Data Visualization and eco-media content. Media Art produced at Digital Narratives workshops
Karla Brunetwww.karlabru.net
Juan Freirewww.juanfreire.net
ISEA 2011/Istanbul
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Digital Narratives for community participation on coastal ecosystem management
WorkshopsGarapuá, Brazil Aguiño, Spain
(http://narrativas.ecoarte.info/).
Garapuá, Bahia, Brazil(isolated community)
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Aguiño, Galicia Spain(mix of rural and urban)
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• Collaborative• Documentation of the process • low tech, free software, easy to use, DIY
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Narrative media: video, photo, audio, text, map(4 groups x 4 teenagers x 2 facilitators)
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Subject decision meeting
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Open projections on the streets
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Editing Software (during the workshops)
• Kino & Cinelerra (video) • Gimp & F-Spot (photo)
• Audicity (audio) • gvSIG develop EasySIG (simpler version of gvSIG) & Google Earth (map)
• OpenOffice (text)
Post production (later at UFBA)The above software plus Final Cut, Ligthroom and Impure
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• tagging and archiving: Vimeo, Flickr, Archive.org, Google Maps
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Aesthetical analysis
•How they perceived the place (before and after the workshop)
Allen Carlson (2000) ) The aesthetics of natural environmentslandscape appreciation on environmental aesthetics and descriptions modes
•formal and ordinary description •factual description•imaginative description
Landscape – Memory, identity, contestation
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Aesthetical analysis
• Garapuá: teenagers had no previous knowledge on using the cameras, mp3 recorders and GPS
• Aguiño: teenager were already used to the technology. •there was a graphical aesthetics concern to the photos.
• images produced in Brazil had a stronger narrative content and the ones done in Spain were more landscape contemplation better graphical pieces. •Garapuá, there was no experimentation with the audio, •Aguiño they experimented a lot with the audio, they created and discovered unnoticed sounds of the place. An interesting example is an orchestra that they created on a shipyard, just with the sounds of the machines.
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Ecological analysis
Ecosystems are characterized by a series of “tangible objects” (physical and biological components) and intangible processes that connect the different objects (i.e., river runoff or coastal currents, coastal fertilization, trophic cascades…) (Mann & Lazier, 2005) and the human experience of objects and processes gives rise to the landscape (Turner et al., 2001).
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Garapuá:
1)turismo / lazer2)infra-estrutura3)atividades econômicas (especialmente pesca)4)histórias de vida5)Ecossistema6)propriedade da terra
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Aguiño:
1)Paisagem2)Pesca3)histórias de vida4)identidade cultural
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Ecological analysis
• ecological literacies are basic • only the more symbolic and evident “objects” are recognized• a static view of the landscape. Developing a comprehensive ecological literacy arises as a key objective to empower the community and develop their ability to influence decision-making in environmental management (i.e., territory planning, pollution control, fishery management).
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Visualization and some conclusions
• exhibition in the community
• online posting • Datanet (Klanten, Bourquin et al., 2008), tag relationship with Impure software. This visualization gave us a better perspective of what was important to them, about their location, environment and identity.
• longer workshop/more time for post-production, tagging, editing…
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