The New Media Ecology of Online Video Reflecting an Art School Community

The New Media Ecology of Online Video Reflecting an Art School Community

The assignment of »videoscanning« makes every student produce a short video about any of the art school's events that s/he deems significant – this might be a workshop, a guest lecture, or just enjoying coffee break with colleagues. After joint evaluation, the video is posted on the school website. In three years the practice has grown into a community-wide norm, as all major school events now get spontaneously »videoscanned«./.../ Only positive and creative “interactions of communications media, technology, technique, and processes with human feeling, thought, value, and behaviour” (Nystrom, 1973) can secure self-reflection and improvement in social systems. If designed as communicative (eco)systems, it is especially in pedagogical settings that social media can prove most important – not only as playgrounds and marketplaces of ethical decisions, but also as platforms of aesthetical innovation. --- This is presentation material for a contribution to the Video Vortex #8 conference The Politics, Cultures and Art of Online Video Zagreb, Croatia, May 17th-19th, 2012 (Social networks and online video in the region) //direct vimeo link//