1. WWW.CITYNOVA.ORG Cross Media Rhetorics - aesthetics of mobile communication and wireless communities

2. WWW.CITYNOVA.ORG Aesthetics of mobile communication [digital rhetorics E2006 / session 11 ] Presentation Course introduction Lecture – part 1 Exercise Break Lecture – part 2 Cases Discussion Introduction to next exercise

3. WWW.CITYNOVA.ORG Aesthetics of mobile communication [digital rhetorics E2006 / session 11 ] “I specify now that rhetoric is the functional organization of discourse, within its social and cultural context, in all its aspects, exception made for its realisation as a strictly metalanguage” (Paolo Valesio, 1980) “Rhetorics in the most general sense may perhaps be identified with the energy inherent in communication” George Kennedy, 1992)

4. WWW.CITYNOVA.ORG Aesthetics of mobile communication [digital rhetorics E2006 / session 11 ] What does the photoblog want? - Kris R: Cohen Conventional photography: From photography to photograph Representation and the extension of the Real 1) choice of subject; 2) capturing; 3) viewing as image

5. WWW.CITYNOVA.ORG Aesthetics of mobile communication [digital rhetorics E2006 / session 11 ] What does the photoblog want? - Kris R: Cohen Photoblogging: [digital] photos and short text commentary to cronical daily - and everyday life - events. And by using a personal [photo] web log. Pursuing aesthetics of “real life” by “shooting from the hip” Or resistance against intentionality.

6. WWW.CITYNOVA.ORG Aesthetics of mobile communication [digital rhetorics E2006 / session 11 ] What does the photoblog want? - Kris R: Cohen “The picture of moblogging gets more interesting when we include the doing of; [...] doing as a product and site of meaningful activity in its own right” ( Kris R. Cohen, p.887) “Photoblog, photoblogger, photography: that particular hour, a particular state of mind, the look of the city” No element in the preceding lists leaves off neatly before another. They shuffle and entwine. So that the resulting photograph is both a thing and an experience” ( Kris R. Cohen, p.890)

7. WWW.CITYNOVA.ORG Aesthetics of mobile communication [digital rhetorics E2006 / session 11 ] What does the photoblog want? - Kris R: Cohen Collapse: of the separated activities of photoblogging with the activities of photography But without collapsing; space, time and the desires of both activities.

8. WWW.CITYNOVA.ORG Aesthetics of mobile communication [digital rhetorics E2006 / session 11 ] What does the photoblog want? - Kris R: Cohen Motivation: photoblog as motivation for taking pictures the blog comes to enrich the moment of taking photos, without being why the photos are taken. There by motivation derives from the juggling between to temporalities

9. WWW.CITYNOVA.ORG Aesthetics of mobile communication [digital rhetorics E2006 / session 11 ] What does the photoblog want? - Kris R: Cohen “Photoblogs incorporate, and are in turn incorporated by at least four disparate entities: (1) the self of photoblogger, (2) a potential audience for the self’s activities, (3) those activities themselvs, (4) the technologies that operate in and around these entities” ( Kris R. Cohen, p.897)

10. WWW.CITYNOVA.ORG Aesthetics of mobile communication [digital rhetorics E2006 / session 11 ] What does the photoblog want? - Kris R: Cohen “Photoblogs incorporate, and are in turn incorporated by at least four disparate entities: (1) the self of photoblogger, (2) a potential audience for the self’s activities, (3) those activities themselvs, (4) t http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/e n/d/df/Moblog.png he the technologies that opetare in and around these entities” ( Kris R. Cohen, p.897) Moblog

11. WWW.CITYNOVA.ORG Aesthetics of mobile communication [digital rhetorics E2006 / session 11 ] Mobile Technosoma - Ingrid Richardson “Significantly, over the past two decades, many of the distinctions between mass media and communications technologies have converged to become “network media”[...] Such a shift means that ‘audiences’ become ‘users’ (or agents), effecting changing relationships between individuals and society, private and public domains, temporal and spatial perception, location and presence, embodiment and interface” ( Ingrid Richardson - 2005)

12. WWW.CITYNOVA.ORG Aesthetics of mobile communication [digital rhetorics E2006 / session 11 ] Mobile Technosoma - Ingrid Richardson Handheld and itinerant media devices: have become “multifunctional, sociotechnical devices, portable and interactive technospaces which enfolds (and unfolds) an assortment of media forms” Medium specificity (Bolter and Grusin, 2000):new media ‘remediate’ mature media and cultural forms.

13. WWW.CITYNOVA.ORG Aesthetics of mobile communication [digital rhetorics E2006 / session 11 ] Mobile Technosoma - Ingrid Richardson Phenomenology of mobil media: the use of mobilphone screen in not subjected to a ‘dedicated’ practice (as cinema and tv) but always surrounded by spactial topography and physical or social activities. Thus Richardson argues for the mobile devices have specific technology - body (and we might add) - social - contextual relations. (Don Ihde) Body and technolgy comes to form a collusive - integrated - entity (de Certeau) “[pedestrians] make possible the space of the city” a practice surely altered by mobile phones.

14. WWW.CITYNOVA.ORG Aesthetics of mobile communication [digital rhetorics E2006 / session 11 ] Mobile Technosoma - Ingrid Richardson “Yet the ability to experience teleprecence as part of our mundane and everyday practices is but one instance of our ready incorporation of tools and media into our corporal schematics, and as extensions of our bodies and perceptions” ( Ingrid Richardson - 2005)

15. WWW.CITYNOVA.ORG Aesthetics of mobile communication [digital rhetorics E2006 / session 11 ] Distributed aesthetics “Rather than try to define the terminology [...] of distributed art theories and practises we have proposed instead a descriptor for the aesthesia of contemporary networked encounters. Distributed aesthetics, then, concerns experiences that are sensed,lived and produced in more than one place and time” ( Lise Gye - et. al. - 2006)

16. WWW.CITYNOVA.ORG Aesthetics of mobile communication [digital rhetorics E2006 / session 11 ] Distributed aesthetics Relational aesthetics: (Nicolas Borriaud) ”Relational aesthetics adresses the concept of art being defined by social interaction, by co-ordinated or impromptu acts of participation that may or may not require specific locations in and times at which to occur” (Darren Tofts - 2006) With the advent of a culture of digital connectivity, the audience becomes more distributed. Hence a new more inclusive concept of distributed aesthetics. Further this concept is not limited to artistic pratices alone.

17. WWW.CITYNOVA.ORG Aesthetics of mobile communication [digital rhetorics E2006 / session 11 ] Cases: Simpletext, !Alerting Infrastructure!(Jonah Bruckner-Cohen) Mogi (Newt games) Uncle Roy All Around You (Blast theory) Interactive Architecture (Graffiti Research Lab) Txtual Healing (Paul Notzold) Asphalt Games (Elizabeth Goodman, Michele Chang) Milkproject (Esther Polak, Ieva Auzina and RIXC) Yellow Arrow (Counts Media)