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Workshop 2: Nicholas Gebhardt, After the event: listening to Miles Davis’s “My Funny Valentine”

Nicholas Gebhardt (Lancaster University) opened his presentation by explaining that in it, he intends to provide a few thoughts on jazz improvisation and what it offers us in terms of thinking about the nature of artistic events. Gebhardt argued that perhaps more than any other aspect of music today, improvisation has particular significance for how we explain or account for changes in musical experience, across all the forms of contemporary music: not just jazz, but also within classical, electronic, experimental, modernist, pop, rock, and non-western music as well. He claimed that the reason for this is that as a way of thinking about musical forms, improvisation poses fundamental questions about the process of deciding what to play — that is, what counts for us as music in any given social situation — and how to organise or shape musical events.

Submitted by Diana on 30 January, 2010 - 15:38

Workshop 2: Wolfgang Ernst, Experimenting media-temporality (Pythagoras, Hertz, Turing)

Professor of media theories Wolfgang Ernst (Humboldt University) opened his presentation by stating that the subject of this workshop, ‘experimentality as event’, touches a crucial figure of contemporary epistemology, especially when we take epistemology in its processual, time-based meaning as defines by cybernetics which is – taken by its original self-definition – the insight into ‘Circular Causal and Feedback Mechanisms’ (Heinz von Foerster, 1949). Consequently, Ernst proposed that we investigate the processuality and eventuality of media-enhanced experimentation.

Submitted by Diana on 29 January, 2010 - 15:27

What happens if ... ? exhibition opening this Friday at Storey Gallery

Join us at the opening by Tony McEnery, Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, of an exciting new exhibition at the Storey Gallery, Storey Creative Industries Centre, Meeting House Lane, this Friday (29 January) at 7.30pm.

What happens if ... ? has been curated by Storey Gallery and is presented in collaboration with the Experimentality programme. It shows experimental objects and actions by a number of UK and international artists and designers. They conduct witty low-tech experiments that uncover the enchantment hidden within everyday utilitarian objects, and subject familiar objects to unexpected treatments. The exhibition continues until 3 April (Tuesdays-Saturdays 11am-5pm, Thursdays 11am-8.30pm).

Submitted by Experimentality on 28 January, 2010 - 10:26

Cloud updated for LEarning Technologies - maturity model as experiential

I have updated the Cloud on Cloudworks for Learning Technologies, a show at Olympia this Wednesday and Thursday.

I am interested in research on e-learning. there seems not as much connection as there could be between academics and knowledge available at such shows.

Towards Maturity offer a model but I don't know if using it is an experiment.

http://www.towardsmaturity.org/static/growing-maturity/

It could be more of an experience, to consider how it relates to an actual situation.

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Submitted by will789gb on 25 January, 2010 - 17:11

Dark Side of Mode Two continues on Facebook

Have added links to a couple of PDF files on Facebook

http://www.facebook.com/topic.php?topic=11377&uid=139117893762

Still not sure what this is about but will read them for clues.

Research discussion during this week

I have added a comment at Cloudworks on a page about Research

What theoretical perspectives underpin e-learning/TEL research?

http://www.cloudworks.ac.uk/cloud/view/2817

I think this relates to the Experimentality project. I have also done clouds about Plan - Do - Check/Study - Act and various Winterlude trade shows.

e-learning is central to quality documentation and also this site.

Also started a Dark Side of Mode Two topic on Facebook

Submitted by will789gb on 18 January, 2010 - 11:18

YouTube possible on Cloudworks

I have found out how to add a YouTube link on Cloudworks

http://cloudworks.ac.uk/cloud/view/2797

very useful feature I think , so linking to Cloudworks is worth looking at for other topics

BETT is a significant event, the Playful Learning zone had a newspaper with BBC R&D

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/knowledgeexchange/

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Submitted by will789gb on 16 January, 2010 - 13:27

blog on "research", funding, BETT

Blog ahead of BETT, includes rave about "research" and funding

http://learn9log.blogspot.com/2010/01/i-had-been-thinking-about-e-learning.html

What is the offer from "research" universities? Claims about the knowledge economy seem removed from critique in public.

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Submitted by will789gb on 12 January, 2010 - 12:27

Experimentality: Photography Competition and Exhibition

Piotr Woycicki, Flash Flood, 2009Join the artists for a glass of bubbly tonight at 6pm as the Peter Scott Gallery and Experimentality launch an exhibition of photographic responses by local artists to the title ‘The Experiment’. The work ranges from photography as one might traditionally understand it, through work that experiments with the process of photography, to the depiction of the un-photographable.

Exhibition continues 13 January - 6 February 2010, Mon–Fri 11am-5pm, Sat 11am-4pm.

http://www.lancs.ac.uk/depts/peterscott/exhibitions.htm

Submitted by Experimentality on 12 January, 2010 - 10:42

Blog posts to help the archivists and media archaeologists looking at 2010

New blog post about Flash on the Google phone and the relevance for IPEX, May print show in the UK

http://bit.ly/flashnexus

http://bit.ly/10draft

Briefly, I think the Google announcement is credible. Adobe are pushing Flash, not Postscript. So what consequence for text culture?

One aim of doing this is to start online reporting about IPEX now. Cover story for time travel, something that seems to happen anyway.

Submitted by will789gb on 6 January, 2010 - 17:56

ipex bett winterlude