This ‘Gallery-in-a-Book’ blog is part of the Liquid Reader project put together by Joanna Zylinska together with her students on the MA Digital Media at Goldsmiths, University of London.

WHAT IS A LIQUID READER PROJECT?

This project challenges the one-way, closed form of knowledge transfer in university education that is encompassed by the static, photocopiable ‘course reading pack’ - typically designed by course leaders and handed out to students. It engages media students in a dynamic process of devising instead a fluid, open-access, online ‘reader’, whose content and form are being negotiated, updated and altered by students themselves, under the guidance of the course leader. Using the freely available media platforms (online archives, educational wikis, YouTube, Blogger), students are able to both link to the already available textual and audio-visual material (essays, books, video clips) and upload their own documents and designs. They are thus actively involved in producing a ‘liquid reader’ - an innovative, student-centred, customisable learning tool which involves them in curriculum design. Via an involvement with the Open Humanities Press, and its Culture Machine Liquid Books Series, the project promotes the socially significant ‘open scholarship’ and ‘open learning’ under the open access agenda.

Take a look at the current incarnation of the Liquid Reader and find out more about the project by clicking here, or by following this link:
http://liquidbooks.pbworks.com/Technology-and-Cultural-Form%3A-A-Liquid-Reader

WHAT IS A GALLERY-IN-A-BOOK?

At the beginning of our second core course on the MA Digital Media, called Technology and Cultural Form, students were asked to work on a series of photographs. We agreed that the photographs could be taken with a mobile phone camera, a fancy DSLR, a film camera or any other image capturing device. The only rule was that they had to be somehow related to one another (via content, form, method, etc.). This online gallery available here thus becomes part of the ‘liquid reader’ we’ve been working on. This obviously raises some interesting questions: Can a book ‘contain’ an art gallery? Is everyone an artist and a media producer today? What would Barthes and Foucault say?

Tuesday 23 March 2010

Jihyun Lee

The Anish Kapoor exhibition
11 December 2009

A scrap from a magazine
22 December 2009

The first snow in London
6 January 2010

A toilet bowl in the street
7 February 2010

The world's sweetest flatmate
28 February 2010

One boring afternoon at the library
4 March 2010

Remediation!
20 March 2010


My Supermundane Diary

Every day, I almost instinctively check whether my iPhone is with me. I do not have a fancy DSLR camera or a professional film camera. Although I have an 'ordinary' digital camera, I usually take pictures of my daily life with my iPhone. It is good enough for me, especially for capturing my quiet mundane daily life. Paradoxically, it is in fact encouraging me to focus on myself. A low-quality quality photographic device makes me feel free to take images of whatever I want: something I ate, a place I visited, unexpected moments or scenes which I faced in the street, etc. It does not need to be good, fancy, artistic, just whatever is on my mind. Can I call it 'a technology of the self'?
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