{"id":3413,"date":"2018-11-02T20:12:00","date_gmt":"2018-11-02T20:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.quelic.net\/?p=3413"},"modified":"2021-01-26T16:37:25","modified_gmt":"2021-01-26T16:37:25","slug":"english-pannel-at-ecrea-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.quelic.net\/en\/2018\/english-pannel-at-ecrea-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Pannel at ECREA 2018 )"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I presented a brief talk at the ECREA pannel <em>&#8220;The digital future of reality: interactive documentaries as tools to process and tackle complex representations of the mediated world&#8221;<\/em> in ECREA <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ecrea2018lugano.eu\/\">Lugano<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-3414\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.quelic.net\/files\/2021\/01\/IMG_0988-e1611519074584-1024x676.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"462\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.quelic.net\/files\/2021\/01\/IMG_0988-e1611519074584-1024x676.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blog.quelic.net\/files\/2021\/01\/IMG_0988-e1611519074584-300x198.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.quelic.net\/files\/2021\/01\/IMG_0988-e1611519074584-768x507.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog.quelic.net\/files\/2021\/01\/IMG_0988-e1611519074584-1140x752.jpg 1140w, https:\/\/blog.quelic.net\/files\/2021\/01\/IMG_0988-e1611519074584.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In particular I was presenting:<\/p>\n<div><small>14:45 &#8211; 15:00<\/small><\/div>\n<blockquote>\n<div class=\"media\">\n<div class=\"media-body\">\n<div>\n<div>The agency of the algorithms as actors in the field of the audiovisual culture<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div><i class=\"icon-user\"><\/i><u>Q. Berga<\/u><br \/>\nOpen University of Catalonia, Faculty of Computer Science- Multimedia and Telecommunications, Barcelona, Spain.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h4>Related work<\/h4>\n<p>You can find some of my publications about webdocs and related subjects here:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Berga, Quelic, Julia Minguillon, Pau Alsina, Javier Melench\u00f3n, and Laia Blasco-Soplon. \u201cCase Study of a Generative Editing Audiovisual Project.\u201d In <i>XCoAx &#8211; 4th Conference on Computation, Communication, Aesthetics &amp; X<\/i>. Bergamo, Italy, 2016. <a href=\"http:\/\/2016.xcoax.org\/pdf\/xcoax2016-Berga.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/2016.xcoax.org\/pdf\/xcoax2016-Berga.pdf<\/a>. <a class=\"zp-CiteRIS\" title=\"Cite in RIS Format\" href=\"http:\/\/quelic.net\/wp-content\/plugins\/zotpress\/lib\/request\/request.cite.php?api_user_id=1485650&amp;item_key=FBUGIE3C\">CITE<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Badia, Tere, Quelic Berga, Clara Piazuelo, and Joana moll. \u201cManifesto for a Critical Approach to the User Interface. Context, Theoretical Framework and Further Actions.\u201d In <i>1st Int. Conference Interface Politics<\/i>. Barcelona: GREDITS, 2016. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.researchgate.net\/publication\/326010240_Manifesto_for_a_critical_approach_to_the_user_interface_Context_theoretical_framework_and_further_actions\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.researchgate.net\/publication\/326010240_Manifesto_for_a_critical_approach_to_the_user_interface_Context_theoretical_framework_and_further_actions<\/a>. <a class=\"zp-CiteRIS\" title=\"Cite in RIS Format\" href=\"http:\/\/quelic.net\/wp-content\/plugins\/zotpress\/lib\/request\/request.cite.php?api_user_id=1485650&amp;item_key=R96JCLC8\">CITE<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Berga, Quelic. \u201cCode as a Medium to Reflect, Act and Emancipate: Case Study of Audiovisual Tools That Question Standardised Editing Interfaces.\u201d Barcelona, 2016. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.researchgate.net\/publication\/325905813_El_codigo_como_medio_para_reflexionar_actuar_y_emanciparse_Analisis_de_interfaces_para_la_edicion_de_video\">Full text in spanish can be found here<\/a>. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gredits.org\/interfacepolitics\/en\/code-as-a-medium-to-reflect-act-and-emancipate-case-study-of-audiovisual-tools-that-question-standardised-editing-interfaces-3\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/www.gredits.org\/interfacepolitics\/en\/code-as-a-medium-to-reflect-act-and-emancipate-case-study-of-audiovisual-tools-that-question-standardised-editing-interfaces-3\/<\/a>. <a class=\"zp-CiteRIS\" title=\"Cite in RIS Format\" href=\"http:\/\/quelic.net\/wp-content\/plugins\/zotpress\/lib\/request\/request.cite.php?api_user_id=1485650&amp;item_key=SKGHBGWU\">CITE<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>Some of the biblography cited in the talk:<\/h4>\n<div class=\"csl-bib-body\">\n<ul>\n<li class=\"csl-entry\">Lakoff, G., &amp; Johnson, M. (2003). <i>Metaphors We Live By<\/i> (2nd edition). Chicago: University Of Chicago Press.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"csl-bib-body\">\n<ul>\n<li class=\"csl-entry\">Bertelsen, O. W., &amp; Pold, S. (2004). Criticism As an Approach to Interface Aesthetics. En <i>Proceedings of the Third Nordic Conference on Human-computer Interaction<\/i> (pp. 23\u201332). New York, NY, USA: ACM. <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1145\/1028014.1028018\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1145\/1028014.1028018<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"csl-bib-body\">\n<ul>\n<li class=\"csl-entry\">Hern\u00e1ndez-Ram\u00edrez, R. (s. f.). Modelling Media, Reality and Thought: Ontological and Epistemological Consequences Brought by Information Technology. Recuperado de <a href=\"https:\/\/www.academia.edu\/13531407\/Modelling_Media_Reality_and_Thought_Ontological_and_Epistemological_Consequences_Brought_by_Information_Technology\">https:\/\/www.academia.edu\/13531407\/Modelling_Media_Reality_and_Thought_Ontological_and_Epistemological_Consequences_Brought_by_Information_Technology<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Karen Barad<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Three Minute Theory: What is Intra-Action?\" width=\"620\" height=\"349\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/v0SnstJoEec?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<h4><strong>Abstract<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>And finally here is the abstract of the talk:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h2>The agency of the algorithms as actors in the field of the audiovisual culture<\/h2>\n<p>Observing the technical evolution of how society has been sharing images in motion we can describe a transition from chemical processes found in early cinema, passing by electromagnetic techniques with video and television, to the contemporary dominance of digital processes. Even though all three methods coexist today, the digital have become the predominant one that allows <em>remediation<\/em> of the older methods and at the same time have brought genuine methods to produce, realize, distribute and consume audiovisuals. The digital medium allows creating, viewing and transmitting images by encoding only the information of those images into binary data that can be processed, stored or transmitted thanks to the network infrastructures.<\/p>\n<p>In this computational and networked ecosystem, many artefacts have been developed such as personal computers, digital cameras, mobile devices, virtual reality devices, augmented reality technologies, and many <em>soft<\/em> technologies such as codecs, computer vision, communication protocols. We can observe how all of those artefacts, belonging to the contemporary audiovisual field, use computation, hence algorithms.<\/p>\n<p>We center our attention on <strong>the agency of the algorithms as new actors in the process of mediating reality and how they determine ways to create, consume and disseminate stories<\/strong>. Algorithms have not an specific representation, they are invisible if we understand them as operations. Graphical User Interfaces (GUI) are considered to be the point of contact between the user and the computational process. As GUIs are not the algorithm themself, they use metaphors, symbols and representations to show and to hide the operations that the algorithm is capable of. In this article we analyse the GUIs of audiovisual editing tools to reflect on how the interactions and representations of algorithms are handled. Focusing on i-docs, we compare three types of interfaces: those for non-linear film edition (Premiere like software), authoring systems for i-docs (Klynt, Korsakow and Eko), and finally we review few tailored i-docs that use web standards such as HTML, Javascript and CSS.<\/p>\n<p>We pay attention to the fact that digital medium allows both; the remediation or virtualization of older media and the redefinition of media itself, determined by network and computation possibilities and constraints. We conclude the article with a classification that invites to think on how GUI are connected to the nature of this digital medium.<\/p>\n<p>We end up with some open questions for further research on how to visualize the choices done by algorithms when storytelling assisted by AI or complex algorithms, and how the agency and presence of algorithms interfere in our notion and perception of reality as a mediated post-human interaction.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I presented a brief talk at the ECREA pannel &#8220;The digital future of reality: interactive documentaries as tools to process and tackle complex representations of the mediated world&#8221;&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,18,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-audiovisuals","category-conferencies-i-tallers","category-recerca-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.quelic.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3413","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.quelic.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.quelic.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.quelic.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.quelic.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3413"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blog.quelic.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3413\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3419,"href":"https:\/\/blog.quelic.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3413\/revisions\/3419"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.quelic.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.quelic.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.quelic.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}