Data Visualization and eco-media content.
- 1. Digital Narratives Data Visualization and eco-media content. Media Art produced at Digital Narratives workshops Karla Brunet www.karlabru.net Juan Freire www.juanfreire.net ISEA 2011/Istanbul
- 2. Digital Narratives Digital Narratives for community participation on coastal ecosystem management Workshops Garapuá, Brazil Aguiño, Spain (http://narrativas.ecoarte.info/).
- 3. Digital Narratives Garapuá, Bahia, Brazil (isolated community)
- 4. Digital Narratives Aguiño, Galicia Spain (mix of rural and urban)
- 5. Digital Narratives • Collaborative • Documentation of the process • low tech, free software, easy to use, DIY
- 6. Digital Narratives Narrative media: video, photo, audio, text, map (4 groups x 4 teenagers x 2 facilitators)
- 7. Digital Narratives Subject decision meeting
- 8. Digital Narratives Open projections on the streets
- 9. Digital Narratives Editing Software (during the workshops) • Kino & Cinelerra (video) • Gimp & F-Spot (photo) • Audicity (audio) • gvSIG develop EasySIG (simpler version of gvSIG) & Google Earth (map) • OpenOffice (text) Post production (later at UFBA) The above software plus Final Cut, Ligthroom and Impure
- 10. Digital Narratives • tagging and archiving: Vimeo, Flickr, Archive.org, Google Maps
- 11. Digital Narratives Aesthetical analysis •How they perceived the place (before and after the workshop) Allen Carlson (2000) ) The aesthetics of natural environments landscape appreciation on environmental aesthetics and descriptions modes •formal and ordinary description •factual description •imaginative description Landscape – Memory, identity, contestation
- 21. Digital Narratives Aesthetical analysis • Garapuá: teenagers had no previous knowledge on using the cameras, mp3 recorders and GPS • Aguiño: teenager were already used to the technology. •there was a graphical aesthetics concern to the photos. • images produced in Brazil had a stronger narrative content and the ones done in Spain were more landscape contemplation better graphical pieces. •Garapuá, there was no experimentation with the audio, •Aguiño they experimented a lot with the audio, they created and discovered unnoticed sounds of the place. An interesting example is an orchestra that they created on a shipyard, just with the sounds of the machines.
- 29. Digital Narratives Ecological analysis Ecosystems are characterized by a series of “tangible objects” (physical and biological components) and intangible processes that connect the different objects (i.e., river runoff or coastal currents, coastal fertilization, trophic cascades…) (Mann & Lazier, 2005) and the human experience of objects and processes gives rise to the landscape (Turner et al., 2001).
- 30. Digital Narratives Garapuá: 1)turismo / lazer 2)infra-estrutura 3)atividades econômicas (especialmente pesca) 4)histórias de vida 5)Ecossistema 6)propriedade da terra
- 31. Digital Narratives Aguiño: 1)Paisagem 2)Pesca 3)histórias de vida 4)identidade cultural
- 32. Digital Narratives Ecological analysis • ecological literacies are basic • only the more symbolic and evident “objects” are recognized • a static view of the landscape. Developing a comprehensive ecological literacy arises as a key objective to empower the community and develop their ability to influence decision-making in environmental management (i.e., territory planning, pollution control, fishery management).
- 33. Digital Narratives Visualization and some conclusions • exhibition in the community • online posting • Datanet (Klanten, Bourquin et al., 2008), tag relationship with Impure software. This visualization gave us a better perspective of what was important to them, about their location, environment and identity. • longer workshop/more time for post-production, tagging, editing…
- 58. Digital Narratives Thank you email@karlabru.net twitter @ksbrunet