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Saturday, July 19, 2008
Thursday, July 03, 2008
Dale Hudson has written an analysis of my online project Goobalization, among other film influenced media works. The text is published in Studies of Documentary Film, Vol. 2, Issue 1, a peer reviewed journal.
The article is available online as PDF for free through research institutions:
http://www.atypon-link.com/INT/toc/sdf/2/1
Abstract:
Undisclosed Recipients: database documentaries and the Internet
This article argues that new media disrupt the linear structures conventionally ascribed to documentary, emphasizing spatiality and relationality. On the Internet, 'database documentaries' facilitate selection and recombination of 'documents' (audio-visual evidence) through user acts, hypertext, algorithms and random access memory. Specifically, the article examines two pieces that address the controversial subjects of globalization and war. As database documentaries, Eduardo Navas's Goobalization and the collaborative Permanent Transit: net.remix by Mariam Ghani, Zohra Saed, Qasim Naqvi and Edward Potter destabilize quests for 'totalizing meaning' by emphasizing interactivity, contestation and multiplicities of meanings. The database evokes endless recombinations, so that meaning, Hudson argues in relation to these works, is explicitly polyvocal, unstable and contested.
The article is available online as PDF for free through research institutions:
http://www.atypon-link.com/INT/toc/sdf/2/1
Abstract:
Undisclosed Recipients: database documentaries and the Internet
This article argues that new media disrupt the linear structures conventionally ascribed to documentary, emphasizing spatiality and relationality. On the Internet, 'database documentaries' facilitate selection and recombination of 'documents' (audio-visual evidence) through user acts, hypertext, algorithms and random access memory. Specifically, the article examines two pieces that address the controversial subjects of globalization and war. As database documentaries, Eduardo Navas's Goobalization and the collaborative Permanent Transit: net.remix by Mariam Ghani, Zohra Saed, Qasim Naqvi and Edward Potter destabilize quests for 'totalizing meaning' by emphasizing interactivity, contestation and multiplicities of meanings. The database evokes endless recombinations, so that meaning, Hudson argues in relation to these works, is explicitly polyvocal, unstable and contested.