[Gandur] Fwd: Cultural Analysis Sponsored Event- The Global Lives Project Forum- Call For Abstracts

[Rósa Þorsteinsdóttir]

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> From: Cultural Analysis <abbuccit at bu.edu>
> Date: 28. september 2009 22:51:53 GMT+00:00
> To: caforum at socrates.berkeley.edu
> Subject: Cultural Analysis Sponsored Event- The Global Lives Project  
> Forum-  Call For Abstracts
> Reply-To: caforum at socrates.berkeley.edu
>
> Dear Fans of Cultural Analysis,
>
> Cultural Analysis is co-sponsoring an interdisciplinary forum,
> "Representing/Experiencing Everyday Life in the Global Media:
> Commentary on the Global Lives Project" at UC Berkeley in February
> 2010.
>
> Please find attached the call for abstracts. We are seeking
> submissions from across the disciplines that can contribute to the
> understanding of global new media, everyday life, and the work of
> initiatives such as the Global Lives Project.
>
> The forum will take place as part of the launch of the Global Lives
> installation at the Yerba Buena Center in San Francisco. All questions
> regarding the forum should be directed to: globallivesforum at gmail.com
>
> Best,
>
> The Editors of Cultural Analysis
>
> Global Lives Project Forum:
>
> Representing/Experiencing Everyday Life in the Global Media:
> Commentary on the Global Lives Project
>
> February 2010, University of California, Berkeley
>
> As a “collaborative online video library of human experience,” the
> Global Lives Project (http://globallives.org) seeks to provide a way
> for viewers around the world to be transported “out of their daily
> lives and … into the realities of people from all walks of life from
> all over the world.” This goal both reminds us of the diffuse powers
> of new media technologies to represent realities across spatial
> divides and brings forward new questions about experiencing and
> representing the everyday lives of people in the global media. This
> forum brings together scholars from a wide range of disciplines to
> discuss and debate these questions and to comment on the innovative
> work of the Global Lives Project.
>
> With a strong conviction that what we see informs how we act, the more
> than four hundred Global Lives collaborators around the planet were
> inspired by a desire to harness media to shift the eye of America—one
> of the least-traveled developed nations—away from its own material
> realities and toward the diverse realities of life in the globalized
> world of the 21st century.
>
> At its core, the project is an effort to throw a wrench into the gears
> of commercial media flows. By freely distributing a stream of pixels
> from unexpected and underexperienced human realities to screens around
> the planet, the hope of this global band of filmmakers is to rebuild a
> more holistic and humanist ethos for the upcoming generations of
> globally connected life.
>
> With minuscule budgets and borrowed professional video equipment,
> Global Lives crews set out from 2004 to 2009 to document 24 hours in
> the daily lives of individuals from Brazil, Malawi, Japan, China,
> Indonesia, India, Serbia, Lebanon and the US. Life stories of
> individual subjects were also recorded to give context to the footage.
> Crews were a roughly equal mix of locals and foreigners (including
> many long-term expats), and many crew members went on to shoot in two
> or more countries in their regions.
>
> As the collection of videos has grown, numerous organizations have
> taken part in shaping the project. These museums, universities, NGOs,
> videomaking collectives, and foundations helped to envision new uses
> for the footage beyond the originally intended museum exhibition. The
> early adoption of a free distribution strategy and Creative Commons
> open content licenses for the footage was crucial in making the work
> accessible and useful to potential partner organizations, many which
> have become integral in reimagining the significance of the project's
> work.
>
> As Global Lives completes its tenth shoot this year in Kazakhstan, the
> group's organizers have received a barrage of requests from
> videomakers around the globe to collaborate on filming in dozens of
> new sites using the same model. At this critical juncture, the
> project's biggest technical challenge is to increase its online
> infrastructure to accommodate the massive stream of video flowing in
> from our collaborators around the globe.
>
> Aside from the contributions of its collaborators and partner
> organizations, Global Lives has attracted a diverse array of scholarly
> attention as well. Sociologist, Michael Burawoy, has called Global
> Lives "a new vision of public sociology" as it has mapped out new
> strategies for integrating a new media toolbox into the work of social
> scientists from a wide range of disciplines.
>
> In a different vein, Sam Mchombo, a leading Chichewa linguist, has
> pointed out that the translation of the 24-hour Global Lives Malawi
> shoot is now one of the largest Chichewa translation projects in
> history. As shoots conducted in China, India and Indonesia enter the
> final stages of post-production, each of them also stands to
> contribute a major resource to students and scholars of Sichuanese,
> Kanada, and Sunda.
>
> In addition to its importance to scholarship, Global Lives hopes to
> make significant contributions to global education. Elementary and
> secondary school teachers in a half-dozen countries have integrated
> Global Lives footage into their social studies and geography
> curricula, and the demand for formal Global Lives curriculum materials
> is growing rapidly.
>
> Selected proceedings will be published in:
> Cultural Analysis (http://socrates.berkeley.edu/~caforum)
>
> Conference Sponsored by:
> UC Berkeley Folklore Program
> The Doreen B. Townsend Center for the Humanities
> The Long Now Foundation - Rosetta Project
>
> Deadline for 150-word Abstracts: November 15th, 2009
>
> Submit Abstracts to: globallivesforum at gmail.com
>
> If your abstract is selected, the completed paper must be submitted by
> January 25th.

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