... BABELVILLE 1 seeks total equanimity among all portrayed subjects--their voices, their bodies, their ideas, and most importantly, their presence. ... the project utilizes the same increasingly economical IT and AV equipment implicated in ongoing structural changes to higher education--the very cameras, networks, and content management systems now facilitating the virtual decentralization of instruction through recorded online media, in order to enact a situation that will extend BABELs openness to inquiry across disciplinary and institutional boundaries, from individuals at all professional phases and levels of accomplishment, while resisting the inevitable impact of external systems of validation and their economic consequences thereupon. Insofar as the sum impact of BABELVILLE 1 nullifies the importance of being there--and the cliquish validation that can prescribe--it asserts the notion that participation in a community is inalienably somewhat official and hard to verify, while also allowing for broader phenomenological contact among participants, within an otherwise territorially-bounded experience (extending the sense of and knowledge gained from being there to those individual without resources ... ). ... we aim to transform the question What would it be like to breathe in outer space from inferential query to an animating theoretical model. Because of BABELs next conference in Toronto in 2015 and its theme off the books, and because of a new project, BABELVILLE1 + the BABEL Space Agency, being confabulated by Samuel Ray Jacobson and myself as an virtual-material installation within the conference [more on this coming soon], I/we have been thinking a lot lately about Aaron Swartz, and I recently stumbled across this lovely documentary about him [its a must-see]: https://youtube/watch?v=vXr-2hwTk58
Posted on: Mon, 15 Dec 2014 18:14:24 +0000
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