User-Generated On-Line Art

Tuesday 12 May 1.00 - 2.00pm
Concessions Area Computer Lab (the laboratory next to the building society in the Concessions and Student Facilities Building (bld 17), across from the chemists)

Peter Edmunds (School of Art)

Peter Edmunds is researching participatory online art. He leverages the scale and connectivity of the internet to create new modes of visual participation that were previously unachievable.  Also known as crowdsourcing, this distributed approach raises questions of authorship, human time investment and the role of interface design. 

Peter will demonstrate a brand new web interface that allows anyone to draw on the individual frames of a film, and reassembles the contributed frames into a new film.

James Steele (School of Art)

What if you could gather photographs from people who visited a particular spot? On the same day? The same year? Over many years? Digital photography, the computer, photo sharing sites like Flickr and Panoramio, and geotagging of photographs now make it possible to access user generated images from the internet that represent a particular place or event. James Steele is collaborating with the National Library of Australia in a pilot project to provide access to historical and contemporary geocoded photographs of Kosciuszko mountain huts through the NLA’s Picture Australia service. James will give an overview of the project and show some examples of how the photographs can be presented.
 
For further information, please contact Martyn Jolly (Head, Photography and Media Arts)