Hyper Island Asta

Editor's Notes

• #3: We
• #4: Facebook,
• #5: The mix of embedded media components blends together and
• #6: We are working on redesigning our gallery website, to suit our goals of becoming a network. For now we employ the blog, facebook and twitter to stay connected and share information. Navigation through information, how to get content out to people who are interesting, experiment with the possibilities of the internet as a creative platform. A very important thing is transmediality, shared applications, mashup, embedded things etc. Things we hardly consider as beeing special today, but infact are very reasent in the digital world. Technology is getting more and more seemless and big corporations incourage open source > in so much as that they get people to design new applications that they find interesting and think people would like. Both Apple with iphone and ipod touch and Google are good examples of companies incouraging people to play and create freely. What we want to do is reach our target group and get them more involved. Hopefully creating a platform for discussions and idéa sharing.
• #7: Is the keyword to all social media planning. What kind of community to you want to reach, build up and create? There os only so much you can do with planning, the rest must come because the participants are interested and intrigued. What motivates people? Their passion, their ideas, their dreams, their plans, friends, communication with interesting people and cetera. The marketing side is to be able to reach out and motivate people.
• #8: Here is an experiment from Brooklyn Museum, where they incorporated “ 1stfans, a socially networked museum membership” where you can get interesting twitter feed from artists collaborating with the museum each month. You can also get live mingling, and get to know the community in person at special events at the museum. The museum incourages participation, that people play with their online collection, tag, rate and share and have created a game out of it.
• #9: They point out that it should not be to difficault, to connect with people where they are instead of always developing new interfaces on the museum website. Application mashup, is really important in that. Allow sharing of videos on other sites, send flick pictures on our own website, reviews of our amazonbooks on facebook and cetera. Most of it things we don’t notice anymore, things just blend easily and we rearly remember that this seamless blend is in fact just a couple of years old.
• #12: Manovich starts with pointing out the most important web 2.0 theme. That the last 10 years, the majority of content on the internet that users access is not created by professionals but by others users. He also reminds us that while in the 1990´s the internet was mainly a publishing medium, today it is mainly a communication medium. People increasingly get information from friends and other social media sites. The most popular sites (in the US) are myspace, facebook, wikipedia. Numbers of people participating on social media sites, sharing content and creating “user generated content” Who creates content? We do not have any statistics over the relative roles between commercial sources and user-produced content in forming peoples understanding of the world, themselves and others. Or more precisely, what are the relative weights between the ideas expressed in large circulation media and alternative ideas available elsewhere?
• #14: The reason Manovich discusses this classic text from cultural science, is De Certeau idea of tactics. He writes about the Everyday Life, and how we navigate through society. He talks about strategies as the rules, or the guidelines set forth and tactics are the ways in witch individuals negotiate and reconfigure the strategies set for them. His most basic example is of the city, its layout, maps, driving routes set by companies and government. The tactics are how the individuals navigate favorites, take shortcuts, wonder aimlessly. Individuals cant physically change the city, but they can adopt to it at choose how to move through it. Making the city yoru own. - Making it habitable.
• #15: We are still in many way limited to the technology, that our possibilities are commercially controlled by what our mobile phones are capable of, what facebook can do, what we are tought and learn from friends, what is branded in our country and cetera. But in all these commercial products, there are creative possibilites. People will take the technology and make it their own, reajust an remix to their own needs. Creative tactics.
• #16: Manovich says that the substansial changes in the last twenty years are in the area of consumer economy. He points out that in the digital industries, the strategies and tactics are closely linked and sometimes reversed. Tactics being created for us and sold to us as ready mades, underground culture as ponk, hiphop rock, goth sold as commercial styles. While everything can be customizable, most of us can only choose from limited choices. Things are over simplified by offering choice, and the illusion of freedom and not require independent thinking. Since 1980s, however, consumer and culture industries have started to systematically turn every subculture (particularly every youth subculture) into products. In short, the cultural tactics evolved by people were turned into strategies now sold to them. If you want to “oppose the mainstream,” you now had plenty of lifestyles available – with every subculture aspect, from music and visual styles to cloves and slang – available for purchase. Though most custumizable services are digital industries, it is far from all of them. Lego where you can create and order your unique toy. Converse where you can custumize and order your own shoes. And cetera.
• #18: In our society today we are extremely focused on archiving, saving, listing, keeping records. Everything is stored, filed and kept somewhere. We have so much information in huge databases in companies and governments and the interface is constantly developing. The internet is also a large database, which we navigate through browsers, news sites, search sites (google) blogs and social media sites. The internet is a public space where people communicate, store, share and find information. People tell their live stories with networking sites, photos, miniblogs, broadcasting themselves on youtube. People collaborate and open op to new possibilities that are not dependant on their close environment, can research and create and connect with likeminded.
• #21: Database logic does not mean that narrativity has completely disappeared. Only that we do not have a linear understanding of things. We do not navigate through the web in a linear manner, we click on tags, favorites, likes and look at suggestions, highlited newsblogs, see other people pictures and reed how their experience of something was and then click around their blog reading in a random order. What this means is that we do not get the stories prepared, we create the story as we go. It is in our mind that the narrative becomes real. This might be true of a personal blog and someones life history but We also form an opinion on own projects, on the news, on company websites we visit and navigate. A designer can try to focus our attention at a special thing, or a specific route to influence how we understand things. But it is our choice to wander, click back and out, and create stories and understanding from what we find. Flickr is good example, in early 2008 Flickr contained over a billion images. Many of them are beautiful and professional, but most are everyday pictures and documentation of life, special events, travels, families and experiments. Everyones familiy album in a global collective database. A global digital memory. The images are organized in sets and batches, but mostly by tags, making it easy to search for specific types of images. Just as youtube and many others, and make it easy for people to find images.
• #30: Crowd curated