ARTS2090

You should read the course outline carefully when it comes to the final assignment for the course. Tutors will be discussing this in the tutorials as well.

In addition, please note that you need to submit a printout of the front page of your publication/web site where you publish, along with the regular blue form. You need to submit this to the EMPA school submission boxes near the front office by the due time and date.

… British publishing and in the twentieth century, but it’s a good documentary. You can find it here.

This is Jeremy Rifkin on climate change, the financial crisis, the energy crisis, food and, yes, shifts in modes of publishing/media forms. It’s all about new forms of distribution creating local/hyperlocal possibilities away from centralized control (and blundering) … “if people hear nothing else from what I’m saying … distributed, distributed, distributed”.

A film by Kate Ray.

Web 3.0 from Kate Ray on Vimeo.

Two things of interest to us this week regarding climate change and the ongoing battles surrounding climate change waged through the media (and elsewhere).

In ARTS2090 I mentioned the Michael Mann “hockey stick” visualization of climate change (links in the climate change section of the week 9 lectures notes for ARTS2090). This statement signed by prominent scientists is in part a response to the continuing harassment of Michael Mann (more here). Here are some comments about this the scientists’ letter.

Meanwhile, in MDCM3000 we’ve been talking about persuasion and via media campaigns. Here is an interesting piece of what is called détournement …. Greenwashing … a very sophisticated use of persuasive techniques in order to undermine the effectiveness of others.