364 research outputs found
Visualising Invisible Networks as Collaborative Arts Practice
No full textThis paper examines approaches to the visualisation of ‘invisible’ communications networks. It situates network visualisation as a critical design exercise, and explores how community artists might use such a practice to develop telematic art projects – works that use communications networks as their medium. The paper’s hypotheses are grounded in the Australian community media arts field, but could be applied to other collaborative contexts
Community Arts and Appropriate Internet Technology: Participation, Materiality, and the Ethics of Sustainability in the Digitally Networked Era
No full textThis thesis establishes appropriate internet technology as a matter of sustainability for the community arts field. It begins with a contextual review that historicises community art in relation to technological, cultural, and political change. It goes on to identify key challenges for the field resulting from the emerging socio-cultural significance of the internet and digital media technologies. A conceptual review of the literature positions these issues in relation to Internet Studies, integrating key concepts from Software Studies and the computational turn with approaches from the fields of ICT for Development (ICT4D), Critical Design, and Critical Making. Grounded in these intersecting literatures the thesis offers a new pragmatic ethics of appropriate internet technology: one involving an alternative philosophical platform from which suitable internet-based technologies can be designed and assembled by practitioners. I interrogate these ideas through an in-depth investigation of CuriousWorks, an Australian community arts organisation, focusing on their current internet practices. The thesis then reflects on some experimental interventions I designed as part of the study for the purpose of provoking shifts in the field of community arts. The research findings form the foundation of a series of recommendations offered to practitioners and policy makers that may guide their critical and creative uses of internet technologies in the future
Resistance is Feral: Digital Culture, Community Arts, and the New Cultural Gatekeepers
No full textThe Community Arts sector in Australia has a history of resistance. It has challenged hegemonic culture through facilitating grassroots creative production, contesting notions of artistic processes, and the role of the artist in society. This paper examines this penchant for resistance through the lens of contemporary digital culture, to establish that the sector is continuing to challenge dominant forms of cultural control. It then proposes that this enthusiasm and activity lacks ethical direction, describing it as feral to encompass the potential of current practices, while highlighting how a level of taming is needed in order to develop ethical approaches
Co-Creating Knowledge Online: Approaches for Community Artists
No full textForming peer alliances to share and build knowledge is an important aspect of community arts practice, and these co-creation processes are increasingly being mediated by the internet. This paper offers guidance for practitioners who are interested in better utilising the internet to connect, share, and make new knowledge. It argues that new approaches are required to foster the organising activities that underpin online co-creation, building from the premise that people have become increasingly networked as individuals rather than in groups (Rainie and Wellman 2012: 6), and that these new ways of connecting enable new modes of peer-to-peer production and exchange. This position advocates that practitioners move beyond situating the internet as a platform for dissemination and a tool for co-creating media, to embrace its knowledge collaboration potential.Drawing on a design experiment I developed to promote online knowledge co-creation, this paper suggests three development phases – developing connections, developing ideas, and developing agility – to ground six methods. They are: switching and routing, engaging in small trades of ideas with networked individuals; organising, co-ordinating networked individuals and their data; beta-release, offering ‘beta’ artifacts as knowledge trades; beta-testing, trialing and modifying other peoples ‘beta’ ideas; adapting, responding to technological disruption; and, reconfiguring, embracing opportunities offered by technological disruption. These approaches position knowledge co-creation as another capability of the community artist, along with co-creating art and media
Leaky Governance: Alternative Service Delivery and the Myth of Water Utility Independence
No full textBook review by Eva Pip of Leaky Governance: Alternative Service Delivery and the Myth of Water Utility Independence, Kathryn Furlong, author
Entanglements – activism and technology: Editors' introduction
No full textPast issues of Fibreculture have examined activist philosophies from angles such as social justice and networked organisational forms, communication rights and net neutrality debates, and the push back against precarious new media labour. Our issue extends this work by capturing the complexities associated with the use of technology in activist contexts, and offering insights into how practitioners, scholars, and the makers of digital and networked technologies do and might need to work more collaboratively and pragmatically to address social justice issues
Efficient Mechanics of PIP Mobilisation Splinting
No full text The proximal interphalangeal (PIP) joint, a tightly constructed hinge joint, frequently develops limited motion following injury. Mobilisation splints are the most frequently used method of regaining PIP joint motion following isolated PIP injury. This article reviews a variety of PIP mobilisation splints, which the author has found effective. In addition to discussing the biomechanics of PIP extension and flexion mobilisation splinting, a variety of designs are offered for PIP extension mobilisation and one design for PIP flexion mobilisation. Clinical problems discussed include: PIP extension lag, PIP flexion contracture responsive to stretch (including acute boutonniere), PIP joint contracture unresponsive to stretch, and gaining/maintaining the last few degrees of PIP extension in a resistive contracture as well as isolated PIP flexion mobilisation. For all splints, construction advice and other tips are given for successful use of these designs. </jats:p
Public Service Broadcasting, Creative Industries and Innovation Infrastructure: The Case of ABC's Pool
No full textThe proliferation of media services enabled by digital technologies poses a serious challenge to public service broadcasting rationales based on media scarcity. Looking to the past and future, we articulate an important role that the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) might play in the digital age. We argue that historically the ABC has acted beyond its institutional broadcasting remit to facilitate cultural development and, drawing on the example of Pool (an online community of creative practitioners established and maintained by the ABC), point to a key role it might play in fostering network innovation in what are now conceptualised as the creative industries
Generation of prolactin-inducible protein (Pip) knockout mice by CRISPR/Cas9-mediated gene engineering
No full textProlactin-inducible protein (PIP) is a multifunctional glycoprotein that is highly expressed and found in the secretions of apocrine glands, such as salivary, lacrimal, and sweat glands including the mammary glands. PIP has been implicated in various diseases, including breast cancer, gross cystic disease of the breast, keratoconus of the eye and the autoimmune Sjgren’s syndrome. Here we have generated a Pip knockout (KO) mouse using the CRISPR/Cas9 system. The Cas9 protein and two single guide RNAs targeting specific regions for both exons 1 and 2 of the Pip gene were microinjected into mouse embryos. The deletions and insertions promoted by CRISPR/Cas9 system on the Pip gene successfully disrupted PIP protein coding, as confirmed by PCR genotyping, sequencing and ultimately Western blot analysis. This mouse model was generated in the inbred C57Bl/6J mouse, which exhibits lower genetic variation. This novel CRISPR Pip KO mouse model will be not only be useful for future studies to interrogate the multifunctional role of PIP in physiological processes but will facilitate a broader understanding of the function of PIP in vivo while providing unprecedented insight into its role in a spectrum of diseases attributed to the deregulation of the PIP gene.The presentation of the authors' names and (or) special characters in the title of the pdf file of the accepted manuscript may differ slightly from what is displayed on the item page. The information in the pdf file of the accepted manuscript reflects the original submission by the author
Everyone Called Him Mister Pip: Great Expectations and Postcolonialism in Lloyd Jones’s Mister Pip
No full textEven though Charles Dickens’s Great Expectations was published roughly 150 years ago, it still has a great impact in literature today. An example of this is the 2006 novel Mister Pip by Lloyd Jones. The novel uses Great Expectations in a unique way. Children on the island of Bougainville read Charles Dickens’s work in school, and the novel starts to play a very large role in the small community, which is being torn apart by a brutal civil war. To answer the question how author Lloyd Jones uses Great Expectations to reflect on postcolonial issues in his novel Mister Pip, it is important to look at several recurring themes that fall under the umbrella term postcolonialism. This thesis will focus on the subjects of mimicry, intertextuality, oral storytelling, rewriting history, and migrating characters. The characters in the novel Mister Pip will be the main focus in the discussion of all of these themes. This thesis uses these elements to answer the previously mentioned research question
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