From the Soda Journal, written on 21 August 06 by Fiddian.
Last week I was very privileged to again attend the Banff New Media Institute’s annual Interactive Screen Workshop. Incredibly situated in the Banff National park high in the Canadian Rocky Mountains Interactive Screen brings creative digital media practitioners and theorists from all over the world to share work and related discourse, some pics are at iascreen06.
It was great to have an opportunity to play Blast Theory’s ‘Can you see me now’. I really felt for Matt and Ju being ‘runners’ in the game for an hour at 5,000 feet.
I was pleased to be asked to be a peer mentor to scholarshiped participants on the program in the hallowed company of Jan-Christoph Zoels and Daniel Canty. Inspired Theorist and Social Anthropologist Anne Galloway’s brilliant ‘Purse Lip Square Jaw’ Blogg gives a far better commentary of the event than I could ever hope to achieve so I will leave full commentary to her.
At the session chaired by BNMI Director Susan Kennard entitled The View from Outside In: Margins of Art and Activism I spoke a little about how Soda tries to enable social change by the use of creative tools for collaboration and communication. Here is the page of links to Soda works I referenced for the talk. Also on this panel was the amazing artist/singer/performer Cheryl L’Hirondelle who sang beautifully and talked about some of her powerful web work around technology and Native, Cree in particular, culture.
The following day I was on the ‘Playing the Interface’ panel with SOLU and Randy Knott showing and discussing their rich and ground breaking work. I approached the topic from the aspect of Soda viewing the User Interface as being plastic and permeable in particular how users can become integral to a project’s development.
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The Banff New Media Institute brings together interdisciplinary and culturally diverse groups for intensive working sessions to consider critical questions in the field of new media. Summits explore dimensions of project work, research, practice, and discourse that are evolving in both local and global contexts.
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