taxi-to-praxi

Creative Digital Media Research Practice: Production Through Exhibition

drupaladmin — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 09:14:25 +0000

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Culture Lab Newcastle University, and CRUMB University of Sunderland present the first 2 day symposium in a 2 year series, in an AHRC funded Collaborative Research Training project on research training, digital media art and curating. This event is quite short notice, but maybe posting it here nevertheless raises interest in future events of this kind.

NodeL Dummy Article

drupaladmin — Sun, 08 Jun 2008 11:17:10 +0000

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taxi-to-praxi

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In Spring 2008, NODE.London is calling a seasonal gathering of media art, showing how London is budding with fresh exhibitions, discussions, musical events and participatory projects.483

This website will soon be filling with an ongoing programme from Spring 2008. Until then, you can browse the archive of the first NODE.LondonNode.London in 2006 was an eqully succesful blah season of media arts in March 2006.

video documentation of first tnl conference

hadzi — Thu, 08 May 2008 14:34:34 +0000

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please follow this link for the video documentation of the first next layer conference, april 08

http://www.archive.org/details/the-next-layer-april-08

Taxi-to-Praxi: Notes by Maria X

mariax — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 13:17:53 +0000

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Notes from the last hour of the afternoon session.

Praxi-to-taxi: An Improvisation

Armin Medosch — Sun, 27 Apr 2008 09:33:28 +0000

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The experimental workshop day taxi-to-praxi at Goldsmiths started off with a positive vibe as about 35 people met in the seminar room underneath the 'squiggle' whereby this group consisted of about one third of people from Goldmiths, one third from other universities and one third of unaligned individuals working as artists or curators. After Prof Janis Jeffries, convenor of the PhD in Arts and Computation opened the session, a lively and stimulating day unfolded. In this account I try to piece together from notes and memories what were some of the main issues which emerged.

From Grounded Theory to Saucy Tales

Lindsay — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 20:54:27 +0000

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Intellectual Craftsmanship - John Barker about C.W.Mills and methodology

John Barker — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 08:29:22 +0000

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John Barker is both a novelist and an author of non-fiction essays about political, social and cultural issues. Barker's essays, published in magazines such as Variant or Mute Magazine, bristle with historic depth and accuracy of information, woven into critical narrations written in a dense prose. This evident richness of background research is maybe a result of Barker being inspired by the research methodology of a great of the 20th century, C.W.Mills. In this guest contribution, written specifically for thenextlayer.org and the taxi-to-praxi workshop, John Barker introduces us to Mills' concept of intellectual craftsmanship.

Subversion/Drupal distributed multisite project

lisa — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 13:09:27 +0000

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(please excuse the note form of this article)

Background
I am involved in a number of drupal projects, both new and legacy, some as paid projects, some volunteer.
I am involved or want to help with the maintainence of the code base (security patching, upgrades etc). However not all of the projects are on my own server. And as I am not a hosting company that is how things should be.
However, patching and upgrading is a pain, especially over many sites. How could this be managed efficiently and cooperatively?

Subversion, a useful FOSS tool

lisa — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 13:03:02 +0000

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I have had to use subversion recently for a job, which is great as i've been meaning to start using it for ages! Here is an intro to subversion, and following a suggestion of how it could help next layer and related projects in a very practical way.

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Subversion is a "versioning system" that is used most often by coders and documentors to store text files, but can actually be used for any kind of data.

Almost Documentary: Celcrabeels' introduction to taxi-to-praxi

celcrabeels — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 16:49:06 +0000

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Dear all, I have thought about the questions put to us by Taxi to Praxi. I will elaborate a bit.

How do you define practice-led artistic research?

One has to look at the context, the Bologna Process aims to create a European Higher Education Area by 2010. Due to this process the Belgian Academy’s and University’s recently are merging into one structure. This evolution has created a need for 'PhD candidate researchers in Fine Art ' in the Belgian. academic world.

Apropos Open Source Methodologies

Armin Medosch — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 16:30:51 +0000

When we first started to circulate the call for taxi-to-praxi some of the reactions which I got in private email were of the kind "open source methodology, what's that supposed to be?" - "there is no such things", " etc. Since that moment I thought aha, we are on to something and I should write something about it. This is now not the all conclusive article, but a forum posting, improvised and unfinished.

The Next Layer as a Medium for Practice-led Research

Armin Medosch — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 15:23:18 +0000

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Taxi to Praxi
This text expands on some of the topics mentioned in the original call for participation for the taxi-to-praxi workshop. It explains some of the motivations and the general ideas behind the research day but is by now way a complete summary of all the topics we would like to address. Currently to this text have contributed Lindsay Brown, Adnan Hadzi and Armin Medosch. If you feel that you would like to add something, please feel free to rewrite this text or create a new one. To create a new revision, do the following: Once you are in the edit section with this article open, apply your changes and then go to the bottom and click "create new revision". You can also use the text field "Log Message" to explain your revisions.