krems in to a magical, shine space - where everything seems possible - at least for the moment.
if you are open for new things, give it a try!!! you'll be fascinated!!!

so here the trailer....



and here some video report on the festival by students of FH krems







if you are still not satisfied read articels here....


or get your ticket next year ;)

ENJOY

life and art

take a look around the world, maybe you will find what are you looking for...

deviantART

www.deviantart.com

blogtheatre

käthe schönle

an artist, who lives in vienna.
http://www.schoenle.artfolder.net/home.html

iTunes

Since its launch, the iTunes Store has crossed many milestones. In the first 18 hours, the store sold about 275,000 tracks and more than 1,000,000 in its first 5 days. When released for Windows in October 2003, iTunes was downloaded more than 1,000,000 times in the first 3 days, selling more than 1,000,000 songs in that period. On December 15, 2003 Apple announced that it had crossed 25 million songs sold.

On April 9, 2007 Apple announced that the iTunes Store had sold more than 2.5 billion songs.^[29]

On April 11, 2007 Apple announced that the iTunes Store had sold more than two million movies, making it the world’s most popular online movie store.^[30]

On July 31, 2007 Apple announced that the iTunes Store had sold more than 3 billion songs.^[31]

On January 15, 2008 Apple announced that the iTunes Store had sold more than 4 billion songs.

On February 26, 2008 Apple announced that iTunes Store surpassed Best Buy to become the 2nd biggest music seller behind Wal-Mart.

On April 3, 2008 it was announced that the iTunes store had surpassed Wal-Mart to become the biggest music retailer in the US.^[1]

mySpace

Music

MySpace profiles for musicians are different from normal profiles in that artists are allowed to upload up to six MP3 songs. The uploader must have rights to use the songs (e.g their own work, permission granted, etc). Unsigned musicians can use MySpace to post and sell music using SNOCAP, which has proven popular among MySpace users. Shortly after MySpace was sold to Rupert Murdoch the owner of Fox news and 20th Century Fox in 2005 ^[29]they launched their own record label, MySpace Records, in an effort to discover unknown talent currently on MySpace Music. MySpace Music is a section of the website that allows its users to display their songs. It doesn’t matter if the artist is already famous or still looking for a break into the industry; aspiring artists can load their songs onto MySpace and have access to millions of people on a daily basis. Some well known singers such as Lilly Allen and Sean Kingston gained fame through MySpace. The availability of music on this website continues to develop in the foundation of young talent. Over eight million artists have been discovered by MySpace, and many more continue to be discovered daily ^[30]

see also : http://news.digitaltrends.com/news-article/11234/myspace-to-sell-music-from-unsigned-
bands
http://www.myspace.com/myspacerecords

podcasting in plain english

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y-MSL42NV3c

ncc festival

http://ncc05.mur.at/
follow the link and find the program and documantation of ncc festival 2005...

the reason why i picked this one:
a discussion was with nomad was part of the program, which is an interesting project and some people where not able to cross some borders, so they participated via live transmission/stream from turkey!
more information here: http://nomad-tv.net/

see also ncc2007
http://ncc07.mur.at/modules/module3/roberta/?searchterm=zu

the beginning

this blog was created by two studens of educational sciences in graz for a course on new media.

we will collect all sorts of information about art and new media, which could be podcasts, videos, links and so on.......

we hope you will like it!!!

enjoy our blog ;)