Perhaps, unlike information, knowledge is discrete and discovered in uncanny places?
-Joel ----- Original Message ----- From: "Simon Biggs" <[email protected]> To: "NetBehaviour for networked distributed creativity" <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, November 17, 2010 5:40 AM Subject: Re: [NetBehaviour] "The next big idea in language,history and the arts? Data." Manovich has been banging this drum for a couple of years now. Of course he is right - but it is a rather self-evident point. Data-mining methods have become standardised practice in many of the social sciences, especially in areas like cultural geography. The humanities have been getting in on the game too. Manovich's possible motivation might be that he is seeking funding for a research lab at UCSD looking into the cinematic and artistic potential of data visualisation techniques employing quantitative methods of analysis. Best Simon Simon Biggs [email protected] [email protected] Skype: simonbiggsuk http://www.littlepig.org.uk/ Research Professor edinburgh college of art http://www.eca.ac.uk/ Creative Interdisciplinary Research in CoLlaborative Environments http://www.eca.ac.uk/circle/ Electronic Literature as a Model of Creativity and Innovation in Practice http://www.elmcip.net/ Centre for Film, Performance and Media Arts http://www.ed.ac.uk/schools-departments/film-performance-media-arts > From: Rob Myers <[email protected]> > Reply-To: NetBehaviour for networked distributed creativity > <[email protected]> > Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2010 13:03:34 +0000 > To: NetBehaviour for networked distributed creativity > <[email protected]> > Subject: [NetBehaviour] "The next big idea in language, history and the > arts? > Data." > > http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/17/arts/17digital.html?_r=1&pagewanted=all > > "The next big idea in language, history and the arts? Data. > > Members of a new generation of digitally savvy humanists argue it is > time to stop looking for inspiration in the next political or > philosophical ³ism² and start exploring how technology is changing our > understanding of the liberal arts. This latest frontier is about method, > they say, using powerful technologies and vast stores of digitized > materials that previous humanities scholars did not have." > > [Via @manovich on Twitter.] > _______________________________________________ > NetBehaviour mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour Edinburgh College of Art (eca) is a charity registered in Scotland, number SC009201 _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list [email protected] http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list [email protected] http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
