an arts intensive
Web & Where 2.0+
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Twenty-first century digital media makers are pushing the boundaries of collaboration and copyright, once the exclusive domain of industry. YouTube further opened up the digital revolution by: exploding user choice, creating a user-to-user vetting system, allowing online users to share and mix media, and creating a culture of mass collaboration where audiences and communities can participate as co-creators and co-curators. YouTube's success reflects a new force where users are the agents of social change and the creators of cultural content.
This day long Arts Intensive will reflect on the changes being led by digital culture. We will examine how foundations and organizations might want to position themselves to achieve impact within the digital cultural space. With a myriad of different speakers from various sectors, we will contemplate many of the emerging questions evolving from digital media and culture. This interactive program is designed to encourage participant engagement and discussion.
Program Agenda
Questions
- Are we experiencing a new social phenomenon generated by Web tools or is the Web a reflection of our human (im)possibilities?
- Are we living in a culture in which “amateurs” can contribute to knowledge as did Darwin?
- Are Open Education Resources changing the role of the expert?
- How do we define place in a globalized age of connectivity?
- How do distinct cultures and mass products co-exist? How does one discern the organic and effective scale of a project or an organization?
- And, what will we see in Web 3.0?
Session Objectives
- Recognize what digital culture means for how people create, interpret, and communicate on-line and on the ground, and how this culture is reshaping how we understand scale, access, choice, and participation.
- Learn how co-creation and digital platforms are eroding the boundary between amateurs and experts – dispersing the walls that bound institutional knowledge.
- Understand the different forces affecting the digital cultural landscape now and to come.
- Gain awareness of how our communities can deal responsibly with e-waste as we embrace digital culture.
Presenters
- [BIO] Eskender Aseged, Nomadic Chef, Radio Africa Kitchen
- [BIO] Kelsang Aukatsang, Director, WiserEarth and Tibetan Association
- [BIO] Catherine Casserly, Director, Open Educational Resources, The William
and Flora Hewlett Foundation
- [BIO] Sheila Davis, Executive Director, Silicon Valley Toxics Coalition
- [BIO] Zaven Demerjian, Entrepreneur & Student
- [BIO] Barry Katz, Fellow, IDEO
- [BIO] Kevin Kelly, Senior Maverick, Wired Magazine
- [BIO] Gordon Knox, Director, Global Initiatives, Stanford Humanities Lab
- [BIO] Dave Marvit, V.P., Connected Information Innovation Center, Fujitsu
- [BIO] Richard Muller, Professor of Physics, U.C. Berkeley
- [BIO] Micropixie, Artist
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Moderator
Moy Eng,, Program Director, Performing Arts, The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation [BIO]
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About This Series
NCG Briefings & Gatherings are a series of peer exchanges hosted by Northern California Grantmakers. Through this program, groups of members may themselves initiate and conduct issues-related programming that offers grantmakers throughout the region further opportunities to learn from one another and from distinguished leaders and resource persons outside the grantmaking community.
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