Good Day – a piece by Sylvain Sailly

http://www.caligrayk.com/sylv1/bjrn/bonne_journee.htm

ashley howe, “part of something”, collage, 2010

VIVO internship

With the Signal + Noise festival, I will be managing the communication between VIVO and the public using new media relations.

Using social networking sites (facebook, tumblr, twitter…etc) I will be facilitating and organizing information into these various sources.  We are starting earlier this year to: ensure more media coverage and generate more contributions, data inputs, internal involvement and story ideas.  I will be working in collaboration with other interns and volunteers, compiling these details in a unified way.  The information needs to be easy to access, understand and navigate through.

Digital media has given way to a democratization of information.  I would like to use these social networking sites to involve people from different interests, backgrounds and age groups.  I’m also interested in looking into the possibility of linking up with other partners and do some research into other festivals and how joining forces with other galleries may or may not be beneficial.  Social media and marketing doesn’t have to rely on mainstream publications.  It is interesting to me to see how, in this new digital age, to interact directly and privately with the public.

vivo statement (pdf)

server

Continuous Shots

Take-Away Shows are directed by Vincent Moon and comissioned by Blogotheque.net.  They feature musical acts and are usually very simple and location dependent.  The artists use everyday objects to create the sounds.  The continuos shots used give it a raw feeling.

Rope directed by Alfred Hitchcock was intended to be one continuous shot but since it was filmed on 35mm film, the reel could only hold 1,000 feet of film. It consists of 10 long takes.

Timecode was shot by four different cameramen, the screen is split into quarters and the continuous shots play simultaneously and at moments the characters story lines cross paths.

Russian Ark, a 90 minute continuous shot, was filmed with a glide cam in 33 rooms of a museum with over 2,000 actors.

PVC-1 is a real-time thriller filmed in a single shot.  It follows a woman who has been kidnapped and turned into a human bomb, for the duration of the film she is trying to escape the inevitability of her death.  The film uses the main character as a metaphor for time, how it governs our lives and how it cannot be altered.

CHURCHES

Desires & Divas

Thieves Like Us [website] essentially “remixed” a French action movie from the 1980′s called Diva [trailer], directed by Jean-Jacques Beineix.  The Swedish-American band used scenes and cut them in time to accompany their song “Desire”.

Amadou Et Miriam – Sabali

social media

industrial age —–> internet revolution —–> free based internet society

Current_tv and twitter have joined forces to create “Hack the Debate”, a live broadcast of the presidential debates with real-time feedback from viewers with twitter accounts.

Computers are putting the economy into the hands of an entire population.  Technology, for the “Google Generation“, has created a growing social sharing force that is motivated not by money, but for the sake of interest or meaning.

Yochai Benkler wrote a book called The Wealth Of Networks: How Social Production Transforms Markets and Freedom that you can download entirely for free [here].  I read The Wealth of Nations for my high school economics class, it was written by an American economist at the beginning of the industrial revolution.