2007. október 11., csütörtök

Conclusion

Milverton Wallace summarized the most inportant things from the speaches during the two days.
Now in the information age the computer has an important part of our life. We spend a lot of time, searching on the Net. Even knowing the disadvantages, we sit there for hours.
Immediately when you connect to the internet, it is talking to you. Listen, write, be part of it!

Blogging as a Journalistic Tool

... by Jak Boumans, the very famous blogger from Netherlands.

"Communication is more than an exchange of messages. It is also the ability to listen to and understand the sender of the message. No message makes any sense in itself, but the sense comes only within a context, a cultural identity within which the message can be understood." Dominique Wolton

Do you know where the 'BLOG' came from?
Once upon a time... :)
First it was a ship-log, than it became weblog and it's shorter form is the thing we just write.
It is little bit like journalism, but without many rules -you can write about anything for anybody, anyhow.
You can find different kinds of it, by categories, photo blogs, shock blogs, mikro blogs, etc.
Nowadays blogging is part of the culture.

Jak's blogspot: http://buziaulane.blogspot.com/

Comment:
In a really good blog there R a lot of backinfos, if U can read between the lines ;)

Narrowing the Gap between the Private and Professional Publishing on the Net

... by Péter J. Soós.
He is a teacher at Kodolanyi and also the director of a marketing company.
The gap between the private and professional on-line publishing has been narrowed in the last few years.
Computer age changing the world by two numbers 0 & 1.
There are a lot of new arts: "fan fiction", .pps fantasy, own news service, blogs, photoShop-world. People can make their own reality, create a world for themselves and also for everyone. You can visite these pages, but you never sure about the real creator!
The biggest money is in the business online. The meeting point of business and private creativity. Even in YouTube the companies can check the viewers profiles and get all the information.
There are some open questions: -copyrights change the world?
-no author, no risk, no responsibility?!
-easy to hurt the personal rights?!

Comment:
Once something appeares on the net, it will never vanish.
It is so good to have the new, free internet world, but it has advantages and disadvantages too -like everything.

2007. október 10., szerda

PHOTOS

We had troubles putting on pictures, so U can see them here:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/14855047@N02/?saved=1

Dinner with wine tasting

At night the group were in a beutiful place at the hills of lake Balaton. We visited a famous wine cellar, where we tasted 6 type of wines and ate original hungarian food: sausage, cheeses, and the best dessert from our grandma's kitchen, 'rétes' :)
About every glass of wine we heard a speach -how they made that wine.
After a while the athmosphere became cheery...

Visit the cellar's site:
http://www.stkristof.com/

Digital Installation of Jurate Vazgauskaite

She is from Lithuania, where she works as a free artist. She had a lot of exhibitions since 1990.

'Type of artistic expression is abstract-structural. Dominating: shape-color-texture Paradoxes, sound, movement, rhythmus, space, extreme and flexible changes, transformations. Giving lot of free space to spectator for to interpret her created visions and sounds structures. Most of my computer generated and computer animated artworks I mean as installations.
Themes: nature-culture, human existence, industry-nature-culture, relativity

Branches: painting, graphic, drawing, action, installation, mixed modes, last time intensively computer made moving structures connected with sound, noises, which could bee exhibited as the installations, or computer video.
' -this is in her mind about the videos we saw.

Comment:
She made a never ending music video with computer generated sounds & pictures. It's a pop art like composition. U just sit down & free your mind.

Models of Preservation for Net Art in Museums

... by Anne Laforet.
She is currently writing her PhD thesis at the University of Avignon (France). Her research is focused on Internet-specific artworks and the way museum institutions approach, collect and preserve them.
Artists have appropriated the Internet as soon as it became public to experiment new artistic. The museums have to reconsider the way they commission, exhibit, collect and preserve artworks, as they already did with other forms of ephemeral or process-based art. Archeological museums should be solution for net art preservation.
By combining museum and archival approaches, it is possible to keep traces of the net-based artworks' context by taking into account interrelations within a dynamic environment. Net archiving tools allow to follow very closely how an art work evolves, but that doesn't necessarily mean that the capture of works are functioning similarly to the works themselves.



Life of a Cultural Product in the Analog and in the Digital Age (across Gloomy Sunday)

... by Györgyi Rétfalvi.
She teaches at Kodolányi.
The notorious 'Hungarian Suicide Song' - was written in 1933. Its melody and original lyrics were the creation of Rezső Seress, a self-taught pianist and composer born in Hungary in 1899.
The melancholic lyrics was written by the Hungarian poet László Jávor.
See the difference between analog and digital media! The old medias (casette, video tape) are antiquated. The new age brings CD, DVD, web. Now saveing the old movei, or find it on the net is possible. You can even broadcast yourself on Youtube as the singer of the film.

You can listen the melodious music of the movie on www.deezer.com or check out a part of the film: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N2fGWQKbX68

Comment:
You can find everything on the web about anybody or anything you want.
You can "bring them home". Not only watch it in cinema and go home, but search for background information.

Culture 2.0 Making Human Cultures (past & present; accessible online)

...by Peter Mechant.
He works as a researcher for Media and ICT (MICT), part of University Ghent. He focuses on topics as social software, folksonomies, on line communites and web2.0-websites.


If you want to know more about social software and web2.0 check out this site:

http://www.slideshare.net/petermec/cost298-p078-peter-mechant/

Comment:
People make sites like myspace or iwiw to have a second personality, share pictures, write blog...
To tell the World: 'here I am, know me, check me, like me!'

Art Composition Basics in Media Design Studies

... by Dalia Matijkiené.
She is the head of Interactive design, Vilnius College of Construction and Design.
The emphasis on subjectivity that drives from the tarditional of modernism and post-modernism intensifies chaos in art theories. There are 2 statements of art: all cultures use the language of art to express their ideas; search for harmonious composition that incorporates artistic elements of classical and ancient cultures.

Comment:
Have you ever seen media art? We just did. It is amazing: animation, artistic pictures, a story, sounds and music or even a comic. She showed interactive media arts too. You can be involved in the art.
Find an internet galery or an art site and check it out! It's worth it ;)

Contemporary Art: What's next? (the silent revolution)

... by Vladimir Matijko. The first presentation.
He is an artist/painter, works as a teacher at the Shalchininkai Art School.
He speakes about the reasons for the crisis of the contemporary art. His opinion, that it is lie in the problem of form and content -these can be understood only if the relationship between substance and accidents.
The classic art embalmed name of the artists like Van Gogh. The information age destroyes personality and creating a "global village".
The 3 necessary characteristics of the new art: theisation, humanisation and substantialisation.

Comment:
by the internet it is much easier to present yourself as an artist.

Opening

In this moment (9:30 am) starts the Culture of the Information Age Conference. István Vizi -the head of the tourism department of Kodolányi János University College at Siófok- opened the seance. The chairman of sessions is Milverton Wallace, online journalist.
His first expression: "hungarians have the best coffe in the universe" :)
First he compares the program with the participants.

Introduce

Welcome to our site! We're two girls from Kodo-school writing about a conference, which is about the internet age...