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| OneSpace2008, the First International Workshop on Blending Physical and Digital Spaces on the Internet |
OneSpace2008, the First International Workshop on Blending Physical and Digital Spaces on the Internet, aims to present a high-quality forum of discussion about the identification and study of the complex relationship of the Internet with space, place, geography and distance, whether physical or virtual. Technologies as well as novel ideas, experiments, and insights originating from multi-disciplinary viewpoints, including humanities, social sciences and mathematics are welcome. Please visit the workshop’s website.
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| from Prof. Werner Kuhn’s talk |
Prof. Werner Kuhn’s closing talk for the Edinburgh e-Science Institute’s theme on Geospatial Semantics is now online. It gives a good idea of actual challenges in GIScience, and in Knowledge Representation in general.
Hello blog, long time no see! Making a film was a long lasting ambition and actually the most difficult thing was to start (even if not from Goethe I love this quote). Chris High gave the motivation with his Participatory Video seminar, as well as a theme; “Lost in Milton Keynes”. The rest was a lot of reading, nagging people for participation or for equipment, some preparation and as less sleep as possible. Also being surrounded by very helpful and smart participants and actors was a great experience.
I have always loved film, but have to admit I had no idea of what cinema was about. Somehow, even knowing that a released film had gone through a heavy process of editing, I could not imagine the amount of “artifice” that could be involved in that process. Somehow I thought that more or less “what you shoot is what you get” and you just have to stick the pieces together. I was wrong; sound overs, acting beats entirely at the mercy of the editing, speeds, colors, order, almost everything can be different from the original. Of course, again, knowing it and seeing it happening in front of you is quite a different thing.
“MK- at First Sight” will be presented at the Open University tomorrow afternoon as part of the OU Festival of Research.
