Ethnography - the studio of people Wendy Hsu - Talking about her LA listens project, (http://www.lalistens.org) We listen to the interrelationships between the sensory, social, and ecological aspects of streets in Los Angeles. We transform our research into a creative and engagement platform for community-oriented artists, planners, and organizers. Collectively, we ascertain the meanings of vibrancy and question the impact of motorized vehicles, pedestrians, conversations, helicopters, and street vendors in the multivalent soundscape of LA’s neighborhoods. What if the site doesn't have vibrancy - what if its on the other side of the spectrum - a dead space or as more accurately and in the words of Marc Augé, a non-place. Possible Rules for Selection of Site.
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Derek Holzers work over the last few years has touch on MD. http://macumbista.net/?page_id=5121 Pulled from his site What sort of utopias and dystopias of their time were these devices designed to address, at what point and for what reason were they discarded, and have their inevitable replacements addressed these concerns any more or less completely? This has led to a number of media archaeological re-enactments which place these discarded technologies in a contemporary context, coupled with a healthy skepticism of the idea of technological progress. The three technologies chosen represent distinct moments in the uneasy partnership of utopian cultural-technological aims and dystopian military-technological goals, in the eras previous to, during, and just after the Second World War. These technologies are the optical sound transducer(as found in any sound film projector from 1919 up until the advent of digital cinema), the voice-encoder (AKA the vocoder, as found in mid-20th Century telecommunications electronics), and the vector graphics display (as found in visual computer interfaces from the 1950’s up to the start of the 1980’s). The references to possibel Uopia and dustopia makes me think og JG Ballards SoundSweep - in it the youg, mute, NAME, works for the city as a soundsweeper, cleaning up the echoa of sounds that havea nasty habit of buildign up during the day. His uses his 'sonavac' to do the job. Retro working with a sonava in 2088 could be a cool idea for an installation....if only we live in a dyspotpian future, wait, what do we?
The Crystal World lab I suppose isnt really Media Archaeology but the idea of a future dystopian being built on the likes of this is interesting but again its already happening with plastiglomerate, a mix of organic material and molten plastic.
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