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Recording and Transmission as Cultural Practices

Recording and Transmission as Cultural Practices. Ideas inspired by Harold Innis Canadian Media Theorist And James Carey. Cultures require Extension in Space and Endurance through Time. Recording media are Time-Binding. Transmission media are Space-Binding.

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Recording and Transmission as Cultural Practices

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  1. Recording and Transmission as Cultural Practices Ideas inspired by Harold Innis Canadian Media Theorist And James Carey

  2. Cultures requireExtension in SpaceandEndurance through Time

  3. Recording media are Time-Binding

  4. Transmission media are Space-Binding

  5. What Media Do We Use toLink Experiences in Time?

  6. What Media Do We Use toLink Experiences in Time? • SoundRecording

  7. What Media Do We Use toLink Experiences in Time? • Sound Recording • Photography

  8. What Media Do We Use toLink Experiences in Time? • Sound Recording • Photography

  9. What Media Do We Use toLink Experiences in Time? • Sound Recording • Photography • Video Recording

  10. What Media Do We Use toLink Experiences in Time? • Sound Recording • Photography • Video Recording • Archives of All Kinds

  11. What Media Do We Use toLink Experiences in Time? • Sound Recording • Photography • Video Recording • Archives of All Kinds • Monuments, Statues, Graves,

  12. What Media Do We Use toLink Experiences in Time? • Sound Recording • Photography • Video Recording • Archives of All Kinds • Monuments, Statues, Graves, • Rituals, Ceremonies, Stories

  13. What Media Do We Use toLink Experiences in Time? • Sound Recording • Photography • Video Recording • Archives of All Kinds • Monuments, Statues, Graves, • Rituals, Ceremonies, Stories • Ultimately, Recording is an extension of the MEMORY

  14. What Media Do We Use toLink Experiences in Space?

  15. What Media Do We Use toLink Experiences in Space? • Telephone

  16. What Media Do We Use toLink Experiences in Space? • Telephone • Telegraph

  17. What Media Do We Use toLink Experiences in Space? • Telephone • Telegraph • Television

  18. What Media Do We Use toLink Experiences in Space? • Telephone • Telegraph • Television • Paper messages, Email, Txt

  19. What Media Do We Use toLink Experiences in Space? • Telephone • Telegraph • Television • Paper messages, Email, Txt • Smoke Signals, Pigeons, Human Messengers

  20. What Media Do We Use toLink Experiences in Space? • Telephone • Telegraph • Television • Paper messages, Email, Txt • Smoke Signals, Pigeons, Human Messengers • Ultimately, transmission is an extension of transportation (the foot)

  21. The Distinctions Blur • Zip a Transmission and Get a Recording • Unzip a Recording and Get a Transmission

  22. The Balance A viable culture must balance the need to extendthrough space with the need to endure in time.

  23. Modern Bias • Innis and Carey suggest that we have invested too much into space-binding and not enough in time-binding media. • What is the consequence?

  24. Witnessing Media

  25. Witnessing Media “Witnesses serve as the surrogate sense-organs of the absent…the means by which experience is supplied to others who lack the original.” (Peters, 709)

  26. Three Media Questions • How does the medium create ontological uncertainty? • How does the medium create epistemological uncertainty? • How does the medium create ethical uncertainty?

  27. Ontological Uncertainty Ontology deals with questions about what is

  28. Ontological Uncertainty When you witness a mediated event, what is it you are seeing?

  29. Epistemological Uncertainty Epistemology deals with questions about what can be known (and how)

  30. Epistemological Uncertainty When you witness a mediated event, how do you know what is really happening?

  31. Ethical Uncertainty Ethics deals with questions about right conduct

  32. Ethical Uncertainty When you witness a mediated event, how should you respond?

  33. Space and Time Coordinates

  34. The key questions • If our experiences are becoming increasingly mediated, can we deal with the ontological, epistemological, and ethical uncertainties entailed by this kind of witnessing?

  35. The key questions • If our experiences are becoming increasingly mediated, can we deal with the ontological, epistemological, and ethical uncertainties entailed by this kind of witnessing? • Does “being there” still matter?

  36. The key questions • If our experiences are becoming increasingly mediated, can we deal with the ontological, epistemological, and ethical uncertainties entailed by this kind of witnessing? • Does “being there” still matter? • Are there media forms that can create “presence” needed for real participation?

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