Top Tweets for #Verging2016
Thank you to everyone who made #Verging2016 a resounding & engaging success. Read the archived convo here: https://t.co/lANvsYrAta
Mike Robbins of @heliosinteract presenting Offshore through its web browser incarnation – memories of Myst! #Verging2016
Virtual yet very real Aroussiak Gabriellan on cinematic storytelling potential of Google Street View #verging2016
Aroussiak Gabriellan repositions the mediation of the landscape photography history through streetview storytelling potentials #verging2016
Peters takes up Butler, compassion fatigue and ungrievable bodies: "if we grieved, total war photography would be impossible" #verging2016
How do we undertake community-led projects & their content within the ownership, neo-liberal model of the university? #Verging2016
Paula John: intersections between performance & doc: "the truth claim", "social & pol initiatives" #Verging2016
Paula John asks: what does post-Giersonian doc look like: the focus on witness = claim to the real = doc value #Verging2016
Day 2 #Verging2016 begins with our first panel / perceiving the digital real: shifts in traditional doc
After @jjhnumber27's live doc performance his takeaway for us "tools matter less. The inner life of the user matters more." #verging2016
"We have the ultimate VR machines in our bodies. I wonder if AR/VR are diversions to bring us back to our bodies" @jjhnumber27 #verging2016
Judo flip of "What the Living Do" into "Network Effect": maybe that's the point, how internet overload hurts us –@jjhnumber27 #Verging2016
Mechanical Turk workers found 10,000 2-second videos of humans doing 100 activities. Now we needed a metaphor –@jjhnumber27 #Verging2016
Brenda Longfellow introing Jonathan Harris @jjhnumber27 at #Verging2016: "We Feel Fine", "Whale Hunt", "Cowbird" and now "Network Effect"
"The lovely paradox between codification and emotion of #networkeffect" as cited by prof. Longfellow, Keynote moderator #verging2016
Let's not focus on the novelty. VR or not VR, if the content is not good, nobody's going to watch it – @kngfu #Verging2016
Bananas, cartoons, 10 walls and 1 girl: Maya's story from @AJLifeOnHold: https://t.co/neyqFpmZAk @kngfu #Verging2016
Photogrammetry of Mars Rover: freedom to move as well as turn 360 – @ShokKreative #Verging2016
VR did not create empathy. It's less about aggregation of info/stories than immediate sensory experience – Brenda Longfellow #Verging2016
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