Comments on: Creativity and the social http://figuresmag.com/archive/48/ The Social in the Visual Sat, 04 Feb 2012 23:04:28 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.1 By: Nicola http://figuresmag.com/archive/48/#comment-772 Nicola Tue, 21 Apr 2009 05:47:30 +0000 http://figuresmag.com/archive/48/#comment-772 Stuart as you say, I think it is essential that there are sites that illuminate rather than cloud the issues within specialist jargon. This can be a difficult task given current laws that are attempting to censor information. The key problem is who is making decisions on what is acceptable for public consumption and what is not. Have a look at http://www.efa.org.au/2009/04/20/piratebay/ and the ways censorship is being enacted, how might this impact on the information on Figures? Uriah's post is interesting in relation to the discussions on the Faceless Watch post, regarding authenticity and ethics. How far is appropriation acceptable? Stuart as you say, I think it is essential that there are sites that illuminate rather than cloud the issues within specialist jargon. This can be a difficult task given current laws that are attempting to censor information. The key problem is who is making decisions on what is acceptable for public consumption and what is not. Have a look at http://www.efa.org.au/2009/04/20/piratebay/
and the ways censorship is being enacted, how might this impact on the information on Figures?

Uriah’s post is interesting in relation to the discussions on the Faceless Watch post, regarding authenticity and ethics. How far is appropriation acceptable?

]]> By: Uriah http://figuresmag.com/archive/48/#comment-738 Uriah Sun, 19 Apr 2009 19:55:52 +0000 http://figuresmag.com/archive/48/#comment-738 I'm very interested in the broadcasting side. How people reuse their own and others content and how that develops its own network of creativity. I think this is the early stages in a shift towards a more creative spaces, virtual and physical. There are so many positives from the existing tools in online media. To me ownership plays a part, when something is placed on the web its for everyone. Google image search may give me a link to the original poster or perhaps owner of the image but I don't consider them to have ownership. http://faund.net/ a magazine is trying raise value and awareness of found images, and credits the finders not the owners. Perhaps we need to become finders in the physical word and not become so precious of our own work. I’m very interested in the broadcasting side. How people reuse their own and others content and how that develops its own network of creativity. I think this is the early stages in a shift towards a more creative spaces, virtual and physical.

There are so many positives from the existing tools in online media. To me ownership plays a part, when something is placed on the web its for everyone. Google image search may give me a link to the original poster or perhaps owner of the image but I don’t consider them to have ownership. http://faund.net/ a magazine is trying raise value and awareness of found images, and credits the finders not the owners. Perhaps we need to become finders in the physical word and not become so precious of our own work.

]]> By: stuart http://figuresmag.com/archive/48/#comment-723 stuart Sun, 19 Apr 2009 06:11:26 +0000 http://figuresmag.com/archive/48/#comment-723 There seem to me to be few words in that 'cloud' image that come close to 'social' or 'participatory'. Perhaps, 'Sharing', 'Joy of use' and 'Accessibility' have connotations regarding real engagement by human beings. The rest of the cloud seems populated by web-speak; language for e-commerce types looking to make money through the web. Not that there's anything wrong with that >;-D. In short, it fits very comfortably within a 'predetermined ideological framework', as you describe, albeit a recently fabricated one. Your post raises an interesting point then, that part of Figures job might be to help navigate the rather pointy-headed space of the web so that the blog, and its participants, don't run aground on elite or specialist points of interest that help noone towards a better understanding of important public information. There seem to me to be few words in that ‘cloud’ image that come close to ’social’ or ‘participatory’. Perhaps, ‘Sharing’, ‘Joy of use’ and ‘Accessibility’ have connotations regarding real engagement by human beings. The rest of the cloud seems populated by web-speak; language for e-commerce types looking to make money through the web. Not that there’s anything wrong with that >;-D. In short, it fits very comfortably within a ‘predetermined ideological framework’, as you describe, albeit a recently fabricated one. Your post raises an interesting point then, that part of Figures job might be to help navigate the rather pointy-headed space of the web so that the blog, and its participants, don’t run aground on elite or specialist points of interest that help noone towards a better understanding of important public information.

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