UBERMORGEN.COM Workshop

WORKSHOP & LECTURE „Working the Pixel“
5. Oct – 7. Oct 2008
by UBERMORGEN.COM - lizvlx & HANS BERNHARD

Lecture
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ABSTRACT UBERMORGEN.COM Lecture
Goethe-Institut, Damascus/Syria

TITEL: Working the Pixel“

UBERMORGEN.COM 1999-2008
it is different because it is fundamentally different

„Working the Pixel“ is generally described very vaguely as working with
Pixeltechnology and mass media. A more specific definition is the
massive intrusion into mass Pixelchannels with widely available
standard technology such as email, telephone or mobile
communications, mobile phones, sms, or with conventional media such
as flyers and posters; additional to that, a good twist in the story
told..

with such an pragmatic and easy proactive modus operandi – in the end
only courage, intelligence and basic technological know how is
necessary – you can achieve enormous reach and frequency in this age
of the totally networked space.

Popular UBERMORGEN.COM projects are „Vote-auction“ (http://www.vote-auction.net) and the EKMRZ-Trilogy:
- GWEI - Google Will Eat Itself (http://www.gwei.org)
- Amazon Noir - The Big Book Crime (http://www.amazon-noir.com)
- The Sound of eBay (http://www.Sound-of-eBay.com)...

UBERMORGEN.COMs lizvlx and Hans Bernhard will show examples of their
work and elaborate on their affirmative strategies on how to use technology.
http://www.ubermorgen.com


WORKSHOP

Day 1
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Morning session: discussion (strategies, ideas, consequences, how we use the Media) of lecture content from goethe institut!. Then in-depth presentation and discussion of some other UBERMORGEN.COM projects. (90 min.)

+ Then general discussion and input from participants on how they use the media, what they are interested in terms of media usage, the media landscape, etc... After that we create groups of 2-3 people working together over the next days.. (15 Min.) + discussion about proceedings, schedule, goals, etc. for the next 4 days... (15 Min.)

Afternoon session: To start the project development process, the Groups (Participants) should define what their most important topics are (do a list of topics), related to participants life, to the economical, social and political situation in their family, in their community and in the city/country. What would they like to cover... These topics should be briefly presented and discussed... (30 Min.)

+ After that.. participants should think about one issue they would like to tackle and start to create a story for this issue... (Only then we will add the media side to it and think about how to position the story in the mass media context...) (90 Min.)

Day 2
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Morning session: projectwork, research (offline and online) (120 Min.)

Afternoon session: project work, working on the concepts. do research offline and online if possible and prepare short presentation. (60 Min.)

+ Short 5 min. presentation and feedback round of the ideas that the participants came up (total 30 min), then continue working on the ideas/concepts in writing, in discussion... (total 60 min. incl. discussions)


Day 3
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Morning session: Intense workingsession on the projects, preparing project presentation. (120 Min.)

Afternoon session: Final Presentations of the projects and ideas.... ca. 90 min. (each project 15 min.), Final Discussion round, exchange of email addresses, setup of mailinglist. (90 Min.)


Praesentation
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Possibly present selected Projects by workshop-members at the UBERMORGEN.COM lecture at Goethe-Institut Damascus (3-5 min. per project)