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Adrian Miles
RMIT University, Media, Faculty Member
Blogs: Distributed Documentaries of the Everyday: What the Average Citizen Needs Is Not a Steady Stream of Facts, Passed on by Organizations Fearful of Going out on a Limb, but Interpretation, Which Might in Other Arguments Be Caned Editorialising, Persuasion, Orientation, Ideology, Propaganda, o...more
This essay has been written as a hypertext (originally in Eastgate System’s Tinderbox). Such hypertext writing environments encourage a particular writing practice, one that is branching, associative, rhizomatic and intensive. (In some... more
This essay has been written as a hypertext (originally in Eastgate System’s Tinderbox). Such hypertext writing environments encourage a particular writing practice, one that is branching, associative, rhizomatic and intensive. (In some ways a bit like blogging.)
As a consequence this essay ranges broadly across quite a field, including new media, blogs, hypertext and design. It does this not as a consequence of any great speciality in any of these disciplines, but because hypertext affords this ability which is an alternative academic practice to existing forms. It is the production of knowledge that is the connection of parts into more complex wholes, where these connections express or effect qualitative changes amongst the parts (Miles, 1999, 2001).
I recognise that this causes many anxieties for academic and casual readers, where a culture of exhaustive (that is complete) reading is the norm. For such readers a parsed down, single version of this work is available. It’s structure is, approximately, order in which written. The links within this version are identical to the links in the hypertextual version, so following them could well return you to a section you have already read, but now existing as an individual node rather than a subsection of a longer piece. This also accounts for the repetition that appears in the longer work, individual nodes are written to be more or less discrete (much like blog posts) and their collection into a single longer piece introduces some redundancies.
YMMV.
As a consequence this essay ranges broadly across quite a field, including new media, blogs, hypertext and design. It does this not as a consequence of any great speciality in any of these disciplines, but because hypertext affords this ability which is an alternative academic practice to existing forms. It is the production of knowledge that is the connection of parts into more complex wholes, where these connections express or effect qualitative changes amongst the parts (Miles, 1999, 2001).
I recognise that this causes many anxieties for academic and casual readers, where a culture of exhaustive (that is complete) reading is the norm. For such readers a parsed down, single version of this work is available. It’s structure is, approximately, order in which written. The links within this version are identical to the links in the hypertextual version, so following them could well return you to a section you have already read, but now existing as an individual node rather than a subsection of a longer piece. This also accounts for the repetition that appears in the longer work, individual nodes are written to be more or less discrete (much like blog posts) and their collection into a single longer piece introduces some redundancies.
YMMV.
Traditionally, cartographers have produced atlases as ‘composite’ products containing maps, photographs, diagrams and text. They are produced on paper, discrete media and distributed media. They are ‘pre-composed’ or ‘constructed’... more
Traditionally, cartographers have produced atlases as ‘composite’ products containing maps, photographs, diagrams and text. They are produced on paper, discrete media and distributed media. They are ‘pre-composed’ or ‘constructed’ products, whereby the cartographer controls all of the atlas content and how it is delivered to the user. It is a ‘predictable’ product, where the user is only a consumer and
It relies on Netscape version 2 or greater. This is not my usual policy in WWW publication and design, but this site is less about the WWW and much more about hypertext per se. As far as I'm aware these pages are HTML 3.0... more
It relies on Netscape version 2 or greater. This is not my usual policy in WWW publication and design, but this site is less about the WWW and much more about hypertext per se. As far as I'm aware these pages are HTML 3.0 compliant, and they make use of gifs and jpegs (depending on which yields the more economical file). Netscape 2 seems to do the best job of the browsers I'm familiar with of dealing with the HTML elements contained on these pages.
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Page 1. OLD MEDIA AVATARS (aka Throwing the Baby out With the Bath Water) Adrian MilesMCD Studio RMIT University adrian.miles@rmit.edu.au http://hypertext.rmit.edu.au/vlog/ ABSTRACT Video blogging, and its near relative podcasting, are... more
Page 1. OLD MEDIA AVATARS (aka Throwing the Baby out With the Bath Water) Adrian MilesMCD Studio RMIT University adrian.miles@rmit.edu.au http://hypertext.rmit.edu.au/vlog/ ABSTRACT Video blogging, and its near relative podcasting, are now well recognised as new ...
Cartwright, W, Arrowsmith, C, Miles, A, Morris, B, Vaughan, L and Yuille, J 2008, 'Geoplaced knowledge: developing a methodology for provisioning stakeholders in natural environments management with integrated media tools', in... more
Cartwright, W, Arrowsmith, C, Miles, A, Morris, B, Vaughan, L and Yuille, J 2008, 'Geoplaced knowledge: developing a methodology for provisioning stakeholders in natural environments management with integrated media tools', in Queensland Spatial Conference 2008. Global Warning: What's Happening in Paradise? Conference Proceedings, Surfers Paradise, Qld, 17-19 July 2008. ... Queensland Spatial Conference 2008. Global Warning: What's Happening in Paradise?
Multimedia as a particular expression of new media easily lends itself to corporate and state patronage. Within the Australian context this has allowed it to occupy centre stage in considerations of cultural and information policy, and to... more
Multimedia as a particular expression of new media easily lends itself to corporate and state patronage. Within the Australian context this has allowed it to occupy centre stage in considerations of cultural and information policy, and to have become the defining object for the'information revolution'. However this has meant that small scale alternative practices have been overlooked, and it is these other practices that will more effectively define and articulate what the new media will be. Through Deleuze and Guattari's concept of the ...
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Miles, Adrian, and Mark Amerika. “Practice-Based Research, Digital Art and Problem-Based Learning: A Dialogue.” Leonardo Electronic Almanac 10.7 (2002). Mark Amerika: By approaching the Internet as a compositional and... more
Miles, Adrian, and Mark Amerika. “Practice-Based Research, Digital Art and Problem-Based Learning: A Dialogue.” Leonardo Electronic Almanac 10.7 (2002).
Mark Amerika: By approaching the Internet as a compositional and publication/exhibition medium, artist researchers are positioning themselves to conduct a network of digital art practices. These networks are formed within and between academic institutions in various locations around the world which are in the process of defining new research agendas. One of the main goals of the TECHNE practice-based research initiative at the University of Colorado at Boulder is to evolve an ongoing R&D platform focused on demonstrating the value of supporting the artist-researcher model as it relates to discovering new forms of knowledge embedded in the creation of digital art. It is generally assumed that these new forms of knowledge, packaged as interactive digital art, will alter the way we socially engage with each other as well as educate ourselves to perform in this dynamic, computer-mediated environment. The Internet is first and foremost a globally distributed network that enables various nodal points an opportunity to bring wider visibility to successful research discoveries made at various intervals throughout the creative process. These discoveries can be immediately published/exhibited on the Internet and, under the right conditions, attract a network of external links that will give the research work a more significant place in the larger attention-economy.
Mark Amerika: By approaching the Internet as a compositional and publication/exhibition medium, artist researchers are positioning themselves to conduct a network of digital art practices. These networks are formed within and between academic institutions in various locations around the world which are in the process of defining new research agendas. One of the main goals of the TECHNE practice-based research initiative at the University of Colorado at Boulder is to evolve an ongoing R&D platform focused on demonstrating the value of supporting the artist-researcher model as it relates to discovering new forms of knowledge embedded in the creation of digital art. It is generally assumed that these new forms of knowledge, packaged as interactive digital art, will alter the way we socially engage with each other as well as educate ourselves to perform in this dynamic, computer-mediated environment. The Internet is first and foremost a globally distributed network that enables various nodal points an opportunity to bring wider visibility to successful research discoveries made at various intervals throughout the creative process. These discoveries can be immediately published/exhibited on the Internet and, under the right conditions, attract a network of external links that will give the research work a more significant place in the larger attention-economy.
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This is a digital interactive 'movie book' that uses embedded QuickTime within PDF. It works on Mac, not sure about Windows. They are interactive QTs which means in most of them you need to mouse in and out of the video's themselves for... more
This is a digital interactive 'movie book' that uses embedded QuickTime within PDF. It works on Mac, not sure about Windows. They are interactive QTs which means in most of them you need to mouse in and out of the video's themselves for them to 'perform'.
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This work presents a hypertextual reading of a key sequence, the song-and-dance number "You Were Meant for Me," from Kelly and Donen's 1956 musical Singin' in the Rain. The sequence is read as characteristic of the film's general semiotic... more
This work presents a hypertextual reading of a key sequence, the song-and-dance number "You Were Meant for Me," from Kelly and Donen's 1956 musical Singin' in the Rain. The sequence is read as characteristic of the film's general semiotic principles, which combine several levels of seduction to establish an aesthetic claim for a properly musical cinema.
This reading represents an experiment or heuristic exercise meant to discover possibilities for interpretation (not just of film but of any complex text) in multi-linear, hypermedia presentation. Forced into an artificially singular sequence, the components of this reading might seem elliptical and repetitive; they are designed to be explored from various perspectives and in differing combinations. Though it has an argument and an interpretive agenda, this is not so much an essay as a text in the deepest sense: a fabric of ideas deeply and multiply connected.
This reading represents an experiment or heuristic exercise meant to discover possibilities for interpretation (not just of film but of any complex text) in multi-linear, hypermedia presentation. Forced into an artificially singular sequence, the components of this reading might seem elliptical and repetitive; they are designed to be explored from various perspectives and in differing combinations. Though it has an argument and an interpretive agenda, this is not so much an essay as a text in the deepest sense: a fabric of ideas deeply and multiply connected.
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-Design/designing is enabling. This seems a fitting key concept for Design Futures. Neal then mentioned how he thinks about design as propositional or provocative, and that was an interesting way of thinking about 'enabling'as well.... more
-Design/designing is enabling. This seems a fitting key concept for Design Futures. Neal then mentioned how he thinks about design as propositional or provocative, and that was an interesting way of thinking about 'enabling'as well. Alongside that, I guess there are many other adjectives too–questioning, reflecting, playing…
Universities are in the business of preparing students for their professional, social and intellectual lives: as such they are also about producing the leaders and innovators for a rapidly changing technological world. It is not entirely... more
Universities are in the business of preparing students for their professional, social and intellectual lives: as such they are also about producing the leaders and innovators for a rapidly changing technological world. It is not entirely clear how well universities are responding to these objectives particularly when it comes to embracing new technologies such as social software. University students face many challenges to their effective participation in and engagement with the university environment.
Universities are in the business of preparing students for their professional, social and intellectual lives: as such they are also about producing the leaders and innovators for a rapidly changing technological world. It is not entirely... more
Universities are in the business of preparing students for their professional, social and intellectual lives: as such they are also about producing the leaders and innovators for a rapidly changing technological world. It is not entirely clear how well universities are responding to these objectives particularly when it comes to embracing new technologies such as social software. University students face many challenges to their effective participation in and engagement with the university environment.
This essay combines hypertext theory and Deleuze and Lévy’s concept of the virtual and the actual to argue for a material practice of hypertextual writing in the humanities.
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NOTE: The link is to a zipped QuickTime Project. It will run in QuickTime 7.x, not 10. This essay, in its original form, was an interactive softvideo essay authored in QuickTime (Figures Seven and Eight). It contained spoken commentary... more
NOTE: The link is to a zipped QuickTime Project. It will run in QuickTime 7.x, not 10.
This essay, in its original form, was an interactive softvideo essay authored in QuickTime (Figures Seven and Eight). It contained spoken commentary and various still images arranged in a multilinear outline. Each image corresponded to one of the section headings below. What is included here is the commentary, arranged according to its sections. The work uses Deleuze’s concept of the “any–instant–whatever” as a theoretical frame to approach video blogging.
This essay, in its original form, was an interactive softvideo essay authored in QuickTime (Figures Seven and Eight). It contained spoken commentary and various still images arranged in a multilinear outline. Each image corresponded to one of the section headings below. What is included here is the commentary, arranged according to its sections. The work uses Deleuze’s concept of the “any–instant–whatever” as a theoretical frame to approach video blogging.
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This essay has an interactive video essay that mirrors the textual content provided here. The interactive video and this essay were accepted for publication. The work was invited by Charlie Breindahl, one of the founding editors of... more
This essay has an interactive video essay that mirrors the textual content provided here. The interactive video and this essay were accepted for publication. The work was invited by Charlie Breindahl, one of the founding editors of Artifact, who was interested in exploring the idea of the ‘soft’ media which he had first heard me raise at an Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR) conference in Maastricht.
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This brief and very accessible essay outlines what print literacy ‘really’ is, and then uses that as a way to understand what network literacy is, and needs to be. This is in many ways a ‘non’ academic paper that was written for media... more
This brief and very accessible essay outlines what print literacy ‘really’ is, and then uses that as a way to understand what network literacy is, and needs to be. This is in many ways a ‘non’ academic paper that was written for media educators as a pedagogical intervention.
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This was originally published as a multilinear hypertext essay online, with one major cluster of nodes collected as a pseudo linear written piece. It provided three interactive QuickTime prototypes to argue for, and demonstrate, how video... more
This was originally published as a multilinear hypertext essay online, with one major cluster of nodes collected as a pseudo linear written piece. It provided three interactive QuickTime prototypes to argue for, and demonstrate, how video could and needed to become porous to the network to become blog like, and that this was a move towards softvideo, and a more genuinely network specific video media form and practice.