• XML course
  
  • http://www.vtc.com/products/introtoxml.htm
  • self describing markup language
  • XSL - extensible stylesheet language
    
    • XSLT
      
      • translations
      • query against original data
    • XSL-FO
      
      • formatting options
      • will take over from css
    • XPATH
      
      • language on how to write the queries
      • lets us parse through the documents
    • XLINK
      
      • link to a document
      • link back to original doc
      • link within current document
    • XPOINTER
      
      • link to a position in a file
      • eg like a href # in html
    • refer to www.w3.org to see specs on each of these + new developments
  • XML basics
    
    • <?xml version="1.0" ?>
      
      • definition and spec version
        
        • attributes such as:
        • encoding="unicode"
          
          • unicode is default if encoding character set is not specified
        • standalone="no"
          
          • means this doc cannot be viewed on it's own. a translation document is required also to interpret this doc
        • standalone="yes"
          
          • means the browser can display this document as is without requiring another document to translate it
      • <? ?> is a processing statement, the application or browser will process this instruction
    • <people>
      
      • root element
    • <husband>Mark</husband>
    • </people>
  • xml editors
    
    • notepad / text editor
    • XML Spy
      
      • www.altova.com
    • XML Writer
      
      • www.xmlwriter.com
    • editiX
      
      • www.editix.com
    • morphon xml editor
      
      • www.morphon.com
    • emile (mac)
      
      • www.in-progress.com/emile
  • 5 basic rules to make a well formed document
    
    • 1. tags are case sensitive
    • 2. opening tags must have closing tags
    • 3. tags must be properly nested
    • 4. attribute values require quotes
    • 5. root element required
  • element
    
    • an element is a complete description of a piece of data
    • consists of the start tag, the data and the end tag
    • empty element
      
      • eg <br></br>
      • or <br />
  • attributes
    
    • eg <husband employed="yes">
    • could also represent this using elements rather than as an attribute:
      <husband>
      <name>Mark</name>
      <age>45</age>
      <employed>yes</employed>
      </husband>
  • values
    
    • make each element represent one piece of data/value only
  • special characters
    
    • common symbols
      
      • < &lt;
      • > &gt;
      • " &quot;
      • ' &apos;
      • & &amp;
      • use decimal values
        
        • & = &#38;
      • CR, LF, TAB from version xml 1.0
      • xml version 1.1 can use all the ascii codes except for NUL
  • comments
    
    • <!-- this is a comment -->
    • comments may be displayed or dropped from the browser or application. this is correct as per the spec
  • schema
    
    • describes the structure of the document
    • usually the schema is a separate document
    • what data is allowed
    • what data is required
    • how data is organised
    • checks the structure of the data not the actual value of the data
  • DTD or XSD
    
    • DTD - document type definition
      
      • not XML based
      • de facto standard
      • defines the XML document structure
        
        • defines what elements can/must appear
        • defines what order the elements must be in
        • information about the data the elements contain
        • element attributes information / requirements
        • DTD does not determine what the root element is
        • DTD does not show the number of instances of elements
        • DTD does not include the data types
        • DTD does not include the symantic meaning of an element
          
          • eg whether data is a name or a date
      • can be defined inline or in a separate document (external)
      • DTD elements
        
        • elements are the allowed / required tags
        • created with an element declaration
          
          • <!ELEMENT ElementName Type>
        • 4 types of elements
          
          • empty tag - does not contain content
          • element-only
            
            • contains only child elements
          • mixed
            
            • combination of child elements and character data
          • any
            
            • any content allowed
        • DTD element options
          
          • * means can appear zero or more times
          • + means one or more times
          • ? means zero or one time
          • | means or
          • no symbol means the child element must appear only once
    • XML Schema
      
      • XSD - XML Schema Definition
      • RELAX NG
      • W3C XML Schema Language

• TED Talks
  
  • Kevin Kelly
    
    • what does technology want?
    • what are the long term trends in technology
      
      • turns out it it the same as in biological evolution
      • drift towards specialisation
      • diversity
      • towards ubiquity
      • drift towards complexity over time
      • increasing sociability
    • machines are becoming biological
    • technology is the 7th kingdom of life (phylum)
      
      • old technology is the base of new technology
        
        • one difference between technology and biology
        • technologies don't die
          
          • you can delay technologies but not kill it completely
      • culture is the accumulation of ideas
        
        • so ideas don't die out
    • life hacking
      
      • the infinite game
      • the singularity
        
        • using technology to progress evolution
    • Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems and the Economic World

Watch the video @ http://tedblog.typepad.com/tedblog

Wired Editor-at-Large Kevin Kelly on TEDTalks

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• videoblog
  
  • content
    
    • personal
      
      • head shot
        
        • conversational
        • commentary
      • video diary
        
        • commentary
        • travel diary
      • camera-stylo / visual thoughts
        
        • including narration
        • without narration / interpretive
    • 'old media' / tv
      
      • news programme
      • drama
      • comedy
    • corporate
      
      • promotional
      • informative
    • tactical media
      
      • citizen media / citizen journalism
      • vlogumentary
    • visual art
    • experimental
      
      • avant garde
      • film theory based
    • grassroots organisaion / diy
      
      • promotional
      • activist
      • informative
    • documentation / archive
      
      • organisation based
      • topic based
    • theatrical
      
      • improvisation
      • scripted drama
  • process
    
    • create / collate source materials
      
      • video
        
        • make new recording
        • find existing video
      • sound
        
        • record live sound on tape (SOT)
          
          • sounds at the scene
          • live voice over / commentary
        • post-record voice over for v/o overlay
        • music
          
          • create original music
          • source existing music
      • text
        
        • embedded text track (QT)
        • images of text
      • images
        
        • create original images
        • source existing images / photos
      • scripts
        
        • interactive scripts
        • website scripts
      • hyperlinks
        
        • text based clickable links
        • whole video links
    • edit / assemble video
      
      • edit decisions
        
        • editing style
          
          • planned
            
            • storyboard / plan
            • select source material
            • apply transitions
            • apply effects
            • assemble
          • freeform
            
            • no editing
              
              • use single shot piece
            • simple cut / paste editing
        • timeline
          
          • timeline based
          • non timeline based
            
            • interactive
              
              • include interactive components
              • test

            

      • editing system
        
        • computer based / software
          
          • operating system decisions
            
            • pc based
            • mac based
            • pozix based
        • editing hardware
          
          • camera
          • edit suite with machine based editors
      • save final video
        
        • format / codec
          
          • quicktime
          • windows media
          • avi
          • H264
        • compression / filesize considerations
          
          • low
          • medium
          • high
    • publish video
      
      • upload finished video
        
        • ftp to your isp / webspace
        • upload to public shared webspace
          
          • eg archive.org / ourmedia
      • edit blog entry
        
        • create links to external or local video
        • add text entry
  • medium
    
    • internet blog
      
      • text component
      • video component
        
        • embedded video
        • externally hosted video
      • comments
      • trackback
    • rss distribution
      
      • rss web based aggregator
        
        • web browser plugin
          
          • eg sage for Firefox
        • standalone application
          
          • eg fireant
      • rss device aggregator
        
        • proprietary broadcast device
          
          • tivo
          • broadcaster STB
        • consumer device
          
          • video ipod
          • psp

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• tactical media in Brazil
  
  • http://www.sarai.net/journal/04_pdf/55ricardo.pdf
  • small press
    (imprensa nanica)
    
    • 1970s
      
      • counterculture
    • 1980s
      
      • fan based
      • 1990s
        
        • return to counterculture
  • collectives
    
    • Microphobia
    • Bijari/Antipop
      
      • video art
      • video activism
    • A RevoluÁao Nao Sera Televisionada
      (The Revolution Will Not Be Televised)
      
      • video art
      • video activism
    • Rejeitados
      (The Rejected)
      
      • urban interventions
      • art outside institutions
    • Formigueiro
      (Ant's Nest)
      
      • plagiarism
      • parody
    • Museu da Pessoa
      (Museum of the Person)
      
      • stories and photos of everyday people
    • Anomia
      (Anomy)
      
      • culture-jamming, comics, zines and video, (influenced by psychogeography and sonic shock)
    • A Cria
      (The Baby)
      
      • a 'factory' of fanzines
    • Nomads' Collective
      
      • architecture & popular solutions for living & habitation
    • Projeto Sid Moreira
      
      • posters and culture jamming
    • Metafora.org
      (Metaphor)
      
      • recycles old computers for disadvantaged communities
      • and develops wiki-based projects that centre on open publishing and group-based actions like Recicle-1-Politico (Recycle-1- Politician)
    • Rizoma
      
      • practices what they call ‘conceptual engineering’ in order to transform subjectivities by re-combinations of online textual content, in order to arrive at an open sourceinspired treatment of ideas drawn from activism, afrofuturism, and neuropolitics
    • Indymedia Brazil
    • Banda Paralela
      
      • designer & programmers collectives
    • BatukaÁao
      
      • martial art/dance groups
    • LSD Disco
      
      • alternative/experimental or 'home made' music labels
    • Radio Muda
      
      • free radio station
  • Autolabs
    
    • laboratorial prototypes for media literacy, technological experimentation and creativity created with the help of local communities
    • based on 'tactical' concepts
    • use cheap DIY media made accessible by the digital revolution
    • enabling independent media production (by individuals or collectives) using free software/open source operating systems
    • are centres of orientation, documentation and self-education with free and open access to anyone who wants to come and work/play/create in them
    • knowledge is accessed and shared through human mediation, collective work and creative participation
  • references
    
    • A Network of Castles
    • Sarai Reader 04

• electrofringe / this is not art / 2005
  
  • music artists
    
    • jodi rose
      
      • singing bridges - vibrations : variations
    • soca uws
      
      • the_final_broadcast
    • untitled
    • eternia
      
      • www.eternia.ca
      • "canada's dopest female emcee" - exclaim magazine
      • where I been - the collection
    • dual plover label
      
      • www.dualplover.com
  • visual artists
    
    • dvds
      
      • process space
      • botborg
        
        • principles of photosonicneurokinaesthography
      • dysfunctional feed
        
        • micro works
        • minute
      • kier smith
        
        • oh so criminal
    • film
      
      • dlux media arts
    • multimedia
      
      • emergence
        
        • www.synarcade.com.au
        • have you ever wanted to build your own being? free it from pain, regret, niggling doubt? well now you can... in a new multimedia experiment conducted over four large screens, synarcade audio-visuals will allow a select group of people to construct their own version of a responsible moral citizen
  • fashion
    
    • textile design
      
      • maggie pereyra
  • zines
    
    • street art zine #3
      
      • meggs
        
        • street art #3
        • 310 danceskool
    • antithesis
      
      • issue # 2 : phase shift
      • issue # 1 : untitled
      • issue # 3 : solar transit
  • resources
    
    • taste-e electronic art links
      
      • www.taste-e.org
    • the program
      
      • theprogram.net.au
    • arts law centre of australia
      
      • www.artslaw.com.au
    • music managers' forum (aust)
      
      • www.immf.net/au
    • southern outpost distribution / submerge detroit
      
      • www.50612.com
    • sound summit 2005
      
      • www.soundsummit05.com
    • apra - Australasian Performing Right Association Australia
      
      • www.apra.com.au
    • aftrs - australian film, television and radio school
      
      • www.aftrs.edu.au
    • air - association of independent record lables
      
      • www.air.org.au
    • agsc - australian guild of screen composers
    • amc - australian music centre
      
      • www.amcoz.com.au
    • ausmusic sa
      
      • www.ausmusic.org.au
    • carclew youth arts centre
      
      • www.carclew.com.au
    • caama - central australia aboriginal media association
      
      • www.caama.com.au
    • ccmc - contemporary country music coalition
    • cmaa - country music association of australia
      
      • www.countrymusic.asn.au
    • fellowship of australian composers
      
      • www.fellowshipofaustraliancomposers.com
    • gadigal information service
      
      • www.gadigal.org.au
    • goolarri media enterprises
      
      • www.gme.com.au
    • mbas - melbourne blues appreciation society
      
      • www.mbas.org.au
    • music nsw
      
      • www.musicnsw.com
    • musicnt - music northern territory
    • q music - queensland music network inc
      
      • www.qmusic.com.au
    • sima - sydney improvised music association
      
      • www.sima.org.au
    • songlines music aboriginal corporation
      
      • www.songlines.com.au
    • tas music
      
      • www.tasmusic.com.au
    • the push inc
      
      • www.thepush.asn.au
    • wam - western australia music industry association
      
      • www.asn.au
    • amrap - australian music radio airplay project
      
      • www.amrap.org
  • radio
    
    • tin radio
      
      • tin.org.au
      • 100.5 fm (newcastle)
  • toys
    
    • stuffed
      
      • www.thestuffedcollective.com
      • artists
        
        • beck wheeler
        • tristan jalleh
        • estelle lhasz
        • claire robertson
        • leeroy lunastitch
        • heidi kenney
        • jenny harada
        • mai le
        • wendy crabb
        • goldtop
        • corrine dean
        • wendy june
        • rene kininmonth
        • maggie pereyra
        • cathy parry
        • robert thompson
        • gillian bencke
        • erin l shafkind
        • maria samuelson
        • bernard romerona
        • darren mate
        • samantha jones
        • emmelene victoria
        • hola sombrera
        • gemma noble
        • lyndal peake
        • susan e kelly / luminant studio
          
          • www.cavatica.net
          • plush creatures, collage, photography, paper goods
        • aequanimus
          
          • www.livejournal.com/users/aequanimus
      • a group exhibition incorporating soft sculpture and design by emerging australian and international artists. the works are inspired by the aesthetics of plush toys and their relationship to human behaviour, investigating social norms and a darker side of 'cuteness'
  • art projects
    
    • one sixty characters
      
      • onesixty.net
      • OneSixty Characters – An exhibition exploring children’s nursery rhymes/songs, games and storytelling from around the globe OneSixty Characters began by sending out a call worldwide requesting people to text message, via their mobile phones, a line or a fragment from a nursery rhyme or childhood song that was associated with a game
  • galleries
    
    • museum of contemporary art (sydney)
      
      • www.mca.com.au
    • field contemporary art space
      
      • www.fieldgallery.org
    • back to back galleries (newcastle)
    • sherman galleries (newcastle)
    • newcastle region art gallery
    • art gallery of new south wales
    • the studio (sydney opera house)
      
      • www.sydneyoperahouse.com/thestudio
  • artists
    
    • grant lawson
      
      • design, animation, web
      • bigatomiccat.com

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