|
My presentation deals with the politics of participation which are being reconfigured in the landscape of ubiquitous and 'social' media. Participatory forms have a long history in cultural practices of new media, ranging from 'cybernetic' signal processing to collaborative tools and platforms for performance, memory and production. With the current turn to 'crowdsourcing' in corporations and welfare societies, the place of cultural production, research and development needs to be redefined. While ethnography and cultural studies have been functional in understanding 'active' audiences, the harnessing of free-labouring crowds requires a new analytics of interconnected economies, affects and infrastructures.
Minna Tarkka is director of m-cult, centre for new media culture in Helsinki. She has been involved in setting up several organisations, educational programs and events of media art and culture, including the MA in New Media at the University of Art and Design, ISEA'94 and ISEA2004. At m-cult, her work has been to advocate, document and communicate practices of media culture, with a special focus on participatory, urban and mobile media. Her research and writing aims at a critical study of new media, creativity and participation. www.m-cult.org |
|||